Adams seeks to circumvent the far-left city council members standing in ICE's way.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) stated Sunday that he is weighing executive action to amend the city's sanctuary status, bypassing the Democratic-controlled New York City Council.
During an interview on WCBS-TV's "The Point with Marcia Kramer," Adams told Kramer that he is exploring his powers to get around the council's refusal to roll back New York City's sanctuary policies, which have thwarted Immigration and Customs Enforcement's efforts to remove criminal illegal aliens.
'I don't want to walk into a meeting with the border czar with preconceived notions and lines in the sand.'
He insisted that he has been advocating for more cooperation between ICE and New York City law enforcement prior to the November election.
Mike Lee catches NBC News omitting words from Constitution — then he reveals why NBC anchor didn't want you to hear them
'... and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.'
Sen. Mike Lee (R) called out NBC News' "Meet the Press" and anchor Kristen Welker on Sunday for omitting six important words from the 14th Amendment.
Speaking with President-elect Donald Trump about his plan to end birthright citizenship — which grants United States citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil — Welker tried to suggest the plan is unconstitutional by citing the first sentence of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.
'[Meet the Press] seems to try to render a debatable matter beyond debate by selectively omitting key words from the Constitution.'
After Trump confirmed that ending birthright citizenship is "absolutely" his plan, Welker said, "The 14th Amendment, though, says that, quote, 'All persons born in the United States are citizens.'"
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Driving under the influence has deadly consequences. Nearly one-third (32%) of all traffic fatalities involve drunk drivers, accounting for about one death every 39 minutes in the United States, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Insurify data reveals that drivers of some vehicles are much more likely to have a DUI than others.
Nearly 1 million Americans per year get a DUI citation.[1] Those arrests represent a small fraction of self-reports from 24.1 million drivers who drove under the influence of drugs or alcohol in the past year.[2]
The data science team at Insurify used its proprietary database of more than 97 million car insurance quotes to identify the 10 cars with the highest share of drivers with a DUI in 2024. The data revealed several surprising vehicles, including a handful of family-friendly SUVs and minivans.
As the holiday season approaches, drivers should watch out for these car models and for signs that other drivers are intoxicated. Alcohol- and drug-related crashes spike between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, one of the most dangerous periods to drive, according to the National Road Safety Foundation.
Key Takeaways
Buick Envista drivers have the highest share of DUIs, with 72.1 out of 1,000 drivers reporting one on their driving record. Drivers of another Buick, the Encore GX, have the second-highest share.
Drivers with a DUI pay an average of $4,176 annually for full-coverage car insurance compared to $2,532 with a clean record, according to Insurify data. The higher price represents the higher risk these drivers pose. In many cases, insurers might deny coverage to drivers with a DUI.
In Insurify’s database, 6.4 out of 1,000 drivers reported a DUI on their driving record in 2024, but as many as 72.1 out of 1,000 drivers of some models report DUIs.
Eight of the 10 cars with the highest share of drivers with a DUI are American-made, with Chevrolet alone representing three models.
The Jaguar XF is the most expensive model among the 10 cars that drivers with a DUI are most likely to drive. The luxury sports sedan starts at $51,075, according to Kelley Blue Book (KBB).
Drivers with DUIs seem to gravitate toward roomy family vehicles. Five of the 10 vehicles on this list are SUVs, and two are minivans.
An average of 11,000 people die per year in drunk driving accidents, according to NHTSA data from 2013 to 2022. These crashes killed 13,524 people in 2022.
The legal blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limit to drive is 0.08% in the United States, but most countries (including France, Germany, Italy, and Spain) set the legal limit at 0.03% to 0.05%.[3]
These cars have the highest share of drivers with DUIs
The car models with the most drivers with a DUI range from the tank-like Ford Bronco to the snug Volkswagen New Beetle. Roomy family vans and SUVs account for half the list. Drivers with these models are up to 11 times more likely to have a DUI on their driving record than average.
Jake Tapper And CNN Lose Major Motions In Defamation Case By Navy Veteran
We previously discussed the defamation lawsuit brought by Navy veteran Zachary Young against CNN and anchor Jake Tapper. Young has been doing well in court and last week he won on additional major issues against CNN. In a pair of orders, the jury will be allowed to award punitive damages and his experts would be allowed to be heard by the jury on the damages in the case. It also found that the Navy veteran was not a public figure and thus is not subject to the higher standard of proof associated with that status.
In the past, progressive elites were not generally threatened by the campaigns of the old center and center-right parties because those groups have long been managed by fake conservatives with no intention of disturbing the deviation of the Overton Window to the radical left. But of course, times have changed. Legitimate opposition to the far-left is rising in the form of political parties fighting for secure borders and anti-wokeness initiatives, and the progressives are furious.
They've had a taste of near total power, and though they claim to be the patron saints of Democracy they are openly adopting authoritarian ideals in order to keep that power.
In the US the far-left has been pursuing an all out propaganda war and has abused the legal system for years as a means to stop conservatives from returning to government. The lawfare tactics utilized against Donald Trump were unprecedented, but ultimately failed. In Europe, though, leftists are finding more success.
In Germany the establishment is attempting to ban the increasingly successful AfD Party on the grounds that they represent a "return to fascism". Over 100 legislators backed the resolution, though it is unclear if a vote will be taken. The AfD is the second most popular party in Germany and has recently put a candidate forward for chancellor in the upcoming February elections.
All other political parties in Germany are variations of the progressive spectrum. Leftists say that if the AfD gains any significant governmental power they will refuse to work with them, preferring to leave the German government in a state of limbo rather than accept the will of the voters. It should be noted that Germany's coalition government is already collapsing and the country is in crisis.
In France, the increasing success of Marine Le Pen and her National Rally Party has been met with extreme derision by the progressive elites. The establishment under Emmanuel Macron engaged in political chicanery after the National Rally won the first round of the French elections. The centrists established a coalition with the radical leftists as a way to prevent the right wing from taking power. The move was technically legal, but considered by many to be an immoral effort to deny conservative French voters a voice.
The elites are also attempting to use lawfare against Le Pen, conjuring charges of misuse of EU funds with the intent to ensure she can't run in the 2026 elections. As in Germany, it should be noted that the very coalition that was put in place to keep the right wing out of government has now collapsed under a no confidence vote of Prime Minister Barnier and France is currently in crisis.
In Britain, there is no right wing party to represent public interests. The current progressive/globalist regime has violated the spirit of the Brexit vote and has opened the borders of the country wide to third-world immigration. The results have been disastrous. The government and the British media now spend most of their time trying to hide the spike in violent crime committed by migrants across Europe and the UK. Without representation the British public has taken to the streets to protest.
In response, the leftists have clamped down on free speech, arresting people who criticize open immigration online. Democracy is fully dead in Britain.
In Romania, the Constitutional Court has for the first time canceled the results of a presidential election because a "right wing" candidate unexpectedly won the first round. The government claims Calin Georgescu received an online boost on his campaign TikTok account from Russian sources and this represented a "distortion of the vote". The court has produced no concrete evidence to support this claim, nor have they explained how artificial Russian traffic on Georgescu's TikTok account translates to Romanian votes.
The courts are now determining if they will bring criminal charges against Georgescu. After all, they can't run another election only for the candidate to win again and prove the Russian accusations are a hoax. Prosecutors are raiding his apparent campaign financiers looking for proof of election interference. Georgescu says he has never had any ties to Russia or any other foreign entity; he called the Constitutional Court in Romania a 'mafia court' participating in a coup against the Romanian people.
Again, this is the complete death of Democracy as the political left promotes it.
The explosion in public enthusiasm for right wing movements in Europe with legitimately conservative policies (among younger people in particular) has proven that the drift to the left is not what the populace wants; it never was. However, the progressive establishment has deemed this change in public sentiment unacceptable - They have decided to do anything and everything to keep power, even if it means abandoning the very democratic processes they claim to defend.
A Haiti gang boss ordered the killing of more than a hundred people who appeared to be practicioners of voodoo after accusing them of casting spells that killed his son.
When thieves made off with Darcie Bell’s rented U-Haul truck, the San Francisco woman put out a call for help on X: “If you see a 26 foot uhaul truck with the Arizona plate AL50003- would you let me know because it had like everything I own on it.”
The post went viral, but not for the reason she hoped for. Bell spent years posting left-wing “Defund the police” views — and users across the site blasted and mocked the activist.
“Anti Police activist begs the police to help,” jeered the X account Bay State of Mind, which comments on San Francisco Bay Area politics.
Tom Wolf, an addiction recovery advocate who has nearly 30,000 followers, posted a screenshot of a previous post in which Bell blasts the San Francisco police, alongside a screenshot of her recent plea.
Critics accused Bell of hypocrisy, but she said she didn’t initially seek help from police and only filed a report because U-Haul required it. @Twolfrecovery/X
To those accusing her of hypocrisy, she insisted she “literally never called the cops” and is reposting more calls to defund law enforcement for good measure.
U-Haul urged her to alert authorities to the theft of its truck.
“Please be sure to contact us back to provide the police report to the Equipment Recovery department,” the company’s customer support account urged.
As for her critics, she sneered at them.
“Look at these good, Christian ‘victim advocates’ celebrating my kids losing their belongings at Christmas,” she fired at the haters in general.
As far as Hamas leaders are concerned, the involvement of Iran's other proxies in the Jihad against Israel has been insufficient. Hamas leaders were hoping to see Arab and Muslim armies march on Israel and fulfill their dream of replacing it with a jihadist terror state.
They are also aware that Iran wants to use them to expand its control over the Middle East. Iran already occupies three Arab countries – Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen, and until last week, Syria as well – and has brought nothing but death and destruction to the people there.
The "betrayal" of Hamas by Arabs and Muslims is a sign that these people are committed to stopping the Iranian regime from using them as puppets in its plan to destroy the "Zionist entity" and take over the Middle East.
For Hamas leaders, the involvement of Iran's other proxies in the Jihad against Israel has been insufficient. Hamas leaders were hoping to see Arab and Muslim armies march on Israel and fulfill their dream of replacing it with a jihadist terror state. They were also hoping that the Arab and Muslim masses would revolt against their governments and replace them with regimes that support the annihilation of Israel and serve as puppets in the hands of Tehran's mullahs. Pictured: Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, meets with Ismail Haniyeh, then leader of Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad al-Nakhalah, on July 30, 2024 in Tehran. (Photo by the Supreme Leader's Press Office via Getty Images)
Fourteen months after the Iran-backed terrorist group, Hamas, attacked Israel, murdering 1,200 Israelis and wounding thousands more, Hamas has finally acknowledged that it has been abandoned by many Arabs and Muslims.
When Hamas launched the October 7, 2023 assault on Israeli communities near the border with the Gaza Strip, its leaders were hoping that many Arabs and Muslims would join the fight to murder as many Jews as possible to eliminate Israel. Hamas officials expressed hope at the time that the October 7 atrocities would prompt the formation of a large Arab-Islamic battlefront against Israel. The hope was that the Iran-backed Hezbollah organization in Lebanon would launch a similar invasion of Israel, that Iran would unleash thousands of ballistic missiles against Israel, and that tens of thousands of Muslims would invade Israel from Jordan.
The only parties that chose to join Hamas's war on Israel were Iran's other terror proxies: Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and some Shiite armed groups in Iraq. Several Iran-backed armed groups, consisting mostly of Palestinian Islamic Jihad members in the West Bank, also joined Hamas's Jihad (holy war) against Israel by unleashing a wave of terrorist attacks against Israelis.
Israel's military and security operations against Iran's terror proxies in Lebanon, Yemen and the West Bank during the past year have been harsh. Hezbollah's political leadership and military infrastructure have been almost entirely destroyed, forcing it to accept a US-brokered ceasefire agreement with Israel. Hezbollah was also forced to disconnect itself from the Hamas war against Israel in the Gaza Strip. When Hezbollah joined the war against Israel just one day after the October 7 attack, its leaders stressed that they would stop firing rockets, missiles and drones only when Israel halted its "aggression" against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
The Houthis in Yemen have also been targeted by the Israeli Air Force at least twice in the past year. The airstrikes focused on key military infrastructure in Yemen's Ras Issa and Hodeida regions, including power stations and a port used for importing oil. These facilities were being used by the Houthis to transfer weapons and military supplies, including oil, to their forces.
The West Bank's Iran-backed terrorist groups have also suffered casualties during the past year. Hundreds of Palestinian gunmen have been killed, wounded or arrested by Israeli security forces, especially in the northern cities of Jenin, Nablus and Tulkarem.
As far as Hamas leaders are concerned, the involvement of Iran's other proxies in the Jihad against Israel has been insufficient. Hamas leaders were hoping to see Arab and Muslim armies march on Israel and fulfill their dream of replacing it with a jihadist terror state.
They were also hoping that the Arab and Muslim masses would revolt against their governments and replace them with regimes that support the annihilation of Israel and serve as puppets in the hands of Tehran's mullahs. Much to the dismay of its leaders, however, Hamas's dreams have not been fulfilled.
"We truly feel let down by the [Islamic] nation in an unprecedented manner," saidsenior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya, expressing Hamas' deep disappointment with Muslims for failing to join the Iran-led "Axis of Resistance" against Israel. Moreover, al-Hayya's statement reflects the sentiments of many Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, who have also been complaining that their Arab and Muslim brothers have chosen to sit on the fence since the beginning of Hamas's October 2023 war on Israel. Many Palestinians and Arabs, in a reference to the Arabs' failure to intervene in the Israel-Hamas war, are openly talking about the "betrayal" of the Arabs and Muslims.
"The Gaza war has not only exposed the failure of the Arab and Islamic regimes, but it has also exposed the failure of their silent people and revealed their deteriorating reality and weak and shameful positions.... Where are the Arabs who go out en masse to attend a music festival for a trivial singer? Where are the Islamic masses that gather for the most trivial football match? Why did the [Arab and Muslim] people fail to support the Palestinian people who turn a blind eye to them? Where is the Arab and Islamic dignity, if they have any dignity at all?"
The answer to such questions is simple. Many Arabs and Muslims are aware that Iran's mullahs want to use them to export the Iranian "Islamic Revolution" to their countries. They are also aware that Iran wants to use them to expand its control over the Middle East. Iran already occupies three Arab countries – Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen, and until last week, Syria as well – and has brought nothing but death and destruction to the people there.
On a more optimistic note, it appears that a large number of Arabs and Muslims are tired of Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist organizations constantly entangling the Palestinians in pointless and lethal conflicts with Israel. The "betrayal" of Hamas by Arabs and Muslims is a sign that these people are committed to stopping the Iranian regime from using them as puppets in its plan to destroy the "Zionist entity" and take over the Middle East.
Bassam Tawil is a Muslim Arab based in the Middle East. His work is made possible through the generous donation of a couple of donors who wished to remain anonymous. Gatestone is most grateful.
Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.
The Goals of Communism
(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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