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 2008-05-17T15:05+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/1210732641.shtml As part of the preparations for my trip, I had to make a toiletries run at a pharmacy near my work. Which meant having yet again to do battle with... Kip 2008-05-17T06:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1211005340.shtml Hint #3 of 3:... Kip 2008-05-17T06:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210952195.shtml Hilarious:... Kip 2008-05-16T15:05+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/1210949354.shtml Hint #2 of 3:... Kip 2008-05-16T14:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210766735.shtml --Who appointed all those liberal, "activist" California judges who just found in favor of same-sex marriage?... Kip 2008-05-16T08:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210925976.shtml Congress has approved, apparently by veto-proof margins, yet another farm bill that yet again benefits rich farmers at the expense of all taxpayers. This while the ethanol mandate mania continues... Kip 2008-05-16T08:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210885493.shtml This is not the first time something judicially monumental has happened whilst I was on vacation. I hope you can find enough commentary on the decision to tide you... Kip 2008-05-15T21:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210732736.shtml Once I return from my undisclosed location, I will for the first time ever have earned "elite status" with an airline (Continental). Indeed, my choice of destination was based in small... Kip 2008-05-15T15:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210859836.shtml Several recent stories, from reports that over 1% of the American adult population is now incarcerated, to the passing of Mildred Loving, to the imminent gay marriage ruling in California, all... Kip 2008-05-15T13:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210858542.shtml Hint #1 of 3:... Kip 2008-05-15T13:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210763668.shtml I am off tonight to an undisclosed location for a brief holiday. Returning Sunday.... Kip 2008-05-14T16:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210732386.shtml Good As You quotes a bigot on bigotry:... Kip 2008-05-14T15:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210249256.shtml --Is it a proper function of a family court judge to sentence a father to 180 days in jail for failing to ensure that his delinquent daughter successfully earn a... Kip 2008-05-14T10:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210676305.shtml So a college student decides, as college students often do, to be an idiot:... Kip 2008-05-13T10:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210561326.shtml The New York Times pulled a rather "artistic" stunt in continuing to "paint" malevolence toward the successful as concern over the fiction of "rising income equality" —... Kip 2008-05-12T11:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210505431.shtml John McCain recently gave a speech in which he promised, unsurprisingly, to appoint "conservative" judges who would refrain from engaging in "judicial activism."... Kip 2008-05-11T11:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210454659.shtml I have been accused of being unfair to Arkansas.... Kip 2008-05-10T21:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210429217.shtml Few topics instigate as lively a discussion here as my contempt for Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of — obviously — Arkansas.... Kip 2008-05-10T14:05+00:00