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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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** FILE ** Montana District Judge G. Todd Baugh reads a statement in Billings, Mont., on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, in apology for remarks he made about a 14-year-old girl raped by a teacher, but the jurist defended the 30-day prison sentence given to the teacher as appropriate. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Judge who jailed rapist for 30 days reconsiders sentence

A judge who caused a double-whammy outcry when he sentenced a former teacher to 30 days for raping a teen girl and then justified the short jail term by seeming to blame the 14-year-old for the crime is now reconsidering his ruling. Published September 4, 2013

The leadership of the NAACP Casper branch speak with John Abarr, far right, a kleagle of the United Klans of America out of Great Falls, Mont., on Saturday night, Aug. 31, 2013, at the Parkway Plaza hotel in Casper, Wyo. Jimmy Simmons, president of the NAACP Casper branch, spent several months attempting to organize the meeting due to concerns about reports of violence against black men and Ku Klux Klan pamphleting in Gillette, Wyo. (AP Photo/Casper Star-Tribune, Alan Rogers) **FILE**

KKK and NAACP secret meeting ends with membership ties

In what's being billed as a historical first, the president of the Casper, Wyo., NAACP met recently behind closed doors with an organizer of the KKK chapter from Great Falls, Mont. — and the meeting actually ended with a crossover membership. Published September 4, 2013

England poised to shutter jails as super-prison site revealed

The prison system in England is poised for big change, as authorities are planning to shutter four individual jails and concentrate the inmate population at one massive facility, a super-prison in northern Wales. Published September 4, 2013

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Obama poised to pressure President Putin on gay rights at G-20

President Obama is setting out to the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg this week to discuss more than Syria or Egypt. At the pressing of human rights activists, he is expected to take up the issue of gay rights, in what is sure to prove a tension-tightening moment with President Vladimir Putin. Published September 3, 2013

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Comedy film ‘The Muslims Are Coming!’ tackles Islamophobia — and trashes conservatives

Comedians and film co-directors Negin Farsad and Dean Obeidallah are taking on one of present-day politics' most sensitive subjects head-on, hoping laughter really can overcome all — including Islamophobia. But then they take potshots at key conservatives and Fox News, characterizing those with dissenting views of radical Islam as ignorant. Published September 3, 2013

This image posted on the Syrian presidency’s official Facebook page on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, purports to show Syrian President Bashar Assad talking with soldiers in Darya, Syria, on his first known public trip outside Damascus, the capital, since March 2012. (Associated Press)

Syrian President Bashar Assad taunts: ‘Obama is weak’

Syria’s beleaguered president, Bashar Assad, said in a published interview with a France newspaper the Middle East was ready to blow, but that President Obama was too weak to do anything about it. Published September 3, 2013

** FILE ** Egyptians security forces escort an Islamist supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood out of the al-Fatah mosque, after hundreds of Islamist protesters barricaded themselves inside the mosque overnight, following a day of fierce street battles that left scores of people dead, near Ramses Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

Egypt’s judges call for Muslim Brotherhood to be disbanded

A panel of judges in Egypt suggested that the Muslim Brotherhood be stripped of its non-governmental organization status, a move that would officially dissolve the group, at least in the eyes of the military-backed leadership. Published September 3, 2013

Manhattan Federal Court Building. (Flickr)

‘N-word’ on trial: Federal jury says it’s not a term of endearment

A federal jury ruled that saying the "N-word" in the workplace — no matter the ethnicity of the person who uses it — is hostile and discriminatory, and not a term of endearment. The ruling clarifies what some have called a confusing double standard for years — that blacks can say the N-word with impunity, but if other races do, it's blatant discrimination. Published September 3, 2013

This image posted on the Syrian presidency’s official Facebook page on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, purports to show Syrian President Bashar Assad talking with soldiers in Darya, Syria, on his first known public trip outside Damascus, the capital, since March 2012. (Associated Press)

Pro-Bashar Assad hackers breach Marine website: Fight ‘alongside our army’

Computer hackers working in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad broke into the website of the U.S. Marine Corps and left a message aimed at discouraging U.S. entry into the two-plus year conflict on the side of the rebels: President Obama is needlessly endangering your life. Published September 3, 2013