Reality check

Ronald Reagan's "Welfare Queen" was a real person. Until now, every single report I have read about this says that Reagan made up the story. She was also accused of insurance fraud, identity theft, forging documents, multiple kidnappings, and a few murders. Somehow it became racist to have said that she should have been investigated. That may be the bigger story.

The New York Times lied about the contents of the Pentagon Papers back in the '70s.

Matthew Shepard was killed over drugs by his gay lover. In everyone's defense, the killer and accomplice did claim they killed him for being gay, probably for a temporary-insanity defense.