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A Boy's Life or Death

Scott McConnell | 22 March 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.

The Un-American Call for National Service

Alex Epstein | 21 September 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.

Nurseries of Illiteracy and Vandalism

Edward Cline | 18 June 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.

"Giving Back": Involuntary Servitude for the Young

Michael Hurd | 26 April 2004
The principle of "giving back" through coerced "national service" is in utter opposition to the foundations of a free society.

A Boy's Life or Death

Scott McConnell | 2 November 2003
James was 13, black and a young man in a hurry.

Forced Volunteerism is an Oxymoron

David Ragaini | 15 January 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?

The Conservative Cult of Human Sacrifice

Nicholas Provenzo | 24 December 2002
Rather than save the nation's heart and soul, I think compulsory universal service would destroy it.

Giving Back

Walter Williams | 30 March 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.

The Collectivist Notion of "Giving Back to Society"

Ron Pisaturo | 11 February 2002
Almost universally accepted today is the notion that successful, wealthy people should "give back" much of their wealth.

America's Descent Into Servitude II

Emmanuel Forgolou | 25 May 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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