US News News - October 3, 2010
Rand Paul rally helped by 2 tea party stalwarts (Buffalo News)
U.S. Senate hopeful Rand Paul marshaled the political firepower of two tea party stalwarts, including his congressman father, at a rally Saturday in northern Kentucky's GOP stronghold. Free speech cases at top of Supreme Court's agenda (Samoa News)
First Amendment cases top the Supreme Court's docket as it begins a new term with a new justice and three women on the bench for the first time.The court will look at provocative anti-gay protests at military funerals and a California law banning the sale of violent video games to children. Police: Traffic stop leads to Phoenix drop house (WETM-TV Elmira)
Sgt. Steve Martos says officers who stopped a vehicle for a minor traffic infraction at about 11 a.m. Saturday questioned the people inside, who told them they had just arrived from Mexico and that other illegal immigrants were in a nearby house. It used to be that getting elected in Chicago meant relying on the ward boss, the precinct captain and the small armies they deployed to fix potholes, hand out frozen turkeys and even drive people to the polls.
Navy scrambles after subs shed stealthy coating (WIAT-TV Birmingham)
The Navy acknowledges that there have been problems with the special coating that helps to make the Virginia and other nuclear-powered attack submarines in that class stealthy. A concave surface will focus sound or light onto a focal point. Unfortunately, those designing the concave-shaped reflective facade of the MGM Resorts International Vdara hotel and condominium, which opened on the Las Vegas "strip" in December, overlooked that fact, something high school physics students know. It's created what some have jokingly called "a death ray."
McCain Says White House Dream Is Over (TheBostonChannel)
If John McCain hadn't made it clear before, he's leaving no doubt that the presidency is a dream gone by. Tiger Woods and his partner, Steve Stricker, have won again at the Ryder Cup. Woods, whose year has been nothing short of terrible and traumatic, seems to have saved his best play for the Ryder Cup.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has been very open with his opinion of the decision of HP's board to out then-CEO Mark Hurd what amounted to an expense report scandal .
Democrats have all but written off at least three Senate seats - in North Dakota, Indiana and Arkansas - and at least six House seats in Tennessee, Louisiana, New York and elsewhere as they embark on a final-weeks advertising push to minimize congressional election losses.
Saturday is the 60th anniversary of "Peanuts," the classic syndicated daily and Sunday comic strip written and illustrated by Charles Schulz.
9/11 Conspiracies Rife In Muslim World (Click2Houston)
About a week ago, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared to the United Nations that most people in the world believe the United States was behind the terrorist attacks of Sept. 
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