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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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The bullseye logo on a sign outside a Target store is seen on Feb. 28, 2022. Target's first-quarter profit took a big hit from higher costs, despite strong sales growth. Target's results Wednesday, May 18, reflect the pressure on retailers' profits coming from surging inflation and persistent clogs in the supply chain. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Retailers choke on their own woke rot

The chief financial officer of retail chain Target just explained - really, complained - that "organized retail crime" is to blame for much of the corporation's dwindling profits in recent times. Well, that's what you get when you embolden the thug element. Published March 1, 2023

This image provided by Taschen shows the cover of "The James Bond Archive: 007," published by Taschen. With the film "No Time to Die" recently released and the 60th anniversary of the James Bond franchise next year, all things Bond make strong gifts for fans. (Taschen via AP) ** FILE **

Bond, James Bond, gets the P.C. censors treatment

At this rate, Bond, James Bond, will soon become Jamie, the binary intel agent who moonlights on the weekends in drag in front of dollar-waving bar hoppers looking for good times. Politically correct wokeness has no business in literature. Published February 28, 2023

This image released by HBO shows Eureka, second right, and Pastor Craig Duke, of Newburgh, Ind., second right, in a scene from the HBO series "We're Here." Duke’s pastoral duties have been terminated — the result of a bitter rift surfacing in his Indiana church after he sought to demonstrate solidarity by appearing in drag alongside prominent drag queens in the reality show. (Johnnie Ingram/HBO via AP) ** FILE **

Tennessee puts children first with drag queen ban

Tennessee lawmakers just sent a bill to the Republican governor, Bill Lee, that will ban drag queens from performing in front of children. And boy are the drag queens angry. But let's hope more states follow Tennessee's lead, though. Published February 27, 2023

George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, attends the Joseph A. Schumpeter award ceremony in Vienna on June 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak) ** FILE **

George Soros calls for World Bank to seize reins on climate change

The World Bank in charge of climate policy? Read the writing on the wall. This is the next step of the Great Reset -- the World Economic Forum's vision for total top-down government-by-elites. Those who control the purse strings ultimately hold all the controls. Published February 23, 2023

In this photo provided by Chad Fish, the remnants of a large balloon drift above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, with a fighter jet and its contrail seen below it, Feb. 4, 2023. A missile fired on Feb. 5 by a U.S. F-22 off the Carolina coast ended the days-long flight of what the Biden administration says was a surveillance operation that took the Chinese balloon near U.S. military sites. It was an unprecedented incursion across U.S. territory for recent decades, and raised concerns among Americans about a possible escalation in spying and other challenges from rival China. (Chad Fish via AP, File)

China strong: Ex-Army secretary warns America now ‘the underdog’

Patrick Murphy, former Army secretary, told a national television audience America ought to beware that the United States is actually "the underdog" in any conflict with China that might arise militarily. This is an astonishing turn of events. Blame Democrats. Published February 14, 2023

In this June 3, 2020, file photo, Kim Song Ju Primary school students have their temperatures checked before entering the school in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea, which has a broken medical infrastructure and deep poverty, has taken some of the world’s toughest anti-virus measures and claims to be coronavirus-free, an assertion widely disputed by foreign experts. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin, File)

North Korean defector sounds crucial alarm on communism in America

North Korean defector Yeonmi Park warned that what she saw in her home country -- specifically, what she saw that led her to flee to America -- is now happening here, in the supposed hallowed halls and rooms of Ivy League schooling. Calling Vladimir Lenin. Published February 13, 2023

In this July 16, 2021, file photo, nurses and doctors in the CoxHealth Emergency Department in Springfield, Mo., don personal protective equipment to treat patients with COVID-19. A poll from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows at least 7 in 10 Americans trust doctors, nurses and pharmacists to do what’s right for them and their families either most or all of the time. (Nathan Papes/The Springfield News-Leader via AP)

Doctors are now America’s Public Enemy Number One

Americans were told the COVID-19 shots would stop the spread of the virus. They didn't. Yet the CDC just added COVID shots to the list of recommended vaccines for kids as young as six months. Why? Because doctors have become derelict in their primary duty of "do no harm." Published February 10, 2023

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, speaks during a news conference at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

Globalists push for ‘international health regulations’ by 2024

If the bureaucrats in global governance have their way, a new treaty will be in effect by the end of 2024 requiring local communities around the world to go by a total top-down checklist of pandemic response measures. If you thought COVID tyrants were bad, just wait. Published February 9, 2023

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk speaks at a news conference in Khartoum, Sudan, Nov. 16, 2022. Turk arrives in Venezuela on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, for a three-day visit. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

U.N. poised to attack religion, church, Bible in looming LGBTQ study

The United Nations Human Rights Council is poised to prepare and release a report on the "perceived contradictions" between the LGBTQ agenda and religious teachings. In other words: Here come the global attacks on biblical teachings and truths. Published February 9, 2023

President Joe Biden welcomes Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House in Washington, Dec. 21, 2022. Expect lots of new faces and fresh political dynamics as President Joe Biden delivers this year’s State of the Union address. That will be coupled with attention to some old problems that have been brought back into painful focus by recent events. Biden on Tuesday night will stand before a joint session of Congress for the first time since voters in the midtem elections handed control of the House to Republicans. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Biden plus SOTU equals lies, lies, lies, lies

So President Biden is set to deliver his State of the Union address this evening. That is to say: Make way for the lies. The only question is how many Pinocchios will he earn? What a great drinking game this would make. Published February 7, 2023

An American flag is flown next to the Chinese national emblem during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Nov. 9, 2017. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed  a planned high-stakes weekend diplomatic trip to China as the Biden administration weighs a broader response to the discovery of a high-altitude Chinese balloon flying over sensitive sites in the western United States, a U.S. official said Friday.(AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China, with a single balloon, mocks and weakens America

China can deny, dismiss and apologize all it wants -- fact is, a balloon owned by the communist country found floating over Montana sends a clear, compelling and even chilling message to the world that goes like this: America is weak. Weak, weak and very, very vulnerable. Published February 3, 2023

Will Gordon follows his shot onto the 16th green of the Pebble Beach Golf Links during the first round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

DirecTV, by booting Newsmax, has woken a sleeping giant

Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, after orchestrating the December, 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, would later write in his diary, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." Fast-forward to 2023. This seems DirecTV's problem, too. Published February 3, 2023

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine an update on the ongoing Federal response to COVID-19, June 16, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

CDC goes ballistic on eyedrops — but not on COVID shots?

On the heels of fielding 50 reports of eye infections from 11 different states, the CDC has decided enough is enough: The agency is now warning Americans to stop buying and using EzriCare Artificial Tears. That's nice. Now where's the warning to stop taking the COVID-tied shots? Published February 2, 2023

President Joe Biden steps off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, after returning from New York. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden’s bogus ‘end’ of COVID emergency health orders

President Biden is going to "end" on May 11 the two COVID-tied public health emergencies that America has been living under since 2020. Given these same PHEs were due to expire on March 1 and on April 11 -- what Biden actually meant by "end" was expand. Published February 1, 2023

A tourist is reflected in a window of the closed building housing the Liberty Bell, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018, in Philadelphia. The building was closed due to the partial government shutdown. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) ** FILE **

Patrick Henry wouldn’t have worn a face mask

Imagine Patrick Henry delivering his famous, "Give me liberty or give me death" speech today, complete with face mask. It wouldn't happen. Fiery speeches of freedom and forced face masks do not mix. Published January 31, 2023