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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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In this Nov. 7, 2015, file photo, Albert and Alberta, the mascots for Florida, do the gator chomp before the first half of an NCAA college football game against Vanderbilt in Gainesville, Fla. The University of Florida is ending its "gator bait" cheer at football games and other sports events because of its racial connotations, the school's president announced Thursday, June 18, 2020, in a letter making several other similar changes on campus. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Statues and mascots and memorials, oh my

It's not by the crack of an Antifa bat that our nation's history and national identity will fall. It's by the appeasing good natures of the graduating classes. By the appeasing smiling graduation masses taught to believe feelings trump all. Published June 25, 2020

This Dec. 9, 2016, file photo released by NBC shows Jon Lovitz, a contestant on "The New Celebrity Apprentice," at a press junket in Universal City, Calif. (Paul Drinkwater/NBC via AP) ** FILE **

Joe Biden takes zillion, er, bazillion point lead over Donald Trump

"Saturday Night Live" once had this skit with comedian Jon Lovitz as Tommy Flanagan, a member, umm, president of a Pathological Liars Anonymous group, who worked as a journalist for the National Inqui--, er, Geographic -- yeah, that's the ticket. And that's how polls giving Joe Biden double-digit leads over Donald Trump seem. Published June 24, 2020

Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., points to guests in the balcony as he takes his seat on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, before President Donald Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

Anthony Fauci, Bobby Rush stoke curious racial tensions on COVID-19

Dr. Anthony Fauci told Rep. Bobby Rush during a hearing on the coronavirus that "institutional racism," yes indeed, has contributed to the disproportional number of COVID-19 cases seen in black communities versus other ethnic demographics in the United States. The interchange smelled a bit of one-hand-washing-the-other. Published June 24, 2020

FILE - In this July 30, 2019, file photo, the social media application, Facebook is displayed on Apple's App Store in Chicago.  On Wednesday, July 17, 2020, Several civil-rights and other advocacy groups are calling on large advertisers to stop Facebook ad campaigns during July 2020 because they say the social network isn’t doing enough to curtail racist and violent content on its platform. (AP Photo/Amr Alfiky, File)

Project Veritas outs Facebook for more anti-conservative bias

Project Veritas, in its latest released video, outed content moderators working for a third party contractor for Facebook discussing various ways they could censor supporters of President Donald Trump on the social media platform. This is beginning to be a daily headline -- the social media censorship of conservatives, that is. Published June 23, 2020

FBI supervisory special agent Shawn Brokos shows the recovered 1615 Breeches Edition Bible during a news conference, Thursday, April 25, 2019, in Pittsburgh. The Bible was stolen from the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh in the 1990s. It was traced to the American Pilgrim Museum in Leiden, Netherlands. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) ** FILE **

America topples into secularism

America has a secularization problem. Where once we were a nation of people who naturally turned to both Bible and biblical principles as sources of sound advice for moral, societal and political direction, we are now living by our own wisdom. And look where it's taking us. Without virtue, liberty cannot stand. Published June 23, 2020

This is a box of Aunt Jemima Buttermilk Pancake and Waffle Mix and a bottle of Aunt Jemima Original Syrup in Farmington, Pa., Thursday, June 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Aunt Jemima’s family pleads to keep ‘mammy’ image

Family members of the woman whose likeness served as the basis for the Aunt Jemima syrup brand say they don't want Quaker Foods to change the name because the affiliation gave her great fame at a pre-civil rights' fight time when job opportunities for blacks were low-to-zero. That, and it was "honest work" for honest pay. Published June 22, 2020

Workers secure a statue of Jefferson Davis to a trailer after removing it from the the Kentucky state Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., on Saturday, June 13, 2020. (Ryan C. Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP)

Jefferson Davis Highway in the BLM, NAACP crosshairs

A group of NAACP and Black Lives Matter members and supporters gathering south of Washington, D.C., called for the renaming of Jefferson Davis Highway in Northern Virginia -- the region's main north-south alternative to Interstate 95 -- because he served, from 1861 to 1865, as president of the Confederate States. Published June 22, 2020

Protesters march in a Black Lives Matter demonstration organized by the Dallas Black Firefighters Association on Juneteenth 2020 in Dallas, Friday, June 19, 2020. Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to take control of the state and ensure all enslaved people be freed, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Pandering to the pretensions of Black Lives Matter overlords

Slavery is a disgusting, despicable, horrific, soul-destroying aberration of God's will for humankind -- and, sadly, a terrible and tragic historical truth of American past. But America and all that America offers is still the best deal in the world. Published June 20, 2020

In this Wednesday, June 17, 2020, photo, barricades sit in front of QuikTrip at 15th and Denver in Tulsa, Okla. The QuikTrip convenience store chain announced the closing of its downtown area locations “out of possible safety concerns for our employees." Tens of thousands of Trump supporters are expected in Tulsa Saturday for the first of a series of rallies across the country to rev up his reelection campaign. Tulsa experienced several days of large protests after the death of black resident George Floyd. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)

Tulsa ‘civil emergency’ bolsters Democrat playbook for politics: Mayhem

Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the lead-up to President Trump's rally, has declared a "civil emergency" due to fears of "extremely violent" protesters taking to the streets, bringing all their coronavirus-ey germs and stuff with them. This is how Democrats plan to win the White House--by intimidation, squelching free speech and aggression. Published June 19, 2020

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that “the extent to which that power matters for purposes of the First Amendment and the extent to which that power could lawfully be modified raise interesting and important questions.” (AP Photo/John Amis, File)

Justice Clarence Thomas’ warning of SCOTUS politicization a case of too little, too late

The U.S. Supreme Court just voted to uphold the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals programs, or DACA, put in place by Barack Obama and rolled back by President Donald Trump -- and Justice Clarence Thomas, in a dissent, issued a stern warning against the future politicization of the court. Wise words. But too little, too late. Published June 19, 2020

In this May 5, 2019, file photo, Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, speaks following the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

COVID-19 great for growing billionaire pockets

Thanks to COVID-19 shutdowns, America's middle class may be suffering -- American small business owners may be gasping for last breaths, limping on their last legs -- but the billionaire class is making out like a bandit. Published June 18, 2020

In this June 2, 2020, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Joe Biden buoyed by fake polls, false reporting

Joe Biden, pure and simple, is being buoyed by fake polls, fake headlines and false reporting. No wonder Americans don't trust the media to report the truth. Published June 18, 2020

People view an upside-down U.S. flag that has had "Love + Rage BLM" painted on it, 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. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Civil war looms, statistics and survey say

Almost a third of U.S. voters believe a civil war is on its way -- a bleak commentary on the growing tensions around the country due to coronavirus shutdowns and police policies that have manifested in destruction and defacement of historical monuments and memorials, anarchist takeovers of city streets and riotous uprisings. Published June 17, 2020

Talk radio host Michael Savage (middle) hopes President Trump will act to remove his name from a list of undesirables banned in Britain. (Michael Savage) ** FILE **

Donald Trump to Michael Savage: ‘This will be rigged election’ if Dems have way

President Donald Trump told talk radio's Michael Savage that if Democrats have their way, the November election will be "rigged," and that it's up to courts and citizens to stave off leftist pressures for massive mail-in voting. Democrats have indeed been on a tear to use the coronavirus as justification for launching mail-in voting rights. Published June 16, 2020

In this undated frame from video provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a scientist returns a novel coronavirus vaccine sample to a freezer in Bethesda, Md. The flu-like virus that exploded from China has researchers worldwide once again scrambling to find a vaccine against a surprise health threat, with no guarantee one will arrive in time. (NIAID via AP)

Doctors drop ball, prove why they’re untrustworthy on COVID-19

Apparently, doctors have dropped the ball. They've been so busily fighting COVID-19, and telling a nation, nay a world, how to best fight COVID-19, that they've taken their eyes off other diseases. And now children are dying, or predicted to die, because of their incompetence. Published June 16, 2020

President Donald Trump speaks to over 1,110 cadets in the Class of 2020 at a commencement ceremony on the parade field, at the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., Saturday, June 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump haters stupidly seize on #RampGate as next drum to beat

The left wants to harp on President Donald Trump's physical fitness? Not Joe Biden's? Not Joe Biden in his basement, propped and steadied by God knows how many helpful hands beyond the camera lens as he stumbles and bumbles through one question after another? The left embarrasses itself. Published June 15, 2020

People walk past street art that reads "Welcome to CHAZ," Thursday, June 11, 2020, inside what is being called the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" in Seattle. Following days of violent confrontations with protesters, police in Seattle have largely withdrawn from the neighborhood, and protesters have created a festival-like scene that has President Donald Trump fuming. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Seattle anarchists and their lunatic fringe list of demands

These are not your peace-talking, peaceful-walking Martin Luther King, Jr., protesters. These are armed rebels, bent on toppling societal structures in order to usher in a new nation, one where chaos rules, lawlessness leads and anger feeds. And their list of demands only underscores their lunatic ways. Published June 12, 2020

FILE - In this May 25, 2020, file photo Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden wears a face mask to protect against the spread of coronavirus as he and Jill Biden depart after placing a wreath at the Delaware Memorial Bridge Veterans Memorial Park in New Castle, Del. Biden has won the last few delegates he needed to clinch the Democratic nomination for president. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Joe Biden is Barack Obama’s real-life ‘Pajama Boy’

Here's a thought: If you can campaign for president of the United States from the comfort of your own home, while wearing pajamas -- you're doing it wrong. Joe Biden might want to take a memo on that. Published June 11, 2020