Santa, Mrs. Claus and a cast of singer and dancers will deliver a sleigh full of familiar songs and yuletide humor in the “Sounds of Christmas” variety show.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up the challenge to the health care law passed in 2010. The law, President Barack Obama's signature legislative accomplishment and ticket to the history books, requires most individuals to purchase health insurance, known as the individual mandate.

California's medical-marijuana law would seem a classic case of states' rights.

“If Mesa were to charge the Jehovah Witnesses church less than they would charge anyone else for their sewer, regardless of whether it is all voluntary, this would be in violation of the 'establishment of religion’ clause of the First Amendment.”

You heard it here first and I’m going out on a limb, but I predict the U.S. Supreme Court will vote 6-3 (with a concurring opinion) holding that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare or “Commie Care,” is unconstitutional. However, the true reason for this holding will never be found in print, unless as Mark Twain said, “Only dead men tell the truth.”

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Arizona's petition to review an appellate court decision regarding the Arizona Game and Fish Department's 10-percent cap on non-resident hunt-permit tags for bull elk and mule deer north of the Colorado River.

Arizona is facing yet another challenge over a 2005 law imposing a tax on car rental companies to help pay for the Cardinals football stadium.

Now that Scottsdale has stripped away the threat of condemnation for 90 acres downtown with the Waterfront project vote this week, the city has only two redevelopment areas remaining.

The garland is on the mantel, the trees are up, the candles are ready to be lit in the courtyard and Bing Crosby is crooning “White Christmas.”

Is Obama-care’s “individual mandate” — the requirement that all Americans buy health insurance — an unconstitutional infringement on individual liberty? Federal Judge Henry E. Hudson thinks so. On Monday, he ruled the mandate unconstitutional, saying it “exceeds the constitutional boundaries of congressional power.” The decision catapulted the controversial health reform law back into the spotlight, with Hudson’s decision earning applause from conservatives and arguments from the White House. The debate almost certainly sets up a Supreme Court showdown to resolve the issue.

Much like one of his predecessors, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Barack Obama has all but declared war on the United States Supreme Court.

The Arizona Game and Fish Commission has decided to move forward with a proposal to reinstate a 10 percent cap on the number of out-of-state hunters who can receive tags to hunt for the most desirable big game species in Arizona each year.

There is something disturbingly inconsistent about Gov. Janet Napolitano taking the position that illegal immigration is a federal matter, but it is OK for her to unilaterally declare and implement emission standards that interfere with interstate and international commerce (it includes four Canadian provinces).

A federal judge has refused to void state laws about who can and cannot order wine directly from producers.

Arbitration agreements in employment contracts are unenforceable in Arizona, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

Arizona is facing yet another challenge over a 2005 law imposing a tax on car rental companies to help pay for the Cardinals football stadium.

HELENA, Mont. — Montana is trying to trigger a battle over gun control — and perhaps make a larger point about what many folks in this ruggedly independent state regard as a meddlesome federal government.

Few things should needle a freedom-loving American more than laws remaining on the books even though the reasons for them no longer exist. Several of these laws refer to the purchase of alcoholic beverages.

June 29, 2004

It is being billed as the "birthing of one of the greatest discovery centers on Earth," an economic catalyst and a long-term anchor that will be "virtually unstoppable" once construction begins.

The developer wants out. The city says no way.

The Institute for Justice, a Libertarian public interest group, on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging that Arizona's regulations concerning interstate wine shipping are unconstitutional.

The purveyors of vast amounts of fraudulent, uninvited e-mail are causing a major traffic mess in one of the great, new communication tools of modern times. They are a daily nuisance and worse, and they are cheating many people. These crooks belong exactly where Virginia wants to put them — in the slammer — but there is a problem with a law enacted by the state this week. It won't work.

The late Chief Justice William Hubbs Rehnquist, who died last weekend at 80 and became for many Americans the public face of the Supreme Court, was placed on the high court by former President Richard Nixon in 1971, without prior service as a judge.