All Voices | The Ft. Hood killer is Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a Virginia Tech graduate.

John Cook | Hasan attended “training in disaster and preventive psychiatry at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Herbert School of Medicine, Bethesda, Md.”

New York Times | A law enforcement official identified the shooter as Malik Nadal Hassan.

Star-Telegram | A shooting at Fort Hood prompted the base and nearby schools to order a lockdown, according to news reports.

USA Today | Many are too dumb or have used too many drugs to qualify, a study shows.

Canadian Press | Suspicion surrounding the H1N1 vaccine is vexing public health officials in the United States.

McClatchy Newspapers | Republicans swept the governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia Tuesday.

Sacramento Bee | California moved a step closer last month to pay-as-you-drive policies.

Daniel Barrett | We have arrived at a period in American and world history when being awake is of utmost importance.

ChattahBox | The alarming results showed that between the ages of 1 to 20 years, nearly half (49.2%) of all U.S. children will live in a household that receives food stamps.

Infowars | It’s said a picture says a 1000 words. So I don’t think we need a “memo” to figure this one out.

NWI Times | Some cancer patients, heart attack sufferers and burn victims would be removed from ventilators and left to die if pandemic flu patients overwhelmed Indiana’s hospitals.

Brad Jacobson | Pentagon officials in charge of the press and community relations offices equivocated on the subject of whether the program has ended.

NY Daily News | The declaration allows health care professionals including pharmacists, dentists and midwives to administer vaccinations for the H1N1 virus so long as they receive proper training.

Los Angeles Times | Of the nation’s five biggest daily papers, four reported circulation declines.

Bloomberg | The money lost to taxpayers is enough to buy health care for everybody in Minneapolis; Orlando, Florida; and Grand Rapids, Michigan.

CNSNews | Abortion killed at least 203,991 blacks in the 36 states and two cities (New York City and the District of Columbia) that reported abortions by race in 2005.

Guardian | The number of people who believe that human activity is causing global warming fell to just 36%.

Joan Swirsky | As Obama’s poll numbers continue to plunge, more and more people are waking up to his unique lack of qualifications and inability to lead the greatest nation in the world.

The Star-Ledger | John Brek was charged yesterday with a third-degree count of making terroristic threats after two airport employees alerted police to comments Brek made about Obama on Tuesday afternoon.

Washington’s Blog | The financial system collapsed last year due to looting and fraud.

KETV 7 | In Nebraska, if a child is a state ward, Medicaid will pay for treatment continuously, without interruption.

Subprime Blogger | The Federal Reserve Bank continues to print money at will.

NBC Philadelphia | Veteran was suspended without pay Thursday after he refused to peel a sticker of the American flag from his locker.

Las Vegas Review-Journal | The occupying forces in this imagined future are American, not Soviet.

David Kaiser | I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.

WFLD | A Chicago alderman is taking a hard look at whether mandatory swine flu vaccines for children could stop the spread of the virus.

ABC 7 | A huge crowd of protesters also turned out to deliver messages of their own.

Big Hollywood | Another good reason to turn off the idiot rube.

readMedia Newswire | The Continental United States NORAD Region will conduct a three-day homeland defense exercise, Falcon Dart, beginning Oct. 14 along the eastern seaboard and in New England.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Pittsburgh City Council today took a first vote toward outsourcing the job of collecting delinquent property taxes.

CNSNews | If this bill becomes law, it will be the duty of the U.S. secretary of health and human services or the state governments to ensure that you can get your health insurance at the DMV.

CNN | A celebrity gossip Web site has caught Maria Shriver a third time apparently violating California’s law against using a cell phone while driving.

New York Times | The vote was 14 to 9, with all of the other Republicans opposed.

ABC 7 News | Police are still looking for clues after a prominent economist was shot in the garage of his upscale home.

Wisconsin State Journal | Gore has been criticized for not publicly debating his position since the release of his 2006 Oscar-winning documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”

My Budget 360 | The American family over the past decade has maintained the illusion of middle class living by going deeper into debt because of stagnant wages.

TollroadsNews | It is reported the Texas Department of Transportation has recommended the No Action Alternative on the TTC-35 environmental study to the Federal Highway Administration.

Billings Gazette | Becky Shay, spokeswoman for American Police Force, said Friday that her company withdrew its offer to operate the 464-bed facility.

Fightin’ Words | This story stands as another example of the state interfering in a private medical and religious matter.

Independent | At 84, the writer and activist may be confined to a wheelchair, but his rage — at his country, its leaders and citizens — burns as fiercely as ever.

Eric Sinrod | This power is akin to the power President Bush exerted when he grounded commercial aircraft in the wake of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, according to a reported Senate source.

ABC News | Park Police arrested Sheehan and 60 other protestors yesterday, after Sheehan chained herself to the fence on the North Lawn.

WISHTV 8 | The group donated 162,000 kits that will go out to kindergarten and first grade students.

AmmoLand | The bill is “An Act prohibiting certain firearms, firearm accessories or ammunition from being subject to Federal law or Federal regulation.”

Fox News | Liberty County sheriff deputies are meeting with the FBI and FAA to discuss this incident.

Infowars | Court records from Orange County, California indicate Michael Hilton has a lengthy criminal past including a six year prison sentence for a dozen counts of grand theft and other charges.

Huffington Post | Mayor James (Jim) D. Kalb of Portsmouth, Ohio called blogger Robert Forrey a “worthless piece of s**t” and a “lonely, jealous old man” in an email response to Forrey’s public record request.

WKYT 27 | A Marine Corps officer said it was part of an urban training exercise where the Osprey aircraft land in tight spaces.

Bob van der Valk | The American Police Force should get packing quickly before a real posse is formed to tar and feather, then run them out of town on a rail.