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A Boy's Life or Death
by Scott McConnell
(March 22, 2009)
James Long jumped out of bed and into his clothes. While rushing from his tiny bedroom plastered with photos of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and King's Quest, he grabbed a bag of computer disks off his work desk. James was 13, black and a young man in a hurry.
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The Un-American Call for National Service
by Alex Epstein
(September 21, 2007)
To call service to a collectivist state pro-American is perverse. To preserve our great nation, we must embrace not the subjugation of the individual to the state, but his sovereign right to the pursuit of his own happiness.
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Nurseries of Illiteracy and Vandalism
by Edward Cline
(June 18, 2004)
The phenomenon of uneducated and semi-literate college graduates has grown worse and wider, abetted by heavy doses of political correctness, 'diversity enrichment,' and the de-emphasis on if not the discarding of 'Western Civilization' studies in history and literature. And, over the last decade, a new species of pedagogical vandalism has been added to the mandatory 'social studies' curriculum: 'volunteer' service.
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"Giving Back": Involuntary Servitude for the Young
by Michael J. Hurd
(April 26, 2004)
The principle of "giving back" through coerced "national service" is in utter opposition to the foundations of a free society.
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A Boy's Life or Death
by Scott A. McConnell
(November 2, 2003)
James was 13, black and a young man in a hurry.
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Forced Volunteerism is an Oxymoron
by David Ragaini
(January 15, 2003)
The Palm Beach County School Board is once again considering mandatory volunteerism as a requirement for graduation from high school. Does no one on the Board understand that forced volunteerism is an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms?
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The Conservative Cult of Human Sacrifice
by Nicholas Provenzo
(December 24, 2002)
Rather than save the nation's heart and soul, I think compulsory universal service would destroy it.
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Giving Back
by Walter Williams
(March 30, 2002)
In our society, there are people who should give back. These are the thieves and social parasites who live forcibly at the expense of others.
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The Collectivist Notion of "Giving Back to Society"
by Ron Pisaturo
(February 11, 2002)
Almost universally accepted today is the notion that successful, wealthy people should "give back" much of their wealth.
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America's Descent Into Servitude II
by Emmanuel Forgolou
(May 25, 2001)
If you think that in law and in fact all Americans are free, THINK AGAIN!!! Insidious ideas have taken root in intellectual circles and now their claws are creeping into the law and unchallenged they grow in strength everyday which will eventually reduce America, the land of the free, into a slave nation.
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