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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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Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media outside the courtroom of his trial at Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in New York. (Curtis Means/Pool Photo via AP)

Judge Merchan — fine this!

Oh please, please, pretty please -- pleeeaase, Judge Merchan, throw Trump in jail. We can't wait for the t-shirts and coffee cups -- and ballots. Published May 1, 2024

Columbia University professors speak in solidarity with their students rights to protest free from arrest at the Columbia University campus in New York on Monday April 22, 2024. U.S. colleges and universities are preparing for end-of-year commencement ceremonies with a unique challenge: providing safety for graduates while honoring the free speech rights of students involved in protests over the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

Columbia is emboldening spread of antisemitic cancer

You can't cure antisemitism. It's a cancer, and you have to cut it out and carve it away before it spreads and causes even more harm. A simple order to the National Guard would do the trick. Published April 25, 2024

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 29, 2024. House Democrats on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, launched a long-shot effort to push $95 billion in aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan to a vote. The move ramps up pressure on Johnson to take up the foreign funding package. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Democrats and their Ukraine-loving, foreign-flag-waving antics

Scores of Democrats, on the heels of a vote to pass a foreign aid package, cheered Speaker Mike Johnson -- a story in itself, dontcha think? -- and then celebrated their victory over Republicans by waving Ukraine flags madly in the air. Dems get so patriotic when it comes to other countries. Published April 24, 2024

Police in riot gear stand guard as demonstrators chant slogans outside the Columbia University campus, Thursday, April 18, 2024, in New York. The protesters were calling for the school to divest from corporations they claim profit from the war in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

America’s college antisemitism is the Democrat Party’s shame

White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates called the recent student protests on college campuses in America "blatantly antisemitic" and then condemned them "in the strongest terms" as "despicable." Well, the Democrat Party ought to know. It's the Democrat Party that created this madness. Published April 23, 2024

Jewish students gather at the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. An Indiana bill to address antisemitism on college campuses lost support from some members of the Jewish community after an amendment altered language surrounding criticism of Israel. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy) ** FILE **

Gen Z-ers see Hamas, not Israel, as victims

Fully one-third of Generation Z voters -- those between 18 and 24 years old -- say Israel doesn't have a right to exist as a nation. That's according to a new survey from RMG Research for Summit.org. And that explains all the antisemitic ignorance dotting America's higher places of learning in recent months. Published April 22, 2024

This July 8, 2004, photo provided by the United States Geological Survey shows Fish Creek through the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, managed by the Bureau of Land Management on Alaska's North Slope. (David W. Houseknecht/United States Geological Survey via AP)

Biden economy strikes again with locks on drilling, mining

President Joe Biden's administration just put a lock on oil, gas and mining operations on millions of acres of Alaska land, leading Interior to deny a road-building permit for those who hoped to tap into $7.5 billion worth of copper deposits -- and all of America's competitors and enemies go, yay. Published April 19, 2024

Former President Donald Trump awaits the start of proceedings during jury selection at Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, April 18, 2024 in New York. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

Trump gag order should concern all Americans

Donald Trump faces fines for violating a gag order imposed by a politically charged judge at the request of a politically charged district attorney, and a whole bunch of ignorant people in America think that's A-OK. Wake up and smell the tyranny. Published April 18, 2024

Daniel Kapilov with the Israel Defense Forces recovers from his war injuries at Sheba Medical Center in Israel in this April 2024 photo. (Cheryl Chumley/The Washington Times)

WATCH: Meet the true victims of Hamas terror — and it ain’t Palestinians

Six hundred Israeli soldiers have died and thousands more been injured since October 7, when Hamas attacked the Jewish nation and the IDF was activated to root out and kill the terrorists. That's according to the latest stats from the IDF. But sadly, most all the media go: What about the poor Palestinian children? Published April 16, 2024

President Joe Biden listens during a meeting with Iraq's Prime Minister Shia al-Sudani in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, April 15, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden is bad for America, bad for Israel, bad all around

President Biden has ruined America's economy, wreaked havoc at America's borders and destroyed America's respect on the international stage, first by bungling Afghanistan and then by emboldening terrorists to take up arms against America's greatest ally, Israel. On epic fails, Biden is perfect. Published April 16, 2024

Casper Rhodes, 6, struggles to hold up the family's Bible as his father state Sen. Brian Rhodes, R-Pelahatchie, places his hand on the book and recites the oath of office during the swearing in ceremony in the Senate Chamber at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. Both chambers of lawmakers were sworn into the new four-year term that began at noon Tuesday. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

WATCH: Bible prophesy, Israel and the shaky fate of America

Bible teacher Amir Tsarfati, an Israeli Christian who heads up the nonprofit "Behold Israel" to teach how God's word applies to modern news, culture and events, says America has fallen on tough times, but that fear is for the faithless. Published April 12, 2024

President Joe Biden, left, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken attend a trilateral meeting with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

The stupidity of the two-state solution for Israel, Palestinians

Imagine a group of thugs break into your home, rape your daughter, murder your son and run off with your baby after setting fire to all your belongings -- and then the local media and political leaders demand you sit down and strike a deal with your attackers; to peacefully coexist Would you say hey, what a great idea? Published April 12, 2024

President Joe Biden stands with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., after speaking about lowering health care costs in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, April 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

WATCH: Joe Biden ‘playing’ into ‘strategy of Hamas’

President Joe Biden said he's "outraged and heartbroken by the deaths" of aid workers in Gaza who were mistakenly killed by Israeli's military as they were providing food for civilians in the middle of the war-torn land. As are all -- even the Israelis. But let's not lose focus on the reasons these aid workers were killed. Published April 5, 2024

Sharren Haskel, a member of the Knesset, discusses the problems with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) from her office in Israel on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (Cheryl Chumley/The Washington Times)

UNRWA emerging as new terror headache for Israel

As backlash against Israel's attempt to eradicate Hamas grows, and the politics of governments shift from compassion for the Jewish people to compassion for the Palestinians in Gaza, UNRWA funding is buzzing once again. Published April 4, 2024

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, make statements with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the media, inside The Kirya, which houses the Israeli Ministry of Defense, after their meeting in Tel Aviv, Oct. 12, 2023. AP Washington photographer Jacquelyn Martin recalls how being one of a few female photographers covering news and politics was useful when she was assigned as the press pooler for Blinken's last-minute trip to Israel and the Middle East in the aftermath of the Hamas attacks. Martin said, “Sometimes people not knowing what to make of you works in your favor.” (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool, File)

Bold & Blunt: Israelis fight for normalization, post-October 7

It's disingenuous to think that Hamas terrorists, who want nothing more than to eradicate the Jewish people from the face of the earth, will strike a peace deal with Israel if only Israel will stop rooting out and killing Hamas. Published April 3, 2024

An aircraft airdrops humanitarian aid over the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Sunday, March 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

‘Hamas shooting their own people’

Knesset member Ohad Tal, a member of the Security and Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a sit-down interview in his Jerusalem office that not only are the numbers of killed coming from the Palestinians not to be trusted, but that Hamas terrorists are "also contributing to their own numbers" of dead. Published April 3, 2024

A woman walks during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group outside of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 31, 2024. Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered outside the parliament building in Jerusalem on Sunday, calling on the government to reach a deal to free dozens of hostages held by Hamas and to hold early elections. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Media coverage of Israel grows worse as war drags on

Gil Hoffman, executive director of Honest Reporting in Israel, a group with a mission to monitor the truthfulness of international media on all-things-Jewish-state, said the longer the war against Hamas lasts, the worse the coverage grows. Published April 3, 2024