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  • Illustration: Black Panther justice by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    ADAMS: Inside the Black Panther case

    On the day President Obama was elected, armed men wearing the black berets and jackboots of the New Black Panther Party were stationed at the entrance to a polling place in Philadelphia.


  • BOOK REVIEW: The extremists in our midst

    Where is the House Committee on Un-American Activities when we need it? For decades, the hate-America left pounded away with the unrelenting theme that all of our investigating committees and agencies that exposed the enemies within must be silenced, defanged or abolished.


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PROTEST: Canadian Indians angry about some aspects of the global economic Group of 20's agenda this weekend demonstrate in Toronto on Thursday. Canada, hosting the G-20 summit there, is aiming to try to bridge the gulf in viewpoints by urging a "balance" on budget issues, says Mark J. Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada.

    Europe budget cutters outpace U.S.

    European leaders, under the gun of a withering financial crisis, are actually proposing and carrying out drastic cuts, provoking the kind of public backlash that inspires fear in U.S. politicians.


  • A Royal Canadian mounted police officer stands guard as Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, not seen, and his delegation arrives in Toronto, Canada, Thursday, June 24, 2010, to attend the G8 and the G20 meetings. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

    Leaders differ on how to nurture a global recovery

    As world leaders gathered to deal with the aftermath of the global financial crisis, President Obama boasted about a congressional compromise on overhauling the U.S. banking system and called for an international effort to prevent future economic meltdowns.


  • President Obama walks across the tarmac with Chief of Protocol Robert William Peck, as he arrives at Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Friday, June 25, 2010, for the G-8 and G-20 summit. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    Obama hails deal on Wall Street reform

    President Obama flew to Canada Friday morning for an economic summit with world leaders, armed with news of a congressional deal reforming Wall Street practices that led to the 2008 financial crisis.


  • ** FILE ** In this Feb. 2, 2010, file photo, Paul Volcker, the president's Economic Recovery Advisory Board Chairman, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. House and Senate negotiators have completed a sweeping overhaul of banking regulations and aim to send it to President Barack Obama by July 4. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

    House, Senate lawmakers reach deal on bank bill

    President Barack Obama declared victory Friday after congressional negotiators reached a dawn agreement on a sweeping overhaul of rules overseeing Wall Street.


  • ** FILE ** In this May 21, 2010, photo, Rep. Barney Frank (left), Massachusetts Democrat, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, and Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, who is Senate Banking Committee chairman, speak to reporters outside the White House after meeting with President Obama on banking-overhaul legislation. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

    Top financial group resigned to reform

    Hours after exhausted House and Senate conferees approved a sweeping financial regulatory reform package at daybreak Friday, one influential industry group announced it was prepared to learn to live with the results.


  • ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO. Incumbent North Carolina Democratic Rep. Larry Kissell

    Independent won't run in hot N.C. House race

    A potentially divisive challenge to incumbent North Carolina Democratic Rep. Larry Kissell from the left fizzled out Friday when challenger Wendell Fant said he would not launch an independent bid for the seat.


  • Illustration: Obama shrinks

    STEYN: Obama zones out

    What do Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal and BP have in common? Aside from the fact that they're both Democratic Party supporters.


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