Michelle Obama: "more popular than warmth on a cold day" MSNBC (10 March 2009) - Rachel Maddow

I had long blonde hair, but even as a little girl with long blonde hair, I looked like one of the Hanson boys.

War is destructive. The idea that you can do something constructive with war is becoming this facile, dangerous, intellectually lax political interpretation of military counter-insurgency theory. I want to hear [President Barack Obama] say that doesn't work. That war is never constructive.

A trained Soviet KGB operative then heading its successor outfit, the FSB, Putin had done the sitting Russian president the memorable favor of successfully derailing the criminal investigation into the Yeltsin clan. He did so by blackmailing Russia’s prosecutor general with a fake sex tape.