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LYNN HAVEN, Fla. (WMBB) — Bay County Sheriff’s deputies said Tuesday that they seized 18 pounds of meth during a narcotics operation. The investigation into a local drug ring began in early 2019 and the first seizure of what would become 18 pounds of meth, $75,000 and 13 guns took place in November. Investigators named Ulises Perez as the drug ring’s leader and said he was deported from the United States four times on previous drug charges.

Liberal billionaire “Godfather of the Left” George Soros thinks Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg should not be in charge of Facebook. Soros wrote an op-ed for The New York Times Jan. 31, fretting that “there appears to be ‘an informal mutual assistance operation or agreement developing between Trump and Facebook’ in which Facebook will help President Trump to get re-elected and Mr. Trump will, in turn, defend Facebook against attacks from regulators and the media.’” [Emphasis added.] His solution: Zuckerberg and Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg “should not be left in control of Facebook.” [Emphasis added.]

On December 30, Li Wenliang dropped a bombshell in his medical school alumni group on the popular Chinese messaging app WeChat: seven patients from a local seafood market had been diagnosed with a SARS-like illness and quarantined in his hospital. Li explained that, according to a test he had seen, the illness was a coronavirus -- a large family of viruses that includes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Memories of SARS run deep in China, where a pandemic in 2003 killed hundreds following a government cover up. "I only wanted to remind my university classmates to be careful," he said....

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is doubling the already massive amount of money he will spend on advertising, an effort to lift his Democratic presidential bid and capitalize on the chaotic outcome of Monday’s Iowa caucuses. “After more than a year of this primary, the field is as unsettled as ever. No one has made the sale or even come close to it,” Bloomberg spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said Tuesday. “Meanwhile, Mike is taking the fight to Trump every day, doubling down on the national campaign strategy we’ve been running from the beginning.” An exact dollar figure was not provided, but Bloomberg, the...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa political experts and observers are worried their state’s first-in-the-nation status in presidential nominating contests is in jeopardy after technical issues marred Democratic caucuses on Monday. Monday’s disastrous meltdown was the third consecutive presidential election cycle during which there have been problems with the Iowa caucuses, raising anew serious questions about their results and integrity. The quadrennial calls for a shakeup in the presidential nominating calendar are now louder than at any time since the modern system began in 1972. “It’s hard to see how Iowa keeps this after last night,” David Yepsen, the longtime Iowa...

[Catholic Caucus] Catholic university presidents host leading LGBT advocate Rev. James Martin The key group for Catholic college and university presidents on Sunday hosted the Rev. James Martin, a globally famous advocate for the LGBT community, who urged the hundreds of school leaders to take new steps to promote inclusion, such as allowing students to pick their pronouns and holding up openly gay staff as role models. Some longtime attendees of the annual meeting of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU) said the invitation to Martin was striking and reflects a new generation of Catholic college presidents as...

The Democratic Party have surged its focus on cybersecurity to combat foreign interference by Russia or other actors that U.S. intelligence officials warn may seek a repeat of 2016.

Senate Majority Mitch McConnell took to the chamber floor Tuesday to say the only high crime and misdemeanor committed by President Trump was his defeat of Hillary Clinton in 2016, pushing back against House Democrats’ charges in the “nonsense impeachment.” “That is the original sin of this presidency — that he won and they lost,” Mr. McConnell said. The Kentucky Republican pointed the finger at House Democrats, arguing they were the ones to abuse power, saying they pursued the only partisan impeachment in American history due to their hatred of this president and fear they cannot beat him in the...

Hyundai announced Tuesday that it is suspending production in its South Korea manufacturing plants due to supply chain problems caused by the coronavirus outbreak in China. The world's fifth-largest automaker said in a statement that the suspension is a result of "disruptions in the supply of parts resulting from the coronavirus outbreak in China," The New York Times reports. Hyundai has plants worldwide, but has been hampered by the fact that it gets many of its parts from China. Several plants in China that make the parts that the automaker needs have shut down because of the continued spread of...

Democrats complain about the cost of everything, from health care to prescription drugs to fuel prices (when a Republican is president) to groceries to college tuition, never understanding, or simply not caring, that it’s their policies that drive up prices. So they of course think there’s nothing wrong with their ideas that will accelerate increases in housing costs. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who still has a chance to be the Democrats’ nominee, said a few weeks back that because scientists are scaring her about the climate, “by 2028, no new buildings, no new houses” would be built “without a zero-carbon...

An academic has hit out at the ‘psychosis of whiteness’ after saying the British Empire did more damage than the Nazis. Birmingham City University’s Dr Kehinde Andrews appeared on Good Morning Britain on Monday to discuss the renaming of the MBE and OBE. He appeared alongside Breakin’ Convention founder Jonzi D, a dancer and spoken word artist, who turned down an MBE for its connection to the British Empire and the empire’s history of slavery. Jonzi D said: ‘I didn’t want the label of ‘Member of the British Empire’ on my chest.’ Piers Morgan then challenged the panel on whether...

I review Robert Spencer's latest book, The Palestinian Delusion, and give my thoughts on the latest plan for Middle East "peace."

I have tried to listen to this show in the morning, but the host Alex isn't very good. It sounds similar to NPR. He is usually quoting what liberals are saying about President Trump also. What do you think of this show?

Monday night as candidates waited for results in the Iowa caucus, Sen. Bernie Sanders said he had "a good feeling we’re going to be doing very, very well here." "Today marks the beginning of the end for Donald Trump," he said, calling the president "corrupt" and a "pathological liar."

You couldn’t make it up. If you did nobody would believe you. On Monday, just a week after the BBC ran a story about Kobe Bryant’s death using pictures of LeBron James, they showed a picture of my comrade, Marsha de Cordova, the MP for Battersea, addressing the House of Commons on the Agriculture Bill. The trouble is that underneath they used my name and claimed she was the MP for Brent. The Evening Standard followed up on the story the day after but then managed to use a picture of Bell Ribeiro-Addy, the MP for Streatham. There are all...

With a listing, massively failing impeachment ship to navigate back home, and news focused on Iowa, you'd think House impeachment manager Adam Schiff would want to make his grand exit closing speech with some kind of dignity. No such luck. He went out like a nut instead, throwing out crazy talk and reminding voters that the whole thing was a cooked up plot by anti-Trump lunatics. According to Mairead McArdle at National Review, here's Schiff's final pitch to the Senate, seeking to persuade the very tired senators up there past midnight to do what he wants and vote to oust...

Although the Nepalese government resisted pressures to deport back to China the refugees who are already in Nepal, it will deport those of them who will enter Nepal in the future.In October, Bitter Winter reported how President Xi Jinping’s visit to Nepal had failed to persuade the authorities of the Himalayan kingdom, under pressure from their own public opinion, to deport back to China under a proposed extradition treaty a good number of the some 20,000 Tibetan refugees living within Nepalese borders. It was an unexpected defeat for the Chinese leader, who reacted very angrily. The CCP, however, never stops...

...the Neanderthals who lived in Chagyrskaya Cave in southern Siberia around 54,000 years ago. Their distinctive stone tools are dead ringers for those found thousands of kilometres away in eastern and central Europe. The intercontinental journey made by these intrepid Neanderthals is equivalent to walking from Sydney to Perth, or from New York to Los Angeles, and is a rare example of long-distance migration by Palaeolithic people... Neanderthals are now believed to have created 176,000 year-old enigmatic structures made from broken stalactites in a cave in France, and cave art in Spain that dates back more than 65,000 years. They...

Feb. 4, 2020 Riverside CountyNEWS RELEASEContact:Jose Arballo, Jr.(951) 712-3705jarballojr@ruhealth.org Minor taken to hospital, another traveler arrives at March Air Reserve BaseA minor, who is part of a group being housed at March Air Reserve Base, has developed a fever and been taken to Riverside University Health System-Medical Center for testing and observation. The minor was transported by ambulance Monday evening out of an abundance of caution and is accompanied by a parent. The two are part of a group of 195 passengers who were flown to March from China last week and placed under a 14-day federal quarantine.Testing samples will...

Just one day before his death, family and friends in Kansas helped grant their loved one’s last wish to see his beloved horse, saying it’s a reunion they will always remember. After a three-year battle with cancer, Kevin Adkins, a 55-year-old cowboy, died Tuesday. For nearly two decades prior, he spent every day with his 27-year-old horse, Vic. Jennifer Wadley’s family ranch, D&J Ranch, sold Vic to Adkins all those years ago. She says the two were inseparable."They’ve been partners for all these years,” Wadley said. “It could be pouring rain, it could be snowing, it could be hotter than...