• "ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Two days before President Barack Obama announced a posthumous Medal of Honor for black World War I soldier Henry Johnson, a family got staggering news about the legacy of heroism that had inspired them for generations and through three wars. They weren't related to Johnson by blood after all".

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• We live in an era when facts are easier than ever to obtain, yet an era where people are more and more willing to accept hearsay than facts. We see the phenomenon in claims of police misconduct and in elections. 35% of the people in the electorate will vote for Hillary based on the fact she is a Democrat and disregard any facts that detract from a media generated illusion of saintliness.

On C SPAN I recently heard Joel Garreau (Council on Foreign Relations) say that ten years from now they will not even teach reading and writing in the public schools.  About 35% of Americans  are already functionally illiterate and it won't make much difference because they already rely on hearsay for what they think they know.