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To all who prayed for premature baby Colt- THANK YOU! Yesterday he was finally able to go home with his parents after 52 days in NICU. He will still be hooked up to some sort of monitoring but it is a major blessing for his parents. You will never know how your words lifted these young parents as they essentially lived at the hospital wondering if this day would come so THANK YOU AGAIN for your kind prayers and well wishes and support!! It was so very very appreciated!!

The thousands of people who descended upon the Jersey Shore town for President Donald Trump's 'Keep America Great' rally at the Wildwoods Convention Center left behind a sea of trash in the parking lot — including their abandoned beach chairs and blankets — after the rally wrapped up.Rally-goers were allowed to bring chairs as they waited in line — some for up to 48 hours before the event — but they weren't allowed to bring them inside the venue.Factor in the blankets they used to stay warm, and all their drinks and food they were snacking on during the long wait...

A Maryland doctor familiar with highly infectious diseases says U.S. residents should be more concerned about catching the flu rather than the coronavirus that’s making headlines. “We’re in the middle of flu season,” said Dr. Brian Garibaldi, medical director of Johns Hopkins Hospital’s biocontainment unit. “It is much more likely that you’re going to come in contact with the flu than you are with the novel coronavirus at this stage of the game. I hope it stays that way.” The same precautions taken to prevent the flu can also help avoid coronavirus, Garibaldi said. He urges everyone to wash their...

In January 1999, then-Sen. Joe Biden argued strongly against the need to depose additional witnesses or seek new evidence in a memo sent to fellow Democrats ahead of President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial. Biden circulated the four-page document, titled “Arguments in Support of a Summary Impeachment Trial,” on Jan. 5, 1999. In his memo, obtained by POLITICO, Biden cited historical precedents from impeachment cases going back to the establishment of the Senate and asserted “The Senate need not hold a ‘full-blown’ trial.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic prosecutors and Republican defenders at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Thursday barreled toward a confrontation over new witnesses, something that would deny Trump the swift conclusion of the matter that he seeks.As U.S. senators spent a second day firing questions at both legal teams, Republicans, who control the chamber, said they were confident they could hold a final vote and acquit Trump as early as the weekend.

It's a statement that's as predictable as it is infuriating: President Donald Trump's administration lacks diversity. On Tuesday, Trump tweeted photos of a briefing he'd received on the new coronavirus spreading out of China. "We will continue to monitor the ongoing developments," the President said in his post. "We have the best experts anywhere in the world, and they are on top of it 24/7!" Who are these experts? They're largely the same sorts of white men (and a couple women on the sidelines) who've dominated the Trump administration from the very beginning. By contrast, former President Barack Obama's circle...

Number of confirmed cases jumps by almost 2,000 in one day, as total figure tops 9,600 in China From CNN's Steven Jiang in Beijing China's National Health Commission has announced that as of the end-of Thursday January 30, the total number of confirmed Wuhan coronavirus cases in mainland China had risen to 9,692.That's a jump of 1,982 from the previous day, with the total figure now far exceeding the number of cases associated with severe respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 -- previously among Asia's worst outbreaks.The death toll in mainland China has now reached 213, with 42 new deaths occurring...

Critical swing-vote Sen. Lamar Alexander says he will announce Thursday night whether he’s voting to call witnesses in President Trump’s impeachment trial. The retiring Tennessee Republican’s stance could dictate the outcome of a high-stakes vote on Friday and determine if Trump’s trial ends quickly or is extended weeks with witnesses. ... “I have spoken to Lamar a number of times,” Cruz told reporters during the dinner break Thursday. “In terms of the votes, all 47 Democrats have been clear that they will vote to call additional witnesses. The big question is will four Republicans join the 47 Democrats? Two Republicans,...

In a press conference on Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the opportunity to grandstand rather than responding to a reporter's question. She insisted that even if the U.S. Senate votes against convicting and removing President Donald Trump, he would not be acquitted. Pelosi also went on to say Trump does not know right from wrong. The reporter asked whether Pelosi expects Trump to be "chastened" by the impeachment process or "emboldened because the Senate will have acquitted him." Rather than answering the question, the House speaker launched into a diatribe against Republicans. "Well, he will not be acquitted. You...

Proving Purgatory The doctrine of Purgatory, central to Christianity, is brutally attacked by certain non-Catholic polemicists. Their typical view of the Catholic doctrine of Purgatory is that it was either concocted by the Church in the Middle Ages for filthy lucreÂ’s sake, or that, if there are any ancient precedents for it among the Church Fathers, it gradually developed in scope and meaning so as to become something the early Church did not believe it to be. 1This was done, it is alleged, so that the Church could make money from the sale of indulgences, or to keep Catholics in...

At least two thieves have stolen items from an art gallery in Stockholm, police said, with Swedish media reporting that they include 10 to 12 table-size bronze sculptures by Spanish artist Salvador Dali. Gallery owner Peder Enstrom told the Swedish news agency TT that the alarm went off after 4 a.m. and police arrived shortly after. The sculptures — including several of Dali’s famous melting watches on a tree — had been on display at the gallery for 10 days. The exhibition was to close Saturday. The statues came from Switzerland.

[...] The sergeant pursued the suspect’s truck about a block south to Wilcox Street, where the suspect fired twice and hit the sergeant in the wrist, police said. Harrison District tactical officers in the area met up with the sergeant and started driving him east toward Stroger(Hospital), police said. “We have the officer in our car, we’re driving him to Stroger right now,” an officer radioed. “He’s got a gunshot wound to his left forearm.” On the way, the sergeant spotted the suspect and the tactical team started chasing the truck. “While en route to the hospital, the officer and...

The impeachment trial veered deeply into politics Thursday as Democrats said President Trump can’t be trusted to be on the ballot this year. Republicans accused them of trying to remove the president by force because they know voters would return him to the White House. Senators wrapped up a second day of questions with few new revelations of fact but with sharper barbs between the House Democrats prosecuting the impeachment and the president’s legal team acting as his defense. “What’s really going on is he’s a threat to them, he’s an immediate, legitimate threat to them, he’s an immediate legitimate...

[Catholic Caucus] Catholics organize public rosary in Frankfurt on first day of German bishops’ ‘synodal path’ We think that it's our duty to give a public sign to our bishops and to the Church that the actual synodal process is not representative of German Catholicism,' said one of the organizers. FRANKFURT, Germany, January 30, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A group of lay Catholics held a peaceful prayer assembly today in front of the Frankfurt Cathedral in opposition to the proposed reform agenda of the German “synodal path.” The “synodal path” is organized by the German Bishops' Conference and the Central...

Lengthy discussion about all of the plotters involved in initial steps in the conspiracy to impeach and remove Trump. The name of the whistleblower, his photograph and the names of others including Schiff who put together the coup attempt...a must read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(snip) a cryptic startup called SpinLaunch starts suborbital test flights of a rocket that is launched using an enormous centrifuge. Here's the gist: A centrifuge the size of a football field will spin a rocket around in circles for about an hour until its speed eventually exceeds 5,000 miles per hour. At that point, the rocket and its payload will feel forces 10,000 times stronger than gravity. When the centrifuge finally releases the rocket at launch speed, it should, practically speaking, fly through the stratosphere until it fires its engines at the periphery of our atmosphere. (snip) SpinLaunch hopes its...

Rep. Adam Schiff on Thursday delivered a last-minute pitch to have witnesses in President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial. Schiff said that he wants one week devoted to closed-door depositions from witnesses in the trial as senators prepare to vote on the matter Friday. “I will make an offer to opposing counsel, who says this will stretch on indefinitely if you decide to have a single witness,” Schiff, the lead House impeachment manager, told senators. “Let’s cabin the depositions to one week. I think we can. I think we should. I think we must,” the California Democrat added. Trump’s legal team...

VERNON — A presentation of a draft resolution Monday night to the Vernon Township Council in support of creating a Second Amendment-supporting community, led to a debate among members of the audience, taking sides on various angles of this type of resolution. As several communities within Sussex County have adopted this type of resolutions, members of the Skylands Tea Party — a group that encompasses Sussex, Morris, Warren and Passaic counties — and other individuals in support, approached Vernon’s council with it, in hopes it would be included on an upcoming meeting. Vernon resident Jessica Bennet read a form letter...

Thank you Dan Bongino, who grabbed the Rasmussen Poll, we see that black support has now reached a high with a 42% approval rating. We also see 29% of black voters say that they STRONGLY APPROVE of the President and the job that he is doing. to Trump’s economic policies, we have seen a black approval rating double. Trump’s tax cuts, regulation rollbacks have driven black unemployment and poverty rates to an all-time low. Trump has increased “Opportunity Zones” in predominately black neighborhoods that are primarily controlled by the do-nothing Democrats. Opportunity zones allow private capital to come into low-income...

ATLANTA (WJBF) – Thirty-three new troopers with the Georgia State Patrol are out of a job after it was discovered they allegedly cheated on exams, authorities said at a press conference Tuesday. Col. Mark McDonough, commissioner of the Department of Public Safety and head of GSP, said that students with the 106th trooper school cheated during an online test for speed detection in October of 2019. The investigation began just days after testing and included interviews with each of the students. Top DSP officials learned about the scandal from the girlfriend of one of the cadets, Demon Clark, WJBF reported....