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

Live Blogging the Austrian Scholars Conference 2009

Announcements

Greetings, my libertarian Christian friends and others from all over the libertarian blogosphere! Starting Wednesday, I will be live blogging the Austrian Scholars Conference 2009 at the Ludwig von Mises ...

Speedlinking Friday: Food for Thought

News

I am hard at work doing research at the lab and finalizing my Austrian Scholars Conference presentation and paper, so I haven’t had a lot of time to do original ...

Change Never Seemed So Similar

President's Blog

Jon Stewart of The Daily Show roasts Obama on his policy “change” in Iraq. He even compares statements from Obama and Bush about the US role in Iraq side by ...

Would Allowing Firearms on Campus Protect Students?

Politics

Proponents of "gun free" campuses often say there is no reason to believe that guns on campus would prevent violence on campus. They feel confident saying this merely because guns ...

Texas Independence Day 2009

History

Every Monday, the Libertarian Party sends out a message to all their subscribers. Today’s message reminded me that today, March 2, is none other than Texas Independence Day. I may ...

Tax Humor

President's Blog

Libertarians hate taxes. In fact, a critical understanding of the nature of taxation must inevitably lead one to say that all taxation is theft.

My Journey Through Liberty

Libertarianism

I’d like to describe some of the elements of my religious heritage, personal history, and intellectual development that have brought me thus far. If you are reading this and are ...

Stimulation Nation

President's Blog

Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House. One is from Chicago, another is from Tennessee, and the third is from Minnesota...

What We Can Learn from Spaghetti Sauce

Media

This video doesn’t really have anything to do with Christian libertarian stuff, but it is an interesting comment on how individual freedom works for the betterment of mankind even in ...

Interview with the Libertarian Party of Texas

Media

This past Monday evening, I had the opportunity to interview Pat Dixon and Robert Butler, the State Chair and Executive Director of the Libertarian Party of Texas at our weekly ...

The Californicrisis and Bank Nationalization

Economics

When an economy undergoes a contraction, governments collect less revenue simply because less is happening and less is being bought. Consumer cutbacks are a good and healthy occurrence - individuals ...

40 Reasons to Ban Guns

Essential Reading

Christians are not forbidden by Christ to practice basic self-defense. There are times, of course, when suffering through persecution (even unto death) will happen, but if somebody breaks into your ...

Speedlinking Friday: Meltdown, Kindle, Putin, and Lincoln

Media

You need to watch this video of Thomas Woods on the Glenn Beck show. If only Beck would have been this open when Ron Paul was running for president! In ...

“Meltdown!” Book Review

Book Reviews

Thomas Woods’s newest book Meltdown has officially hit the bookstores today, and I hope you will seriously consider picking up a copy for yourself. Woods is one of my favorite ...

The Village Voice and Fear-Hope

Media

I found out this morning that none other than the Village Voice, an alt-newspaper in New York City, discovered my Fear is the New Hope post. They didn’t seem to ...

Fear is the New Hope

Economics

They hoped for change, but fear is the new hope. “A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe.” President Barack Obama, February 4, 2009 Many ...

Speedlinking Friday

Christian Ethics

First off, congrats to Baroness_Fel for writing the 100th comment on LCC (and on the 50th post, no less), in the Washington to the Rescue post! That’s a lot of ...

Washington to the Rescue!

Media

The irony in this editorial cartoon is excruciating. The cartoon describes the situation perfectly, and quite profoundly as well. Banks have drowned themselves in bad debt, and those that were ...

On Transportation Pollution: My first peer-reviewed publication

Economics

In the world of academia, one of the things you regularly try to do is publish your research in peer-reviewed journals. Peer-reviewing is the process of having your work evaluated ...

Concealed Carry on Campus in Austin

Media

If you recall, January 20th was inauguration day of our new Glorious Leader, and many libertarians took over the West Mall on the UT campus to protest said leader’s policies. ...

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 ...

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