Michelle Obama
-
EducationHealth Care
Where Oh Where Has the Presidential Fitness Council Gone?
by Robert Holland April 18, 2018The Inside-the-Beltway bureaucracy is filled with entities that burn tax dollars and emit little more than hot air.
-
Education
Why Cutting Back ‘Free’ School Lunches Would Be a Favor to Families
by Teresa Mull March 4, 2017House Republicans are being unfairly demonized for considering legislation that would cut back on the number of students receiving free or reduced-price school lunches.
-
Environment/EnergyGovernment
First Lady is Adopting a New, Highly-Ideological Anti-Hunger Campaign with Left-Wing Activist Group
by Jeff Stier January 6, 2017Michelle Obama’s Partnership With Activist Celebrity Chef Tom Colicchio Puts Minimum Wage and Organic Farming Issues Ahead of Fighting Hunger
-
FeaturedHealth CarePodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Julie Kelly: The Sorry State of the Healthy, Hunger-Free School Act
by Ken Artz July 1, 2015In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Julie Kelly, a food writer in Orland Park, Ill., joins managing editor Kenneth Artz to talk about the state of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, the well-intentioned signature policy of First Lady, Michelle Obama.
-
FeaturedHealth Care
Food Fight: Can Food Companies Help Battle Obesity?
by Jeff Stier September 19, 2014This week may be a turning point in the food fight that has been taking place in this country for over a decade.
An analysis published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine this week (Sept. 17) found that major food companies exceeded their pledge to Michelle Obama that they’ll reduce the calories they sell to consumers.
-
For a half century the idea that saturated fat in foods raises cholesterol and, consequently, causes heart attacks was dogma ostensibly justifying government regulation. The attacks on dietary fat have increased in recent years due to the “war on obesity.” But a new book based on nearly ten years of research has fired a devastating salvo in defense of this designated dietary enemy. The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet by Nina Teicholz traces the origin of the fat myth from its faulty scientific beginning to its discrediting.
-
EducationFeaturedLibertyPolitics
Government Policy: Save the Planet from the Plague of Hungry Humans
by Jim Lakely May 10, 2014Federal guidelines recommend taking great care to feed humanity while being mindful of the carbon footprint consuming food requires … no matter the cost, or the taste.
-
EducationFeatured
School Lunch Expansion: Another Wasteful, Unaffordable Entitlement
by Joy Pullmann November 19, 2013Soon, all public schools will be allowed to enroll all students, regardless of need, into a new federal entitlement: “free” school lunches. This is the second year of a three-year rollout for the program, embedded in Michelle Obama’s Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.
-
Nanny-state activism will not be as effective as market-based reforms.
-
Education
Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Program Leaves Children Hungry
by Joy Pullmann October 7, 2012[First published at The Washington Times.] Students nationwide are boycotting new federal school lunch rules, reverting to brown-bagging it in a mini-revival of individual freedom among the milk-drinking crowd. Michelle…
-
EducationPoliticsTaxes
From School Lunches, to School Breakfasts, to ‘Child Dinners’ with taxpayers grabbing the check
by Jim Lakely January 18, 2011And, no, the term “child dinner” does not mean that moppets are on the menu. They are handed one, though, courtesy of the U.S. Department of Education. Via Julie Gunlock…
-
EducationHealth Care
When Bake Sales Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Bake Sales
by Ben Boychuk December 3, 2010“Drop that brownie, young lady! You’re in violation of Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.” A bit of rhetorical hyperbole? Actually, that might not be too much of an exaggeration…