Reformed + Missional = Reformissional
Wow.
Multiband, a residential provider of voice and data systems, said this week that it plans to deliver 45-Mbit services to homes and condominiums in a ritzy Southern California suburb.
SoCal Suburb To Get 45-Mbit Internet Service
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What do you think?
Are dual income households worth it? Or are they actually hiding a bigger problem for the middle class? Professor Elizabeth Warren writes in a recent issue of Harvard Magazine that today’s middle-class, dual-income households are actually less financially secure than single income households of a generation ago.
Read More: In the Agora: Dual Incomes: Masking a Middle Class Crisis?
I always enjoy Rich Karlgaard’s column in Forbes. His blog is also becoming one of my favorite destinations. Here’s a sample.
Opportunity seekers, in fact, are bored by static problem solving… [T]hey’d rather invent word processors than fix typewriters.
Problem solvers, on the other hand, see failure everywhere. They will grind away at a problem, even subsidizing past efforts that have never worked well and probably never will.
Read More: Digital Rules By Rich Karlgaard: The Problem with Problem Solvers
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Thank you, John Stossel…
In 1904, government, federal and state, cost every citizen $20 per year, according to a 1999 Tax Foundation study. Don’t blame inflation –that only brought it to $340. For more than 150 years after we declared independence, we spent less than $1,000 each on government. Yet by 1999, government cost every man, woman and child an average of more than $10,000 per year — more than housing and health care combined. The price went down a little after that, but then it started climbing again.
You probably don’t know how much you pay, because the government is sneaky about how it taxes you.
Read more: The Sneaky Government & Your Tax Burden
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The immigration debate that is raging across the U.S. right now is leading to the production of some great philosophical discussion. A major component in how people view this debate relates to foundational suppositions regarding the role of government. I appreciate Arnold Kling’s treatment of these issues. Here’s an excerpt:
I do not expect the world to move toward transnational libertarianism in the foreseeable future. Right now, other ideologies predominate. Islamofascism, an ideology of tribal domination, is very prominent. Transnational progressivism, which favors world government and socialism, is the opposite of transnational libertarianism. And then there is statist collectivism, which is far more popular than transnational libertarianism.
I am cautiously hopeful that the trend might be away from statist collectivism and toward transnational libertarianism.
So are you a statist collectivist? A transnational libertarian? An Islamofascist (how cool it would be to actually have an islamofascist reading my blog!)?
Read more and be enlightened: TCS Daily - Tribal Politics
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I’m intrigued at the thought of how American Christians might view the immigration debate if they took this command from God seriously:
“When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.”
Leviticus 19:33-34 (ESV)
It makes you think. Are we Americans first, or Followers of Christ first?
This is quite an interesting development.
Shares in Apple Computer Inc. surged Wednesday after the computer maker unveiled software to help owners of its new Intel-based Macs run not only its own operating system but also Microsoft Corp.’s rival Windows XP system.
Apple Unveils Software to Run Windows XP - Yahoo! News
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