Government & Politics

Kansas lawmakers may have to take out the largest loan in state history—$5 billion—to help plug a growing hole in the state's pension system.

Government pension abuses in Illinois have prompted some lawmakers to try to advance legislation to stop labor leaders from cashing in on taxpayers.

In a way it’s not surprising that protesters involved in Occupy Wall Street have been, as far as I can tell, silent about Steve Jobs because his death was so recent.

With the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in mid-September having spread from New York to at least 100 major cities in North America, Europe, and Asia, surely something is afoot. But what? And why?

Are you liberal, conservative ... or something else? What’s the difference between the two? And what the heck is a libertarian?

On their way out of Indiana, 38 House Democrats fleeing to prevent quorum in the newly Republican-controlled statehouse knocked an ambitious set of school reforms into limbo.

Federal and state legislators have recently been focusing on eliminating duplication of government programs that could be combined or eliminated to save billions of taxpayer dollars.

John Nothdurft this month was named The Heartland Institute’s new director of government relations.

The Heartland Institute is a 26-year-old national nonprofit research and education organization based in Chicago. Its mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems.

Ralph Conner, The Heartland Institute’s former local legislation manger, will be remembered and honored April 20 at a memorial service at the Chicago Temple in the Loop.Mr. Conner would have been 62 years old April 20.

Harrison Schmitt, former astronaut and U.S. Senator, joined The Heartland Institute's board of directors on January 28, 2010.

Former NASA astronaut and former US senator Harrison Schmitt Oct.

One of the nation’s top accountants warned, “the most serious threat to the United States is its own fiscal irresponsibility” at a screening of a movie focused on the nation’s debt and government’s “fuzzy

A growing body of research shows there is an "optimal" size beyond which government becomes a drain on a nation's economy. And government in the United States--local, state, and federal combined--has already grown far beyond that optimal size.

As the presidential campaign builds, one thing has become apparent--the political Left in this country is aligned with Big Labor in a big way.

Former Comptroller General of the United States David M.

Obama intentionally avoided the issue of race even after winning the first primary in a state that is 96 percent white.

The issue isn’t Farrakhan. It’s about Sen. Clinton playing the race card.

Alexandria, VA-- Bill Buckley was there at the beginning. In fact in many ways he was the beginning of the modern conservative movement.

William F. Buckley, Jr., an icon of conservative ideas whose wit and wisdom conveyed a course for freedom through a turbulent era in American history, passed away peacefully at his desk on Wednesday, February 27.

In a move that has the support of conservatives and liberals in the Palmetto State, Gov. Mark Sanford (R) of South Carolina is about to implement executive order 2007-14 mandating the creation of a single searchable Web site for state expenditures.

America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It By Mark Steyn Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc. 2006 224 pages, hc, $27.95, ISBN: 0-8952-6078-6 I cannot recommend this bestselling book too highly to those who treasure our way of life.

Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't by John Lott Regnery Publishing, Inc. (June 4, 2007) 256 pages, hardcover ISBN 596985062, $27.

They say politics creates strange bedfellows. Here is another example.