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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 at a fundraiser event for the Alabama GOP, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, in Montgomery, Ala. Just one month after Donald Trump’s January 2021 phone call to suggest Georgia’s secretary of state could overturn his election loss, District Attorney Fani Willis announced she was looking into possibly illegal “attempts to influence” the results. (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File)

Trump’s indictments all the more reason to vote for him

Another day, another Donald Trump indictment. The takeaway is this: The more indictments fly Trump's way, the more voters should dig down and decide he's the guy to elect in 2024. At this point, voters should choose Trump because of the indictments, not in spite of them. Published August 14, 2023

An advertisement of Bitcoin, one of the cryptocurrencies, is displayed on a building in Hong Kong, on Nov. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Bold & Blunt: Perils from across the pond

Digital currency is coming. And that means individual freedom is going. Former Brexit Party political candidate and patriot across the pond -- Jim Ferguson in the United Kingdom --has much to say about the massive perils to freedom that are taking place at the hands of governments around the world. Published August 11, 2023

In this June 12, 2018, file photo, people pray for America at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Dallas Convention Center in Dallas. The SBC confronted a sex-abuse crisis in the form of an investigation by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News. The newspapers reported that hundreds of Southern Baptist clergy and staff had been accused of sexual misconduct over the past 20 years. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File)

Fear in the church: Too many of God’s people afraid to fight

Sixty-nine percent of Protestant pastors in a Lifeway Research survey said they see a "growing sense of fear" among their congregants, and another 63%, that their pews are also filled with people who feel "dread" about the "future of Christianity" in America and around the world. That explains a lot. Published August 11, 2023

FBI Director Christopher Wray departs after testifying before a House Committee on the Judiciary oversight hearing, Wednesday, July 12, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

FBI’s alarming targeting of Catholics as ‘potential terrorists’ grows more alarming

FBI Director Christopher A. Wray may have testified under oath to Congress that a memo calling out Catholics as "potential terrorists" was a "single product by a single field office." But turns out the good director lied. Or, in deep state lingo, that he erroneously stated facts in a manner that was unintentionally false. Published August 10, 2023

This Sept. 6, 2017, file photo shows a tip jar with cash in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Tipping toward fatigue: Consumers exploited by entitlement workforce

It's bad enough America raised a generation to expect trophies simply for the so-called achievement of participating -- in so doing, fueling an entitlement culture. Now we've got to add to this entitlement mindset by tipping service workers simply for the achievement of doing what they're paid to do, anyway? Published August 10, 2023

In this Aug. 30, 2021, file photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, soldiers, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, prepare to board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. A State Department report says the department failed to do enough contingency planning before the collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan. The review repeatedly blames the administration of former President Donald Trump for not doing enough planning or processing of visas after beginning the withdrawal. (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force via AP, File)

Gold Star families deserve better than Biden

Thirteen American service members were killed during the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan -- a botching that was overseen by President Biden. But Biden understands how the family members of these military heroes feel because his son, Beau, died of cancer. How clueless. How self-absorbed. Published August 9, 2023

In this May 6, 2021, file photo, Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election are examined and recounted at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. A northwestern Arizona county where Republican voters far outnumber Democrats has rejected a proposal to hand-count ballots in the 2024 election cycle. The Mohave County Board of Supervisors defeated the proposal 3-2 on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt York, Pool)

Democrats hitting brick wall with younger voters

The midterms may have seen a surprising surge of young voters for Democrats, and the youthful Gen-Zers may have helped push Joe Biden's presidential tally in 2020, but that was then, this is now. Democrats are losing the youth and quite possibly, the youth vote. They brought it on themselves. Published August 8, 2023

The Louisiana state Capitol stands prominently, April 4, 2023, in Baton Rouge, La. A slew of new Louisiana laws, recently passed by the Republican-dominated Legislature and signed by Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards, went into effect Tuesday, Aug. 1. Among the new laws are ones that increase punishments for fentanyl-related crimes, a requirement that every public school classroom display the phrase “In God We Trust,” and an addition to the state’s age verification law to access pornography websites. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith, File)

‘In God We Trust’ makes a comeback

Louisiana just signed into law a requirement that all public school administrators make sure the motto "In God We Trust" is displayed in every classroom, in every building, in every district. It's a law that's been passed in several other states of late as well. Praise the Lord. God is making a comeback in America. Published August 7, 2023

In this image taken from police body camera video released by the Frisco, Texas, Police Department, a police officer displays his weapon during after stopping a vehicle on July 23, 2023. Demetria Heard, a Black woman from Arkansas who was held at gunpoint along with three family members when Texas police wrongly suspected their car was stolen said Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023, that she decided to speak out after seeing video from a passerby and realizing two officers had aimed firearms at her 13-year-old son while his hands were up. Police in the Dallas suburb have apologized and acknowledged that during the traffic stop, an officer misread the Dodge Charger's license plate as the family left a hotel to go to a basketball tournament. (Frisco Police Department via AP)

Bold & Blunt: When police harm, not help

Police are good. But sometimes they do bad. And it's incumbent on the American citizenry to hold police accountable when they do bad. Published August 4, 2023

A man walks by Pfizer headquarters, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Big Pharma’s outrageous, despicable multibillion-dollar tax dodge

Americans who earn well may have to pay as much as 37% of income in taxes each year. But not so the pharmaceuticals. For 2022, eight Big Pharma companies scooped a combined $110 billion in profits, but they only paid a combined $2 billion in U.S. taxes. That's about 2%. They exploit the free market. Published August 4, 2023

Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Saturday, July 29, 2023, in Erie, Pa. Trump, accused in a conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election, has been told not to discuss the case with any witnesses outside the presence of lawyers. But statements about that effort form the backbone of his reelection campaign. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Democrats and their futile targeting of Trump and patriotic America

Jack Smith is a man who enjoys pointing fingers and thunderously proclaiming wrongs and self-righteously swooping to attack. He doesn't prosecute so much as persecute. That makes him the man of the hour for Democrats. But Americans have awakened to the awareness Dems serve dark lords. Published August 4, 2023

President Joe Biden arrives on Air Force One at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, on July 28, 2023. The indictment of Donald Trump for attempting to overturn his election defeat is a new front in what Joe Biden has described as the battle for American democracy. It's the issue that Biden has described as the most consequential struggle of his presidency. The criminal charges are a reminder of the stakes of next year's campaign, when Trump is hoping for a rematch with Biden. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden, Democrats have a hate affair with the First Amendment

White House officials during the coronavirus years pressed Facebook-slash-Meta censors to strip away memes that poked fun of COVID-19 shots, according to the platform's internal documents. This White House hates the First Amendment. Published August 3, 2023

Contestants compete for the Miss Trans Northeast 22 beauty pageant in Guwahati, India, Nov. 30, 2022. When India's Supreme Court handed down its landmark 2014 ruling recognizing transgender Indians as a third gender separate from males and females, the judges were in a sense affirming ideas about gender that had circulated in India for thousands of years. But public attitudes toward transgender people have been slow to change, still hewing to European ideas about sexuality introduced by 19th-century British colonial rulers. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)

Bold & Blunt: Society’s dangerous downgrade of men

Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, retired, said America's facing a problem of masculinity -- that is to say, a failure to raise and respect godly men -- and that all of society is suffering from this mass wussification of the male. Too true. Published August 2, 2023

In this Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, file photo, pharmacy technician Sochi Evans fills a syringe with a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Texas Southern University in Houston. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)

COVID ‘surge,’ COVID ‘uptick’ and leprosy — and so it begins

Headlines are ablaze with alerts about a summertime COVID-19 "uptick," and worse, a summertime COVID-19 "surge," and as the medical experts everywhere are advising: Keep a face mask handy; stay on the COVID-19 shot schedule; listen up for lockdowns. Hmm. An important election must be coming. Published August 2, 2023

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the assembly during the opening session of a three-day U.N. Food and Agriculture Agency's summit on food systems in Rome, Monday, July 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) ** FILE **

U.N. and its ‘global boiling’ nonsense

Climate change isn't just "here," according to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. It's "terrifying." It's "just the beginning." And it's moved from "global warming" to "global boiling," with air that is "unbreathable" and heat that is "unbearable," he said. Right-o. That used to be called summer. Published July 31, 2023

Air Force Lt. Gen. Gregory Guillot wears military decorations while testifying during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to examine his nomination to be appointed to the grade of general and to be top commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, Wednesday, July 26, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Bold & Blunt: Selling the dream of America, not the doom

If someone asks you what's so great about America, what would you say? Here's an answer: that in this country, individual rights come from God and government is in the role of servant to protect those inherent liberties. Published July 28, 2023

FILE -People gather in support of transgender youth during a rally at the Utah State Capitol Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, in Salt Lake City. New laws targeting LGBTQ+ people are proliferating in GOP-led states, but often absent from policy decisions is a clear understanding of how many people will be directly affected. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer,File)

Phoenix, Arizona, opening ‘queer blended’ LGBTQ middle school

Middle schoolers in Arizona have a new school choice this fall -- regular public or the "Queer Blended Learning Center," a specially designed facility for LGBTQ students. Leftists call it "life-saving for queer children," Pink News wrote. Actually, it's a big ol' box of lunacy wrapped with a fluffy bow of evil. Published July 27, 2023

A sign reads "Welcome to CHOP," Sunday, June 14, 2020, inside what has been named the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone in Seattle. Protesters calling for police reform and other demands have taken over several blocks near downtown Seattle after officers withdrew from a police station in the area following violent confrontations. The CHOP name is a change from CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone) that was used earlier in the week. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Democrats do love a good Molotov cocktail

A new study found the number of Democrats who were willing to use force as a tool of political persuasion grew between January and June from 9% to 17%. Not surprising. Democrats do love their violence. Word is, they're petitioning to make Molotov cocktail throwing an Olympic sport. Published July 27, 2023