who is John Lott? 1-he says women's vote root of all US evil

[bobbieinok]

2- he's at the American Heritage Institute

3- he's a major opponent of gun control

4- he created fake 'Mary Rosh' to support his views

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I came across Lott when I found the material in the OP at

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x711840

"attempt to repeal the 19th amendment (women's suffrage)"

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'Mary Rosh' defends his work on women's suffrage.

http://www.whoismaryrosh.com/maryroshblog.html

Mary Rosh:
RUSH SHOULD READ THIS:How Dramatically Did Women’s Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?

Culture/Society Front Page News Keywords: GIVING WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE
Source: Social Science Research Network
Published: December 1999 Author: John R. Lott, Jr.
Posted on 08/22/2000 11:18:12 PDT by Mary Rosh
You have got to download this paper. Lott has done an amazing piece here. Fits in perfectly with Rush Limbaugh’s program today. Click on source URL above to get the paper.


How Dramatically Did Women’s Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?

John R. Lott, Jr.


Abstract:


This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.


Lott does it again.

(There is a link to Lott's paper in the above original.)

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WP reports on Lott's use of 'Mary Rosh' to praise his own work....

Scholar Invents Fan To Answer His Critics

By Richard Morin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 1, 2003; Page C01

Mary Rosh thinks the world of John R. Lott Jr., the controversial American Enterprise Institute scholar whose book "More Guns, Less Crime" caused such a stir a few years ago.

In postings on Web sites in this country and abroad, Rosh has tirelessly defended Lott against his harshest critics. He is a meticulous researcher, she's repeatedly told those who say otherwise. He's not driven by the ideology of the left or the right. Rosh has even summoned memories of the classes she took from Lott a decade ago to illustrate Lott's probity and academic gifts.

"I have to say that he was the best professor I ever had," Rosh gushed in one Internet posting.

Indeed, Mary Rosh and John Lott agree about nearly everything.

Well they should, because Mary Rosh is John Lott -- or at least that's the pseudonym he's used for three years to defend himself against his critics in online debates, Lott acknowledged this week.

"I probably shouldn't have done it -- I know I shouldn't have done it -- but it's hard to think of any big advantage I got except to be able to comment fictitiously," said Lott, an economist who has held senior research positions at the University of Chicago and Yale.

Moreover, the AEI resident scholar acknowledged on Friday that he permitted his 13-year-old son to write an effusive review of "More Guns, Less Crime" and then post it on the Amazon.com Web site. It was signed "Maryrosh."

more....

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For much more info about Lott, go to

http://www.whoismaryrosh.com

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Some people just live in lies. He must fit right in in the BFEE.

[Redstone]

1. John Lott is a fucking lunatic gun-nut psychopath.

That's who he is.

Redstone

[Tom Joad]

2. Female Politicians against Women's Suffrage, Unite!

"I'm an old-fashioned woman," State Senator Kay O'Connor of Kansas told The Kansas City Star. "Men should take care of women, and if men were taking care of women (today) we wouldn't have to vote."

O'Connor says if women's suffrage were being voted on today she would not support it, because the 19th Amendment was the start of a decades-long erosion of "family values".

The 19th amendment giving all U.S. women the right to vote was ratified in 1920. O'Connor said the amendment began a societal shift that eventually encouraged women to trade homemaker roles for careers.
She said she entered the workplace only because of her daughter was ill and medical bills were mounting.

It is safe to say she does not support a national health care system, either

More such Republican insanity can be found here
Republicans say the darndest things!
http://tomjoad.org/republicanfunnies.htm