United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have arrested an illegal immigrant working as a suburban Chicago police officer.

The following is a valuable revelation. It explains so much. George Conway admits he is a member of an illegal domestic terrorist organization, Antifa. At least now it’s all clear who and what he is. He’s not pretending to be a Republican any longer. Actually, Conway will be anything Trump isn’t. He is a very […] The post George Conway Comes Out as a Member of a Domestic Terror Group appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

A Colorado woman bled on the emergency room floor while waiting 12 hours for care. A New York man who feared he had appendicitis waited eight hours while repeatedly vomiting and passing out. A cancer survivor in San Francisco waited 28 hours for a doctor to examine her injured leg. By the time she saw a doctor, she was paralyzed. ER wait times have been steadily increasing since 2012, spiking during the coronavirus pandemic. Today, they’re higher than ever. What is happening in America’s emergency rooms? A new study published in the journal Health Affairs looked at data from 46 million emergency visits across all 50 states since 2017. Researchers found a national increase in wait times, with the average wait time exceeding four hours. Additionally, 5% of patients waited more than 24 hours to get assistance. Notably, the study did not factor people leaving the ER before they received care, which is typically referred to as ER “abandonment.” Staffing shortages are certainly a factor, but they alone can’t explain increased wait times. According to Niklas Kleinworth, a policy analyst at the Paragon Health Institute, the problem is largely due to the lack of financial incentives in the American healthcare system. “I think that the increased ER wait times are actually one of the big broken promises of Obamacare,” Kleinworth told The Daily Wire on Thursday. “When that law was passed, we were promised that if you gave people more healthcare coverage, they would see their primary care physician instead of going to the ER. They would have more access. But we’ve actually seen the opposite.” “We’ve seen that a lot of the financial incentives for people to take care of themselves and go see their regular physician haven’t come to fruition,” he explained. “And so now people are going to the emergency room to get routine care instead.” Kleinworth said expanding telehealth services could help solve this problem. In Montana, for example, after Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) signed a bill in 2021 to increase telehealth access and eliminate certain restrictions, emergency department visits decreased with Medicaid enrollees. Mental health services were also more accessible and cost-effective for residents in rural communities and the Native population. Another problem is the increased rate of rural hospital closures. With fewer rural hospitals, Americans from these areas are forced to travel longer distances to city hospitals, adding to already congested ERs. Kleinworth explained that federal programs like the 340B Drug Pricing Program actually “encourage consolidation.” As a result, we’re seeing large urban hospitals buy up small rural hospitals to capitalize incentives meant for rural areas. Larger city hospitals “benefit from a lot of the programs that were designed for those [rural] hospitals, like 340B Drug Pricing Program,” he said. “And then they’ll reduce access to services in those areas and redirect them to more wealthy areas where the margins are higher.” He also highlighted some other “pretty basic solutions,” like making sure government programs designed to help rural facilities actually help rural facilities. Kleinworth also noted that a little deregulation could go a long way to increase health care access. “For example, in the state of Idaho, they allow non-physicians like pharmacists to be able to practice at the top of their license. And a lot of people receive their primary care through their pharmacists now,” Kleinworth said. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said this month that illegal immigrants are driving up ER wait times and healthcare costs alike. Democrats say that giving illegals full access to the American healthcare marketplace will help alleviate stress on emergency rooms. Kleinworth isn’t so sure. “Unfortunately, no, that’s not the solution,” Kleinworth told The Daily Wire. “Take California, for example. California is one of those states where they’ve offered healthcare benefits to illegals for years now. The promise was that it was going to allow them to access their primary care and they won’t have to go to the emergency rooms anymore. But we find that California actually has some of the highest ER wait times in the country. They also have some of the highest abandonment rates in the country.” Ultimately, Kleinworth says, we need to seriously overhaul Medicaid. “The problem here is that the way the system is designed, it prioritizes able-bodied working-age adults over pregnant women, the disabled, elderly, and children,” he said. “And what we saw with Medicaid expansion, a lot of those people were less likely to be able to access their specialists, their primary care physician, so it also increased the ER wait times.” “Refocusing the program on the truly needy, instead of able-bodied working-age adults would help,” Kleinworth said, noting that President Donald Trump’s big, beautiful bill “made a lot of progress toward that.”

The Biden administration spent four years placing a record level of new regulatory impediments on the nation’s airlines. An analysis by the Office of Management and Budget estimates that former President Joe Biden’s transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, nearly tripled the number of transportation-related rules and regulations. There’s no evidence that all this added red tape made airline travel safer or reduced flight delays. Biden should have learned from the airline deregulations of the late 1970s, which liberated airlines from government controls on pricing and flight routes. A famous study by Robert Crandall of the Brookings Institution found that those reforms ushered in the modern era of air travel with much lower prices and hundreds of billions of dollars of savings for consumers over the past four decades. Buttigieg, by contrast, blundered on nearly every major issue he faced. He bungled the proposed JetBlue merger with Spirit Airlines, a disastrous decision that landed Spirit Airlines in bankruptcy and left JetBlue struggling. This has led to less competition, not more.  Buttigieg also tried to restrict popular award miles programs that save money on airfares and reward passengers with flight upgrades. He’s imposed new penalties on airlines for flight delays—even when it wasn’t the fault of the airline. The Biden-Buttigieg philosophy was that airlines were ripping off passengers and gobbling up profits. The truth is the opposite: Airline fares have remained reasonably low compared to the rapid inflation in food, energy, and housing costs.  The average inflation-adjusted airfare is down nearly 20% from pre-pandemic 2019—when airfares were already the lowest on record. In fact, airfares are one of the only major categories of consumer spending that has fallen on an inflation-adjusted basis. That’s not the sign of an industry price-gouging consumers. Here’s a financial reality about this industry that few of the politicians and regulators seem to understand: Airlines have huge fixed costs and operate on small margins—which, even in the best years for airlines, lag the average profit margin in other industries.   If United, American and Delta relied solely on ticket revenues, the airlines would either go bankrupt, restrict flights, or have to start charging much higher fares. Thankfully, the Trump administration under Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is charting a different course. The Department of Transportation has announced it will not implement the Biden-era proposal requiring airlines to pay European-style compensation for delays and cancellations and is canceling attempts to restrict airline credit card reward points.  One unresolved issue is what to do about flight delays and cancellations. As a frequent flyer myself, I hate flight delays—which are more common than ever. What should be done? Reasonable compensation to passengers—except in cases where the flight delays are beyond the airline’s control—should be standard policy. Some airlines offer better compensation than others.  Rather than impose government mandates, let the market work. Airlines should announce what their delay policy is. All but one of the U.S. airlines already provide complimentary hotel accommodations when flights are delayed overnight. Modest Federal Aviation Administration fines or payments to customers should be required for long flight delays or cancellations when the airline itself is to blame.  The 1970s deregulation of the skies was a success that virtually all economists and passenger groups applaud. President Donald Trump’s transportation agenda under Duffy is: Airline Deregulation, The Sequel. The results will be better service and lower costs for tens of millions of American passengers and a more profitable and stable future for our vital airline industry. Originally published by Fox News The post Trump Stops Biden’s Euro-Style Solution to Flight Delays and Paves Way to Lower Fares appeared first on The Daily Signal.

No Kings: Leftists Attempt to Jump Start the Resistance

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New York Times reporter Anemona Hartocollis blamed Republicans for the supposed suppression of free speech on campus lately – as in, why aren’t pro-Hamas campus activists able to disrupt classes, occupy buildings, and harass Jewish students -- in Tuesday’s “What Happened to Campus Activism Against the War in Gaza?” The war in Gaza was started by Hamas when they invaded Israel and killed or kidnapped over 1,000 Israeli civilians. But there was no attempt at balance. The only quoted material came in support of the pro-Hamas campus activists, with no dissenters from the one-sided tone. Pro-Palestinian demonstrations swept through campuses across the country in the spring of 2024, leading to the arrests of more than 3,100 people. But in the more than a year and a half since, the protests have dissipated, even as the war in Gaza intensified. Why the shift? A major factor is the strict crackdown that universities waged on student protesters who built encampments on college campuses, beginning with Columbia and spreading across the country. Universities that cracked down on students were facing sometimes extreme pressure from lawmakers in the Republican-controlled House Committee on Education and the Workforce. They argued the protests, including some of the slogans demonstrators used, were tinged with antisemitism, an accusation that protesters, some of whom were Jewish, strongly rejected. Though many of the protests were peaceful, some turned destructive. Demonstrators broke into and occupied buildings on some campuses. Protest groups said they were taking action because of the scale of death and destruction in Gaza, but some of the demonstrations frightened Jewish students. Other students complained that they disrupted classes. Hartocollis shed tears over the occupiers and harassers facing consequences for their actions. Historians say the United States had not seen so many people arrested in campus protests in 50 years, since the Vietnam War. The campus disciplinary process can be protracted, lasting for a year or more and interrupting the course of students’ lives. Tori Porell, senior staff attorney at Palestine Legal, a group that has provided legal support to protesters, said she had clients who have had their diplomas withheld over protest activity. “I have a number of clients at a number of schools who are in a really intolerable state of limbo, often can’t get jobs, have to delay grad school, have lost scholarships or fellowships,” Ms. Porell said, adding, “and psychologically it’s really troubling.” Has the Times ever considered the "interruption" to normal students' lives caused by the menacing protests? Or the psychological toll of pro-Hamas chants and constant harassment of Jewish students on campus? The story’s lowlight was the appearance of Nihad Awad of the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an Islamic pressure group masquerading as a Muslim civil rights organization, who had previously declared himself happy about the October 7 massacre. Hartocollis didn’t mention that detail, which should surely lead to the dismissal of Awad as a reliable source. But the impact of the protests should not be underestimated, said Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group. They had played a big role in awakening the public to the “atrocities” of the war in Gaza, he said. If the protests have quieted, it has been because they have been effective, but also because they have been systematically suppressed, he said. The council has compiled a list of 28 universities that it says have “suppressed students advocating against apartheid, genocide and U.S.-backed military occupation.” Those same students were chanting eliminationist rhetoric against Jews like “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Wil be Free!” Gilead Ini of the Jewish media watchdog group Camera accused Hartocollis of having “whitewashed the nature of the movement she was describing. By concealing its open celebration of terrorism, she turned a story about campus free speech and fanaticism into a story about only the former — and in doing so guided readers to sympathize with those who endorse the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.”