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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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Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, right, and Attorney General of New York Letitia James walk in the NYC Pride March, Sunday, June 29, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

Socialist Zohran Mamdani gets a fat-cat capitalist wedding

The socialist-slash-communist Zohran Mamdani just took a timeout from his Big Apple mayoral campaign to fly to his wealthy parents' elitist property in Uganda to marry his fiancee in a three-day ceremony that came complete with masked security guards and cellphone jamming system. Published July 29, 2025

Smoke rises as police clash with protesters during a Black Lives Matter protest near the Seattle Police East Precinct headquarters, July 25, 2020, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Democrats fuel Whites-only communities

For years, Democrats have fostered racism, lawlessness and disorder and angry, ugly protests and socialism, Marxism, collectivism, all aimed at crippling America's melting pot. Published July 26, 2025

Then-President Barack Obama speaks about Iran and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress during a meeting with Defense Secretary Ash Carter in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Obama won’t be going to jail

Barack Obama, the ex-president who promised utter transparency but who is now being accused of treason, may have been -- as one former federal prosecutor put it -- "complicit up to his neck" in advancing the fake Russia collusion narrative against Donald Trump, but he won't go to jail. Published July 25, 2025

President Barack Obama pays tribute to the nation's war dead during the Memorial Day ceremony at the amphitheater of Arlington National Cemetery, May 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Democrats pay the price of the whirlwinds they released

President Trump has called out former President Barack Obama for "treason" for "trying to lead a coup" during the 2016 and 2020 election cycles -- accusations the former White House chief, through a spokesman, denied. It's refreshing to see Democrats face political fire for what they lit. Published July 24, 2025

In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 21, 2018, handguns for sale are lined up in a display case at Frontier Justice in Lee's Summit, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) **FILE**

Bold and Blunt: Women are buying up guns

There's a new Second Amendment trend in America and it's one that goes like this: Women are becoming a very frequent customer for gun sales' shops. Published July 22, 2025

Virginia Roberts Giuffre holds a news conference outside a Manhattan court following the jailhouse death of Jeffrey Epstein, Aug. 27, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

It’s not about Jeffrey Epstein. It’s about the Epstein victims

There's a whole lot of talk going 'round these days about the need to move on and let go and get over the Jeffrey Epstein matter -- that it's old news, conspiracy talk. But the Jeffrey Epstein matter is not about Jeffrey Epstein. It never was. Not really. It's about the victims. Published July 22, 2025

American flags and lights decorate a dining room as staff assist residents with an Independence Day buffet service, in the independent living facility at the Toby and Leon Cooperman Sinai Residences, July 4, 2025, in Boca Raton, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Churches, start your engines

West Virginia, for the third year in a row, scored dead last in the 2025 "Religious Liberty in the States" survey conducted by the Center for Religion, Culture and Democracy. Published July 18, 2025

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks at an event where a street was named in her honor, Monday, March 6, 2023, in Cutler Bay. Fla. The street is located in South Dade County, where Justice Jackson grew up. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

When judges are so smart they’re stupid

Leftist judges: If they're not busily activating on behalf of leftist causes, they're just as busily putting their minds to work to bang out the next batch of tortured logic to support their leftist causes. Published July 17, 2025

President Joe Biden speaks to the media in North Charleston, S.C., Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)

Democrats can’t dodge their autopen problem

Oh me, oh my. What a tangled web is weaved when we lie. Turns out, then-White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients actually approved the use of the autopen. His words. He wrote in an email, "I approve the use of the autopen for the execution of all of the following pardons." Published July 15, 2025

Then-President Barack Obama speaks about Iran and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress during a meeting with Defense Secretary Ash Carter in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Barack Obama rallies Democrats to destroy, err, ‘do something’

The former president Barack Obama, at a private fundraiser in New Jersey, said Democrats ought to do "less navel-gazing," "less whining," less rolling into "fetal positions" and more "courage," more fight, fight, fight. This, from the guy who sped up the Democrat Party's decline into Marxism. Published July 14, 2025

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during an open meeting of the Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve, Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Jerome Powell has some $2.5 billion ‘splainin’ to do

Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, called out Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for excessive spending on building renovations -- specifically, that a planned and budgeted multimillion-dollar project exceeded costs by $700 million, for a total of $2.5 billion. It's so easy to spend other people's money. Published July 11, 2025

Deacon Juan Pérez Gómez holds a Bible translated into Tsotsil, a Mayan language, in the Simojovel municipality, Mexico, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)

Bold and Blunt: Are you a Jesus freak?

In the 1970s, a spiritual awakening to the presence and power of Jesus swept first the West Coast, and then the East Coast, particularly on college campuses. It was the Jesus Freak movement. Published July 10, 2025

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks at an event where a street was named in her honor, Monday, March 6, 2023, in Cutler Bay. Fla. The street is located in South Dade County, where Justice Jackson grew up. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Women’s sports hangs in a precarious SCOTUS balance

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of Little vs. Hecox, and in so doing decide whether Idaho's duly legislated and passed ban on males in female sports is constitutional. Published July 10, 2025

Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, right, and Attorney General of New York Letitia James walk in the NYC Pride March, Sunday, June 29, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

Zohran Mamdani, just another ‘Democrat’ despising on America

Zohran Mamdani, whose family fled the tyranny of Idi Amin's Uganda for a better life in America, celebrated Independence Day with a statement that called this country "beautiful," but "unfinished." As Vice President J.D. Vance put it at a speech in California: "Who the hell does he think he is?" Published July 9, 2025

President Donald Trump signs his signature bill of tax breaks and spending cuts at the White House, Friday, July 4, 2025, in Washington, surrounded by members of Congress. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Bold and Blunt: Breakdown of the big, beautiful bill

Now that President Donald Trump has successfully passed his One Big Beautiful Bill into law -- what next? According to fiscal experts, the golden age of America's economy may very well be on the horizon. Published July 9, 2025

Illegal immigration has become a flashpoint in the 2024 election. With the surge in illegal immigration, the escalating drug crisis, and rising violence, many Americans feel overwhelmed and uncertain about the future of our nation, but how can you discuss the crisis with biblical compassion and wisdom? (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) ** FILE **

Democrats don’t deserve another chance to lead

Democrats are opening their eyes to the problems their party pols created on the border and acknowledging they've shifted too far to the left and that when it comes to illegal immigration, they must rethink policy and redo plans and actually control crossings. They're not to be trusted. Published July 8, 2025

Elon Musk attends a news conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Musk and his misplaced pride

Elon Musk in an X post just announced the creation of a new "American Party" as a means of addressing what he perceives as failures of the Republican and Democrat parties and to give us all back our freedom. Musk's hubris is as remarkable as it is offensive. Published July 7, 2025