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WASHINGTON (AP) — Turns out Target isn’t the only place to find Michelle Obama escaping the White House bubble. (more)

Washington may be the nation’s capital — and one of America’s fittest cities — but its trainers apparently don’t cut it for President Barack Obama, who frequently flies his personal fitness instructor from Chicago to D.C., reports the New York Times. (more)

Michelle Obama said she’ll do anything asked of her to get President Barack Obama reelected in 2012, a comment some would consider uncharacteristic of the strong-willed first lady. (more)

Freedom-loving Americans may cringe at the idea of allowing the president’s unelected wife to tell them what they can and cannot eat, but the National Restaurant Association (NRA) says first lady Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity initiative is one that they are embracing. (more)

Renowned fashionistas haven’t been pleased with First Lady Michelle Obama lately. (more)

Michelle Obama and nutrition czar Sam Kass have taken the Food Police nationwide. Last week Wal-Mart announced that it is joining the first lady’s anti-obesity campaign by reducing the salt and sugar content of the food it sells. (more)

Fashion designer Oscar de la Renta criticized First Lady Michelle Obama in 2009 for overlooking great clothing designers and frequently limiting herself to casual attire, and now he’s saying she should have taken politics into consideration when selecting a dress for the recent China state dinner. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama is going on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” (more)

1.) White House reporters ask first truly tough questions in two years — Pres. Obama was inaugurated two years ago today, which means it only took the White House Press Corp members one year, 11 months, and 29 days to find their spines. “Could you explain to the American people how the United States could be so allied with a country that is known for treating its people so poorly, using censorship and force to oppress its people?” asked AP reporter Ben Feller. He then turned to China’s Hu Jintao and asked, “How do you justify China’s record and do you think that’s any of the business of the American people?” When a mixup with the translator prevented Hu from hearing Feller’s question, Bloomberg’s Hans Nichols used his turn to ask Feller’s question again. But no amount of tough questioning could force either Obama or Hu to answer honestly. And in front of God and everyone, the 2009 Nobel Prize winner claimed that the country which is keeping the 2010 Nobel Prize winner under house arrest has made “enormous progress” on human rights which has been “widely recognized in the world.” The ensuing cognitive dissonance threw the Washington Post for a spin. Both headlines appeared in this morning’s paper: “President Obama makes Hu Jintao look good on rights”; “Obama presses Chinese leader on rights.” (more)

Michelle Obama has a message for America’s parents in the wake of Saturday’s Tucson shooting rampage: Teach your children about tolerance. (more)

Put the cauliflower down. I know it’s on your list of New Year’s resolutions to eat healthier, but you don’t know anything about that vegetable on your plate. Have you checked its papers? Is it organic? Local? Sustainable? Will eating it increase your carbon footprint? How many hummingbirds were harmed in its cultivation? (more)

As I do at the end of each year (which usually elicits many e-mails, but I am going to do it again anyway), here is my look back at 2010. (more)

Speaking with New York radio host Curtis Sliwa, Gov. Mike Huckabee rejected Sarah Palin’s mocking of Michelle Obama’s childhood nutrition campaign. The former Arkansas governor and Fox News host came out in support of the first lady’s efforts against the nation’s “obesity crisis.” (more)

In the latest episode of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin pokes fun at First Lady Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity campaign. (more)

It was a great event at the White House last June. Sir Paul McCartney came to be honored by President Obama. And he thrilled the glittering company with his rendering of that classic Beatles hit — Michelle, Ma Belle. (more)

Barack Obama is a ball-busted man. To anyone who has seen how he acts whenever Michelle Obama is around — or even at the mere mention of her name — this is beyond dispute. The man lives in terror of his wife, who, unlike her husband, is actually from the streets of South Chicago. (more)

With his wife by his side, President Obama on Monday signed the child nutrition bill, strongly pushed by the first lady, who has made nutrition part of her campaign to help the young get healthy. (more)

Fans of Hollywood’s imaginative take on American politics may remember the movie Guarding Tess. That 1994 comic hit featured Shirley MacLaine as a former first lady who was being guarded by a Secret Service detachment headed by Nicolas Cage. Tess was something of a composite figure, part feisty Bess Truman, part liberal activist Eleanor Roosevelt, and part small town belle Rosalynn Carter. Of course, Hollywood being Hollywood, no part of Tess could be mistaken for a Barbara Bush or a Nancy Reagan. Even the fictional former first ladies have got to be on the side of the Hollywood donor angels. (more)

On behalf of the NAAFA — a civil rights organization dating back to 1969 working to end discrimination against people of size — we appreciate your efforts to start an open, honest dialogue about the ramifications of childhood bullying. We know that bullying during the formative years of childhood, adolescence and teen years results in horrifying emotional and physical trauma, often resulting in suicide. While your appeal to stop bullying has highlighted certain minorities — such as children of certain races and ethnicities, self-identified LGBT children or children with disabilities — you have failed to include one group of children who are frequently subjected to some of the worse bullying: fat children. NAAFA believes that bullying for any reason is wrong and should be stopped at all costs. (more)

(CNN) – Sarah Palin may not have the biggest fan in former first lady Barbara Bush. (more)