South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announced today that a Motion for Stay of Execution has been filed in Federal District Court in the Donald Moeller case on the lethal injection drug protocol. The hearing is set for Monday, October 22, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. at the Federal Courthouse in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Donald Moeller is scheduled to be executed during the week of Sunday, October 28, 2012, through Saturday, November 3, 2012.
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Taxing Ourselves Out of Productivity
Gasoline prices are at all-time highs. As a result, energy policy concerns echo in boardrooms and family rooms across the U.S. At a recent House Energy Committee hearing on “The American Energy Initiative,” Harold Hamm, the top energy adviser of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, warned that President Obama’s proposed repeal of the energy tax provisions for oil and natural gas producers (including a manufacturing tax deduction that all U.S. manufacturers receive) would decrease drilling activity by 40 percent. Can the U.S. afford that?
Read more ›The Interposition of Providence
British General Henry Clinton ordered General Cornwallis to move 8,000 troops to a defensive position where the York River enters Chesapeake Bay. General Washington, joined by French General Rochambeau’s 6,000 troops, hurriedly marched to trap Cornwallis against the sea. All together, 17,000 French and American troops surrounded Cornwallis and he surrendered OCTOBER 19, 1781.
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