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THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, February 11, 2010
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Behind every seem- nation’s mayors, traveling with the surgeon the kids. Nearly one-third of U.S. children
ingly good deed in the general and meeting with Congress and are now overweight or obese. The feds spend
Obama White House, cabinet members to reauthorize the Lyndon $15 billion a year on nutrition in schools;
there’s a deep-pock- Johnson-era Child Nutrition Act, which the White House wants at least a $1 billion
eted, left-wing spe- provides government-subsidized meals to increase this coming fiscal year.
cial interest. Take more than 30 million children. It’s part of The well-intended program to feed poor
by michelle malkin
first lady Michelle the Obama administration’s self-proclaimed kids has morphed into an untouchable uni-
Syndicated Columnist Obama’s crusade “cradle-to-career” agenda for America’s versal entitlement with a powerful school-
against childhood youth. lunch lobbying coalition of Department of
obesity. Who really benefits from the os- For decades, school administrators have Agriculture bureaucrats, food-service indus-
tensible push for improved nutrition in the criticized this Great Society relic for out- try executives and union bosses. Enter the
schools? Think purple -- as in the purple- growing its initial conception. The program SEIU. Headed by the White House’s most
shirted army of the Service Employees Inter- was originally created to use up post-World frequent visitor, Andy Stern, the powerful
national Union. Big Labor bigwigs don’t care War II food surpluses. In the late 1970s, New labor organization representing govern-
about slimming your kids’ waistlines. They York principal Lewis Lyman skewered it as ment and private service employees has an
care about beefing up their membership a federal “boondoggle” in a seminal essay insatiable appetite for power and growth.
rolls and fattening their coffers. for the education journal Phi Delta Kap- Working alongside the first lady, the SEIU
Mrs. Obama earned a State of the Union pan. But Democrats demagogued the GOP’s unveiled a major ad campaign this week
address shout-out from her hubby for tak- responsible attempts at financial reform demanding reauthorizing and funding in-
ing on the weighty public policy issue of during the Clinton years as “starving the creases in the Child Nutrition Act.
students’ physical fitness. The East Wing is children.” While spending on youth nutri- What’s in it for Big Labor? SEIU Execu-
now in full campaign mode -- leaning on the tion and wellness have ballooned, so have See mAlkin on 30
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WASHINGTON -- No na- Campaign dinner, he said: “I’m working with pealing Section 654 of Title 10 of the U.S. Code
tion ever has had a the Pentagon, its leadership and the members -- the 1993 statute that bars active homosexu-
better military than of the House and Senate on ending this policy. als from the military -- is a good idea. Instead,
today’s all-volunteer ... I will end ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.’ That’s my the Pentagon already is working to undermine
U.S. armed forces. commitment to you.” the law and allow practicing homosexuals to
Though I wouldn’t Last week, tucked into the closing para- enter and remain in our military.
trade anything for the graphs of his State of the Union address, the According to Gates, “The question before us
young Americans I president said, “This year, I will work with is not whether the military prepares to make
by Oliver north
served with in Viet- Congress and our military to finally repeal this change, but how we best prepare for it.”
Syndicated Columnist
nam -- or afterward -- the law that denies gay Americans the right He announced a yearlong study on how to
those presently wear- to serve the country they love because of who implement a repeal of the law and baldly as-
ing America’s uniforms are the brightest, they are.” Set aside the disingenuous rhetoric. serted that “we have a degree of latitude within
best-educated, best-trained and most combat- (It’s not about “who they are”; it’s really about the existing law to change our internal proce-
experienced military the world ever has seen. “what they do.”) We now know the “repeal” dures in a manner that is more appropriate
Now, in the midst of an unprecedented ninth process is already well under way. and fair to our men and women in uniform.”
year of war and nonstop high-stress deploy- This week, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chair- In other words, in the Obama administration,
ments, their commander in chief intends to man of the Senate Armed Services Committee enforcing the current law, which overwhelm-
put the capabilities of this extraordinary force and an advocate of ending what he calls “this ingly was enacted 17 years ago, no longer
and our nation’s security at risk to carry out discriminatory policy,” convened a remark- matters.
a radical social experiment. able hearing to determine the “next steps” in Gates now acknowledges in the midst of war
During his presidential campaign, Barack “meeting the president’s commitment.” that he is implementing a policy of “selective
Obama frequently promised he would re- Testimony by Defense Secretary Robert enforcement” to disregard a law that clearly
verse the U.S. military’s long-standing policy Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the states that “the presence in the armed forces
prohibiting homosexuals from serving in our Joint Chiefs of Staff, revealed the Department of persons who demonstrate a propensity or
military. Last October, at a Human Rights of Defense isn’t going to evaluate whether re- See nORth on 19
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