It's Monday, March the 27th, 2020.

Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast.

Today's article is written by Denison Forum CEO and co-founder, Dr. Jim Denison, and narrated by Chris Elkins.

The death toll from a tornado in Mississippi last Friday has risen to 26 people as of this morning.

The pictures are horrifically tragic. Among the victims were a one-year-old and her father.

More severe weather struck the region last night, including a likely tornado in Georgia

that injured multiple people and caused significant damage.

In better news from nature, Mercury, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Uranus, will align and display themselves tonight in a row on the Western horizon.

The best time for viewing will be 20 to 25 minutes after the sun has set.

Meanwhile, researchers report that shifting tectonic plates are splitting

Africa into two continents. The shift has been ongoing since the East African Rift, a 35-mile-long

crack in Ethiopia's desert, emerged in 2005. However, we're told the continent will not completely split for another 5 to 10 million

years. If you're looking for another continent dividing in real time, you could focus on the

United States. Professor Michael J. Lee writes in The Conversation that a scaled secession

is already taking place within our country. This is not the national

divorce that has been recently in the news, but soft separatism in which communities are distancing

themselves from one another in a variety of ways. Wealthier areas are separating into parallel school

districts, 11 states calling themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries, wealthier areas are separating into parallel school districts.

Eleven states calling themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries refuse to enforce federal gun restrictions.

Eleven counties in eastern Oregon support seceding and reclassifying themselves as Greater Idaho.

Idaho state government supports the move. Over two dozen rural Illinois counties

seeking to be free of Chicago's political influence have passed pro-secession referendums.

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