The state and national Democratic parties sued Monday to block two recent rules adopted by Georgia’s State Election Board. They say the rules could be used by county officials who want to refuse to certify an election, potentially causing delays in finalizing the state’s results. The rules are to ensure election integrity. The two rules […] The post Democrats Sue to Eliminate 2 Election Security Rules appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Katherine Schwarzenegger is pregnant again and proudly showing off her new baby bump. The author went to her Instagram to share adorable family moments with her mom as she showed off her new baby belly. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Katherine Schwarzenegger (@katherineschwarzenegger) Katherine Schwarzenegger Is One Proud Pregnant Mama Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt is not a first-time mother. She and her husband, Chris Pratt, already have two beautiful daughters, Lyla, 4, and Eloise, 2. However, that did not stop her from sharing her excitement about this new pregnancy. On Sunday, August 25, she shared a carousel of photos on her Instagram. She captioned it: “Bumped our way to the east coast Swipe for the real star of the show.” The first photo shows her arm around her mother while she rocks a sleeveless blue top and white striped pants. The second photo features just her mother, looking adorable in a straw hat. The third photo is of a beautiful sunset, and the fourth is of a Dunkin’ Donuts cup. Little Ones Run The Show The Schwarzenegger-Pratt household is about to get a lot more crazy. Katherine shared on Instagram how her current little one is already the boss of the house. In an adorable photo with her husband clinging tight to their youngest daughter, she said, “When you have plans to go fast at 8, but your boss demands cuddles at 7:55. .” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Katherine Schwarzenegger (@katherineschwarzenegger) Now, they are adding another pair of little feet to the mix, who is sure to be another “boss” of them. The internet loves that Katherine Schwarzenegger is pregnant again. The positive comments keep coming in. @samanthacaroline commented: “Looking so cute you two! Plus the bump?.” @kkeeanngrace commented: “THE CUTEST BUMP! ” These were just two of the many congratulations that the happy couple received with their exciting news. While the gender has yet to be revealed, the fans wait on the edge of their seats in anticipation. The featured image source is here. The post Katherine Schwarzenegger Proudly Shows Baby Bump While Enjoying Family Vacation appeared first on InspireMore.

Christopher Reeve, known as Superman to many, had a devastating fall from a horse in 1995 that left him paralyzed. At the time of the accident, he was a father of three, a devoted husband, and an avid outdoorsman. The thought of his life changing so dramatically left him in a state of depression, wondering if he wanted to live. Christopher Reeve’s Wife Changed His Thinking A new trailer posted on Instagram for the upcoming film Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story features legacy footage of Reeve recalling his heartache after learning he was paralyzed. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Superman (@superman) He said, “‘I ruined my life, and everybody else’s. I won’t be able to ski, sail, throw a ball to Will. Won’t be able to make love to Dana. Maybe we should let me go.” But then Christopher recalled seven words from his wife, Dana Reeve, that changed the trajectory of his tragedy. “And then she said the words that saved my life: ‘You’re still you. And I love you.'” The documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, shares emotional interviews with Christopher’s three children, Matthew, 44, Alexandra, 40, and Will, 32. There is also family archival footage and interviews with friends like Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Daniels, and Glenn Close. Christopher Reeve died in 2004 at age 52, and his wife died just two years later from lung cancer. Matthew said at Sundance that the timing of the new movie is perfect. “We knew … if we were ever going to do this, it had to be the right time and the right team and that we were going to give over our archive, our home movies, sit for some raw and vulnerable interviews, and then place all of our trust and faith in the team that had assembled around us and see what they came back with.” He added, “And the end result here is remarkable, so our trust has certainly been rewarded,” he added, as the audience broke out in applause. This story’s featured image is by Everett Collection via Shutterstock. The post Christopher Reeve Nearly Gave Up After Paralyzing Accident But One Sentence From His Wife “Saved” Him appeared first on InspireMore.

On a recent episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, Kelly shared her love for Shaquille O’Neal with Eddie Murphy. The pair agreed that Shaq is one of the funniest people they know and that his charity work is pretty darn admirable, too. @cam_babine I need to sitl down with shaq and talk to him lmao #shaq #sports #dailysportsdosage #nba #basketball #kellyclarkson #greenscreenvideo ♬ Silence 1 Minute – Silent Meditation, No Sound Pause Breaks Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone” Is Shaq’s Jam Kelly Clarkson invited Shaq on the show before she performed for the Shaquille O’Neal Foundation charity ball in October 2021 in Las Vegas. That day, she learned that Since U Been Gone is his favorite karaoke song. Shaq sang a bit, hummed a bit, and made Kelly laugh. “Everyone who’s ever been to karaoke knows the importance of having a go-to song they can rely on to rock out with an audience too, no matter the situation. For Shaquille O’Neal, that song just so happens to be Kelly’s Since U Been Gone,” a caption on YouTube reads. Someone commented, “Generally, you know the lyrics to your go-to song, but it’s Shaq, so the rules don’t apply too funny.” Another fan wrote, “Shaq is a person who can make you laugh even on the saddest of days. “ This person knew just what Shaq needed. “Poor guy. He wanted Kelly to sing with him so bad.” A Few Weeks Later, Shaq’s Dream Came True Kelly shared with Eddie that the gentle giant joined her on stage during her performance of Since U Been Gone. It’s true, Shaq may not have the best voice in the world. But his energy was infectious, and he undoubtedly helped the crowd at the event get hyped up. There is no doubt that Shaq is filled with love and joy. Kelly didn’t shy away, and the pair sang their hearts out. Ultimately, it didn’t kill them. It just made their friendship stronger. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Shaq Joins Kelly Clarkson Onstage For “Since You’ve Been Gone” Duet appeared first on InspireMore.

Arizona scored a big win in its battle against noncitizen voting.

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Federal government officials have promoted voter registration and voting for prison inmates that might be inconsistent—or outright violate—state laws on prisoner voting and restoration of felons’ voting rights, legal experts say.  As The Daily Signal has reported, an executive order signed in 2021 by President Joe Biden directs every federal agency to help boost voter registration and turnout, including the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.  In a letter earlier this year, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee asserted: “Hundreds of individuals inside federal prisons have successfully registered and voted in recent elections.”  Asked Tuesday how many federal prisoners have voted and where, a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson told The Daily Signal, “That information is not available to this office.” That same letter from Senate Democrats to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters called for the Biden-Harris administration to do more to ensure voting or future voting by those currently incarcerated.  Generally, states haven’t revoked voting rights as a result of misdemeanor convictions. Only Maine, Vermont, and the District of Columbia allow incarcerated felons to vote, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. In 10 states, felons lose their voting rights indefinitely after being convicted for some crimes; 25 other states have varying procedures for restoring voting rights to convicted felons who have served their sentences.  “The Federal Bureau of Prisons will likely register nonqualified voters,” Ken Cuccinelli, national chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative, told The Daily Signal. “Any inmate outside of Maine, Vermont, or Washington, D.C., is not legally qualified to vote.” Cuccinelli, a former Virginia attorney general, has advocated criminal justice reforms and procedures to restore voting rights after a convict has served his or her sentence. But he said he lacks confidence in a federal agency’s ability to follow each state’s standard in a mass voter registration drive.  “States have very different laws and procedures for restoring voting rights for convicted felons, and I don’t seriously believe the Federal Bureau of Prisons will keep those differences straight,” Cuccinelli said.  The Federal Bureau of Prisons had informed inmates about voting before Biden’s Executive Order 14019,  agency spokesperson Randilee Giamusso said.  “The FBOP recognizes that voter registration education and the facilitation of registering eligible voters is a valuable exercise of American democracy and an important facet of successful reentry into the community,” Giamusso told The Daily Signal in a written statement.  Giamusso said the agency’s press office doesn’t have information on how many federal inmates were registered and voted in recent elections, as described in the Senate Democrats’ letter in March.  “Since at least August 2020, FBOP has made general information on voting rights available to all individuals in its custody at the time of admission and prior to release,” Giamusso said. “The information FBOP provides includes which districts allow incarcerated individuals to vote and any restrictions their state may have placed on their ability to vote.” The Justice Department claimed presidential privilege in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the Foundation for Government Accountability to obtain information on Biden’s executive order.   “There is very little about this executive order that doesn’t appall me,” Cuccinelli said of Biden’s order. “They have hidden everything and are evading the Freedom of Information [Act].”  The Federal Bureau of Prisons could be in violation of state laws, contends former Justice Department lawyer Hans von Spakovsky, who now manages the Election Law Reform Initiative at The Heritage Foundation. “Federal officials who are registering people to vote in prisons have no idea if it’s legal in the state where that prisoner resides,” von Spakovsky, also a senior legal fellow at Heritage, told The Daily Signal. “What are the prisoners supposed to do when a government official says, ‘Here, you can vote?’ Federal Bureau of Prison officials could be helping to violate state laws.” Von Spakovsky authored a Heritage report published Friday about Biden’s executive order that included information about the Bureau of Prisons. It says, in part: The executive order specifically directed the attorney general of the United States to ‘facilitate voter registration and voting … for all eligible individuals in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons,’ despite the fact that such eligibility is determined by state law governing the circumstances under which felons can vote; federal officials in the Bureau of Prisons lack the knowledge, training, and authority to make such eligibility determinations.   “The U.S. Marshals Service was ordered to include such requirements in all ‘intergovernmental agreements and jail contracts,’” von Spakovsky writes in the report. “In other words, state and local jails and prisons that house prisoners at the request of the federal government would have to register prisoners to vote and assist them in casting absentee ballots,” the report continues.  It adds: In the three jurisdictions that allow incarcerated felons to vote—Maine, Vermont, and the District of Columbia—those individuals (along with others who are in jail awaiting trial or are serving a misdemeanor sentence) can register to vote and cast a ballot on their own through the mail. No assistance is required from federal or state and local prison officials. A lawsuit filed by nine Republican state attorneys general challenges the constitutionality of Biden’s electioneering executive order specifically referring to prisoner voting. The lawsuit argues that Garland, as U.S. attorney general, “is registering imprisoned felons to vote—but there was never notice nor comment on that policy to allow the public to weigh in on whether that is right.”  “And in many states, felons voting is illegal,” the lawsuit by state attorneys general says. “Because the U.S. attorney general failed to follow neutral processes, the likelihood of potential conflicts between federal action and state laws is heightened.” The post Democrats Boast Prisoners Are Voting, but Feds Say They Don’t Know How Many appeared first on The Daily Signal.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s exit from the Democratic Party (or was he booted out?) is only the latest sign that there are no more JFK Democrats left in positions of power in the Democratic Party. President John F. Kennedy was a staunch anti-communist who fought against union and government corruption. He was a pro-life Catholic. He was laser-focused on faster growth (“we can do bettah”) and saw sweeping tax-rate reductions as a step toward achieving 4% to 5% annual growth. Democrats are now for higher taxes. They ignore and excuse union and government corruption, and they don’t even talk about growth. It is all income redistribution. They should listen to the words of wisdom of Kennedy circa 1960 to 1963. In 1962, he famously declared, “It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now.” Sadly, today you could count on one hand the number of Democrats in Washington who believe that. JFK called for a reduction in income taxes and capital gains taxes. Vice President Kamala Harris wants to raise these taxes—including doubling capital gains taxes. Which brings me to RFK Jr. I don’t agree with many of the positions that he takes. But he is right that the Democratic Party undemocratically excised him from the ballot in states. He is right about the incestuous relationship between big government and big business. At a dinner party, I recently asked him about tax policy. He replied: “I learned from my uncle [JFK] that cutting taxes increases prosperity.” Harris has never learned that lesson. She should take a history lesson. After the JFK tax cuts—from as high as 90% to 70% and a capital gains tax reduction of 30%—the economy boomed and tax revenues soared. Kamala and my Democratic friends should educate themselves by reading Larry Kudlow and Brian Domitrovic’s wonderful book “JFK and the Reagan Revolution.” That book also shows that tax revenues rose after the Reagan tax cuts—which were modeled after the JFK plan. What was remarkable about both these historical events is that the share of taxes paid by the rich rose after tax rates were cut. That was the “paradoxical truth” that JFK foresaw. JFK was also famous for talking about “a rising tide lifts all boats.” That’s far different from the “soak the rich” message of Democrats today. RFK Jr. was right that he has not left the Democratic Party. The party has left him. And it has sadly left behind the policy legacy of his famous uncle—who also would likely be a Republican today. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post A Kennedy Endorses Trump. Goodbye, JFK Democrats. appeared first on The Daily Signal.