evidence: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." [...] – Benjamin Franklin "A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." [...] If what our Founding Fathers believed is true – that the preservation of our freedoms is predicated on an informed citizenry – the picture the surveys paint is rather bleak. Is there hope? Is anybody doing anything about it? Fortunately, a faithful few are.