memeorandum: Islamic radicalization is on the rise (Orange County Register)

12:25 PM ET, February 21, 2009

Top Items:

Tea Party U.S.A.: The movement grows — Seattle on Monday. Denver on Tuesday. Mesa AZ on Wednesday. Overland Park, Kansas today. What a week, huh? We got the anti-stimulus, anti-entitlement protest ball rolling — and now the movement, spurred further by CNBC host Rick Santelli's call for a …

Discussion: Investor's Business Daily, No More Mister Nice Blog, pandagon.net, Right Wing Nut House, The Conservative Revolution, Riehl World View and Moe Lane

Brendan / The Conservative Revolution:

How to Organize Your Own “Tea Party” Protest — The internet is abuzz with chatter about organizing protests around the country to put an end to this madness on Wall Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. But I've talked to many people out there who have never organized a protest, and so they don't have a clue where to begin.

Discussion: Riehl World View

Mark Silva / The Swamp:

Obama's hope: ‘Because of what we did’ — “Because of what we did,” President Barack Obama says today, things will get better. He says so, repeatedly. — So this is as good a time as any to ask if the president's good speechwriting is getting in the way of good policy.

Discussion: The Politico

Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times: Obama Pledges to Seek Deficit Cuts

BBC:

‘No US rights’ for Bagram inmates — Detainees being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan cannot use US courts to challenge their detention, the US says. — The justice department ruled that some 600 so-called enemy combatants at Bagram have no constitutional rights.

Discussion: Hot Air and QandO

Peter Finn / Washington Post:

Report Finds Guantanamo Prison Meets Standards of Geneva Convention — A Pentagon review of conditions in the Guantanamo Bay military prison has concluded that the treatment of detainees meets the requirements of the Geneva Convention but that prisoners in the highest-security camps …

Discussion: Political Punch, Pirate's Cove, Stop The ACLU, Power Line, Jules Crittenden and Don Surber

Pamela Hess / Associated Press:
Official: Pentagon report defends Guantanamo

Discussion: Associated Press, Reuters, Outside The Beltway and Corrente

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Obama's Pentagon review: Gitmo meets the standards of the Geneva Conventions

Discussion: PoliGazette, Moe Lane and New York Times

New York Times:

Obama Widens Missile Strikes Inside Pakistan — WASHINGTON — With two missile strikes over the past week, the Obama administration has expanded the covert war run by the Central Intelligence Agency inside Pakistan, attacking a militant network seeking to topple the Pakistani government.

Discussion: TIME.com, Fox News and Pakistan: Now or Never?

Orange County Register:

Islamic radicalization is on the rise — Mark Steyn Column — Recommend — In the Swat Valley, where a young Winston Churchill once served with the Malakand Field Force battling Muslim insurgents, his successors have concluded the game isn't worth the candle.

Discussion: Swampland and Power Line

Scott / Breitbart.tv:

BREITBART.TV TRACKS DOWN TV REPORTER WHO DOCTORED JOHN GIBSON ‘SCROTUM’ AUDIO — John Sanders is the technology reporter for WBAL-TV in Baltimore. He says he made the video on his own for fun. In this interview Sanders says he used an annotation on the video to indicate the Gibson audio had been altered.

Discussion: Pajamas Media, Don Surber, Moe Lane and Riehl World View

RealClearMarkets:

The Market Is Shorting Obama's ‘Stimulus’ — President Barack Obama's “stimulus” plan invokes the 1930s fiscal strategy put forward by British economist John Maynard Keynes, who saw capitalism as pretty much spent. Having exhausted their store of innovative ideas, investors curled up.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, TigerHawk and Cafe Hayek

Lee Fang / Think Progress:

At Least 22 Lawmakers Have Touted The Money From The Recovery Package They Voted Against — On Wednesday, ThinkProgress pointed out that several Republican lawmakers who voted against President Obama's economic recovery package are now touting its benefits to their constituents.

Discussion: New York Times

Teddy Davis / The Note:

Palin Ribbed by Montana Guv for Being No Show — ABC News' Teddy Davis reports: — Montana Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer ribbed Alaska Republican Gov. Sarah Palin Friday for announcing at the last minute that she will not be attending a Sunday discussion of energy policy that the two governors …

Discussion: The Politico, Taegan Goddard's …, Conservatives4Palin.com and TIME.com

Agence France Presse:

Activists ‘shocked’ at Clinton stance on China rights — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — WASHINGTON (AFP) - Amnesty International and a pro-Tibet group voiced shock Friday after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed not to let human rights concerns hinder cooperation with China.

Discussion: Hot Air, Pajamas Media, JammieWearingFool, Associated Press and TalkLeft

Alexander Burns / The Politico:

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal to refuse part of stimulus funds Politico - 44 minutes ago — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal announced Friday that he will decline stimulus money specifically targeted at expanding state unemployment insurance coverage …

Discussion: PoliBlog, Hot Air and Power Line

Ryan Powers / Think Progress:
Jindal Rejects $90 Million In Recovery Funding That Would Have …

Discussion: The Mahablog, QandO, gov.state.la.us, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic Politics Channel, workforcesecurity.doleta.gov, Riehl World View, Associated Press and THE LIBERAL JOURNAL

Con Coughlin / Telegraph:

British Muslims ‘providing Taliban with electronic devices for roadside bombs’ — British Muslims are providing the Taliban with electronic devices to make roadside bombs for use in attacks against British forces serving in southern Afghanistan, The Telegraph can disclose.

Discussion: Jihad Watch and Don Surber