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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 file photo, a voter reviews his selections on his ballot while voting at the town's highway garage building Tuesday, April 7, 2020 in Dunn, Wis.  (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP) **FILE**

COVID-19 threatens U.S. election integrity

For the first time in months, Democrats are looking with anticipation and excitement to November's presidential election -- and it has nothing to do with their dismal candidate, Joe Biden. It's because of COVID-19 and the chance to do some heavy Election Day damage. Published May 2, 2020

In this Monday, April 27, 2020, photo provided by Vince Warburton, passengers get off an American Airlines flight airplane after they landed at Los Angeles International Airport. JetBlue requires passengers to wear face makes during flights, and Frontier Airlines says it will too, but face coverings are strictly optional on most airlines. American Airlines said it will start providing masks for passengers who want them. (Vince Warburton via AP)

Forced face masking is a civil rights offense

Major U.S. airlines have announced that as a condition of riding their friendly skies, passengers must all put on a face mask. Let the muzzling of America commence. Let the -- hopefully! -- lawsuits against the mask nazis begin, as well. Published May 1, 2020

FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2020, file photo Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, speaks during a news conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Tesla is now worth more than General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler combined, even though the Big Three together sell more cars and trucks in two weeks than Tesla does in a whole year. It is now worth five times what it was in June, when there were whispers of bankruptcy surrounding the company founded by the erratic visionary Musk. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Elon Musk, COVID-19 hero: ‘Give people back their g—d— freedom’

Who knew Elon Musk, of Tesla CEO fame, would emerge such a freedom-loving hero from this COVID-19 disaster called Government Overreach -- but he has. In an epic earnings telephone rant, Musk called out the "fascist" social distancing measures ordered by government. Published April 30, 2020

In this Tuesday, April 14, 2020, file photo  California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference at the Governor's Office of Emergency Services in Rancho Cordova, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, Pool, File)

Californians should do a ‘Stormin’ Norman’ over closed beaches

California's Democrat governor, Gavin Newsom, is poised to order all beaches in the state closed because citizens dared to defy his social distancing order by flocking to the seashore, COVID-19 be danged. And this should be the collective Californian response: Storm the beaches anyway. Published April 30, 2020

Kathleen Toomey, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health, answers questions from the media during a news conference at Liberty Plaza across the street from the Georgia state Capitol building in downtown Atlanta, Wednesday, April 1, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Georgia kicks off chilling door-to-door COVID-19 blood collections

Let the government-pressed coronavirus-tied blood collections of citizens begin. And begin they have. They have in Georgia at least, where officials with the state's Department of Public Health recently announced that "to learn more about the spread of COVID-19," they're going door-to-door to ask citizens for blood. Chilling. Published April 28, 2020

President Donald Trump listens as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 22, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Anthony Fauci should explain ‘$3.7 million to the Wuhan laboratory’

President Donald Trump's legal counsel, Rudy Giuliani, suggested a good U.S. attorney general move about now would be to investigate key members of the past Barack Obama administration on the Wuhan, China, laboratory, to see what they knew and when they knew it. And then he mentioned Anthony Fauci specifically. Published April 27, 2020

Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull.

Founding Fathers rolling in graves at the COVID-19 constitutional crisis

The Founders would be shocked to see America, circa COVID-19 2020. In fact, they're probably rolling in their graves right now, watching the Constitution they so carefully created -- with regard for individual rights as bestowed by God, not government -- being crushed by a hammer of coronavirus fears. Especially on fears that are so far misplaced. Published April 25, 2020

In this Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, file photo, chickens line up to get a bite of spent brewer's grain brought in to feed bison at Sleepy Bison Acres farm in Sleepy Eye, Minn. Sleepy Eye Brewing Co. and the farm have a partnership where they trade bison feed for bison meat to cook in their cafe. (Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP) ** FILE **

Chicken killing sounds alarm on coronavirus threats to freedom

A farmer in Minnesota told the Star Tribune he had to kill 61,000 of his chickens because the coronavirus crisis had dried up demand for their eggs and he had no way to continue feeding them. Open the freaking country already. America must maintain self-sufficiency with the food supply, if Americans are to remain free. Published April 24, 2020

Rob Cortis of Livonia, works the microphone Thursday, April 23, 2020, near the Michigan Governor's Mansion in Lansing, Mich. Cortis drove his "Trump Unity Bridge" float to Lansing joining a small caravan of protesters rallying against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's stay-at-home order enacted to help mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP)

Gretchen Whitmer shows folly of executive orders

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the "I am zee law!" lady of American politics, is poised to lose some of her powers, as legislators say they're going to intervene and vote and reel her in a bit. Well, ain't that about time. Executives aren't kings. Legislators hold the true authority in determining the extent of executive powers. Published April 24, 2020

A Tyson Fresh Meats plant stands in Waterloo, Iowa, date not known. On Friday, April 17, 2020, more than a dozen Iowa elected officials asked Tyson to close the pork processing plant because of the spread of the coronavirus among its workforce of nearly 3,000 people. (Jeff Reinitz/The Courier via AP)

Coronavirus a Groundhog Day for the political world

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's director, Dr. Robert Redfield, said during a press conference at the White House that this fall, Americans could experience a complicated flu-slash-coronavirus season of sickness and to be on guard. How convenient for Democrats. Just in time for Election Day. Published April 23, 2020

In this Nov. 5, 2018, file photo, Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp speaks a day before Election Day at Peachtree DeKalb Airport in Atlanta. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Georgia governor defies CYA to be beacon of good coronavirus leadership

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is taking a lot of heat for daring to go where no other state has gone before -- and gasp! opening the state back up for business, even as the rest of the country's political leaders sit on coronavirus pins and needles. But what Kemp is really doing is something called Leadership. Published April 22, 2020

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy speaks during his daily press briefing about the new coronavirus, Friday, April 10, 2020, at the War Memorial in Trenton, N.J. (Chris Pedota/The Record via AP)

Democrat governors, with coronavirus, tip hats of tyranny

Democrats, juiced by coronavirus, have really tipped their tyrannical hats. That's not to say they don't care about the coronavirus sufferers. But it is to say that leftists see disaster -- and say to themselves, hmm, maybe there's a win-win here. Published April 20, 2020

Saul Alinsky author of "Rules for Radicals." (Associated Press)

Coronavirus and the smell of Saul Alinsky

Coronavirus, at its root, is being used as a tool for those with devilish designs to establish a new order, a new un-American, unconstitutional and unfree kingdom -- and that is the end game, like it or not. Wake up and smell the Alinsky; it's a key to keeping our country intact. Published April 18, 2020

Christopher Merrill protests at the State Capitol in Lansing, Mich., Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Flag-waving, honking protesters drove past the Michigan Capitol on Wednesday to show their displeasure with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's orders to keep people at home and businesses locked during the new coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Civil disobedience can end the coronavirus stupidity

The happiest news to emerge in recent coronavirus weeks comes courtesy of videos showing the good citizens of Michigan, fed up with their tyrannical governor, taking to the streets in mass -- and maskless! -- to demand an end to the tyranny. The saddest news? The realization that it took so long for these types of protests to occur. Published April 16, 2020

Attorney General William Barr speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

William Barr, a ray of light during dark coronavirus days

Attorney General William Barr has been magnificent in recent days. At a time of great constitutional distress, the attorney general is proving to be a calm, cool comfort who doesn't just preach a good message, but follows through and actually, well -- acts. Published April 16, 2020

Bill Gates smiles while being interviewed in Kirkland, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) **FILE**

Bill Gates — oh, boohoo — rails at Trump for pulling WHO funding

Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder who recently cut all ties to his company so that he could focus in part on curing the world of disease -- such as through vaccines he funds -- just called out President Donald Trump's decision to pull U.S. funding from the World Health Organization as abysmal, "dangerous" and deadly. Oh, boohoo. Published April 15, 2020

FILE - In this April 9, 2020 file photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during a briefing about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Anthony Fauci has a mad scientist vision to track, surveil American citizens

Anthony Fauci, on coronavirus, wants to implement a "contact tracing" program in America that will in effect set the stage for government to surveil its citizens. Only he describes it in such a kindly caring gentlemanly manner that it's not supposed to be noticed as nefarious and unAmerican and unconstitutional. Published April 15, 2020