Dr. Norman Horn

Norman is the founder and President of the Libertarian Christian Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Theological Studies from Lipscomb University. He has been widely published in multiple fields and has written for the Washington Post, Relevant Magazine, Young American Revolution, the Journal of Research of NIST, and UV Solutions Magazine.

Links for this Memorial Day

Christian Ethics

Laurence Vance and Bob Murphy report how the church has gone wacko in worship of the State rather than God: LewRockwell.com Blog: Temple Prostitution. Free Advice: Awkward Thoughts on Memorial ...

The First Edition of the Christian Libertarian Blog Carnival

News

The Holy Cause presents the first Christian Libertarian Blog Carnival today. A “Blog Carnival”  is essentially a brief “magazine”-style collection of articles, and there is some pretty great stuff in ...

How To Connect With Other Christian Libertarians

Libertarianism

Being a libertarian can be a little lonely sometimes, because although our numbers are growing we aren't quite *that* big yet. Christian libertarians are an even rarer breed, so its ...

Texas Senate Passes Concealed Carry on Campus Bill

News

Big news in Austin! Yesterday, the Texas Senate passed the bill that would allow concealed carry on university campuses in Texas. While I still have some issues with the government ...

Podcast on Private Security with Gil Guillory

Appearances

In a libertarian society, the production of security services would not come from the State, but security most certainly would be provided via private security agencies and arbitration services. But ...

Happy 110th Birthday, Friedrich von Hayek

News

If Hayek were alive today, we would be celebrating his 110th birthday today.

What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine?

Christian Ethics

Yesterday was Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday. Happy birthday, our heroic anti-war American muse. Here are some other articles of libertarian Christian interest that came up this weekend… Bob Murphy writes ...

Obama’s First 100 Days: Madmen, Blunders, Death Defined

News

The score thus far: 100 days down, 1361 to go. Then we get another dictator. Greeeeeaaaat. :-/ I’d like to highlight briefly a few articles of note to commemorate history ...

My ASC 2009 talk is now available!

Appearances

The presentation that I gave at the Austrian Scholars Conference 2009 became available on Mises.org today. The title, as you may recall, is “Science and the Free Market: How Government Distorts ...

5 out of 5 Chewbacca’s Agree: Ron Paul is the Man

Media

5 out of 5 Chewbacca's Agree: Ron Paul is the Man.

Sunday Article Linkage

President's Blog

Some Sunday reading for you A Look at the Jury System and Our Participation in It — Graham Dugas observes that being on a jury can be a great check ...

Fail or Win? – National Review can’t decide

News

I found this excerpt from the April 6 National Review issue to be rather ironic: Obama’s wartime detention policy takes cynicism to new heights. It is not a new policy; ...

10 Things I Hate About Taxes: Epilogue

Economics

No, this is not #11, it really is just an epilogue – or an afterthought… I hope you attended or supported your local Tea Party today – Tax Day 2009. ...

10 Things I Hate About Taxes: The Full Series

Economics

Ah taxation, how we despise thee. You make some richer, but most poorer. You daily remind us that we live not in a free society, but under shackles. Let us ...

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #10: Lost Prosperity

Economics

This is the tenth article in a series on taxation leading up to Tax Day, April 15. I think I’ve saved the best for last… I was linked by LewRockwell.com ...

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #9: Taxation is Theft

Economics

I have already said and illustrated this numerous times in previous articles, but I will say it once again: Taxation is theft, period. To continue this theme, I'd like to ...

That’s No Moon… It’s a Space Stati… What the?

Economics

These pictures should need no explanation…  

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #8: Living in Fear

Economics

To say that the tax code is complicated would be the understatement of the century. It is, in fact, far beyond complicated, so much so that no one in this ...

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #7: Caesar’s Benevolence

Christian Ethics

Many Christians believe that paying taxes is fulfilling the Biblical command to show compassion to the poor. We just need to "render to Caesar" and Caesar will do the right ...

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #6: Withholding Taxes

Economics

This is the sixth article in a series on taxation leading up to Tax Day, April 15. If we were required to pay all our taxes for the year on ...

One Ring to Rule Them All

News

I just found a stupendous editorial cartoon, written by Terrence Nowicki, Jr. at This Is Historic Times: Awesome work, Terrence, keep it up! (This cartoon reminds me of this post ...

Maundy Thursday

Christian Ethics

LCC reader Skinner has an interesting post on his blog about Maundy Thursday (that’s today). Surf over to his page and check it out when you have about 10 minutes ...

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #5: Your Tax Dollars at Work

Economics

Think about all the crazy things you know your tax money pays for...

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #4: Privacy and Personal Income

Economics

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but ...

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #3: The Truth About Government Spending

Economics

Politicians, especially Republicans, love to talk about "cutting taxes," and in some cases they actually do cut some taxes and ease the burden of all. Unfortunately, this masks the dirty, ...

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #2: Newspeak

Economics

Governments manipulate language for their own purposes constantly. It allows them to circumvent truth in the public square (at least to the unobservant eye and ear).

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #1: Lost Productivity

Economics

Ever wondered how much time and money are lost through federal tax returns? It actually is rather astounding even by conservative estimates. Let's run the numbers in back-of-the-envelope style ...

Christians and War… and Battlestar Galactica

Christian Ethics

Tom Woods and Laurence Vance are two excellent examples of Christian libertarians, so I am delighted to share a few links that involve both of them today in follow-up to ...

Podcast: What Is Moral About Economic Freedom

Appearances

Libertarian Christians could learn something from our Jewish friends if we would pay attention. I had never heard of Rabbi Daniel Lapin before the Austrian Scholars Conference of 2009, but ...

What do you hate most about taxes?

Philosophy

“Tax season always begins on April 16th, and ends 365 days later.” “There are only two certainties in this life: death and taxes. I’m thinking I’ll have better luck cheating ...

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