Midknight Review -- new and revised: It is being reported that the New Black Panthers are on patrol in Sanford, Florida. Apparently, this story is not true.

William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection, has a statement from the Sanford police telling him

The Sanford Police Department says that it has no evidence of neo-Nazis in the area. “We have not seen any neo-Nazis on patrol nor have we had any reports of them,” says Sgt. David Morgenstern. He added that there had been no sign of the New Black Panther Party, either.

Matt Drudge is presently running with a headline that reads: Armed Neo-Nazis Now Patrolling Sanford, FL...  With the correction, above, in mind, I took time to follow this story as presented on Drudge. Perhaps I am missing something, but this is what I found:

Clicking on the headline link, Drudge takes the reader to a story he got from WTF Florida in the Miami New Times. The "correction" published by Jackson at Legal Insurrection, has been added to the Drudge-linked story as an "update." What is puzzling is the fact that this updated correction does not play a rhetorical role in the story, itself. The correction is just there -- hanging around on its own, having no effect on the "WTF" story itself.

As one reads the Miami Times article a second time, trying to understand just what is being said, he realizes that the claim of New Black Panther patrols is made but without any serious evidence of the truth of the claim. In fact, a careful reading makes it clear that the information for this story comes from Commander Jeff Schoep of the National Socialist Movement,   hardly a reliable source if used as the only source for this story . . . . . and it is the only source referenced.

William Jacobson is Associate Clinical Professor at Cornell Law School. Jacobson is a fellow patriot and his blog, Real Insurrection ranks at 41,000 out of 280 million on a dynamic ranking at Alexa. His blog is well known and popular in conservative talk venues. Jacobson has earned the right to be trusted in his analysis.

  (Midknight Review, by contrast, ranks 5,900,000 out of 280 million other blogs and, believe me, I am pleased with that . . . . . not satisfied but pleased. Six months ago, my blog's dynamic ranking was around 26,000,000. Very good things have happened to this Review, recently. Tell a friend).

Legal Insurrection recently published an article in which Jacobson mentioned his infrequent reference to Drudge. Now I know why.

Fortunately for me, most of the commentary on Midknight Review is original, but the facts are not. Using Drudge out of a sense of caution seems to be good advice. I recommend Legal Insurrection and have used this source of information for several years, myself.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

It is being reported that the New Black Panthers are on patrol in Sanford, Florida. Apparently, this story is not true.

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