Icalled my old radio buddy Davis Rankin the other day, but I can’t remember why I called.“That’s because you’re losing your memory.”Actually, I had a local politician tell me that exact thing a few years ago. He had dropped a political ad off at The Advance News office, but I told him that I needed to fact check the allegations in his ad before I ran it. Just because he claimed his political opponent was guilty of this or that didn’t make it so.Plus, some people running for elected office think that because the ad they want to publish is ...