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Following along on the theme we emphasized yesterday, NY Sun editors write on Broder’s column.
Instapundit posts on the Sun editorial.
We get a look at the quinquennial farm bill which proves Bismarck’s dictum; Men should not know how their laws and sausages are made.” This comes to us two different ways; a LA Times editorial on sugar tariffs and an article on the farm bill from NY Times.
A few years ago, an obesity researcher at the University of Washington named Adam Drewnowski ventured into the supermarket to solve a mystery. He wanted to figure out why it is that the most reliable predictor of obesity in America today is a person’s wealth. For most of history, after all, the poor have typically suffered from a shortage of calories, not a surfeit. So how is it that today the people with the least amount of money to spend on food are the ones most likely to be overweight?
Drewnowski gave himself a hypothetical dollar to spend, using it to purchase as many calories as he possibly could. He discovered that he could buy the most calories per dollar in the middle aisles of the supermarket, among the towering canyons of processed food and soft drink. (In the typical American supermarket, the fresh foods — dairy, meat, fish and produce — line the perimeter walls, while the imperishable packaged goods dominate the center.) Drewnowski found that a dollar could buy 1,200 calories of cookies or potato chips but only 250 calories of carrots. Looking for something to wash down those chips, he discovered that his dollar bought 875 calories of soda but only 170 calories of orange juice. …
… The reason the least healthful calories in the supermarket are the cheapest is that those are the ones the farm bill encourages farmers to grow. …
Neal Boortz posts on the Bush veto.
Any discussion of the president’s veto of the Democrats surrender bill must begin with the realization of one simple, basic, incontrovertible fact. The Democrat leadership of this country awakes every single day with one desire on their mind: They want a day of bad news from Iraq. Those Democrat leaders who actually pray are praying for our defeat in Iraq. Every bit of bad news from Iraq brings smiles to Democrat faces. Every bit of good news brings sadness.
Tony Blankley writes on Muslim hatred of the West.
Mark Steyn with a Corner post on the same subject.
David Boaz was in Tech Central with our May Month Remembrance of the Victims of Communism. He wants to know where the anti-communist movies are?
The Hurwitz jurors explain their verdict for John Tierney.
John Stossel writes on the school choice wars.
NY City bans aluminum bats. WSJ has an editorial.