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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 March 27, 2008, file photo, the Pentagon is seen in this aerial view in Washington. President Donald Trump says he will bar transgender individuals from serving “in any capacity” in the armed forces. Trump said on Twitter Wednesday, July 26, 2017, that after consulting with “Generals and military experts,” that “the U.S. Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military.” (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Trump trans-ban: A gun control Dems should love

So President Donald Trump's banned transgenders from serving in the U.S. military, and now, the left's gone nuts. The question is: Why? Transgenderism is a mental disorder. And we know the left is all about curbing the Second Amendment access to those with mental disorders. Right? Published July 26, 2017

In this July 12, 2017, file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks to federal, state and local law enforcement officials about sanctuary cities and efforts to combat violent crime, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Jeff Sessions — happily — to get hot on criminal leakers

First Anthony Scaramucci -- now Jeff Sessions. The attorney general -- the one whose come under fire by President Donald Trump for recusing himself weeks ago from all-things-Russia tied to the 2016 election -- is about to get hot on criminal leakers. This can only be a boon to the White House. Published July 26, 2017

Hillary Clinton, accompanied by Dr. Rudolph Crew, president of Medgar Evers College, arrive for commencement at Barclay's Center, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday, June 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ** FILE **

Hillary Clinton’s upcoming book: Make way for the pity party

Hillary Clinton, of "I Should've Won the White House!" fame, apparently isn't content to deliver 10- and 20-second talking points from her national podium about the dang Russians who worked with President Donald Trump to give him that presidential title. She's gotta write a book about it, too. Published July 26, 2017

House Budget Committee  member Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., questions Budget Director Mick Mulvaney on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 24, 2017, during the committee's hearing on President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 federal budget. Fellow committee member Rep. Susan DelBene, D-Wash. is at left. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Pakistani IT guy arrested at airport

Debbie Wasserman Schultz's top information technology guy, the Pakistani-born Imran Awan -- who was under investigation by the FBI for theft and cybersecurity-tied abuses -- was arrested at Dulles International Airport as he tried to flee the country. And now Democrats are rushing to defend him, saying he's the target of massive federal Islamophobia. Published July 26, 2017

President Donald Trump pauses as he participates in a joint news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, July 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Psychiatrists agree: It’s OK to smear Trump

A noted psychiatrists' association put out a memo to members to suggest it's quite OK for them to publicly comment on President Donald Trump's mental state -- the heck with a longstanding "Goldwater rule" prohibiting such opining. And the circle of sharks about Trump's White House grows wider. Published July 25, 2017

Palestinian women pray at the Lion's Gate following an appeal from clerics to pray in the streets instead of the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, in Jerusalem's Old City, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. Dozens of Muslims have prayed in the street outside a major Jerusalem shrine, heeding a call by clerics not to enter the site until a dispute with Israel over security arrangements is settled. This comes after Israel removed metal detectors earlier on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

California imam should be watched; his Islamic center monitored

A California imam who was captured on video calling for the annihilation of Jews ought to be investigated for subversive behaviors. And the Islamic center that welcomed his sermon? That site should be infiltrated with counterterror authorities. Published July 25, 2017

Wisconsin-based Three Square Market will soon offer its employees the option of having microchips implanted under their skin. The technology will work in tandem with computers, allow employees to pay for food, and open doors. (KSTP-TV ABC-5 Wisconsin screenshot)

Wisconsin company signs up workers to take human microchips

A Wisconsin company is asking employees if they want to get a microchip implanted in their hands, in the space between the thumb and forefinger. Welcome to the next era -- a creepier, more intrusive, less private era where the lines between constitutional and not grow fuzzy and the opportunity for unintended consequences to grow seems unlimited. Published July 25, 2017

President Donald Trump pauses during a joint news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, July 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Donald Trump’s right: It’s a sewer, not a swamp

President Donald Trump tweeted in the lead-up to Jared Kushner's widely waited for Senate-Russia testimony that it's not a swamp he's trying to drain. It's a sewer. And yes indeed, that description is much more apt. Published July 25, 2017

In this Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016, file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks at a rally at Summerville Country Club in Summerville, S.C. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Jeb Bush rallies Republicans to scold Donald Trump on Russia

Jeb Bush, former Florida governor, former presidential hopeful and former loud critic of President Donald Trump, has stepped back into the political arena to call out his fellow Republicans as hypocrites -- for not publicly condemning Trump. Sigh. Why do entrenched Republicans insist on picking public fights with fellow GOPers? Published July 24, 2017

"The politics of 'gotcha' are over. I have a thick skin," tweeted White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci. (Associated Press)

Anthony Scaramucci takes the reins with vow to fire leakers

Anthony Scaramucci, new White House communications director, apparently ain't playing. When asked by CBS "Face the Nation" host John Dickerson what would happen to leakers and whistleblowers under Scaramucci's watch, the newbie fired off this reply: "They're going to get fired." Good. Published July 24, 2017

In this Dec. 29, 2011, file photo, Linda Sarsour, executive director of the Arab American Association of New York, poses for photos in front of a canvas painted by the association's youth group at its headquarters in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, File)

Linda Sarsour: Even CNN’s Jake Tapper sees your deceptions

Linda Sarsour, defender of all things Islam and hater of all things President Donald Trump, has apparently gone a bit too far with her radical rhetoric, and raised the eyebrows of even those on the left -- of even some of her once-staunch supporters. Published July 22, 2017

In this Jan. 13, 2017, file photo, Anthony Scaramucci, a senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, talks to reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Anthony Scaramucci moves front and center on media’s hit list

Sean Spicer has resigned. Anthony Scaramucci is the new White House communications director. And the media's many left-leaning, anti-President Donald Trump members, just minutes into the announcement, are already having a field day with the chaos that's ensued. Published July 21, 2017

Host Peyton Manning appears on stage at the conclusion of the ESPYS at the Microsoft Theater on Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Democrats shun ‘resistance’ to become Party of Pizza

Democrats, party of election-time failure, have decided their "resistance" slogan isn't doing them any good and have adopted a new tag line they hope will wing them across the finish line come 2018. It's from the pizza commercial, Papa John's. Published July 21, 2017

Then-Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Justice Department in Washington, in this March 4, 2015, photo. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Eric Holder gives Robert Mueller the stamp of approval on ethics

Eric Holder just said President Donald Trump has no cause to question the integrity of special counsel Robert Mueller. Now you know Trump does. A thumbs-up on ethics from Holder is pretty much a red flag for the truly ethical to run. Published July 21, 2017

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during an event to formally launch the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware, in Newark, Delaware, March 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Joe Biden, drunk on capitalism, charging big bucks for signed books

Joe Biden, the same guy who served under one of America's most rabid wealth distributors in modern political times -- Barack Obama -- and the same guy who presents as oh so very much concerned with the plight of the middle class, has taken a fat cat step toward Profit Lane. Published July 20, 2017