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.

Author: Dr. Norman Horn

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 ...

Top 100 Libertarian Websites

Libertarianism

It's more than just websites for libertarian Christians, but W.E. Messamore at The Humble Libertarian has put together an excellent Top 100 Libertarian Websites that you should take a look ...

If President Obama Twittered

Politics

For the uninitiated… Twitter is a nifty “micro-blogging” service where you are limited to no more than 140 characters to say anything. It is kind of like a mix of ...

Podcast: Response to Comments on Josephus Article

Appearances

Today I have a special treat for everyone: the first ever LibertarianChristians.com Podcast! I have been wanting for some time to do a podcast in response to the many emails ...

Pictures from ASC 2009

Announcements

Here’s a quick post of pictures from the Austrian Scholars Conference 2009, my apologies if it takes a while to load due to the size of the pictures. Most of ...

Peter Schiff at the Austrian Scholars Conference 2009

Media

One of the highlights of the Austrian Scholars Conference last week was the Hazlitt Memorial Lecture, presented by Peter Schiff. He’s a very funny guy, and a great speaker. But ...

Christian Libertarian vs. Libertarian Christian – Is there a difference?

Christian Ethics

If you were to believe the Wikipedia entry on libertarian Christianity, you might think that there is truly a significant difference between those who say they are "Christian libertarians" and ...

ASC Day 3: Method and Politics and More!

Announcements

First off, thanks to everyone who has been following the ASC via my blog and twitter updates. It has been fun, not to mention challenging, to post what is going ...

ASC Day 2: Monetary Policy, Entrepreneurship, Security, and Constitutional Order

Announcements

I don’t have the time to write a whole bunch because I need to prepare for my talk tomorrow. So, here are some of my notes from my favorite lectures ...

ASC Day 1: Author’s Forum and a Jewish Rabbi

Announcements

The day began with coffee and bagels at the Mises Institute’s courtyard area. I met some nice people and caught some old friends that I hadn’t seen in quite a ...

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