First Lady Michelle Obama leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Last week, the First Lady appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to cajole Leno to eat his veggies . For his trouble, Leno had to eat a slice of veggie pizza with zucchini and eggplant (yuck), baked sweet potato fries (well, at least he could dip them into ketchup), and an apple with honey from the White House garden. Leno could have stepped into a hornet’s nest, but he was a good sport about it and ate his veggies like a scolded child. I suppose that under those circumstances, it is usually better to respond with honey than vinegar. But sometimes beets can be effective. The First Lady admitted she had an aversion to beets, and Leno later surprised her with a plate of the red variety of beta vulgaris. Mrs. Obama enjoyed eating her veggie about as much as Leno did his. Well, if you don’t want to join them, you can occasionally beet them. Earlier in the interview, when the First Lady said that her mother and daughters had baked a red velvet cake for her birthday, Leno asked, “What is the calorie count?” To which Mrs. Obama replied rather defensively, “It’s fine.” Well, at 513 calories per serving , I’m sure it’s quite fine. Whatever the caloric content, the red velvet cake was apparently special ordered rather than homemade. The First Lady’s enjoyment of red velvet cake notwithstanding, much of the conversation focused on Leno’s non-consumption of vegetables. She asked him, “How do you get your fiber?” and then turned to the audience and asked, “Don’t you wonder?” Well, no, actually. Until Mrs. Obama asked, I had given nary a moment’s thought to how Jay Leno obtains his fiber — much less the amount of it he does or doesn’t consume. Frankly, Leno should have told the First Lady it was none of her damn business. I’m sure most people would welcome such questions about their diets from the First Lady about as much as the First Lady would welcome a question about how much her trip to Costa del Sol a couple of summers ago cost the taxpayers. So let Mrs. Obama have her red velvet cake, if she leaves us to our burgers, pomme frites, and Coca-Cola (or Pepsi). It was the late Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau who said , “there’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.” So if the state can stay out of Canadian bedrooms, why should there be any place for it in American kitchens? While I understand the need to encourage physical activity among young people, the First Lady’s “Let’s Move” campaign leaves a great deal to be desired, particularly where it concerns “the epidemic of childhood obesity.” According to letsmove.gov , “Over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled, and today, nearly one in three children in America are [sic]
First Lady Michelle Obama leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Last week, the First Lady appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to cajole Leno to eat his veggies . For his trouble, Leno had to eat a slice of veggie pizza with zucchini and eggplant (yuck), baked sweet potato fries (well, at least he could dip them into ketchup), and an apple with honey from the White House garden. Leno could have stepped into a hornet’s nest, but he was a good sport about it and ate his veggies like a scolded child. I suppose that under those circumstances, it is usually better to respond with honey than vinegar. But sometimes beets can be effective. The First Lady admitted she had an aversion to beets, and Leno later surprised her with a plate of the red variety of beta vulgaris. Mrs. Obama enjoyed eating her veggie about as much as Leno did his. Well, if you don’t want to join them, you can occasionally beet them. Earlier in the interview, when the First Lady said that her mother and daughters had baked a red velvet cake for her birthday, Leno asked, “What is the calorie count?” To which Mrs. Obama replied rather defensively, “It’s fine.” Well, at 513 calories per serving , I’m sure it’s quite fine. Whatever the caloric content, the red velvet cake was apparently special ordered rather than homemade. The First Lady’s enjoyment of red velvet cake notwithstanding, much of the conversation focused on Leno’s non-consumption of vegetables. She asked him, “How do you get your fiber?” and then turned to the audience and asked, “Don’t you wonder?” Well, no, actually. Until Mrs. Obama asked, I had given nary a moment’s thought to how Jay Leno obtains his fiber — much less the amount of it he does or doesn’t consume. Frankly, Leno should have told the First Lady it was none of her damn business. I’m sure most people would welcome such questions about their diets from the First Lady about as much as the First Lady would welcome a question about how much her trip to Costa del Sol a couple of summers ago cost the taxpayers. So let Mrs. Obama have her red velvet cake, if she leaves us to our burgers, pomme frites, and Coca-Cola (or Pepsi). It was the late Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau who said , “there’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.” So if the state can stay out of Canadian bedrooms, why should there be any place for it in American kitchens? While I understand the need to encourage physical activity among young people, the First Lady’s “Let’s Move” campaign leaves a great deal to be desired, particularly where it concerns “the epidemic of childhood obesity.” According to letsmove.gov , “Over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled, and today, nearly one in three children in America are [sic]
First Lady Michelle Obama leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Last week, the First Lady appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to cajole Leno to eat his veggies . For his trouble, Leno had to eat a slice of veggie pizza with zucchini and eggplant (yuck), baked sweet potato fries (well, at least he could dip them into ketchup), and an apple with honey from the White House garden. Leno could have stepped into a hornet’s nest, but he was a good sport about it and ate his veggies like a scolded child. I suppose that under those circumstances, it is usually better to respond with honey than vinegar. But sometimes beets can be effective. The First Lady admitted she had an aversion to beets, and Leno later surprised her with a plate of the red variety of beta vulgaris. Mrs. Obama enjoyed eating her veggie about as much as Leno did his. Well, if you don’t want to join them, you can occasionally beet them. Earlier in the interview, when the First Lady said that her mother and daughters had baked a red velvet cake for her birthday, Leno asked, “What is the calorie count?” To which Mrs. Obama replied rather defensively, “It’s fine.” Well, at 513 calories per serving , I’m sure it’s quite fine. Whatever the caloric content, the red velvet cake was apparently special ordered rather than homemade. The First Lady’s enjoyment of red velvet cake notwithstanding, much of the conversation focused on Leno’s non-consumption of vegetables. She asked him, “How do you get your fiber?” and then turned to the audience and asked, “Don’t you wonder?” Well, no, actually. Until Mrs. Obama asked, I had given nary a moment’s thought to how Jay Leno obtains his fiber — much less the amount of it he does or doesn’t consume. Frankly, Leno should have told the First Lady it was none of her damn business. I’m sure most people would welcome such questions about their diets from the First Lady about as much as the First Lady would welcome a question about how much her trip to Costa del Sol a couple of summers ago cost the taxpayers. So let Mrs. Obama have her red velvet cake, if she leaves us to our burgers, pomme frites, and Coca-Cola (or Pepsi). It was the late Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau who said , “there’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.” So if the state can stay out of Canadian bedrooms, why should there be any place for it in American kitchens? While I understand the need to encourage physical activity among young people, the First Lady’s “Let’s Move” campaign leaves a great deal to be desired, particularly where it concerns “the epidemic of childhood obesity.” According to letsmove.gov , “Over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled, and today, nearly one in three children in America are [sic]
Today, with little fanfare Nevada will hold its Republican presidential caucuses. Upstaged by the Florida primary, the state neverthelesss gives one candidate a chance to generate some momentum as the frontrunner, another a test run at his caucus state strategy, and the other two an opening to redeem themselves. This caucus is likely to reward the campaigns that have worked it the hardest. I’m predicting Mitt Romney wins by double digits, Ron Paul comes in second, Newt Gingrich third, and Rick Santorum finishes fourth.
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Not so long ago, the Great Satan to the labor movement was Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker — who faces a union-led recall election later this year. This week, if perhaps temporarily, that title is being claimed by Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels whose signature Wednesday made Indiana the only right-to-work state in the upper Midwest and one of only two such states in the entire northeast quarter of the nation. (See right-to-work state map here .) Labor unions would like you to think that right-to-work laws outlaw unions. But what they actually do is say that a person can’t be compelled to be a union member or pay union dues in order to hold a job. In other words, right-to-work laws increase the economic liberty of all Americans while threatening the funding sources for union bosses in states where workers are held captive to big labor. This of course threatens Democrats whose life blood is that same union money. Indiana is the 23rd right-to-work state and the first state to adopt a right-to-work law since Oklahoma, which took that step in September, 2001. The industrial, labor-dominated states of the Midwest’s “Rust Belt” such as Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio have for years been losing jobs (and population) to the South, where there are legal protections of workers’ and employers’ freedom. Indiana is aiming to become a Midwest alternative to those southern states. Republican Indiana Senate President Pro Tempore David Long, quoted in the Indianapolis Star , described an Indiana company which was going to move to Alabama but is now staying put, as well as saying that “a company from Michigan was planning to go to a ‘right to work’ state in the South. When they saw what was happening here, (they) invited the state to bid. . . . We are now in consideration for those jobs.” If Indiana can show that its new law is a magnet for jobs, it may turn out to be the first domino to fall across a part of the nation which has been rapidly losing manufacturing jobs while Democrats’ desire to protect union coffers has trumped their desire to promote their citizens’ prosperity. Although less discussed than Indiana’s move, Virginia also struck a blow for public finance rationality and to protect that state’s right-to-work law. With the state’s lieutenant governor casting a tie-breaking vote in the state senate, the legislature passed a bill that
