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https://www.newsweek.com/math-racist-crowd-runs-rampant-seattle-portland-opinion-1701491 Jason Rantz Judging by East Coast liberals' attacks on Florida Governor  Ron DeSantis  for fighting against woke math textbooks, you'd think the battle is a new one. But the math war has been raging for years on the West Coast, where progressives have almost total control over school curricula. The governor's critics were skeptical, arguing this move was little more than contrived political theater. They immediately demanded examples of problematic textbooks. Progressive writer Judd Legum, for example,  claimed  DeSantis was overstating the presence of critical race theory (CRT) in curricula, noting that it "is not something you typically find discussed in a K-12 math textbook." Though DeSantis  pointed to some specific examples  of CRT-inspired teaching materials, it's not as simple as pointing to math problems in a textbook. CRT is a lens that tints every subject, and it

Posted on April 5, 2022 Sam Francis on Conspiracy Theories Chris Roberts, American Renaissance, April 5, 2022 Credit Image:  Christian Cable via Wikimedia In 1996,  the great Sam Francis  wrote  a long essay on conspiracy theories . After noting that not since the 1940s “has the American presidency been as engulfed in distrust and suspicion as it is today,” he wrote: Whatever else conspiracy theories prove, their prevalence at certain periods of history invariably shows the impending collapse of public trust in the way things are, a readiness to ascribe to the occupants of a society’s most visible and respected positions of leadership the most villainous purposes and the most ruthless means of attaining them. None of the Presidents who followed Bill Clinton managed to regain the majority of the public’s trust. During George W. Bush’s presidency, leftists spun tales about how both the 2000 and 2004 elections were stolen, and warned of a looming authoritarian evangelical theocracy. Durin