Harvard states that all July 4th celebrations are right wing. And here I thought it had something to do with our independence.

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/was...are-right-wing

 

There is a Flag on my house and I celebrate the Fourth.
I remove my cap as Old Glory passes.
These people are out of their minds.

Am I a Republican? Ask Frank.

 

I am an American. Happy Fourth!!!

 

Strange, I thought the reason for the celebration for the 4th of July, the Republican party was not even in existence yet....

Wouldn't that be somewhere around 1859 ( when ever Lincoln started campaigning against the Whigs ) that the GOP was formed ?

Damn Republicans, how did they plan ~ 80 years in advance of forming the party, to have the revolution start on that day, and know the colonies were going to win independence, and have something to celebrate ?

Wow, leave it to a liberal university to create a report like this...

Love this line :
Wow celebrating the fact that the democratic party exists in part due to what is being celebrated I would think would give them something to be gained....

 

Wow lol thats stupid

 

I have to point out that the article simply says, "A study". The two authors cited are nothing more than "Assistant Professors" - these guys are not tenured and are simply trying to find themselves in the great big University world.

Is it a "peer reviewed" study? Doesn't say so.

Are there a few conclusions that MIGHT be true? Perhaps. Are some wrong? Probably. But, please don't damn all academia on the basis of this seemingly flawed bit of research. If we stop seeking the truth through scholarly research, we adopt the attitude of the people during the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. "The intellectuals are 'evil' - send them to the labor camps".

I don't want to see more "dumbing down" of America! Do any of you?

- Jack

 

I would hardly consider myself uneducated, I actually went to, and graduated college. However, I still believe that for some people, such as the clowns that wrote this article that more education can lead to an increase in one's foolishness. Ever hear of the origin of the word sophomore?

 

Andreas Madestam and David Yanagizawa-Drott are both from Sweden, and the common thread seems to be the PhD from Stockholm University

Andreas Madestam : assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

He has been writing stuff for the likes of the United Nations and Stockholm going back as far as 1997.
David Yanagizawa-Drott: Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

So we have 2 people raised in a economic environment, called as a Social Democracy, wiring a paper on hoe the 4th of July is a Republican Holiday.

David Yanagizawa-Drott finished his PhD in the past year or so, prior to this when he was applying for positions , he wrote a nice little paper :
“Watchdog or Lapdog? Media and the U.S. Government”
In this paper he accuses the US government from 1967 to 1988, by means of "strategic objectives" of under reporting human rights violations of political allies.
He worked for David Strömberg at Stockholm University, who got grants from the EU, to study how politicians acted based on the amount of media attention they got.

This paper started back in MAR-11, and the perfect timing from the Harvard Gazette for public presentation right around the holiday to what end ?

Did you read what their "research" came up with ?

OK, mother nature is now in cahoots with the Republican Party.....

Here is another nice kick to the crotch in the beginning of the paper
Strange, do not recall much rain on the 4th of July when I was a kid, but I live in a blue state.
The City of Chicago & Cook county must have rain almost every year on the 4th of July...

40 pages of assumptions and calculations along with placebo regression testing to verify what the assumptions are by 2 people growing up in the environment that Sweden has.

My opinion, it is works like this that continue the dumbing down of America.

I love how Stockholm University has all sort of PhD work centered around the US, but none taking a closer look at the nanny state they live in. They think it is perfect I guess....

 

Agreed. These guys are just trying to make names for themselves.

1%, 2%, 3%, 4%? These are hardly staggering statistics. I wonder what the margin for error in these studies was? 5-10%?

 

Aww Jack! You spoil all the fun!

 

It's sad they would even conduct a study like that.

 

The dumbing down of America starts at Kindergarten. The schools are too busy teaching kids to follow their 'feelings' and sex ed instead of teaching them the 3 R's.

Anyone who has done any reading knows that Harvard was overrun by liberals and liberal internationalist thinking decades ago. Keynesianism anyone?

As for college, one of my siblings has always stated her masters degree is not much more than a certificate of attendance.

 

Harvard is just one of the many. Seems 'those who can't do, teach', like to teach this type of doctrine.

At least she does not think of it as a certificate of automatic pay raise

 

Scully, That's why I left Seattle. I found out it wasn't mother natures rain, it was tears from the bleeding heart liberals.