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Cheryl K. Chumley

Cheryl K. Chumley

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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Columns by Cheryl K. Chumley

"The Great Revolt" by Salena Zito and Brad Todd outlines the profound effect loyal Trump voters have had on reshaping American politics. (Associated Press)

Voters — the people who count — say Manafort, Cohen won’t hurt Trump

Rasmussen pollsters found that despite the widely shrill pantings of the anti-Donald Trump press, the Paul Manafort guilty verdicts and the Michael Cohen plea bargain won't matter when it comes to harming the president. The people who matter most are yawning at the Manafort-Cohen developments. Published August 25, 2018

CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper attends the Turner Networks 2018 Upfront at One Penn Plaza on Wednesday, May 16, 2018, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Donald Trump ‘demonic?’ Apparently — and more: CNN’s wild ‘fake news’ interview

President Donald Trump is a criminal thug, a serial liar, a racist pig, a woman hater, and an all-around bad dude who's been following in the footsteps of the devil, according to Harvard's Cornell West, in a wild and crazy CNN "interview." This is a classic example of what President Donald Trump means when he labels news as fake. Published August 24, 2018

Cristhian Bahena Rivera speaks with his attorney during his initial court appearance, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018, at the Poweshiek County Courthouse in Montezuma, Iowa. Rivera is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Mollie Tibbetts, who disappeared July 18 from Brooklyn, Iowa. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette via AP, Pool)

Geraldo Rivera, post-Mollie Tibbetts murder, pleads for ‘compassion’ for immigrants

Geraldo Rivera, one of Fox's go-to pundits, made an emotional plea about the after-effects of the murder of Mollie Tibbetts, telling his host and the audience that Americans should show some "compassion" for immigrants and refrain from painting them all with a broad criminal brush. Boy, talk about reading the tea leaves wrong. Published August 24, 2018

FILE - In a Friday, Feb. 9, 2018 file photo, lab technologist Sharda Modi tests a patient's swab for a flu infection at Upson Regional Medical Center in Thomaston, Ga. U.S. health officials on Friday, Feb. 23, 2018, said fewer visits to the doctor last week _ 1 out of 16 _ were for fever, cough and other flu symptoms than during the previous two weeks. The number of states reporting high patient traffic for the flu also dropped, to 39 from 43. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

How A.I. is pushing U.S. health care down a USSR path

Watch out America -- that patient-doctor relationship is about to be blown apart by Big Technology, Big Government and Big Business. It's also being pushed down the very same road walked by the former USSR. Published August 23, 2018

Then-FBI Director Robert Mueller listens as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013, as the House Judiciary Committee held an oversight hearing on the FBI. (Associated Press)  ** FILE **

Robert Mueller’s poll numbers soar, as anti-Donald Trump press swirls

A new Fox News poll shows Robert Mueller's favor with the American public has soared post-Paul Manafort, post-Michael Cohen by double-digit amounts. So what's it all mean? Maybe that the media has been successful in selling the image of a corrupt White House. Published August 23, 2018

In this March 13, 2018, file photo, actress Oprah Winfrey poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film "A Wrinkle In Time" in London. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

Oprah Winfrey’s despicable ‘ShoutYourAbortion’ advocacy

A few days ago, in an appearance on "Washington Journal" on C-SPAN, I said in answer to a caller's question that I didn't know any woman who went cheerily toward an abortion, happily off to the operating table, in some sort of "let the suction begin!" type of trance. Then came Oprah with her "Shout Your Abortion" magazine feature. Published August 22, 2018

A poster for missing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts hangs in the window of a local business, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, in Brooklyn, Iowa. Tibbetts was reported missing from her hometown in the eastern Iowa city of Brooklyn in July 2018. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Mollie Tibbetts and the callous response of the left

The beautiful 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts is dead, allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant, 24, who was supposed to be in Mexico but was instead flouting U.S. law and order and living and working for the last few years inside America's borders. And Nancy Pelosi wants Dreamers to know they haven't run out of time to apply for their renewals. Published August 22, 2018

Michael Cohen, former lawyer to President Donald Trump, departs following his appearance in Federal Court on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, in New York. Cohen, has pleaded guilty to charges including campaign finance fraud stemming from hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)

Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen — and the innuendo games begin

Paul Manafort was hit with a guilty finding on eight of 18 financial fraud charges. Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight counts of campaign finance and bank and tax fraud. And the vultures are circling -- heck, dive-bombing -- to tie all these court happenings back to President Donald Trump. Let the innuendo games begin. Published August 22, 2018

A wall is spray painted with a message that reads in Spanish: "Damn Maduro" next to an ATM machine in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Aug. 20, 2018. Banks remained closed Monday as they prepare to release the "sovereign bolivar," the new currency printed with five fewer zeroes in a bid to tame soaring inflation. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

America is Venezuela with Democrats in charge

Venezuela is in crisis mode, its currency tanking, its oil-rich vastness a waste of socialist rule, its peoples desperate for even the most basic of human necessities. And this is where the young Democrats and progressives of America would like to head. Published August 21, 2018

A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip each player wears is shown during warmups before a preseason NFL football game between the New York Jets and Detroit Lions Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, in Detroit. Thanks to the nickle-sized transmitters on each players’ uniform and high-tech tracking systems at all NFL stadiums, fans will have a vast new set of statistics to study this season. It’s all part of the league’s “Next Gen Stats” venture, which could eventually change the way teams scout opponents and design game plans. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) ** FILE **

Microchipping employees, the next terrible technology wave

Employees with the technology firm Three Square Market have been quietly, steadily inserting microchips into their own hands as a means of making it easier to pay for the likes of snacks from company vending machines or drinks from the cafeteria. Subtitle this: When Convenience Becomes Downright Creepy. Published August 21, 2018

Bill Maher, winner of the First Amendment Award, speaks to the crowd at the 26th Annual Literary Awards Festival at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Wednesday, September 28, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif (Photo by Casey Curry/Invision/AP)

Bill Maher, HBO’s resident liberal, rips left for chilling speech

Bill Maher, on his recent "Real Time" episode on HBO, ripped into leftists for cheering the social media booting of Alex Jones -- something which even his liberal mind looked at as a chilling path toward tyranny and clamped free speech. Democrats would do well to pay attention. Published August 20, 2018

The Satanic Temple unveils its statue of Baphomet, a winged-goat creature, at a rally for the First Amendment in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018. The Satanic Temple wants to install the statue on Capitol grounds as a symbol for religious freedom after a monument of the Biblical Ten Commandments was installed in 2017. (AP Photo/Hannah Grabenstein) ** FILE **

Satanic Temple exploits First Amendment for abomination of Baphomet

Members of the Satanic Temple were at it again this week, stirring up unrest and stoking religious sensibilities and demanding Arkansas legislators give their Baphomet statue the same equal access to Capitol grounds as a monument of the Ten Monuments. Somebody go get Gideon. Published August 18, 2018

In this  July 5, 2018, file photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at an event in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Andrew Cuomo’s ‘total meltdown’ very un-JFK

Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, made what's called in the world of politics a suicidal step by saying, for all the country to hear, that America's not that great -- that the notion of American exceptionalism is pretty much ridiculous. Or, at least, his comments would've been political suicide, in a day and age of Democrat reason. Published August 16, 2018

In a Thursday, March 8, 2018, file photo, York City School District Police Lt. Quinn Johnson sorts paperwork as surveillance tech Val Handy ends a phone call while monitoring about 160 surveillance cameras around William Penn Senior High School in York, Pa. The school's surveillance cameras are recording 24/7, with an operator monitoring them during business hours to alert hall monitors and others to things or people that may be out of place. The York City School District is the only one in York County with its own police department. Officers, who have the power of arrest, operate on a community policing ideology to prevent incidents rather than react to them. (Chris Dunn/York Daily Record via AP) ** FILE **

A.I.-equipped police: They’re watching, they’re listening — they’re Big Brothering

There aren't many in America who would begrudge police the tools to protect themselves -- to avail themselves of whatever technological devices are at their disposal to rid the streets of criminals, keep citizens safe and at the end of the shift, head home healthy and unhurt to their families and loved ones. But not at the expense of the Constitution. Published August 16, 2018

Linguist and political commentator Noam Chomsky told the BBC on May 10, 2017, that the Republican Party is the most dangerous organization "in human history." (Image: BBC "Newsnight" screenshot)

Noam Chomsky, pro-Hezbollah, anti-GOP, to teach young minds at University of Arizona

Make way for the next wave of Marxist-minded college graduates. The University of Arizona has just hired Noam Chomsky, noted radical leftist and open supporter of the terror group Hezbollah, to teach on a part-time basis a course called, "What is Politics?" Hmm, we'll take "indoctrination" for 500, Alex. Published August 15, 2018

Sensors and cameras, part of a system used to tell what people have purchased, are attached overhead in an Amazon Go store, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018, in Seattle. More than a year after it introduced the concept, Amazon opened its artificial intelligence-powered Amazon Go store in downtown Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) ** FILE **

A.I. goes eye-gazing for personality traits

Researchers have discovered a way to stare artificial intelligence deep into the windows of humans' souls and emerge with a score card on personality as it pertains to four traits: neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness. Eye-gazing -- technology's next venture toward omniscience. Published August 13, 2018