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Thanks to the United States Department of Agriculture and First Lady Michelle Obama and their insistence on changing the diet served at public schools, students across the country are giving up eating the food served at school and starving. And

NEW YORK, Sept 24 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Monday sought to woo women voters at a taping of the daytime talk show “The View,” by flirting with his wife and bearing gifts for the hosts, but he could

President Barack Obama is sounding more like Bill Clinton every day. Now he’s testing the waters for a possible run for the presidency by his wife by disingenuously saying she’ll never run: She definitely could be the president, but she’ll

On Saturday, Michelle Obama compared the voter ID laws that were passed to combat voter fraud to other laws in the past that had denied blacks their civil rights. She called the battle against voter ID laws the “march of

Tax returns for 2011 set to be released today by Mitt and Ann Romney reveal that they gave away a higher percentage of their income to others than did Barack and Michelle Obama, when both taxes and charity are taken

By KEN THOMASAssociated PressNEW YORKWho would Mitt Romney like to see play him in a movie? (Gene Hackman) What’s Romney’s guilty pleasure (peanut butter sandwiches and chocolate milk). And what exactly, does the Republican presidential hopeful wear to bed? Romney

A Chesterfield County elementary school in Virginia rejected First Lady Michelle Obama’s request to speak on Thursday, citing school policy. Tim Bullis, the school division’s community relations director, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that School Board policy 6100 prohibits “the use

U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama observe a moment of silence at the White House to mark the 9-11 anniversary.

Tonight, former President Bill Clinton took to the floor of the Democratic National Convention to deliver a long, meandering speech light on rhetoric, long on word count, and short on facts. The speech will provide rich fodder for fact checkers

Once, he was the “Comeback Kid.” Now, he’s “Boilerplate Bill.”  Former President Bill Clinton told the delegates to the Democratic National Convention everything they had already heard over the past two days. Even the smears were old. The only interesting

National Public Radio, among other mainstream media outlets, whitewashed First Lady Michelle Obama’s fib-filled speech to the Democratic National Convention last night. At the end of a roundup of perfunctory attempts to fact-check some of the Democrats’ speeches, NPR gave

First Lady Michelle Obama’s pitch to voters last night relied on the premise that she and her husband understand what it is to struggle to make ends meet. She spoke movingly about their early years–about how a young Barack Obama

First Lady Michelle Obama’s address to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Charlotte tonight was a throwback, a reprise of the speech her husband gave in at the DNC in 2004, the speech that created his new identity as a

Tuesday night, Michelle Obama took the stage at the Democratic National Convention to deliver an impassioned defense of her incompetent husband. It didn’t focus on his record. It focused on his feelings.  “Serving as your First Lady is an honor

Did you know the deficit will hit $16 trillion in the next few days? Did you know that U.S manufacturing shrank at the sharpest rate in more than three years last month? Did you know that construction spending just dropped

Nickelodeon, the kids’ TV channel, apparently sees no problem with directing children to the Twitter feed of one of its voiceover stars, Jason Biggs – even if Biggs tweets reprehensible things about the anuses of conservative political women like Janna Ryan, wife

First lady Michelle Obama took a brief tour of the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. She will address the delegates Tuesday night.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the number of farmers’ markets is up by 9.6% from last year, and in 2011, the number of farmers’ markets had increased by 17% from 2010. USDA administration states,  “Farmers markets are a

Though he enters this week’s Republican National Convention with a decent chance at winning the presidency, Mitt Romney has made some blunders along the way–the most serious of which may be his campaign’s failure thus far to highlight the charm

One of Barack Obama’s recent ads for his re-election campaign purports to feature Republican women who have turned away from the GOP to support Obama/Biden. But, as it turns out, one of the women in the ad is not so

(AP) NEW YORKMichelle Obama is making a house call on “The Dr. Oz Show.” The show’s producers say the first lady will tape an appearance Wednesday to discuss new provisions of her “Let’s Move!” campaign and the Presidential Youth Fitness Program.

This surprises many of my conservative friends, but I like Michelle Obama. Though I disagree with her nanny-state attacks on the same food her husband always seems to eat whenever he’s away from her, I think she’s a lovely and

Note to Michelle: don’t mess with the Golden Arches. Olympic gold medal gymnast Gabby Douglas appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last week, where she told Leno that after winning her medal, she “splurged on an Egg McMuffin

Some moments deserve a monument. Some do not. This point is apparently lost on the owners of a Hyde Park shopping mall, which just installed a ton-and-a-half stone marker to commemorate the spot where Barack Obama first kissed his future

First Lady Michelle Obama made the latest celebrity-fueled fundraiser for her husband a family affair last night. That meant glitzy types like Gwen Stefani could bring their young ones to enjoy a taste of the one-percent lifestyle. Those kiddies weren’t

Deadline.com: Michelle Obama is guest of honor at a fundraiser underway at Warner Bros chief Barry Meyer‘s home. It started at 4 PM and was a sellout even though ticket prices ranged from $2,500 to $25,000. Among the guests spotted are Warner Bros

The Obama campaign is deeply worried about the lasting effect of their candidate’s “you didn’t build that” gaffe. Since then, his speechwriters have made sure that the president constantly stresses the limits of government. The latest version of this clumsy

At a campaign stop in Colorado on Wednesday, President Barack Obama attempted to win over women voters by complaining about how First Lady Michelle Obama did not receive a salary for her First Lady duties.  “I want to make sure

Terrific news for Chick-Fil-A; Barack and Michelle Obama believe that restaurants are the key to our economic recovery! Last Friday in Springfield, Massachusetts, Michelle said: So I want you to remind folks that Barack has cut taxes for working families

(AP) Dems pick first Hispanic for convention keynoteBy JULIE PACEAssociated PressWASHINGTONMarking a first for Hispanics, the Democratic party has chosen the mayor of San Antonio to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. The party announced Tuesday that

Speaking to a CBS News reporter in London, Michelle Obama: Reporter: This time, it’s proving to be about more than sport as well, particularly for some American politicians, perhaps their wives, so how do you think the preparations have gone

US First Lady Michelle Obama (left) waves as the US takes on France in Olympics basketball in London on July 29. American flags waved inside the Olympic arena as the American collection of multi-millionaire NBA stars took the court in

Michelle Obama will hold an exercise event for her “Let’s Move” campaign, which conservatives have criticized for perpetuating nanny-state politics on Friday at the London Olympics .  But the “Let’s Move” campaign is now being criticized from the left as

All day Wednesday, the Old Media establishment was going gaga over the “gaffes” that presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney supposedly committed on his overseas tour. But all the many gaffes Obama committed with our allies — especially the Brits —

The Obama campaign has been struggling lately. Obama’s “you didn’tbuild that” gaffe capped weeks of gloomy jobs numbers and fallinglikability for the President. But if there’s one thing team Obama hasgoing for it, it’s a surfeit of telegenic celebrities.  George