BY LARRY O’CONNOR

Pokemon GO just accomplished the impossible: It got my kid to voluntarily go for a 3 mile walk! More on that miracle in a moment, let’s first have a teachable moment on the free market versus failed government programs.

Apparently, the only tangible accomplishment of the First Lady’s program was to get kids to reject food that looked and tasted like cardboard.

If making viral videos dancing with Jimmy Fallon isn’t going to get kids off the sofa and exercising, what will?

So my son wanted to go walk 5K to hatch his egg.

A 3 mile walk has been inspired not by a government program. Not by congressional fiat. Not by Dear Leader’s command. Not by a PE teacher or even by the cajoling of a concerned parent. No. My son was inspired to walk 3 mile because he wanted to do it so he could complete a task in a game that he wanted to win.

It’s obvious what I did next, right?

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