NBC has reportedly aired an election ad for former President Donald Trump following backlash that the network may have violated the Federal Communications Commission’s “equal time” rules with Kamala Harris’s Saturday Night Live (SNL) appearance.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, with a Democrat majority, once again declared on Friday that mail ballots returned with missing or incorrect dates will not be counted. According to KRON4, the Republican National Committee filed an emergency appeal to ensure that officials do not leverage the decision by a lower court finding such disqualifications violate the state […] The post PA: Mail Ballots with Missing or Wrong Dates Won’t Be Counted appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

When Donald Trump first entered the political scene almost a decade ago, I did not like him. That is a generous way of putting it. I really did not like him. The only thing I knew about Trump at the time, aside from the fact that he was a reality TV star, was that he was a longtime Democrat from New York who was friends with all of the worst people in media and politics. All of those people hate him today and openly root for his political and physical demise. But that wasn’t the case in the early days of Trump’s political life. So, back in those days, I thought Trump was a leftist infiltrator. I thought that, no matter what he promised, he would govern from the Left. I thought that electing him would be the same as electing a far-Left Democrat — because that’s what he was, I believed. It turns out, I was wrong. Not for the first time. Sadly, not for the last. But I was wrong.  Trump did not govern like a Democrat infiltrator sent by the Clintons to destroy the Republican Party from within (a conspiracy theory that, I admit, I once entertained). If he did, they wouldn’t have spent the last four years trying to send him to prison, or failing that, to the morgue. If I had fallen into a coma in January of 2017, missed the entirety of Trump’s tenure, and woken up in January of 2021, I would still know that Trump was a successful conservative president based entirely on how they’ve treated him ever since. Indeed, I would have all the reason that I needed to vote for him on that basis alone. They have tried to destroy him. Leftist elites have waged a campaign of vengeance unlike anything ever seen in the history of American politics. That’s reason enough to vote for him in 2024. I don’t need to know what happened from the years 2017 to 2021. But I do know, because I was thankfully alive and conscious during that time. So I saw that Trump fulfilled his promise to appoint constitutionalist justices to the Supreme Court, who then went on to overturn the most abominable decision in the history of the court — a decision that cost 60 million American lives. I saw that Trump enforced our immigration laws, defunded sanctuary cities, and sent criminal illegal aliens to prison. I saw that Trump’s time in office was also a time of relative peace all over the globe. He prevented wars rather than starting them — a novel strategy, at least compared to every other president in my lifetime. And I saw that Trump presided over a strong and growing economy. The unemployment rate hit a low not seen in 50 years. Manufacturing jobs started coming back to America. The stock market hit record highs. I saw all of that. We all saw it, if we were paying attention. Here’s what we didn’t see: any of the dystopian horrors that Trump’s opponents keep warning he will visit upon us. He did not govern like a fascist tyrant drunk on his own power. He did not install himself as dictator for life. In fact, he exercised great restraint. He didn’t start any new wars. He didn’t move to expand his own executive powers. He didn’t even issue that many executive orders, compared to the three most recent presidents before him. That’s why I’m voting for Trump. And why I believe you should too. He earned our vote. He earned it by governing successfully and leading competently. Trump was already a good president, which is very compelling evidence that he will be a good president. Nothing is sure in this life. You cannot predict the future with absolute certainty. Yet you can be extremely confident that someone can do a job well if they have already done it well. So that’s the best selling point for Donald Trump. The best selling point is who he is and what he has done. But the second best selling point is who he isn’t. He isn’t Kamala Harris. WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show I’m voting for Trump because we need him in the White House. I’m also voting for him because we need to keep Kamala Harris out of the White House. I’m not going to spend a lot of time making the case against Kamala here. I’ve done that literally every day for the past three months. I suspect that anyone who reads this, anyone who is even potentially reachable at this stage of the game, already knows that Kamala is bad — a bad leader, a bad Vice President, a bad person. Totally unqualified for the job she currently holds. Even less qualified for the job she wants to hold. She is a far-Left radical. No matter how much she has backtracked over the past couple of months, her record speaks for itself. She wants to open our borders, defund our police, start more wars, kill more babies, take more money out of our pockets, destroy our right to free speech, make the world less safe and our communities less safe. She may be profoundly incompetent, but she is capable of doing all of those things. And she will. That’s the point I want to emphasize. Kamala Harris may be a bumbling, empty-headed buffoon. But she does have an agenda, she will use the powers of the presidency to enact it, and it will be a catastrophe for your family and mine. I would vote against Kamala Harris no matter who she was running against. I’d vote for a houseplant over her. We’ve already had one of those running the country for four years. It’s been a disaster, but Kamala will be worse. Kamala gives us more than enough reason to vote for Trump. But the good news is that we don’t have to hold our nose. We can vote against Kamala and for Trump, and do it proudly. On that note, I want to say one last thing. Trump’s critics like to say that character matters. They’re right. It does. They say we should think about Trump’s character before we consider voting for him. They’re right. We should. Well, there is no character trait more important than courage. CS Lewis once wrote that courage is the form of every virtue at its testing point. What he meant is that courage contains all of the other virtues. Courage is how all virtues are expressed when push comes to shove. If you are the most virtuous person in the world but all of your virtues disappear when you’re under fire, then you have no virtue. A man is defined by how he acts in those moments. So when you boil everything down, only one question matters: Do you have courage? That’s what separates the men who shape history from the ones who will be forgotten by it. That’s the dividing line. Now think about the iconic picture of Trump raising his fist in the air right after he was shot in the head. Most pictures are worth a thousand words. But I think for the best pictures you only need one. That picture of Trump screams one word: courage. Trump’s enemies may hate to admit it. They may never admit it. But Trump proved in that moment, and in the weeks and months that followed, that he is a man of exceptional courage. He was shot. A few weeks later, he was nearly shot again. It takes immense courage to continue along unfazed, still campaigning, still appearing in front of massive crowds, even after a bullet came half an inch from blowing a hole in your skull. The best thing I can say about Trump — the thing that most testifies to his character — is that if I had spent the month of July living in a cave, and only re-emerged in August, and had been following Trump closely ever since, I would never know that he escaped death by ten millimeters. That’s because the media has done everything they can to bury it and pretend it never happened. But it’s also because Trump is so completely unshaken by the event. He doesn’t come off like a man who just suffered a severe trauma, though he did. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ When you face down your own mortality and are not remotely rattled by the experience, and then you continue to put yourself in vulnerable positions because you simply refuse to run and hide, you have courage. You have shown a kind of courage that nobody in American politics today has ever shown. Trump’s relentlessly theatrical enemies have to invent all kinds of fantastical threats that they are supposedly facing. They pretend that Trump is some sort of existential danger to them. That their very lives hang in the balance. It’s all performance. The truth is that most of them are living lives of great comfort. And the irony is that, if Trump wins, their lives will only become more comfortable as the economy improves. They are not facing down any threat. They are not showing any courage. They don’t know what courage is. They’re on the same side as Hollywood and the media and corporate America and almost every powerful person in DC. They are safe. Trump is the one under fire. Trump has actually taken a bullet in real life. It’s not a performance for him. Trump is not a perfect man. Neither am I. Neither are you. But what I know is that when the bullets were flying, he stood tall. That’s the kind of man I want in the White House. It’s the kind of man we’ll need in the times ahead.

PALM BEACH—Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is circulating a memo describing a “massive turnout deficit” for Democrats on the eve of the 2024 election. Tim Saler, the chief data consultant for Donald J. Trump for President, described how Trump and Republicans are reportedly outperforming past elections in early votes and absentee ballots in a memo sent to Trump campaign senior leadership on Monday. “As we dive deeper into the data, Democrats are facing a precipitous decline in urban turnout according to their own ‘data experts’ and we are tracking an uptick in rural turnout,” Saler wrote. He cited Barack Obama’s former campaign manager, Jim Messina, who described the early vote numbers as “a little scary” on MSNBC. “The early vote numbers are a little scary,” said Messina, a 2012 Obama aide. “Republicans didn’t do what they did last time. “Last time, Trump said, ‘Don’t early-vote,’ so they didn’t,” he added. “Republicans do have an advantage in early-vote numbers. When the early votes come in, it’s going to look a little bit different than 2020, and that’s scary.” “What Mr. Messina is downplaying, is they are a lot scarier for Democrats,” Saler said. “According to NBC News, President Donald J. Trump has a 16-point lead (56-40) among voters who plan to cast their ballot on Election Day. Obama’s chief campaign strategist and CNN political commentator, David Axelrod, told CNN that there are no guarantees that voters will turn out on Election Day for Vice President Harris.” “Democrats are spinning themselves and reporters by claiming that their voters will turn out on Election Day when polls show otherwise and, most importantly, that’s asking Democrat voters to do something they have absolutely no history of doing,” he added. “If Democrats, who historically vote ahead of Election Day, haven’t been motivated to show up for Kamala yet, why do we expect them to show up tomorrow?” The memo emphasized confidence that Trump is heading into Tuesday “stronger than he has in any previous election.” But it also stressed that Republicans need to get out and vote for Trump. Saler added, “if patriots across the country keep the momentum and turn out as expected on Election Day, we will be swearing in President Trump in January.” The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Under a program created by the Biden-Harris administration, tens of millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent telling Central and South American migrants how to enter the U.S. without passing through the Southern Border. A report released Friday by the Republican-controlled Judiciary subcommittee on immigration integrity, security, and enforcement found that Americans have spent more than $80 million on a program that helps foreign nationals enter the U.S., whether through refugee status or other means. The program in question is the 2023 Biden-Harris Safe Mobility Initiative, which works with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to help migrants bypass the southern border. “Under President Biden and Vice President Harris, in June 2023 the State Department announced its Safe Mobility Initiative, which allows aliens to sidestep the southwest border and, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ‘avoid the risks associated with onward movement,’” congressional Republicans wrote in the executive summary of their report. “In other words, this new Biden-Harris program fast-tracks aliens into the United States out of sight of the American people and without the politically damaging optics at the border.” “The initiative’s Safe Mobility Offices (SMOs) allow aliens outside the United States to consult with foreign national employees from UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), who then provide the aliens with several options to resettle in the United States, including through family reunification parole, labor pathways, and additional expansions of the Biden-Harris Administration’s illegal abuses of humanitarian parole,” the report continued. “The U.S. taxpayer-funded SMOs are located in 13 cities across Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, and Ecuador.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ Since last year, congressional Republicans have sought to oversee the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous handling of America’s southern border and say this oversight led to the discovery of an “open-borders alliance with United Nations bureaucrats to ensure that additional aliens are fast-tracked into the United States on the U.S. taxpayers’ dime.” The subcommittee found that more than 18,000 immigrants from Central and South America departed to resettle in the U.S. through the initiative, and nearly 67,000 were referred to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for potential resettlement in the U.S. Another 7,000 were identified by IOM as potentially eligible to enter the U.S. in other ways. “For aliens who are not eligible to resettle in the United States through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program because they could not establish that they are refugees, IOM staffers at SMOs counsel the aliens on alternative avenues to enter the country,” the report found. “Only 14 percent of IOM employees devoted to the Safe Mobility Initiative are U.S. citizens, however, meaning that the Biden-Harris Administration uses U.S. taxpayer dollars to pay foreign national employees of the United Nations to counsel other foreign nationals on the best ways to enter the United States.”  

Some people give wedding gifts from a registry, and others give wedding gifts the couple would never expect. Legendary director Tim Burton gave Beetlejuice Star Catherine O’Hara a one-of-a-kind wedding gift when she and Bo Welch married in 1992. Catherine told Julia Loui-Dreyfus during an episode of Julia Gets Wise that Tim sent her and Bo on a trip. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tim Burton (@timburton) Tim Burton Wanted To Do Something Special For Catherine O’Hara Catherine explained she and Bo loved it. “Tim gave us an amazing wedding gift, which was a private tour at the Vatican,” Catherine told Julia who replied, “Yeah, only Tim Burton would give a present like that.” Tim received the same gift himself, which inspired him. “Somebody had given him the gift, and he’d been blown away, so he passed it on, which is really wonderful and generous,” Catherine told Julia. “So this lovely priest or cardinal took us all around the Vatican, and he was wild.” Catherine explained that she and Bo had a chance to see everything in the Vatican. This included special hallways traveled by Pope John Paul II and even his closet. Catherine O’Hara shared that Tim Burton encouraged her husband to ask her out. The pair met on the set of Beetlejuice in 1988. “Tim Burton basically made him ask me out. Because I was grousing to Tim that this guy was talking to me every day, and never asking me out,” Catherine shared. “So Tim said, ‘Let me see what I can do.’ He did talk to him, and Bo begrudgingly asked me out. And now we’re still married, thank goodness.” The pair share two sons after more than 32 years of marriage. Thanks to Tim Burton’s wedding gift, Catherine O’Hara and Bo Welch have an incredible story to share. This story’s featured image is by Featureflash Photo Agency via Shutterstock. The post Tim Burton Got “Beetlejuice” Star Catherine O’Hara A Wedding Gift That “Only Tim Burton Would Give” appeared first on InspireMore.

A video shared on Instagram claims 2024 Democratic nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris responded to an interview question about a cognitive test with a blank stare.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by ACT for America (@act4america) Verdict: False The claim is false. An article published on CBS News’ website […]