The Lippard Blog

The decision in Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett came out today (PDF), a 5-4 decision ruling Arizona's Cl...

The judge has ruled in Preston v. Hallman, and again it goes in favor of the Prestons. As expected, he ruled that the city's decision t...

In late June 2007, Tom and Elizabeth Preston obtained a use permit from the City of Tempe to open a tattoo studio. The Prestons signed a fi...

Talk about great timing--a few minutes ago, I received an email from "Governor Sanford" with the subject "Join Me." I t...

As newspapers decline and die, it's good to see other opportunities opening up to support investigative journalism. Along with wire ser...

This afternoon I had the pleasure of hearing writer Jeff Benedict speak about his book, Little Pink House , which is the story behind the Ke...

The City of Phoenix's $97.4 million sales tax subsidy to the CityNorth retail center project in north Phoenix has been declared unconsti...

Arizona ballot proposition 101, the Medical Choice for Arizona amendment, says this : Be it enacted by the People of Arizona: 1. ...

Last night I went to hear Gene Healy of the Cato Institute speak about his new book, The Cult of the Presidency , at the Goldwater Institute...

Clint Bolick, formerly the primary litigator for the Institute for Justice, is taking on some good causes as a litigator for the Goldwater I...

Last night Einzige and I attended the Goldwater Institute's award dinner for Ayaan Hirsi Ali at the Phoenician resort in Scottsdale, whe...

The Goldwater Institute will be giving Ayaan Hirsi Ali , former Muslim turned atheist author of the book Infidel , its 2007 Goldwater award ...

Tonight I attended the Goldwater Institute's screening of the HBO documentary "Mr. Conservative," a biography of Barry Goldwa...

From Robert Novak (ick, but it doesn't change the facts here) via Distributed Republic : With the midnight hour approaching on Saturda...

The Goldwater Institute sent out an email today titled "Some Like It Hot" by Robert C. Balling, Jr., a global warming skeptic who...

On April 3, the Goldwater Institute released a short opinion piece by former state senator Tom Patterson titled "Same Old Story,"...

In today's release from the Goldwater Institute, "The Nanny State Comes to My Mailbox," Andrea Woodmansee complains about the...

I've attended a few Goldwater Institute events, such as hearing P.J. O'Rourke and Ben Stein speak, but I've never actually dona...

HBO’s The Wire is an absolutely fantastic show. Written by Ed Burns, a former policeman, the show is, on one level, about a Baltimore homic...

Clint Bolick and Alan Dershowitz have written two very different--yet only occasionally directly contradictory--rememberances of Chief Justi...