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Education: University of California at Berkeley, BA in history; Yale University, MA in history
Max Boot is a historian, best-selling author and foreign-policy analyst who has been called one of the “world’s leading authorities on armed conflict” by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a columnist for The Washington Post. Read More...
Judging from his May 28 op-ed column, "The leaking of political speech," George F. Will doesn't want democracy, he wants oligarchy, money and the moneyed to rule our country. This was implied in his statement, "These vast reservoirs of money are, however, inevitable, reasonable and, on balance, wholesome responses to the reformers' attempts to combat what they call 'too much money' in politics."
It’s apparently fine by him for super PACs or billionaires such as Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers to buy candidates and elections. Read More...
birth of a legend When the Romans first came to northern Scotland in the first century A.D., they found the Highlands occupied by fierce, tattoo-covered tribes they called the Picts, or painted people. From the carved, standing stones still found in the region around Loch Ness, it is clear the Picts were fascinated by animals, and careful to render them with great fidelity. All the animals depicted on the Pictish stones are lifelike and easily recognizable—all but one. Read More...