President Obama vs. The Rest of the World Greeting The Emperor of Japan (Photos)  —  Prime Minister Ehud Olmert  —  King of Morocco  —  Dick Cheney  —  Prime Minister Slovenia  —  President South Korea  —  President Kazakhstan  —  Prime Minister India  —  Vladimir Putin  —  President Obama...

Report: Bill would reduce senior care  —  Medicare cuts approved by House may affect access to providers  —  A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending — one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama's proposed overhaul of the nation's health-care system …

In House Record, Many Spoke With One Voice: Lobbyists'  —  WASHINGTON — In the official record of the historic House debate on overhauling health care, the speeches of many lawmakers echo with similarities.  Often, that was no accident.  —  Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten …

Memoir Is Palin's Payback to McCain Campaign  —  “Going Rogue,” the title of Sarah Palin's erratic new memoir, comes from a phrase used by a disgruntled McCain aide to describe her going off-message during the campaign: among other things, for breaking with the campaign over its media strategy …

BOMBSHELL: UNCOVERED OBAMA STATEMENT — KSM WILL GET ‘FULL MILITARY TRIAL’  —  “Justice will be carried out in his case.”

Palin Calls Decision To Try 9/11 Defendants In Federal Court ‘Atrocious,’ Wants To 'Hang ‘Em High’  —  Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the five individuals accused of conspiring to commit the 9/11 attacks — including alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — will be prosecuted in U.S. federal court.

Jim VandeHei  —  Jim VandeHei, 36, is one of the co-founders of Politico.  He left The Washington Post, where he was national political reporter, to join forces with John F. Harris (his former boss at the Post) and the finest collection of journalists around to attempt to create a new and exciting way of delivering political news.

Romney accuses Obama of not protecting troops  —  WASHINGTON (CNN)- Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney delivered a scathing criticism of President Obama's Afghanistan strategy Friday night, accusing the president of delivering rhetoric and not action in the war-torn country.

Iowa Poll: Low rating for Culver reveals vulnerability  —  Gov. Chet Culver's job approval has fallen to a critical new low, and former Gov. Terry Branstad poses a major potential threat to Culver's re-election, according to The Des Moines Register's new Iowa Poll.

Irishman wants to kill for Islam  —  An Irish jihadist living in Pakistan's Swat valley says he is preparing to wage war against British and allied troops in Afghanistan.  —  Khalid Kelly, a former altar boy from the Liberties area of Dublin who used to be known as Terry …

Paying a Price for the Thrill of the Hunt  —  IF a business school professor is running short on cash, there is a sure-fire solution: run a dollar auction game in class.  —  To start, the professor offers to sell the class a $20 bill.  Bidding starts at $1 and goes up in $1 increments.

David S. Broder on Obama's Afghanistan choices  —  The more President Obama examines our options in Afghanistan, the less he likes the choices he sees.  But, as the old saying goes, to govern is to choose — and he has stretched the internal debate to the breaking point.