January 2009

Obamicons

Media

This is not a post about Transformers, and it isn’t about a new religious cult – albeit that would have been a really good guess. No, this is about an ...

Speedlinking Friday

News

Much has happened this week, so much to talk about! Unlike last week I will not stick to a single topic, although many hover around Obamunism since that is on ...

Unprecedented Obama Lust

Media

The media spent 35 times more airtime covering Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration than the 2004 inauguration. Given, 2004 was an incumbent win, but even so this is entirely unprecedented in ...

Ron Paul on the Morning Joe

Media

Ron Paul was on MSNBC’s Morning Joe this morning, and he fielded questions about the state of the economy from about five different people at once. It is incredible to ...

Was J.R.R. Tolkien a Libertarian?

President's Blog

Could J.R.R. Tolkien, most famous for his splendid Lord of the Rings Trilogy, have been a libertarian? Well, strictly speaking one must say no; the term was hardly around at ...

Obama Orders First Murder

News

Congratulations are in order for President Barack Obama, who today has successfully completed the common rite of passage of Presidents: ordering his first murder. See folks, don’t forget that morality ...

Speedlinking Friday – Intellectual Property

Economics

Today I would like to invite you to read a bit about intellectual property. Last week, Jeff Tucker of the Mises Institute published a book review of Against Intellectual Monopoly ...

New Site: Libertarian Papers

News

Just launched today: Libertarian Papers, an online peer-reviewed journal freely available to all! It looks fantastic. The editors come from a wide variety of backgrounds and includes such luminaries as ...

Why Conservatives Should Love Obama

Media

After the inaugural address, how can any self-respecting conservative not think Obama is fantastic! He has all the same answers to the economy and national security that Bush has – ...

5 Predictions for 2009

Economics

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” ~Niels Bohr I know as well as anyone that the future is uncertain and that much has yet to transpire. But now ...

GW’s Presidential Review

News

Over at The Humble Libertarian, Sir Messamore has put together an excellent post-mortem of the last eight years of accomplishments from the Oval Office. Twice, the so-called conservative wing of ...

Give Me Liberty

History

Continuing in our series of posts leading up to the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, it seems appropriate to hearken back to ...

Speedlinking and fun stuff for January 16

Announcements

Friday is a day for linky goodness… Acting in a very timely manner with my post yesterday, Nature reports that scientists are getting in line for their own part of ...

Austrian Scholars Conference 2009

Announcements

I love economics. I know, it’s a little weird, but it’s the truth. Turns out I will be going to the Austrian Scholars Conference 2009 at the Ludwig von Mises ...

“Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory” Book Review

Book Reviews

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory is one of my favorite books of late, I gave a copy to my father for Christmas and to the Associate Dean of Engineering ...

Supreme Court will take Austin Case

Events

I live in Austin, Texas, arguably one of the strangest places in the United States (I would also add it’s one of the coolest places as well, but that’s for ...

Christian Thoughts on Israel-Palestine

Christian Ethics

LibertarianChristians.com is pleased to welcome Scott Ritsema of CivicsNews.com to write our first-ever guest post. Scott is the editor of CivicsNews.com and the author of The Way, The Truth, and ...

“Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce” Book Review

Book Reviews

A Book Review of Stanley Weintraub’s Silent Night. Some book reviews that I write are rather long, primarily because they were originally written for a theology class or something similar. ...

How to Be Evangelical without Being Conservative

Book Reviews

I was first introduced to Roger Olson through his book Who Needs Theology?, which I read for one of my theology classes a few years ago (and I highly recommend ...

New Year’s Resolutions for a Libertarian and a Christian

Christian Worldview

In March of 2006, the freedom movement lost one of its great advocates – Harry Browne. He was the Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate in both 1996 and 2000. He was ...

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