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/1214587200.shtml "Different candidates have different strengths. Some are wealthy; others have wealthy supporters who are willing to make large contributions. Some are celebrities; some have the benefit of a well-known family name.... Kip 2008-06-27T17:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1214587200.shtml "Different candidates have different strengths. Some are wealthy; others have wealthy supporters who are willing to make large contributions. Some are celebrities; some have the benefit of a well-known family name.... Kip 2008-06-27T17:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1214527395.shtml "Let's be honest about it. This is an actual, enumerated right in the Constitution."... Kip 2008-06-27T00:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1214440242.shtml The decision was a pure 4+1 to 4 partisan split, with Justice Kennedy again positioning himself into the controlling vote and thereby serving as the opinion's author.... Kip 2008-06-26T00:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1213455741.shtml If you didn't already know (and you probably do), would you be able to match the senator with the quote?... Kip 2008-06-14T15:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1213303388.shtml As President, John McCain will take it as his most sacred responsibility to keep America free, safe, and strong -- an abiding beacon of freedom and hope to the world.... Kip 2008-06-12T20:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1213303388.shtml As President, John McCain will take it as his most sacred responsibility to keep America free, safe, and strong -- an abiding beacon of freedom and hope to the world.... Kip 2008-06-12T20:06+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/1213198170.shtml Quick dispatches from here and there —... Kip 2008-06-11T15:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1213127630.shtml To review: Less than three weeks ago, a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sustained a challenge to Don't Ask, Don't Tell on the grounds that Lawrence... Kip 2008-06-10T20:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1213040603.shtml While so much attention was (rightly) focused on the outrageous proposal in the District of Columbia to initiate a patently unconstitutional "papers please" vehicle checkpoint regime, another just-as-patently unconstitutional display... Kip 2008-06-10T10:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1213040603.shtml While so much attention was (rightly) focused on the outrageous proposal in the District of Columbia to initiate a patently unconstitutional "papers please" vehicle checkpoint regime, another just-as-patently unconstitutional display... Kip 2008-06-10T10:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1212695641.shtml (Please see update below.)... Kip 2008-06-05T19:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1212695641.shtml (Please see update below.)... Kip 2008-06-05T19:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1212695641.shtml (Please see update below.)... Kip 2008-06-05T19:06+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/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/1212170837.shtml Damn activist governors!... Kip 2008-05-30T18:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1212020239.shtml Here is what he said:... Kip 2008-05-29T00:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1211710784.shtml One FindLaw columnist responds to another on the California same-sex marriage ruling:... Kip 2008-05-28T10:05+00:00