**Written by Doug Powers Because of Michelle Obama’s Shake Shack order last Monday, among other food stops, more people are buying burgers, fries and milk shakes. FLOTUS visits are mini-stimulus for restaurants — except these stimulus actually seem to work. Washington Post: Obama Foodarama is reporting that Shake Shack and Eatonville are reporting a “Michelle […]

On July 6, I told you about all the well-heeled spinners in the White House Office of Public Engagement. Their ranks keep on swelling. My column today introduces you to the newly-designed “America’s Champions of Change for the Arts.” Yes, it’s as creepy as it sounds. *** Obama’s Ministers of Culture and Agitprop by Michelle […]

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti *** AmeriCorps’s favorite scandal-plagued mayor by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, FOTO (Friend of the Obamas) A prominent Democratic politician who had been banned from receiving federal aid three years ago over fraud charges is once again raking in government funds from the very same program […]

**Written by Doug Powers Today, a relatively useless government chart will be replaced by a similarly useless but easier to understand chart: (CNN) — Remember the food pyramid, the old symbol that showed us what a healthy diet looked like? Well, forget it. First lady Michelle Obama and several other officials will unveil a new […]

Teach Me How to Dougie! One of the members of the rap group that came up with the 2010 one-hit wonder “Teach Me How to Dougie” died in a drive-by shooting this weekend. He went by the moniker “M-Bone.” The First Lady Michelle Obama was recently seen doing the Dougie at a “Let’s Move” event […]

**Written by Doug Powers A small, local news outlet with a name like “Pleasanton Weekly” doesn’t sound very threatening, but according to an email sent to the Daily Caller, the publication has some journalistic teeth that the White House thought needed to be filed down — specifically, the choppers that made Michelle Obama come across […]

The busybody hand of Michelle Obama looms large. New target: Jell-O, Fruit Loops, and that evil of evils…Minute Maid Lemonade. Via the NYTimes, meet the war (or rather, kinetic action — h/t chap) on dyed foods: After staunchly defending the safety of artificial food colorings, the federal government is for the first time publicly reassessing […]

**Written by Doug Powers How do you say “Let’s Move” in Spanish? President Hugo Chavez urged Venezuelans on Sunday to cut their calories to avoid obesity — the latest lifestyle recommendation by the self-proclaimed socialist crusader. Chavez has lobbied in recent weeks against what he calls the evils of capitalism, including alcoholism, breast implants and […]

**Written by Doug Powers Rest assured, Mike Huckabee will aggressively defend this practice ASAP. From J.P. Freire at the Washington Examiner: With a schedule as hectic as President Obama’s it must be hard to stick to a training regimen without help — but why does he insist on having his old trainer fly out from […]

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own […]

President Obama just completed a news conference this morning. In sum, he “continues to believe he is right” about job-killing tax hikes; insists, like a Disney automaton, that he is the Captain of the Industries of the Future and will punish “energy sources of the past” (the oil and gas you are presently putting in […]

**Written by Doug Powers Have progressive poverty and violence-reduction programs left your neighborhood far too dangerous to let your kids play outside? Not a problem, because in this radio interview, First Lady Michelle Obama, promoting the Let’s Move program, offered parents some tips for giving their children a good urban residential workout. Today’s exercise game: […]

**Written by Doug Powers Michelle Obama is tightly focused on regulating restaurant nutrition and her anti-obesity campaign these days, so last night’s White House Super Bowl party stuck to the “Let’s move” theme — in a “Hey, there’s cheeseburgers and buffalo wings over there, let’s move!” kind of way: The menu, released by the White […]

Chicago on the Potomac, Part 99,967 The other new Chicago crony chief of staff by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2010 Fun fact: Bill Daley isn’t the only new chief of staff in the White House with longtime ties to the Chicago Way. Yep, it’s No Windy City Corporate Lawyer Left Behind Week in the […]

Big Nannies of the Year by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2010 It was a nefarious year for nettlesome nosy-bodies employed by the Nanny State. Here are the top power-grabbers of 2010 who just can’t leave us alone: – New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Two feet of snow paralyzed trains, buses, plows and emergency […]

Profiling?

**Written by Doug Powers Elmo’s already spoken out on behalf of the FCC’s national broadband plan, and now there’s work to be done pushing the Child Nutrition Bill. It’s the least your tax dollars can do. When Elmo turns 65, it’s a good bet he’ll be Andy Griffith’s replacement to lie to senior citizens about […]

**Written by Doug Powers The link between obesity and national security was made earlier this year when “Let’s Move” launched, but now it’s being ratcheted up a notch. There’s nothing like salivating over another industry takeover to make the left express concern for the military recruiting effort: First Lady Michelle Obama plans to warn in […]

**Written by Doug Powers And then the Health Police™ came for the cupcakes: A child nutrition bill on its way to President Barack Obama — and championed by the first lady — gives the government power to limit school bake sales and other fundraisers that health advocates say sometimes replace wholesome meals in the lunchroom. […]

Another Big Labor/Big Gov pet project comes up for a vote in the House today. The federal child nutrition bill will get an up-or-down vote after wrangling on both sides of the aisle. It will be paid for through cuts in the food stamp program, which the White House promises Dems it will repay. Ha. […]

**Written by Doug Powers For those of you who were waiting for the official go-ahead, I’ve got some very good news: What a relief! No tree bark and lawn clippings for dessert this year! I haven’t felt this liberated since Tipper Gore gave a very reluctant nod to **playing Alice Cooper albums (**on Halloween only). […]

Worth the weight

Goodbye, Susan Sher. Hello, Tina Tchen. Readers of Culture of Corruption are already familiar with the name “Susan Sher.” Sher is Michelle Obama’s old boss at the University of Chicago Medical Center (where they worked together on the infamous patient-dumping scheme no one wants to talk about) and a former Mayor Richard Daley attorney. She […]

**Written by Doug Powers Okay, before you read on about how Michelle Obama is saying we’ve come too far to turn back now and that she knows how difficult it is for people but if you only give it enough time you’ll fall in love with Hope & Change, it might be a good idea […]

**Written by Doug Powers The last ballot will have barely been cast on election day when the Obamas will be on their way out of the country. It’s in the president’s selfless, humble nature to not want to be a distraction to the Democrat victory celebrations here and instead focus on world issues. While in […]