Political Pistachio
By Douglas V. Gibbs
In America, we have developed an unhealthy dependence on legal precedent. Instead of grounding our freedoms in the self‑evident, God‑given rights the Founders recognized, we increasingly allow unelected lawyers, elevated to the status of judicial elites, to redefine those rights from the bench. Over time, the public has been conditioned to believe that a judge’s opinion is the true measure of legality and morality, as if the Constitution itself were secondary to the interpretations of those who wear black robes. As a result, people now look to court rulings to validate or condemn their actions, and when no legal consequences follow, it becomes an open invitation for others to repeat the same behavior.
Religious liberty resides at the very root and foundation of the American Story. Christianity is not just some decorative ideal. Religious freedom has historically been viewed as a necessity born from a long history of tyranny and conflict. The early colonists braved the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean for the ideal that government has no authority over the soul. The Founding Fathers inherited that memory, understanding that a free people cannot exist when government or ideology claims jurisdiction over conscience.
While natural rights like speech, press, assembly or the right to keep and bear arms are important, the first clause in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights begins with the freedom of worship. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” The Founding Fathers placed religious liberty first because it is the fountainhead of all other liberties. If the state can command your conscience, it can command anything.
From that principle flows the reality that churches are not public venues. They are private institutions. They are voluntary associations of believers. They are outside the realm of government precisely because they are not arms of the state. A church is not a park, a courthouse, or a community center. It is a private body gathered for a sacred purpose at a place that belongs to a private owner. They are the Lord’s House. The Constitution shields The Church from governmental interference not as a courtesy, but as a recognition of jurisdiction. Caesar has no authority to rule over the sanctuary in the same way they have no authority to rule your every action inside your own home.
Historically, the United States has traditionally been extraordinarily careful about keeping government out of church governance, doctrine, membership, and worship practices. Even eccentric churches have experienced government protecting their autonomy. Today, we see the wisdom of that practice – if government can dictate how one church must operate, then it can dictate how all churches must operate. And if private groups – activists, mobs, or ideological opponents – could force their way into a church’s internal life, the First Amendment would be meaningless.
Worship is a public good, shaping the culture and the public’s view of moral self-governance. While churches remain private institutions, freedom of worship also requires freedom from coercion, whether by the state or by private actors trying to impose their will – which creates a balance that has made the United States uniquely stable in its religious diversity. America does not demand uniformity, or for churches to mirror the culture or particular movements. Sanctuaries are not public squares open to ideological pressure. They are individual and independent congregations assembling according to their own convictions, trusting that a free people, guided by conscience rather than compulsion, honors the sanctity of the churches around the country and uses the moral foundation provided by Faith to build a stronger nation.
With the understanding that religious freedom is among the bedrock principles of the United States, it makes the recent intrusion by somewhere between 20 and 40 anti-ICE agitators into a St. Paul church extremely alarming. The fact that a journalist, Don Lemon, entered the sanctuary alongside the mob and actively engaged with the congregation raises serious questions about the boundaries of press freedom and the integrity of religious liberty. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are essential rights, but like all rights, they do not extend to actions that violate the rights of others. The First Amendment does not enumerate any kind of authority for anyone to storm a private religious service, antagonize worshippers, or interfere with the free exercise of faith.
The Trump administration’s DOJ has moved quickly seeking arresting some of the perpetrators, but progressive judges have battled with prosecutors, refusing to sign warrants for the arrests and challenging the charges. Harmeet Dhillon recently stated that the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ is currently investigating several attacks on houses of worship, including synagogues. Dhillon has obtained several convictions in such cases in the last year. In August of 2025, if you recall, there was a fatal shooting attack on the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minnesota leading to the death of two children and injuries to 19 others, and a month later in Michigan a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) meetinghouse was torched after a man rammed his truck into the front wall and opened fire on the congregation – the attack led to the death of four church members.
“We are grateful that the Department of Justice acted swiftly to protect Cities Church so that we can continue to faithfully live out the church’s mission to worship Jesus and make him known,” Jonathan Parnell, the St. Paul church’s lead pastor said in a statement.
“The freedom to worship God without fear of violence and intimidation is a fundamental right that defines who we are as Americans,” the attorneys representing the church said. “True North Legal and Cities Church are grateful that the Department of Justice is committed to upholding that freedom and is holding the agitators who invaded the church accountable.”
It is critical that the intrusion by the agitators does not go unpunished. As stated earlier, churches are not public venues. They are private institutions gathered for a sacred purpose, and the Constitution secures religious freedom precisely because they are not open to ideological intrusion. The moment we treat a sanctuary as if it were a public square – open to disruption, protest, or political theater – we erode the very principle that has allowed diverse faith communities to flourish in this country.
The concern here is not merely about one incident or one individual. It is about precedent. If a journalist can enter a church uninvited, participate in a disruptive mob, antagonize the pastor and congregation, and then claim immunity under the banner of “press freedom,” what prevents future activists from doing the same? If such actions carry no legal consequences, then the right to worship freely becomes a hollow promise. If people like Don Lemon gets away with his horrific participation with mobs invading a church, how long before people begin to act upon calls by people like Kathy Griffin to make a list of their political enemies – presumably so that those people can be rounded up later once their ideology once again ascends to political power? Or, act upon ramblings of ideologues like a Chicago nurse reportedly fired after describing how it is his opinion that ICE agents can bleed out and urging healthcare organizations to terminate MAGA workers.
The Department of Justice is currently investigating a disruptive protest of a Democratic congressman speaking at a Jewish temple by a left-wing activist group. The congressman, Tom Suozzi (D-NY) was one of the seven Democrats to vote for a bill funding DHS, the agency that executing immigration law falls under.
The danger is not hypothetical. When society begins to treat religious gatherings as fair game for ideological confrontation, the moral foundation of the nation begins to crack. Natural rights depend on mutual respect and legal boundaries. If one group’s claimed “right” becomes a weapon used to trample another’s, then rights cease to be rights at all. It is then that they become tools of coercion.
The United States has long recognized that the sanctuary is off‑limits to both governmental interference and private disruption. That tradition must be upheld. If the St. Paul intrusion is allowed to stand without accountability, it signals to the country that religious liberty is negotiable, conditional, or secondary. And once that message takes root, the erosion of natural rights will not stop at the church door.
Protecting the free exercise of religion is not merely about defending a building or a congregation. It is about defending the principle that conscience is beyond the reach of mobs, media personalities, and political agendas. If we fail to uphold that principle now, we may find that the freedoms we take for granted have all quietly slipped away.
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By Douglas V. Gibbs
Federal investigators say Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D‑FL) is at the center of a sprawling scheme involving “serious financial crimes.” On February 3, 2026, she pleaded not guilty in federal court to charges that she conspired to steal $5 million in FEMA disaster and COVID‑19 relief funds, along with making illegal campaign contributions. Her attorney entered the plea in Miami while she remained in Washington, D.C.
Prosecutors have filed 15 federal counts, including theft of government funds, money laundering, and campaign finance violations. Her previous counsel withdrew, leaving her new attorney, William Barzee, to handle the arraignment. Cherfilus‑McCormick remains free on a $60,000 bond but is now subject to strict travel limits, confined to Florida, Washington, D.C., Maryland, and the Eastern District of Virginia. If convicted, she faces a potential 53‑year prison sentence.
The legal pressure intensified last week when the House Ethics Committee announced it had found “substantial evidence” of violations involving campaign finance laws, ethics rules, and federal standards. Representative Greg Steube (R‑FL) responded by announcing his intention to file a resolution to expel her from Congress.
According to The Daily Signal, the committee reviewed more than 33,000 documents, conducted 28 witness interviews, and produced a 59‑page report outlining over two dozen alleged violations and more than $5 million in misappropriated funds.
The committee is scheduled to reconvene on March 5.
Cherfilus‑McCormick maintains her innocence, stating, “I reject these allegations and remain confident the full facts will make clear I did nothing wrong.”
Expulsion would require a two‑thirds vote. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D‑NY) has already signaled that Democrats will oppose the effort. Their decision to rally around a member facing extensive fraud allegations mirrors their broader pattern of circling the wagons around misconduct, criminality and fraud not only within their own ranks, but in order to preserve their narrative regarding amnesty and immigration (Minnesota’s Somali-fraud, California’s alleged fraud, and their anti-ICE position to protect criminal aliens comes to mind) – a questionable hill to defend considering the fact that they are already losing public trust and could face serious consequences for their pro-corruption stances in the upcoming Mid-Term Elections.
If expelled, Cherfilus‑McCormick would become the second member of Congress removed in recent years. In December 2023, George Santos (R‑NY) was expelled following his indictment on multiple federal charges, including wire fraud, money laundering, and identity theft. His was the first expulsion in more than two decades.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
Reader: I’ve been warned that people don’t read long articles, and this one is long. Let’s see what kind of person you are, dear reader, when we get to the end.
Why are the Democrats putting criminal illegal aliens ahead of Americans?
The opposition will argue that the statement about why some people put criminal aliens ahead of Americans makes no sense to them. To them, it is simply not true, not because of the statement, but because of the premise. They have so bought into the “no person is illegal” argument, and even their “nobody is illegal on stolen land” idiocy that the very question about criminal aliens and the concept of America has become foreign to them. They have established in their minds that anyone who has made their way into North America and South America are Americans, and everyone is a peaceful soul if we just got to know them and ICE has somehow abandoned the law enforcement concept of probable cause…and even if they haven’t abandoned that concept, being in the country illegally is not illegal so there is no probable cause. So, from their point of view, ICE is simply walking around the streets pointing at brown people and saying, “they look like we shouldn’t like them. Get ‘em!”
This is where sanctuary state laws came from. If the federal government is executing unlawful laws because nobody is illegal, then states have every right to refuse to cooperate with immigration law. That’s why recently elected Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has repealed prior policies directing state and local law enforcement agencies to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – joining California, Minnesota and a long list of states, cities and other local jurisdictions.
They have so bought into their narrative that nobody is illegal, and nobody is a criminal, that they are even willing to vote against congressional bills mandating the deportation of illegal aliens who are sex offenders. Not because they are trying to protect sex offenders, they will tell you, but because they believe there is no such thing as illegals.
After years of losing confidence by voters over their defund the police campaign, they are now in full swing of calling for the abolition of ICE. Eventually, I have no doubt, they will push for the elimination of immigration laws. No border. No sovereignty. “We Are The World” cultural Marxist madness. Why? They’ve been programmed to think that way, and are happy to do so.
If you ask them directly about their mental madness, they are proud of it. Sean Hannity of Fox News asked Democrat Congressman Shri Thanedar if he regretted voting against the bill to deport illegals convicted of sex crimes, and Shri responded, “No.” He then went on to call ICE agents, “murderers.”
Shri is one of those members of the Democratic Party who have told you that ICE needs to be abolished, they are murderers, they are the Gestapo, and Trump is a murdering racist fascist for daring to use immigration agents to execute immigration law.
Meanwhile, on the streets of America the anti-ICE rioters are not only weaponizing their vehicles, storming into churches, and committing violence on the streets against federal law enforcement, but they are emboldening the criminal illegal aliens to do the same. In Texas, an illegal alien rammed a car into ICE vehicles, injuring multiple agents. The hard-left Democrats are applauding him for it.
The Democrats cheered when the destruction of federal vehicles in Minneapolis was filmed, and an FBI weapons locker was pulled out of a vehicle, and looted. That particular riot broke out after an officer shot one of three illegal aliens who were savagely attacking him after a targeted traffic stop. One of the rioters who broke into the FBI weapons locker was identified as a Latin Kings gang member. A person President Trump would call one of the “worst of the worst.” The suspect, 33 year old Raul Gutierrez, was arrested for stealing from that weapons locker FBI body armor and weaponry. This criminal gang member, who is in the United States illegally, is a danger to our communities and a perfect example as to why President Trump is conducting his immigration operations. The response from the Democrats? Anger. They are angry because federal law enforcement arrested a person who vandalized an FBI vehicle, stole weapons from it, and has a long list of previous felony convictions… because their anger at Trump for enforcing immigration law has them blind to the rest of the reality regarding this person. I am surprised, to be frank, that a federal leftist judge hasn’t called for Gutierrez’s release, yet, like we’ve seen with many other rioters and illegal aliens.
The Democrats want you to believe that ICE is the problem, and that enforcing immigration laws is somehow illegal. Granted, we are seeing here and there pro-immigration enforcement rallies in some places. Americans, I believe, are sick of the radical anti-ICE leftists wreaking havoc in America. Americans are tired of the lies about illegal aliens detained by ICE being spread by the Democrats and the media, and the Democrat Party’s endorsement of left-wing violence in the streets. It’s a bait and switch – they scream their anti-ICE narrative, lie about the facts, and then hide from the public what they don’t want you to know.
But, it’s the same ol’ – same ol’. To protect their narrative you only get to see what they want you to see.
Immigration agents aren’t just walking around out there pointing at anyone they think are illegal aliens or not acceptable because of their skin color and “disappearing” them without probable cause. They are using investigative techniques to identify, locate, and then apprehend the “worst of the worst.” The list of captures includes criminal illegal aliens from a variety of countries who are convicted sex offenders, violent criminals, drug traffickers, and others.
The Democrats and their allies with their propaganda campaigns have even gone so far as to claim that ICE detained a 5-year-old child, calling the targeting of the child “vile.” The lie was exposed quickly when it was revealed the child was abandoned by the illegal alien they were pursuing, and ICE officers remained with the child while the other agents pursued and apprehended Conejo Arias. But, even after the truth was put out there, the leftist media and Democrats continued to put out their false story.
They are also putting out there that ICE is going after citizens, and when ChongLy Scott Thao was escorted by ICE officers they believed they had their smoking gun. Sometimes, citizens will be caught up in the investigations. Thao was at a house where ICE agents were told was the location two sex offenders were hiding out, and they detained Thao to question him and until they were able to verify his identity. Border Czar Tom Homan explained that ICE has the authority to detain a U.S. citizen if they have probable cause of a crime.
The Democrats and their leftist allies, however, praise the “resistance,” and bathe in their approval of the violence of the rioters using their vehicles as weapons and even one individual “biting off the finger of a federal agent in Minneapolis.”
When rioters invaded a church in St. Paul, a leftist judge denied the arrest warrants and have rejected the Justice Department’s charges against the anti-ICE agitators who invaded the church during Sunday service. According to the charging documents, worshippers were “terrorized…children were weeping…one woman broke her arm…agitators blocked congregants from exiting…[and] told young children their parents are Nazis and going to burn in Hell.” And the Democrats are even defending those anti-ICE rioters. For them it was a win-win. They support the rioters, and they hate Christians.
But if you ask any of them why we have these domestic war zones, the Democrats and their allies immediately blame Trump. Mayors are coordinating together to help the war against Trump, and ICE… but nobody sees any of it not only as a violation of federal law, but they refuse to call it what it is: Insurrection.
Hakeem Jefferies, Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, said DHS Secretary Noem needs to be put on ice, permanently. An obvious call for her death. But nobody blinked an eye?
It didn’t phase the Democrats and their lefty followers because in their minds they have bought into all of the rhetoric. They firmly and truly believe they are battling this generation’s version of Hitler, the Nazis, and the Gestapo. In their feeble minds they believe they are resisting the kind of evil that could lead to a world war and the loss of hundreds of millions of lives. They march by the thousands in New York City and Minneapolis and all over the country in support of the unfounded rhetoric that the Democrats use. Why? Because they can’t win in the arena of ideas, and the lies have somehow been transformed into truth somewhere in the deepest darkest depths of their souls. They have been, after all, taught since they first entered public education to believe that anyone who stands against the progressive left is a fascist, oligarch supporting, hateful, racist, white supremacist. In short, they have fallen for the class-warfare tactics of the purveyors of a cultural Marxist revolution. They blindly have fallen for the very thing they claim they are fighting against. They are doing the bidding of those who seek authoritarian rule because they believe they are fighting the ultimate evil of Hitleric authoritarian rule.
So, they celebrate Don Lemon’s insurrectionist attack on a church, of which a judge (or at least the first one) blocked his arrest after the former CNN host participated in the shameful attack on a church while claiming he was simply being a journalist. They fight and claw and protest and commit violent acts because they believe they are saving America from the worst kind of authoritarianism anyone can imagine, and because they believe America is behind them and Hispanics are convinced that Trump is the Devil…except, that is not what is happening.
According to polls not put out by leftist media, Americans not only support Trump’s work to mass deport illegal aliens, but they overwhelmingly support it. 73 Percent say entering the country without legal permission is breaking the law. By a two-to-one margin, 61 percent to 34 percent, voters support deporting those in the country illegally. A majority, 54 percent, want ICE actively enforcing immigration law. 58 percent oppose defunding ICE.
According to a Rasmussen poll, Donald Trump’s approval rating among Hispanics is at 53%.
So, what is going on? Why all of the violence? Don’t they realize they are being stupid, and are on the losing side?
The answer is simply because some Americans have lost their ability to critically think, and instead they glorify immaturity, lack poise, lack self-control, lack grace, and have basically been stuck at age twelve when it comes to their maturity. They have been, after all, trained by education, entertainment and the media to be that way. They are hypersensitive, and believe the Democrats when they say that Trump is Hitler, his supporters are Nazis, and federal law enforcement is the Gestapo.
In other words, they are those that 2 Timothy 3:1-5 describes will be around during “the last days,” explicitly attributing childlike behavior and attitudes to adults. “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power.”
As Harbinger’s Daily explains: Society is geared to childish thinking. Social media encourages simple thoughts condensed into short, ad copy style wording. People in our time don’t want detailed, thoughtful reasoning, but drop mic moments. I’m astounded at the praise given to celebrities when they answer critics with the equivalent of, “Oh yeah?” — except with not-safe-for-work language… like 12-year-olds.
There is merit to the idea that 12 has become the median psychological age of a large part of adult America. Those same adults have thrown away childlike innocence, opting instead for Sodom and Gomorrah — life at its lowest level. Consequently, a Lord of the Flies mentality full of savagery and rage is increasing across the land.
As for you, my faithful reader, you are definitely not one of them. I know so because their short attention span and fear of the truth would have never allowed them to completely read this article to its end; but you, my friend, made it to the final sentence because you are not them.
God Bless.
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By Douglas V. Gibbs
Overall prices have been slowly dropping, despite arguments to the contrary. While Democrats cry “affordability,” the Trump administration is taking steps to continue to lower prices. Yes, some prices have not come down yet, and the ones that have are coming down slower than Trump would like. It is, after all, a process, and a part of the process is reducing energy costs.
Government sources explain that many factors influence electricity prices, for example.
- Fuels: Natural gas and petroleum.
- Power plant costs: Including financing, construction, maintenance and operating costs.
- Transmission and distribution system: Which can be influenced by damage from accidents, extreme weather events, and improving cybersecurity.
- Weather Conditions: Extreme temperatures may increase demand for heating and cooling, which in turn may increase fuel and electricity prices. Weather conditions may also negatively affect solar and wind power.
- Regulations: Which varies by state as Trump works to reduce federal regulations.
Energy costs are a part of the cost of doing business. The cost of doing business is a major factor in what the prices of the products involved will be. The factors that influence the cost of doing business, and in turn may cause inflation, include:
- Energy costs.
- Taxes.
- Regulatory costs.
- Transportation costs (which is tied to energy costs, too).
- Wages.
- Benefits.
- Insurances.
- Consumer Demand.
- Cost of raw materials to produce products or wholesale prices to place products on shelves.
There are more influences, but I hope you see that the list of influences is longer than most people realize. The Trump administration has been working feverishly to influence those factors the best they can to bring down prices.
Fiat money pumped into the system also can increase prices, and the Biden administration was constantly inserting fiat dollars into the system during his four years in office. The reasoning, a Keynesian strategy, is called “priming the pump,” which calls for a rush of government money into the system to provide funds for consumers to use. The theory is that economies are consumer-driven. While consumerism is a vital part of a healthy economy, basic supply and demand principles tell us that increased supplies reduces prices. So, the way to battle against inflation, aside from not pumping fiat money into the system, is to take actions to increase production. In order to increase production, the cost of doing business must come down. In order for the cost of doing business to decline, the cost of energy must decline.
Since President Trump has taken office, understanding there was not much he could do to tackle the fiat money pumped into the system, he knew that the key was to reduce the cost of doing business and encourage production, and new domestic manufacturing. He has secured investments in manufacturing, and has been working feverishly to bring down the cost of doing business by reducing taxes, slashing regulations, and increase domestic production of energy. However, electricity prices have continued to climb during his presidency.
The Big Beautiful Bill contained in it a sweeping energy package, expanding oil and gas leasing, limiting federal clear energy subsidies, and eliminating credits for wind and solar energy. The initial result has been in increase, but as domestic energy production kicks into high gear in 2026, by the end of the year prices should begin to slowly work their way downward, again.
Other obstacles, however, do exist that Trump has no ability to battle against. Policies in California, for example, has kept gas prices high, and electricity prices higher. New Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has promised policies that will increase living costs for Virginians, with one of those policies expected to increase electric bills for families by $1,100 per year.
In short, what we are seeing is Donald Trump doing everything he can to reduce energy costs and the price of doing business. However, Democrats have been doing everything they can to sabotage those efforts, and then pointing fingers at Trump because electricity prices and some other prices aren’t dropping as Trump would like. That’s like a contractor putting up a building, then having someone else knock it down and then accuse the builder of failing to put up the structure.
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By Douglas V. Gibbs
While President Trump has indicated he believes the recent reduction in crime in America, including murders hitting a hundred and twenty-five year low (if not longer), is due to his immigration policies and federal presence in major cities, whatever the cause it seems that crime in America is experiencing decline.
Recent reports have revealed that murders fell 21% last year in 35 large U.S. cities, the largest one year drop ever, or at least since we’ve been recording these numbers, likely the lowest rate since 1900. According to the report by AXIOS, eleven of thirteen tracked crimes declined since 2024. The report points out that, though not as drastic of a reduction, crime was already in a downward trend during Biden’s final year in office, so the authors of the report question whether or not President Trump’s policies had a direct impact on last year’s decline.
Thirty-one of thirty-five cities experienced declines in 2025, with Washington D.C. being among the cities with the greatest decline at 40%, and Denver at 41%. With President Trump’s “anti-crime policies” in place, and Washington D.C. being one of the primary recipients of those policies, simple reasoning suggests that President Trump’s policies did indeed have an impact.
Washington D.C. in particular has seen a dramatic decrease in crime from last year across the board. In 2026, the capital has seen only three homicides, compared to eleven at this time last year. So far this year Washington D.C. has also seen 73 robberies compared to 167 in the same time frame last year. Total violent crime has decreased by 37%.
Aside from the presence of federal personnel on the streets, the Trump administration has also increased the prosecution of violent criminals. During Biden’s presidency, U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves did not file a vast majority of charges presented to him by law enforcement – a 67% declination rate. His replacement, Jeanine Pirro during the Trump administration, has brought charges against every single criminal with viable cases.
Since the crime crackdown in D.C., which began last August, law enforcement has taken 1,000 guns (a large majority illegally brought into the district) off the streets and arrested almost 9,600 people, according to Pirro. She explained that they successfully “disrupt gun trafficking.” Pirro states that now the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. has placed a needed emphasis on gun crimes.
While some of Trump’s opponents have suggested that colder temperatures this year is the cause of the decline in crime, Pirro responded that there’s a lot more to the Trump administration’s success in lowering homicides than the frigid temperatures. D.C. has experienced “cold and snowing” before, she said. “I think the message is resonating that the only mercy we have is for the victim.”
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary