Who Should Pay the Piper?

By Patrick J. BuchananGreece this past weekend saw the worst rioting since the debt crisis began. After Athens had announced new tax hikes and budget cuts to reduce a deficit of 13 percent of gross domestic product, mobs drove guards from Greece's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and attacked police. Continue reading...

Pitching for America

By Patrick J. BuchananIt was Father's Day, 1964, when the Phillies' Jim Bunning, a father of seven, took the mound against the Mets.Ninety pitches later, Bunning had struck out 10 and allowed not one batter to reach first base. Twenty-seven up, 27 down. The first perfect game in 86 years in the National League, and the finest hour of the Hall of Famer's baseball career.Beginning last Continue reading...

Hoax of the Century

By Patrick J. BuchananWith publication of "On the Origin of Species" in 1859, the hunt was on for the "missing link." Fame and fortune awaited the scientist who found the link proving Darwin right: that man evolved from a monkey.In 1912, success! In a gravel pit near Piltdown in East Sussex, there was found the cranium of a man with the jaw of an ape."Darwin Theory Proved True," ran Continue reading...