1. Pranav Jandhyala: Beaten at the UC
Berkeley Milo Event
2. Michelle
Seiler-Tucker:
Mining M&A Poised for a Busy 2017
3. Crista Huff: Dodd-Frank - Another
Rule Bites the Dust
4. Lowell Ponte: Trump Should Reform
the Forfeiture Laws
5. Daniel Greenfield: Slavery and Rape Aren’t
Wrong when Muslims Do It
Beaten at the UC
Berkeley Milo Event
I
am a UC Berkeley student who's been involved with everything that's been going
on this past week with the Milo protests. Professor
Bill Shireman is sponsoring me because he thinks it’s an important
story. I was a journalist on the night of the protests and was beaten by ANTIFA
protesters for filming the violence, and when I wrote an editorial condemning
the violence and calling for a new free speech movement at Berkeley, the Daily
Cal rejected it twice. Our school newspaper only published op-eds that
supported the violence. My editorial has since been published on The Huffington
Post: [more...]
Pranav is a student at
UC Berkeley studying business and political science. He is the founder and president
of BridgeCal, a nonpartisan political organization that seeks to bridge the
political divide on campus and in the nation through a platform of free and
open discourse between people who disagree with each other.
Mining M&A Poised
for a Busy 2017
No
need to dig deep to find activity in the mining sector. Coming off a positive
end to 2016, Ernst and Young expects mergers and acquisitions in the mining
sector to pick up right where they left off. The positive environment in the
equity markets and strengthening investor confidence are leading drivers of the
high 2017 expectations. There are several industry-specific factors and general
patters behind the M&A activity. [more...]
Dodd-Frank - Another Rule Bites the Dust
By Crista Huff
A
costly Dodd-Frank-related rule affecting the energy industry - the Securities and
Exchange Commission’s resource extraction rule - is
heading toward repeal. The final version of the rule, which was approved in
June 2016 for enforcement beginning in 2018, required “resource extraction
issuers to disclose payments made to governments for the commercial development
of oil, natural gas or minerals.” This rule affected public companies -
companies that trade on the stock exchange - but did not affect their private
company competitors, nor many foreign competitors, creating an unbalanced
playing field. [more...]
Trump Should Reform the
Forfeiture Laws
By
Lowell Ponte
In 2015, American law enforcement used civil asset forfeiture
laws to seize more than $5 billion from people. This is more money than was
stolen in all burglaries, combined that year, as Craig R. Smith and I document
in our latest book, Money, Morality & The Machine: Smith’s Law in an
Unethical, Over-Governed Age. When Ronald Reagan supported the wide
use of civil asset forfeiture, his aim was to stop letting crime pay by
confiscating what its dirty money – especially illegal drug money – buys.
President Trump and his Attorney General Jeff Sessions, as defenders of
capitalism and private property, ought to oppose the way civil asset forfeiture
laws are now sometimes misused against innocent citizens by money-hungry
governments.
[more...]
Slavery and Rape Aren’t
Wrong when Muslims Do It
"I don’t think
it’s morally evil to own somebody."
"A male owner of a
female slave has the right to sexual access to her.”
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