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/1213198170.shtml Quick dispatches from here and there —... Kip 2008-06-11T15:06+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/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/1211502015.shtml Two quick school-related entries --... Kip 2008-05-23T00:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1211007460.shtml Yesterday I noted some theocrat malcontents whining about how the IRS, in attempting to enforce minimal restrictions on their political activities as a reasonable condition of enjoying tax-exempt status, actually... Kip 2008-05-17T15:05+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/1209074617.shtml A quick addendum to my last post on Judge Posner's bizarre, sad -- and wrong -- opinion today in the "Be Happy, Not Gay" t-shirt case, Nuxoll v. Indian Prairie... Kip 2008-04-24T22:04+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1209074214.shtml The latest round in the "Be Happy, Not Gay" t-shirt wars —... Kip 2008-04-24T21:04+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/1207358002.shtml It makes perfect sense to two groups of people — professional journalists* and bloodthirsty dictators:... Kip 2008-04-05T01:04+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1207272512.shtml Just a quick pass-long so Tony doesn't get upset with me:... Kip 2008-04-04T01:04+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/1207073253.shtml The Fourth Amendment has become a lost highway:... Kip 2008-04-01T18:04+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1206876304.shtml In a follow-up piece to the horrific student-on-student violence in Oxnard, California, that left a gay 15-year old dead at the hands of a fellow student whom he had... Kip 2008-03-30T11:03+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1206806374.shtml A Stitch in Haste recommends the following report from the Congressional Research Service:... Kip 2008-03-29T15:03+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1206666216.shtml This is not to deny that the Commandments have had influence on civil or secular law; a major text of a majority religion is bound to be felt. The point is... Kip 2008-03-28T01:03+00:00