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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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Migrants are taken into custody by officials at the Texas-Mexico border, Jan. 3, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. The Supreme Court on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, extended a stay on a new Texas law that would empower police to arrest migrants suspected of illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. The order puts the law on hold until at least Monday while the high court considers a challenge by the Justice Department, which has called the law an unconstitutional overreach. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, file)

Democrats join call for Biden to tighten border

Fourteen Democrats joined with 212 Republicans on a resolution calling for President Biden to tighten up America's borders and use his executive powers to slow the surge of illegals entering the country. You know the border has gone wide open when even Democrats are calling for law and order. Published March 13, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks before walking with others across the Edmund Pettus Bridge commemorating the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march in 1965, Sunday, March 3, 2024, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Kamala Harris throws Israel under the bus

Vice President Kamala Harris called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, representing the sharpest rebuke yet from this White House to Israel to lay down arms against Hamas terrorists. Way to throw Israel under the bus, Kamala. Published March 5, 2024

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, March 2, 2024, in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Trump — winning, despite attackers shifting into high gear

Donald Trump is raking in the wins, and carrying about a 5-point lead over President Biden among the nation's registered voters, a New York Times/Siena College poll just found. With women -- he's gaining. With minorities -- he's gaining. With gays -- he's fulfilling their "wildest dreams." Wait. What? Published March 4, 2024

A Bible rests on the lawn of Community Baptist Church amongst storm debris Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. The church was destroyed when severe storms came through over the weekend. Members of the church were trapped and injured inside the building during the storm on Saturday. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Christian nationalists to the rescue! America needs more

Democrats are up-in-arms because a pastor from California, Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, dared pray in Congress -- as an invited guest chaplain of Speaker Mike Johnson -- in a manner that advanced the truths of the Bible. How dare he. Right? Published March 1, 2024

President Joe Biden walks out of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, to board Marine One for a short trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden’s ‘uncommitted’ voter problem bodes darkly for Israel

President Biden sailed to victory in the Michigan primary, winning more than 80 percent of the vote. But 13 percent of what should have been his support chose instead to vote "uncommitted." Why? They're angry that he's not been able to stop Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from striking back at Hamas terrorists. Published February 29, 2024

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a press conference at the government house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello) ** FILE **

State Department is woke, woker, wokest

Yay, Team Biden. It really doesn't get any weaker when the very agency tasked with protecting America's security interests is more concerned with coddling the feelings of rainbow-dyed-haired losers who dress in furry cat costumes and live in mommy's basement. Published February 28, 2024

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli ground offensive on the Gaza Strip walk at the makeshift tent camp in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)

Bold & Blunt video: Rafah, front and center, as Hamas hides among civilians

All eyes are on Rafah, the border area of Gaza and Egypt, where a million Palestinians have huddled to escape the war between Israeli's military and Hamas terrorists, but Egypt's not letting most cross and America's putting the onus for their safety on Benjamin Netanyahu. And tensions are rising, rising, rising. Published February 27, 2024

People take photos near a John Harvard statue, left, on the Harvard University campus, Jan. 2, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. In a letter Monday, Feb. 19, to the school community, Harvard University condemned what it called a “flagrantly antisemitic cartoon” posted on social media over the weekend by a group that includes students and faculty. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Harvard leads in Ivy League’s pitiful race to the bottom

The once-fine Harvard University has become a school of disrepute. So, too, most all of the Ivy Leagues. Who wants to send their kids to an Ivy League anymore? The schools are plagued by antisemites, dotted with plagiarists and dominated by leftist loons. Published February 27, 2024

A woman holds an Israeli flag in front of International Criminal Court at The Hague, Netherlands, before a demonstration of representatives of families of hostages from the Oct. 7 cross-border attack by Hamas on Israel, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. The Hostages Families Forum together with the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights want to submit a comprehensive complaint to the International Criminal Court on behalf of released hostages and families of hostages, including the issuance of arrest warrants for Hamas leaders on war crimes allegations including taking hostages, enforced disappearances, sexual violence and torture. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Bold & Blunt video: Team Biden ticks off Israel — again

Antony Blinken said during a recent visit to Israel that Hamas terrorists dehumanized the Jewish people during the October 7 terror attack -- but then suggested Israelis were also dehumanizing Palestinians. Talk about drawing a moral equivalency where no moral equivalency exists Published February 16, 2024

In this July 17, 2015, file photo, flowers and a portrait of Kate Steinle remain at a memorial site on Pier 14 in San Francisco. A California federal judge on Monday, June 6, 2022, sentenced the Mexican national who shot Steinle along a San Francisco pier to the seven years he's already spent in jail. The sentence brings to a legal close a tragedy that ignited a national firestorm over immigration, crime and sanctuary cities such as San Francisco. (Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

Alex ‘A.J.’ Wise, the Kate Steinle for Trump 2024

Rogelio Ortiz-Olivas, a 50-year-old illegal alien who's been deported five times, was arrested in Midland, Texas, and charged with drunk driving and hit-and-run in a crash that killed a 10-year-old boy, Alex "A.J." Wise Jr., as he walked home from school. Border control, border control, border control -- it's the border, stupid. Published February 16, 2024

This Wednesday, March 27, 2019 photo, shows the steeple lantern of Christ Church in Philadelphia. The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $500,000 grant to the historic church to restore its steeple and church tower. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Bold & Blunt: Digging deeper on Founding Fathers

One of the most hotly contested political debates of modern day goes like this: What would Founding Fathers do if they were alive today? The problem is most Americans aren't taught truthful history about founders any more. So the divides on the topic grow wider. Published February 15, 2024

An American Express card is shown on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) ** FILE **

California joins credit card companies to spy on gun buyers

Mastercard, Visa and American Express have agreed to comply with a new California law that will allow banks to track guns and ammo purchases. In other words: tracking you. The solution? Remember: Cash is not only king, it's much less traceable. Published February 15, 2024

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas arrives to a news conference about security for NFL's Super Bowl 58 football game, in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Mayorkas gets the impeachment black mark he deserves

The House in a 214-213 nighttime vote impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, making him the first Cabinet member since 1876 to be painted with the black mark. It's well deserved. Published February 14, 2024