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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
When the COVID-19 crisis came to our shores, some states chose to embrace harsh lockdowns and heavy-handed government restrictions while others prioritized personal freedom and economic vitality. Thanks to this natural experiment, Americans got to vote with their feet on what worked best—and new data show that lockdown-weary New Yorkers fled to one key free state in droves: Florida. ... Under Governor Ron DeSantis’s much-criticized leadership, Florida reopened schools and businesses and rejected lockdowns far earlier than most other states. It’s experiencing a population boom, with a particular influx from New York. ... The DMV data show that roughly 33,500 New York residents swapped their drivers’ licenses for Florida documents from September 2020 to March 2021. That’s 32 percent higher than the previous year. And far more of Florida’s new residents came from New York than any other state, although, interestingly, the other top former states of new Floridians included lockdown-heavy Illinois, California, and New Jersey.
One of the defining features of the Trump presidency was the introduction of the term “deep state” into the political zeitgeist. Although the term has been associated with conspiracy theories, it does highlight reasonable concerns shared by many voters. Fear of a deep state can be thought of as rooted in two basic worries. First, there is concern about whether the US has a class of unelected bureaucrats in Washington who are insulated from democratic accountability. Second, if this insulated bureaucratic class exists, does it have a political bias? This question seems to be at the root of Trump’s focus on the deep state. A recent paper out of the National Bureau of Economic Research seems to provide evidence that both of these concerns are warranted. ... The authors find bureaucrats tend to perform worse when they are “politically misaligned” (when the bureaucrat is of a different party than the president). ... The deep state need not be a matter of conspiracy—it’s just individuals pursuing their self-interest within the perverse incentive structure of bureaucracy.
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from The Roman Anglican (blog)
An Anglican review on art and history, based in Rome.
The Rome of the 19th century represented the completion of the Grand Tour. The English Colony based in the "English Ghetto" flourished towards the end of the century. The area surrounding the Spanish Steps was effectively a little Britain, not only there were all the amenities necessary to the life abroad of the well-to-do, such as grocers, chemists, doctors, libraries, telegraphs, hotels, newspapers, etc - but also tea houses and of course three Anglican churches, and a Scot one. Englishmen of all extractions soujourned in Rome, from members of the Royal Family and other aristocrats to artists, writers, composers and all manners of everyday people. By the 1840s the Americans began to enrich the colony.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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