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/1213823295.shtml For those who were righteously indignant after reading my recent post about an incident involving some California educrats and law enforcement officials maliciously tormenting students by falsely informing them that... Kip 2008-06-18T21:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1213040279.shtml Fascinating comparison-and-contrast:... Kip 2008-06-10T00:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210037125.shtml Some defenders of a tort reform program implemented in Texas since 1995 try to pull a fast one:... Kip 2008-05-06T01:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1209957096.shtml Obsidian Wings, critiquing John McCain's health care not-quite-reform not-quite-proposal, relays an anecdote:... Kip 2008-05-05T10:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1209640016.shtml To review: The problem with the way the Internal Revenue Code treats employer-provided health care benefits to employees is not that employers can deduct such benefits (most notably insurance premiums), thereby... Kip 2008-05-01T11:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1208517618.shtml Homeowners insurance is a truly private market. Anyone screeching about a "homeowners insurance crisis"?... Kip 2008-04-18T11:04+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1208487560.shtml The Urban Institute asks:... Kip 2008-04-18T11:04+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1202832396.shtml ...just kick them out:... Kip 2008-02-12T16:02+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1201840257.shtml Sometimes politicians introduce sarcastic bills in their legislatures to make a "slippery slope" or "jump the shark" sort of point -- a publicity stunt.... Kip 2008-02-01T04:02+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1201055556.shtml Scientific American, in an editorial titled, "Pay For What Works," calls for reality-based health care reform:... Kip 2008-01-23T02:01+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1196908589.shtml Socialized medicine is an inevitable disaster everywhere it's tried not just because it politicizes health care rationing, but also because it ends up politicizing everything else.... Kip 2007-12-06T02:12+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1195273717.shtml One of the points I try to emphasize from time to time is that a purported "right to health care" requires, as a matter of basic metaphysics, a "right to enslave... Kip 2007-11-17T11:11+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1192591831.shtml A New York Times editorial assures us that fears of "mission creep" within an expanded SCHIP program are unfounded:... Kip 2007-10-17T12:10+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1192238907.shtml A self-standing comment I left at another blog:... Kip 2007-10-13T01:10+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1191892377.shtml An op-ed contributor* at the Washington Post tries to go from "oncologist" to "economist" —... Kip 2007-10-09T01:10+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1191764019.shtml I always try to pass along these data whenever I see them updated:... Kip 2007-10-08T11:10+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1191460684.shtml Harold Meyerson sees — well, "invents" would be a better word — a contradiction in the president's veto of expanded SCHIP coverage:... Kip 2007-10-04T01:10+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1190752356.shtml No wonder class warriors such as John Edwards and Barack Obama are so incensed. Just look at the absolute squalor now spreading across America:... Kip 2007-09-25T21:09+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1189558870.shtml WashingtonWatch.com has released its analysis of the FY2008 federal appropriation bills (none of which have yet been passed, incidentally, despite the fact that FY2008 begins October 1, 2007 — less... Kip 2007-09-12T13:09+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1188857242.shtml I'm too drained after my last post to give John Edwards' outrageous, terrifying and patently un-American (un-Two-American?) proposal to establish health care totalitarianism — in the form of compulsory... Kip 2007-09-03T22:09+00:00