Former U.S. congressman Ron Paul is no doubt a big influence on the modern day liberty movement in the United States, but have you ever had a question you wanted to ask Dr.  Paul? Now you can.

In October, Paul released a video on his online news network, The Ron Paul Channel, asking viewers to submit any questions or stories they have about the growing liberty movement in the United States.

Amid the turmoil caused by a temporary government shutdown, a pessimistic outlook for passing immigration reform in 2013, let alone during the 113th Congress, would not be farfetched. Yet, President Obama expressed optimism on Thursday for striking a comprehensive immigration deal before the end of the year.

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With the government back in business, attention has now shifted to the shortcomings of the Healthcare.gov website, with Congress holding the first of many hearings aimed at understanding the technical issues plaguing Obama's signature achievement, healthcare reform.

The government, however, is no stranger to data collection, with the National Security Agency's (NSA) controversial harvesting hundreds of millions of personal contact lists - against the will of the American people. 

The Obama administration has announced today that it will complete immigration reform by the end of the year.

Unidentified and unverified sources have said that the Obama administration has already begun development of the online implementation of a mass immigration system.

The system will require that every legal citizen to be chipped with a GPS locator pre-registered with the NSA, thereby passing the need to get information via Google and Twitter.

How does this help the implementation of immigration reform?

Virginians once again face the choice of selecting a governor as the November 5 gubernatorial election creeps closer. While the Democrat and Republican candidates are going through the motions as might be expected, a new player has appeared on the scene., according to

recent data. But what's the appeal of a candidate who -- most likely -- will not actually win the race?

Political scientists and party pollsters run with a common narrative: Independent voters are a myth.

"We think of them as closet partisans who act in almost indistinguishable ways to those who identify as partisans," Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth explains in a recent National Journal article.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGmiw_rrNxkWednesday, a coalition of hundreds of organizations, whistle blowers, and civil rights leaders unveiled a video (above) opposing "suspicionless surveillance of American citizens." The 'Stop Watching Us' campaign features many notable privacy proponents including Daniel Ellsberg, best known for the 'Pentagon Papers,' and Glen Greenwald, the Guardian reporter who 'leaked' information on the NSA's PRISM surveillance program from Edward Snowden.A rally is planned for 12pm Sat