Can one man single-handedly ensure that nobody gets coal in their stocking this year? Obama is trying to make that dream a reality. Santa, who has appeared on the trail for Obama, not once, but twice, is apparently not pleased.

New York Times Fashion Diary: She Dresses to Win What Ms. Taylor read in Mrs. Obama’s appearance on Tuesday, she said, was a message that she is primed to become first lady, although not necessarily first hostess. “Every woman I talked to was saying how she has this confidence that …