U.S. Silica Holdings Inc. last week announced a definitive agreement to acquire EP Minerals for $750 million in cash. EP Minerals–with sales of more than $200 million–is a global producer of engineered materials derived from industrial minerals including diatomaceous earth (DE), clay (calcium bentonite) and perlite. The company is the No. 1 or No. 2…
Luke Geiver
Bakken frack sand provider expands through $15M acquisition
Texas-based Smart Sand Inc. is expanding in North Dakota’s Bakken shale oil play. After announcing the processing capacity expansion of its Oakdale, Wisconsin frack sand mine early this year, Smart Sand has now acquired the rights to a unit train transloading terminal in the heart of the Bakken. Through a $15.5 million deal, Smart Sand…
Jim Simpson
Antifa And The SPLC Successfully Shut Down Four Anti-Islam Conferences
Antifa groups used information from the Southern Poverty Law Center to successfully shut down four conferences on the threat of Islam scheduled in Wisconsin and Minnesota last weekend. The hotels slated for the events were flooded with threatening calls, and the organizers voluntarily canceled one of the events following numerous warnings that it would not…
Riley J. Hood
The Muslim Report: Turkey
“But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:” I Corinthians 4:3 Turkey was once Greek, until the Islamic Turks exterminated the Greek Christians and took over their homeland. During the Ottoman Empire as much as 20% of the population was Christian, living as second class citizens; but major persecutions…
Riley J. Hood
Scalia’s Flawed Dissent
In 2003, the Republican nominated Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia read a very weak dissent in the Lawrence v. Texas case. He said “Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, or any other group promoting their agenda through normal democratic means. Social preconceptions of sexual and other morality change over time, and…
Andrew Zuelke
Progressive Hypocrisy – Part I
While writing this article and thinking about communists—I mean progressives—I asked myself, “How much longer will Americans suffer these fools?” Here are just some of the progressive hypocrisies which we must defeat. Progressives on the law: This January 1st in California, residents can use or sell recreational marijuana but they can’t smoke it while driving…