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Last summer I posted about my prostate cancer predicament. Opted for radical prostatectomy (robotic) and found a good surgeon in the North Dallas/Irving area. Three month follow up PSA: 0.04, just below “undetectable” Six month follow up PSA: >0.02, lower limit of “undetectable” Praise God! I was really having a hard year because of this. Now almost completely continent, and “It” is coming back :) Thanks to FReepers who’ve been praying and counseling me on this trial.

President Trump said Tuesday he didn’t speak to the Justice Department about the sentencing of longtime confidante Roger Stone after department officials took the unusual step of reconsidering his recommended punishment and all four federal prosecutors withdrew from the case. The president said the federal prosecutors’ initial recommendation of a prison term of seven to nine years for Stone was “ridiculous” and “an insult to our country.” “I thought the whole prosecution was ridiculous,” Mr. Trump told reporters. “It shouldn’t happen.” The Justice Department said Tuesday it will take the extraordinary step of lowering the amount of prison time it...

The sameness of the words conservative and conservation shows where the future of environmentalism lies.

The disease that has killed more than 1,000 people in China, stopped flights and disrupted trade now has a name — “COVID-19,” a moniker that combines “coronavirus,” “disease” and the year it was discovered while averting the ignominy of tying the disease to an entire place or people, like the Spanish flu a century ago. It also sets the table for naming future coronaviruses — just add the year at the end. What to call the new illness has been overshadowed by the human toll of the outbreak. Millions are on lockdown in China, where more than 42,000 people have...

I thought maybe a 13-second clip from a lengthy speech might not be a fair representation of what Biden said, so for full context, I pulled up the transcript from C-SPAN. If anything, the fuller context makes it worse, not better. Here's what he said about Ukraine/Iran/Iraq in full... [Word Vomit in comment below] ...If you can make sense of that word vomit, I'll buy you a drink. I could go line-by-line and point out Biden's many factual errors, or lapses in logic. But why bother? Even if we account for the fact that very few people can speak extemporaneously...

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.

Democrats in Virginia’s House of Delegates passed legislation Tuesday to ban suppressors, “high capacity” magazines, and “assault weapons.” The bill, HB 961, now moves to the Virginia Senate. HB 961 originally banned certain commonly owned firearms and suppressors without exception, The NRA-ILA reports that the bill amended to secure passage. The result is that a grandfather clause was added to allow Virginians to keep their AR-15s, AK-47s, and similar rifles if they already own them. The same will apply to suppressors. However, the NRA-ILA notes that “confiscation is undoubtedly still the end goal.” There is no grandfather clause for magazines,...

Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, will become the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee and replace Rep. Doug Collins, a Georgia Republican, who is running for the U.S. Senate. The decision was made, the Washington Examiner confirmed, after members of the House Republican Steering Committee voted unanimously on Thursday. Collins, who announced he will primary Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler this year, had to step down from his leadership post due to the campaign for another office.

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Progressive Senator Bernie Sanders led in New Hampshire’s Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday, and former front-runner Joe Biden trailed badly in fifth place in the second nominating contest to find a challenger for President Donald Trump in November.

Axl Rose has broken his three-month social media silence to once again bash the Trump administration. The GUNS N' ROSES frontman took to his Twitter account on Monday to share a photo of a New Hampshire voter wearing a hat that reads "Make The White House Great Again." Although Axl chose not to caption the picture, the response from other Twitter users was predictably mixed, with one person tweeting "Make Axl's Singing Great Again" and another adding "Make GNR great again." A third Twitter user wrote: "The only way to [make the White House great again] is to fumigate it....

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, February 11, 2020   Made False Statements to IRS Auditors and on Tax Returns A Saratoga, California, businessman was sentenced to 36 months in prison today, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney David L. Anderson for the Northern District of California.“The integrity of our tax system relies on all taxpayers filing accurate tax returns and dealing honestly with the Internal Revenue Service,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Zuckerman. “Those who commit tax crimes by cheating...

The week President Donald Trump was acquitted in his impeachment trial was Fox News Channel’s best in the ratings since the weeks he was elected and inaugurated. The Nielsen company said Fox News averaged 4.27 million viewers in prime time last week, better than any network except for ABC, which televised the Academy Awards, and CBS. It was the fifth most-watched week ever for Fox’s prime-time schedule, and highest since election week 2016, Nielsen said. The only other times Fox topped that mark came during two weeks in March 2003, during the Iraq War, and the August week in 2015...

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, February 11, 2020 The head of a Houston-based company that was the subsidiary of a Chinese company that developed stolen trade secrets was sentenced to 16 months in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $330,000 by U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the District of Columbia.Shan Shi, 55, of Houston, Texas, had previously been found guilty of conspiracy to steal trade secrets by a jury on July 29, 2019.  Evidence admitted during a three-week trial showed that Shi had signed an agreement with Taizhou CBM Future...

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, February 11, 2020 The Department of Justice today announced that the following defendants were arrested and charged by Complaint on charges of conspiracy and violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) based on their attempt to transact in sanctioned Iranian oil: Nicholas Hovan, 33, of New York, NY;Zhenyu Wang, a/k/a “Bill Wang,” 39, of Dallas, TX;Robert Thwaites, 30, of Dallas, TX;Nicholas James Fuchs, 26, of Dallas, TX; andDaniel Ray Lane, 38, of McKinney, TX. The defendants are each charged with one count of conspiracy and one count...

Four prosecutors from the Justice Department (DOJ) have withdrawn from their roles in the Roger Stone case, following the department’s decision to reduce the amount of prison time they are recommending for the Trump associate. Prosecutors Aaron Zelinsky (pdf), Jonathan Kravis (pdf), Adam C. Jed (pdf), and Michael Marando (pdf) filed notices withdrawing from the case on Feb. 11. The move follows the department’s decision to override the sentencing recommendation of seven to nine years made by the federal prosecutors. Along with withdrawing from the case, Kravis also will resign from his position as an assistant U.S. attorney. Zelinsky and...

The Justice Department dispensed its recommendation of a prison sentence of seven to nine years for Roger Stone and replaced it with a more lenient request. A Tuesday evening court filing, which said the prior recommendation did "not accurately reflect the Department of Justice’s position on what would be a reasonable sentence in this matter," came after all four prosecutors in the case withdrew from their roles. “While it remains the position of the United States that a sentence of incarceration is warranted here, the government respectfully submits that the range of 87 to 108 months presented as the applicable...

Elizabeth Warren is trying to downplay results in New Hampshire and look toward the future, but her weak finish is bad news for her White House aspirations and a blow for a candidate who many had high expectations for through much of her campaign. The Massachusetts senator, 70, was in fourth place with 10% of votes as of about 8:30 p.m. with 30% of precincts reporting, coming in behind Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Warren was in danger of not meeting the 15% threshold to win nominating delegates to...

Lawrence Ray, the one-time best man at former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik’s wedding, was indicted Tuesday on federal charges of sex trafficking and extortion for the decade-long exploitation of a small cult of Sarah Lawrence College students. Lawrence Ray, the one-time best man at former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik’s wedding, was indicted Tuesday on federal charges of sex trafficking and extortion for the decade-long exploitation of a small cult of Sarah Lawrence College students. He was the best man at ex-NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik’s wedding — and the worst thing that ever happened to his daughter’s college friends. The devious...

From coastal towns to rural farms to urban centers, climate change poses an existential threat – not just to our environment, but to our health, our communities, our national security, and our economic well-being. Vice President Biden knows there is no greater challenge facing our country and our world. Today, he is outlining a bold plan – a Clean Energy Revolution – to address this grave threat and lead the world in addressing the climate emergency.

  Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, February 11, 2020 The Department of Justice has released a final agenda for the Feb. 19, 2020, public workshop on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.  The public workshop, titled “Section 230 – Nurturing Innovation or Fostering Unaccountability?,” will discuss the evolution of Section 230 from its original purpose in granting limited immunity to Internet companies, its impact on the American people, and whether improvements to the law should be made.The released agenda includes welcome remarks from Attorney General William P. Barr and distinguished panelists with a wide variety...