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Get the latest from Brian Lilley straight to your inbox Saying 2+2=4 is an example of covert white supremacy, according to a group of influential math teachers in Ontario. Questioning them on their assertion simply means you are an anti-trans, anti-immigrant person who doesn’t like anyone who isn’t white. Welcome to another day in Ontario’s public education system. This latest round of insanity started when Toronto-based writer Ari Blaff published an article in the New York-based National Review. Blaff noted a workshop provided by math teacher Jason To, which dealt with overt and covert white supremacy in math. A slide...

2/24 uses police work to break insurgency in IraqSubmitted by: 24th MEU Story Identification #: 200412106044 Story by Lance Cpl. Caleb J. Smith FORWARD OPERATING BASE MAHMUDIYAH, Iraq (Dec. 10, 2004) --- Anyone who visits the old chicken factory that serves as the headquarters of 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines, can't help but notice its resemblance to a police station. At any given hour, Marines are getting ready to head out on patrol, others are gathering intelligence, while still others are booking detainees. The similarities owe in large part to the nature of the task here just south of Baghdad, where...