While this isn't the worst response Pew has on record, with August 2011 paralleling the distrust we see today, it's pretty bad, with the government shutdown drastically impacting public perception of our elected officials.

High overhead costs, an increasing amount of red tape, unnecessary middlemen, and Obamacare prompted Dr. Michael Ciampi to stop accepting all forms of private and government insurance last April, which has allowed him to cut his prices in half.

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.

"Power corrupts, and the prospect of losing power corrupts absolutely." - John P. Roche

Next November, Americans will elect representatives to the 114th Congress. As of October 20, the current Congress has an average 9.2 percent approval rating and 84.2 percent disapproval rating.

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?

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.