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Scientists say that meteors hit earth 17 times a day. However, we don't even notice because these meteors are either too small or hit in uninhabited areas in the world. The reason that damages are unlikely and almost never occur from these daily impacts is that most of the world is uninhabited and no one is near the impact location to experience or report the impact and its location. However, the impacts that are recorded are often added to a list for scientists and enthusiasts to study. For example, a website called asteroid collision location map is a source that...

Farmer Dean needs prayers and fast! in hospital again with abscess. I fear he may pass. Than you

Israeli ambassador to Germany Jeremy Issacharoff warned Thursday that Germany is losing its grip on democracy in the wake of recent terror attacks. Following anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim attacks in Halle and Hanau, Issacharoff said: “No democratic society can survive if minorities are constantly threatened or harmed.” “The Holocaust has shown us all where such hatred leads,” he told the German regional newspaper Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung. “An open society can tolerate many things, but never violence. People are starting to act violently against minorities, against Jews and Muslims again.” The ambassador also appealed to Jews and Muslims not to hide their...

The Trump campaign has filed a libel lawsuit against what it called the “extremely biased” New York Times, saying the paper’s March 27, 2019 op-ed titled “The Real Trump-Russia Quid Pro Quo” amounted to a knowingly false smear intended to “improperly influence the presidential election in November 2020.” “They did a bad thing,” Trump said at a coronavirus press conference later Wednesday, before apparently promising more litigation. “There will be more coming. There will be more coming.” The lawsuit seeks “compensatory damages in the millions of dollars,” as well as punitive damages and legal fees. Knowing that then-Special Counsel Robert...

The sheriff's office in rural Amador County, California, which originally labeled the death by a single gunshot of DHS Obama-era whistleblower Philip Haney last week as "self inflicted," has now backed away from that assertion. A follow-up press release from the office of the sheriff — coroner on Monday had this to say: On February 22, the Amador County Sheriff's Office released initial details regarding Philip Haney being found deceased in our jurisdiction. ... Unfortunately, there was misinformation being immediately put out that we have determined Mr. Haney's death to be a suicide. This is not the case. We are...

Bernie Sanders is unelectable, here I explain ten reasons why.

The California Department of Health said the individual is from Solano County and is receiving medical care at UC Davis Medical Center.staff • Published 5 hours ago • Updated 12 mins ago U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention This illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January 2020 shows...Read more A new case of novel coronavirus in Northern California is suspected to be the first known incident of person-to-person transmission in the general public in United States, officials said Wednesday.The California Department of Health said the individual is from Solano County and is receiving medical care at UC...

Bernie Sanders just might win the South Carolina primary on Saturday. That's the real headline out of a new poll conducted by NBC and Marist College that shows Sanders trailing longtime South Carolina front-runner Joe Biden by a narrow 27% to 23% margin, with five days of campaigning remaining. (Several recent polls have suggested a similar tightening.) While the top-line number draws the eye, it's a series of other questions sprinkled throughout the poll that seem to suggest a path to a massive upset victory does, in fact, exist. Should Sanders score the upset, it would end Biden's campaign --...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP/VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE and AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14 Religion Forum threads labeled "Prayer" are closed to debate of any kind.

As face masks fly off the shelves amid rising fears over the COVID-19 illness, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute for Occupation Safety and Health have just issued a helpful guide about which types of beards and mustaches will make those masks less effective, and which will be OK. Bottom line: Most beards, and a few mustaches, prevent the mask from making a complete seal against the skin.

An Ohio Democrat Councilwoman has been arrested and faces federal charges after she was accused of trying to sell votes for money. In particular, one vote may have sold for $15,000. Her name is Tamaya Dennard and she could face up to 50 years in jail and the mayor is also calling on her to refute the charges or resign from her position.

Sen. Bernie Sanders’s coalition isn’t that big, at least not right now — he won about a quarter of Democratic primary voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, plus about a third of the first-alignment vote in Nevada,1 and about a quarter to a third of Democratic voters say they support him in most state and national polls. But Sanders’s backers are worth understanding because of what they’ve accomplished: making a democratic socialist who is not officially a Democrat the front-runner to lead the Democratic Party, over the objections of virtually all of the party’s establishment and many of its voters....

Former President Obama's attorneys say they plan to file a cease-and-desist letter over a pro-Trump group's television ad in South Carolina that attacks former Vice President Joe Biden by using a portion of Obama's book Obama is also demanding that all South Carolina television stations immediately stop running the ad from the Committee to Defend the President, which is aimed at supporting President Trump's reelection bid. The ad uses excerpts from Obama's 1995 memoir, "Dreams from My Father," in an effort to get the attention of black voters in the state. "Joe Biden promised to help our community. It was...

A book on China's efforts on the prevention and control of the COVID-19 outbreak has been co-published by the China Intercontinental Press and the People's Publishing House. With more than 100,000 Chinese characters selected from media reports, the book focuses on key moments, individuals and events during China's ongoing fight against the epidemic. The book is compiled to show the strength of the Communist Party of China (CPC) leadership and China's socialist system, as well as China's efforts in strengthening cooperation with the international community to jointly safeguard global and regional public health security. The book will also be published...

Italy sought to rally international support for its virus containment efforts Wednesday even as its caseload reached 447, people linked to Italy fell ill across Europe and as far away as Brazil, and the U.N.’s health agency urged a scaled-up response. Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte’s government appealed to European neighbors for cooperation, not isolation and discrimination. Italy has been struggling to contain the rapidly spreading outbreak that made it the country with more coronavirus cases outside Asia than anywhere else. “Viruses don’t know borders and they don’t stop at them,” Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza insisted at the start of...

Taken to extremes, liberalism eats its own. Exhibit A is the decline of one of the most prestigious and proudly liberal private schools in the city. Ethical Culture Fieldston in Riverdale, founded in 1878 by the son of a rabbi as a model for social justice, racial equality and intellectual freedom, now is convulsed by allegations of anti-Semitism, racial-discrimination lawsuits, quarrels over identity politics, a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Department run amok and a union­ized faculty impervious to criticism. Disgruntled parents are considering ways of extracting their children, angry donors are closing their wallets and distraught teachers are resigning or...

The judge in Roger Stone's case is under pressure as she considers whether to grant President Trump's longtime associate a new trial based on allegations of juror bias. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee whose ruling is expected soon, is facing a concerted campaign from Trump and his media allies who claim that Stone’s case was prejudiced by politics. This new chapter in Stone’s legal saga concerns whether the jury forewoman’s failure to disclose her opposition to Trump tainted Stone’s guilty verdict. Stone's lawyers say that entitles the 67-year-old right-wing provocateur to a fresh trial. Jackson held...

Talk of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) is everywhere. Here’s what you should know and do to keep yourself and your loved ones healthy.Know the symptoms The new virus causes respiratory illness in humans, usually 2–14 days after exposure. Illnesses have ranged from mild symptoms to severe, including fever, cough, and shortness of breath. The virus is thought to spread mainly from close contact with an affected person. It spreads in the air, like flu, and through droplets from sneezes and coughs. The droplets can stay suspended in the air and can land on surfaces that are touched by others. Understand...

[Catholic Caucus] A Tale of Two Priests Dignity Detroit vs True Devotion On Sunday, Fr. Victor Clore, a priest in the archdiocese of Detroit under the authority of Abp. Allen Vigneron, offered Mass for the Detroit chapter of Dignity.  Dignity is a pro-LGBT group that opposes Church teaching on the meaning and purpose of human sexuality and was officially condemned by the Church in 1986.  But that has not stopped Clore. The longtime Detroit priest has supported Dignity for at least 25 years.    In 1995, he published an article for the Michigan Catholic praising Dignity and referring to Church teaching on...

SEOUL (REUTERS) - South Korea reported 334 additional cases of the new coronavirus on Thursday (Feb 27), the largest daily increase yet, as the US State Department issued a new travel warning for South Korea and a joint military drill was postponed. The new cases bring the total tally to 1,595, the Korea Centres for Disease Control & Prevention (KCDC) said. The daily figure is the largest reported spike in the country since its first case was confirmed on Jan 20. South Korea also reported its 13th death linked to the virus. (Please see full story at the link)