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Cheryl K. Chumley

Cheryl K. Chumley

cchumley@washingtontimes.com

Cheryl Chumley is online opinion editor, commentary writer and host of the “Bold and Blunt” podcast for The Washington Times, and a frequent media guest and public speaker. She is the author of several books, the latest titled, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” and “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise or America Will Fall.” Email her at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., addresses reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, after the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump on two charges, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. She is joined House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel, D-N.Y. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Nancy Pelosi has gone rogue

Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the unprecedented action of holding the articles of impeachment she and her Democratic cohorts fabricated in the House, until -- get this -- the Senate agreed to what she termed as a "fair trial." Pelosi has gone rogue.

December 19, 2019
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, left, speaks with Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., center, and Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., right, after testifying at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the inspector general's report on alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

FISA walls tumble; prison time a must

Civil rights advocates have been warning for years the FISC and FISA systems are rife with potential for abuse, are handovers of judicial powers to secret sources and are blatantly unconstitutional. And now we know they're right. And now someone, or a couple of someones, should go to prison.

December 19, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks as the House of Representatives debates the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. (House Television via AP)

Nancy Pelosi — oh, what a patriot! — defines ‘republic’ for we, the peons

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, defending her House's ridiculous call to impeachment arms, opened debate on the articles by referring to America as a "republic" -- a "republic if we can keep it" -- and by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the "republic" of America. My, what a patriot this Queen of Socialists has become. Nothing suspicious there, right?

December 18, 2019
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arrives to speak to reporters joined by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Majority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. McConnell dismissed the impeachment process against President Donald Trump saying, "I'm not an impartial juror. This is a political process." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mitch McConnell denies Chuck Schumer his circus show hopes

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, in a quick floor statement, shot down his colleague Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's demand that four witnesses with knowledge of Ukraine matters come to the chamber and give testimony on impeachment.

December 18, 2019
Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, left, arrives for a closed-door interview with the House Judiciary and House Oversight committees, Monday, July 16, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Lisa Page plus Rachel Maddow equals one heck of an anti-Trump ride

Lisa Page -- yes that Lisa Page, the one who ignited an anti-Donald Trump fire by seemingly, in messages to her adulterous lover Peter Strzok, giving a thumbs-up to intelligence plots to thwart his presidency -- is headed for an appearance on "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC. On your mark, get set, go. Trump Derangement Syndrome, times two.

December 17, 2019
Former U.S. President Barack Obama gesture as he attends the "values-based leadership" during a plenary session of the Gathering of Rising Leaders in the Asia Pacific, organized by the Obama Foundation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian) ** FILE **

Barack Obama’s feminist nonsense

Former President Barack Obama, at a leadership event in Singapore that he attended with wife, Michelle, told the no-doubt adoring crowd that women were awesome, men were scum and people of the world, unite! It's time for the fairer sex to take over both boardrooms of business and power offices in politics. To paraphrase, that is.

December 17, 2019
Former FBI Director James Comey talks with "Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace, Sunday morning, Dec. 15, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

James Comey’s suspicious ‘Hail Mary’ to FISA

James Comey, in what some are seeing as an eye-widening surprise, others as cause to give this man back his street cred, has come forward on national television to pronounce himself "wrong," Inspector General Michael Horowitz "right," and the accusations of FBI-FISA shenanigans as "fair." But once again, the guy is strategizing.

December 16, 2019
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., leaves the hearing room during a committee break of the House Judiciary Committee markup of Articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump, Thursday Dec. 12, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

Impeachment grows hilarious

Impeachment is supposed to be a serious debate, a somber consideration, a process marked by deep analysis, solid reflection, big-picture thinking, and in the end, inclusive of the sort of grave decision-making that looks down the road to judge how it all might affect the republic. But Democrats have turned it into a laugh track.

December 13, 2019
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., prepares for a hearing with Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, to look at the Inspector General's report on alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Lindsey Graham vows quick end to ‘crock’ of impeachment

After months and months of House impeachment charade, after years and years of leftist-pressed, Democratic Party pushed calls for impeachment, promises to impeach, insistence to impeach, impeach, impeach at all costs, wouldn't it be great, humorous, even, to see all that anti-Trump effort come to a grinding halt in the Senate?

December 12, 2019
In this April 3, 2019, file photo, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. speaks during the National Action Network Convention in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Eric Holder, a partisan hack who dares rail at William Barr

Eric Holder penned a scathing piece in The Washington Post against today Attorney General William Barr, calling him, get this, hold the phone, grab a seat and take a breath -- "nakedly partisan." That's not pot calling kettle black. That's lousy, stinking, lying, spying, contemptuous partisan pitbull calling guy-doing-his-job black.

December 12, 2019
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., joined from left by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., unveils articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats — oops! — forgot ‘bribery’

Now the impeachment articles have come forward and strangely enough, what's most glaring is not what they contain, but what's missing. What they contain is "abuse of power" and "obstruction of Congress." What's missing are the key, long promised, long accused offenses, quid pro quo and bribery.

December 12, 2019
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addresses plenary of U.N. climate conference during with a meeting with leading climate scientists at the COP25 summit in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. Thunberg is in Madrid where a global U.N.-sponsored climate change conference is taking place. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Greta Thunberg scores with ‘Time,’ as activism replaces achievement

Greta Thunberg was named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2019 because -- well, because, she has a cadre of left-leaners who saw in her the necessary theater skills to publicly shame an entire world of fossil fuel users while keeping a straight face. That's not how "Time" put it. But that's the truth.

December 11, 2019
Security guard Richard Jewell poses on Sunday, July 28, 1996, across from the tower where he found a bomb and warned visitors at Centennial Olympic Park early Saturday morning. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution had named Jewell as a suspect in the bombing. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, William Berr) ** FILE **

FBI guy calling for Trump to apologize should go see ‘Richard Jewell’

James Baker, the former general counsel for the FBI's James Comey, said now that the Justice Department's inspector general has released its report, that Donald Trump should step up and apologize. Are you kidding me? What a hoot. When has the FBI ever apologized? Let's ask Richard Jewell.

December 10, 2019
In this July 17, 2019, file photo, three migrants who had managed to evade the Mexican National Guard and cross the Rio Grande onto U.S. territory walk along a border wall set back from the geographical border, in El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File)

The lie of Jesus as an open border advocate

Merry Christmas -- now open those dang borders: That's the message from a church in California, the Claremont United Methodist Church near Los Angeles, and its rage-in-a-cage seasonal nativity scene of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. What an outrage; what an offense to Christian truths.

December 10, 2019
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, enters a letter for the record during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on the constitutional grounds for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Louie Gohmert snaps at Jerry Nadler: ‘How much money’ are you making off impeachment?

Rep. Louie Gohmert, frustrated, outraged -- and rightly so, given the ridiculous direction of the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump -- tried to insist Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler explain a too-strange-to-be-true process that allowed a witness to serve as questioner, and when he was shut down, snapped back: "How much money do you have to get [inaudible]?"

December 9, 2019
Democratic staff attorney Barry Berke testifies as the House Judiciary Committee hears investigative findings in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Barry Berke’s joke of a pro-impeachment speech

Barry Berke, the attorney for Judiciary Committee Democrats, spent considerable time during Monday's congressional impeachment inquiry making the case against Donald Trump by presenting, supposedly, all the facts and evidences and proofs and irrefutables of the president's "corrupt abuse of power," and so forth and so on. But like all the other pro-impeach voices the Democrats have brought, Berke's talk was all wisp, all smoke.

December 9, 2019
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks with other lawmakers during a break from testimony from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, on Facebook's impact on the financial services and housing sectors. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Socialism starves, America feeds, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lies

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in her normal screeching manner, just raised national hackles by saying people will starve -- starve! -- because the Agriculture Department is reeling in its food stamp giveaways. Stupid is as stupid does. Does anybody actually starve in America? That's a socialist country thing.

December 7, 2019
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during the U.S, Capitol Christmas Tree lighting ceremony, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Nancy Pelosi pulls impeachment rabbit from magic hat

So it's done. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a televised press conference with a message that surprised no one, said the Democrats are indeed going forward with impeachment. The bigger surprise was her ability to keep a smile off her face while speaking of her love for the country and regard for the founders.

December 5, 2019