Government & Politics

The infamous Cornhusker Kickback that helped get Obamacare enacted into law and effectively ended Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson's political career has now been joined by the Kentucky Kickback in the checkered legislative history of the health care law.

With House and Senate leaders merely disagreeing around the edges of a continuing resolution funding the government for fiscal year 2014 and increasing the $16.

Can the government use civil forfeiture to take your money when you have done nothing wrong—and then pocket the proceeds?

The federal government shut down at midnight Monday after Congress was unable to reach an agreement on several budget issues. But as Tuesday dawns, state governments will carry on with little or no negative consequences in the short-term.

The Federal Reserve announced a new design for the one hundred dollar bill two years ago, but it was unable to put the money into the market because of some errors at the printing factory.

In recent years the United States has endured the worst financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression. Derivatives—complicated financial instruments whose value derives from other financial instruments—were at the center of the storm.

Judicial Watch announced in late June it has obtained records from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) revealing the agency has spent millions of dollars for the warrantless collection and analysis of Americans’ financial transactions.

Dogged by accusations of partisanship and lavish spending, the Internal Revenue Service is under fire again for questionable credit card expenses, including $140 per-guest dinners.

This essay is based on remarks delivered on June 19, 2013 at Heartland’s annual President’s Council Retreat.

A federal judge in San Francisco has declared “national security letters” from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to banks, phone companies, and other businesses to be unconstitutional. The March 15 ruling by U.S.

Do you ever get the feeling no one in the Washington power elite is willing to seriously deal with the major economic threat to future prosperity facing the United States today: mounting government debt and the associated deficits?

I must doff my hat to Charles Gasparino. Early last year, the fiery Fox Business Network correspondent and I were brought together for a few bread-and-circuses TV debates on the topic of municipal bankruptcy.

In this video, Nobel-Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman examines the modern welfare state and discusses why it doesn't work in the long run. As we're now seeing, the long run appears to be catching up with America.

“The debt we create is basically money we owe to ourselves, and the burden it imposes does not involve a real transfer of resources,” Paul Krugman wrote recently in “Debt Is (Mostly) Money We Owe to Ourselves.

Concerns over the perilous financial condition of the U.S. Postal Service have caused observers, including Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, to compare the agency’s prospects to the spiraling economic crisis in Greece.

The Heartland Institute on Tuesday held an event on Capitol Hill with Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) in which it presented petitions signed by more than 16,000 Americans demanding Congress rein in the Environmental Protection Agency.

Moody’s Investors Service has announced it might follow Standard & Poor’s and downgrade U.S. government debt. S&P downgraded U.S. debt in August 2011, the first debt downgrade in U.S. government history. In its Sept.

If you own a cell phone, you're paying for someone else's phone as well, every month (h/t Patrick O'Meara).

Unless Congress decides otherwise, the money-losing United States Postal Service will see significant reforms start to take place May 15.

An ad hoc group of Wisconsin business leaders and free-market activists is hoping to prevent the recall of Gov.

A fascinating area of constitutional law deals with presidential authority during declared “national emergencies” and “time of war.

Public-private partnerships can help solve some of the “horrific” problems currently being faced by governments, according to Laurence Msall, president of the Civic Federation of Chicago.

Considering that four of the five wealthiest counties in these United States are in suburban Washington, D.C.

The state of Connecticut poured $26.1 million of taxpayer dollars into the campaigns of candidates for governor, state legislator, and other statewide offices in 2010, according to the Yankee Institute for Public Policy.