There have been a lot of bad ideas promoted by government over the years.  Some doozies have been Carter's support for radical jihadists during the Russian-Afghanistan war; deficit spending; and, of course, Obamacare.  All three of those decisions made by our leaders have risen up to bite us in the butt over the last decade or more. But Michelle Obama's "healthy" school lunch program may have the virtue of being the dumbest idea, if not the most expensive.  The proof is in the results.  School districts, faced with mandatory menu changes that substituted unpalatable foods for what the government considers "unhealthy" fare, discovered a revolt on their hands from kids who refused to buy the swill and threw out record amounts of perfectly good food.  The program was a spectacular failure that now, mercifully, is probably coming to an ignoble end. The lobbying group representing 54,000 school cafeteria workers sent a letter to...(Read Full Post)