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The Comet –“That Forever Changed Planet Earth” Posted on Feb 15, 2021 in Astronomy, Evolution, Science“It must have been an amazing sight, but we don’t want to see that again,” said Harvard astrophysicist, Avi Loeb about the comet that created the the Chicxulub crater off the coast of Mexico that spans 93 miles and runs 12 miles deep that forever changed Earth’s evolutionary history when it crashed 66 million years ago.The Scene at ImpactThe scene of the massive impact that brought the reign of the dinosaurs to an abrupt and calamitous end by triggering their sudden mass extinction, along with...

Ranking Republicans on four key House committees concerned with security at the Capitol complex are demanding answers from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) about her actions before, during, and after the Jan. 6 riot. “It has been widely reported and confirmed by multiple sources that when [former Capitol Hill Police] Chief [Steven] Sund requested the National Guard be activated ahead of the January 6th Joint Session of Congress, the response from the Sergeant-At-Arms (SAA), acting on your behalf, was that the ‘optics’ of having the National Guard on-site were not good and the intelligence didn’t support the move....

Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) joined with other House Republicans in asking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to explain why the National Guard needs to be deployed in Washington D.C. until possibly fall of this year. “The only briefings that we’ve had, through the media really, is that the troops may be staying there through the fall,” McClain told Fox in an interview on Monday. “Which is extremely concerning because myself and several of my colleagues have asked Nancy Pelosi for a briefing as to: ‘why do we need these troops here?’ And we have received zero information, zero.” Pentagon spokesperson...

Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” called former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial a “dramatic success in historical terms.” Anchor Chuck Todd said, “So do you feel like this was a success? Or do you feel like because you failed to convict that you can’t look at it any other way than a failure?” Raskin said, “I think it was a dramatic success in historical terms. It was the largest impeachment conviction vote in U.S. history. It was by far the most bipartisan majority that’s ever assembled in the Senate to convict...

Oregon’s Education Department is promoting a training program that will offer a toolkit to help teachers “develop an anti-racist math practice.” As noted in a newsletter sent by the department, middle school teachers are encouraged to register for a Feb. 21 course titled “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction,” which they say is designed to help them make use of “key tools for engagement [and] strategies to improve equitable outcomes for Black, Latinx, and multilingual students.” According to the toolkit, one of the ways to achieve this goal is by “visibilizing the toxic characteristics of white supremacy culture with respect...

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that Democrats used the impeachment of former President Donald Trump as a tool to paint all of his supporters with the brush of Capitol breach-related criminality. Johnson told Breitbart News in an interview on Feb. 14 that the ultimate aim of impeaching Trump a second time was to associate the 75 million Americans who voted for him with those individuals who on Jan. 6 broke the law. “They really wanted to use impeachment as a vehicle because they wanted to equate all those tens of millions of Trump’s voters and all of his supporters...

The Trump Impeachment Trial is finally coming to a close as legal challenges in the 2020 election continue on. White House Correspondent Jenn Pellegrino has some of the takeaway thus far.

Four Republican lawmakers are demanding answers from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over her role in making security decisions on January 6, the day of the Capitol riot. Reps. Rodney Davis, IL, Jim Jordan, OH, James Comer, KY, and Devin Nunes, CA sent a letter Monday, requesting the answers to the following five questions: * When then-Chief Sund made a request for national guard support on January 4th, why was that request denied? JUST IN: Republicans have written a letter to Speaker Pelosi demanding answers as to why she denied a request to activate the NG ahead of Jan. 6, and...

The CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky admits in a press conference last Friday that the recently released CDC School Guidelines where changed after input from teachers groups. The Biden administrations close relationship with the Teachers Unions has raised concerns with many that politics is influencing school recommendations. It seems to be the case from Dr. Walensky statements below. The recently release school opening guidelines also contradict the advise Dr. Walensky gave her own Mayor over the summer. 🚨Breaking🚨 @CDCDirector admits that lobbying groups changed recs in the recent CDC School Guidelines From a Fri. press conf: CDC based its recs...

A recent Gallup poll indicates that a higher percentage of Americans than ever before prefer the formation of a legitimate, national third party. In the latest survey, just 33% of Americans say they are satisfied with the current two-party system. With 5% undecided, that means an all-time record 62% want to see a viable third option. While some political experts believe the increasing polarization of Republicans and Democrats is what has led to such a dramatic surge of third-party interest, it seems former President Donald Trump's passing reference to forming his own "MAGA" party has generated a significant rise in...

A case that caused consternation and controversy in Chicago last year is entering a fresh chapter. On Tuesday afternoon, Jussie Smollett, a now-former actor on the show Empire, was again indicted by a grand jury in Cook County, Ill., for filing false police reports that he had been the victim of a hate crime near his home in January 2019. This is the second time Smollett has been indicted for filing a false police report.

The UK Government have released a report highlighting adverse reactions to both the Pfizer and Oxford / Astrazeneca that have occurred since the rollout began on the 8th December and it does not make for pleasant reading. The report has collated data inputted up to the 24th January 2021 via the MHRA Yellow Card Scheme. At this point an estimated 5.4 million first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and 1.5 million doses of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine had been administered, and around 0.5 million second doses, mostly the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, had been administered. But as predicted, with the rise in...

For months, Gov. Gavin Newsom communicated about the COVID-19 pandemic via frequent webcasts in which he cited the latest statistics and beseeched Californians to wear masks, wash their hands and avoid crowds. In the last couple of weeks, however, Newsom has shifted venues to orchestrated outdoor events at sports arenas and other mass vaccination sites. Newsom’s change of background scenery attracts more attention from television news crews than his staid webcasts, which is probably its true purpose. It coincides with an escalating recall campaign aimed at short-circuiting Newsom’s political career and polls showing that his approval rates have taken a...

In a study designed to gather more data about how "sexual minorities" -- lesbians, gays, and bisexuals -- are affected by COVID, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that LGB persons have higher rates of health conditions associated with severe COVID illness than heterosexual persons -- conditions such as asthma, kidney disease, and cancer. "Sexual minority persons in the United States have higher self-reported prevalences of several underlying health conditions associated with severe outcomes from COVID-19 than do heterosexual persons, both in the overall population and among racial/ethnic minority groups," reported the CDC in its report, Sexual...

A California police officer urged his city council on Thursday to sign a petition to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom because his administration represents the culmination of years of bad policy decisions that are hurting the state. Adam Garcia, who has worked in law enforcement for nearly 20 years, cited failed policies that have made the state a "safe haven for criminals" and caused violence to skyrocket – problems that have been made worse by the pandemic and Newsom’s response to it. Garcia downplayed the idea that the recall against Newsom is being driven by partisan politics, and is instead being...

The arrival of COVID-19 has changed the way we travel. While the number one priority of airlines is the safety of its passengers and crew, COVID-19 presented airlines with a whole new set of safety-related challenges to deal with. From mandatory mask-wearing and blocking middle-seats to reduced in-flight service, new safety measures have become standard in most cases. However, one airline, Cathay Pacific, created quite a stir when it announced it will be giving its business and first-class passengers the option to remove their masks. Cathay Pacific is the fifth largest airline measured by sales, and fourteenth largest measured by...

The mayor, police chief, city clerk and a former city clerk of a small Midwest town were all arrested for allegedly abusing their power — with crimes including stealing money, falsifying records and strong-arming civilians, officials said. In one instance, a resident in Armstrong, Iowa — population 840 — was attacked by one of the defendants with a stun gun to shake them down for money, authorities said. “Mayor Greg Buum, police chief Craig Merrill, city clerk Tracie Lang, and former city clerk Connie Thackery were charged with felony and misdemeanor offenses in a 21-count joint trial information approved by...

The spot price of wholesale electricity on the Texas power grid spiked more than 10,000% on Monday amid a deep freeze across the state and rolling outages among power producers, according to data on the grid operator’s website. Real-time wholesale market prices on the power grid operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) were more than $9,000 per megawatt hour late Monday morning, compared with pre-storm prices of less than $50 per megawatt hour, according to ERCOT data.. The surge reflects the real-time megawatt hour price of electricity and the cost of congestion and losses at different points...

For decades, discussions of “family policy” in the U.S. have been associated with the broader liberal agenda, from raising the minimum wage to universal childcare and paid leave mandates. The default conservative response has been to resort to the usual talking points: too expensive, too heavy-handed, too much of a threat to liberty.