http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/ A collection of real-world libertarian, individualist and laissez-faire rants on policy, culture and other current events by an average, everyday lawyer & investment banker and part-time pop scholar. en-us 2008-06-28T11:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1213697213.shtml Why else would He tease some of His biggest fans by putting a huge heap of anti-creationist evidence right in their backyard?... Kip 2008-06-17T10:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1213198170.shtml Quick dispatches from here and there —... Kip 2008-06-11T15:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1212452242.shtml I really have no desire to be a Bible scholar, so I wish theocrats would stop making me have to look this stuff up:... Kip 2008-06-03T10:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210732564.shtml To review (and, with the California gay marriage decision, to preview): The Internal Review Code requires all tax-exempt institutions to abstain from endorsing candidates for office as a condition of... Kip 2008-05-16T15:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210244029.shtml Fascinating case study in theocratic majoritarianism versus secular libertarianism:... Kip 2008-05-08T10:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1208481445.shtml I recently wrote the following regarding a Decalogue lawsuit:... Kip 2008-04-18T01:04+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1207999832.shtml ....there is an equal and opposite bad Scalia sentence:... Kip 2008-04-12T11:04+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1207099612.shtml Two lawsuits handed down from the mountaintop —... Kip 2008-04-02T01:04+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1204758421.shtml To review: One of two arguments against non-deferential standards of judicial review (a/k/a "activist judges") is that a legislature is better equipped to research policy questions. Congress — or a state... Kip 2008-03-05T23:03+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1204154807.shtml I was trying to find William F. Buckley, Jr.'s infantile, insulting and insolently inaccurate 1982 column on Ayn Rand's death, when I instead stumbled upon this:... Kip 2008-02-28T01:02+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1201744355.shtml Can someone explain to me why apologists for religion so easily get stuck on stupid in this manner?... Kip 2008-01-31T01:01+00:00