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/1214268780.shtml He uses the subprime crisis and the housing (not-quite) crisis as an opportunity to check premises:... Kip 2008-06-24T00:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1213874213.shtml I always try to pass these along when they cross my aggregator:... Kip 2008-06-19T11:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1213040074.shtml I don't think it's supposed to be here:... Kip 2008-06-09T19:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1212624673.shtml For those who may have had some trouble following the (very minor) debate between Doc Palmer and me in the comments to my previous post on cap-and-trade, Arnold Kling <a... Kip 2008-06-05T00:06+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/1211280104.shtml I went to my co-op's annual shareholder meeting last night. One of the two main topics for discussion was the plan of one of our non-residential neighbors to add floors to... Kip 2008-05-20T10:05+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/1209925071.shtml (I sincerely hope this does not become a regular feature here.)... Kip 2008-05-06T11:05+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/1209921244.shtml And who, you might be wondering, is Ms. Maureen Felix of West Orange, New Jersey?... Kip 2008-05-04T17:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1209505181.shtml A self-contained comment left elsewhere:... Kip 2008-04-29T21:04+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1209471738.shtml The Urban Institute recently published a report called "Poverty Facts, 2004."... Kip 2008-04-29T12:04+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1209222931.shtml An astonishingly arrogant, and economically oblivious, op-ed in today's Washington Post by the mayors of Cincinnati, Rochester and Stamford:... Kip 2008-04-26T16:04+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1208480522.shtml "It is admitted that an enrolled act, thus authenticated, is sufficient evidence of itself -- nothing to the contrary appearing upon its face -- that it passed congress. But the contention... Kip 2008-04-18T01:04+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1208394157.shtml As with any tax return, the interesting details aren't necessarily on the main form... Kip 2008-04-17T01:04+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1208308892.shtml Nowadays, it's cutting the gasoline tax:... Kip 2008-04-16T01:04+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1207708032.shtml (I might make this an intermittent feature.)... Kip 2008-04-09T02:04+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1207596923.shtml "I am committed to building a strong and modern military. Thousands of young men and women from North Carolina have been called into harm's way. With all of our state's major... Kip 2008-04-08T11:04+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1207394501.shtml Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.... Kip 2008-04-05T11:04+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1207187916.shtml Orac, a noted science blogger thinks so:... Kip 2008-04-03T11:04+00:00