Servitude to the state
Whatever this group “Service Nation” is all about, it sure isn’t liberty. Jim Lindgren has their number (Volokh Conspiracy, several recent posts; Coyote; Althouse). But see: the organization now denies...
View ArticleNewTalk: “What should universal national service look like?”
Can we make “nonexistent” one of the options? P.S. Relatedly, or not, Democratic candidate Obama has called for making women register for the draft. Tweet Tags: national service NewTalk: “What should...
View Article“Community service”? Yep, mandatory (Update: they’ve revised)
Well, that didn’t take long. Coyote spots language on the Obama transition site that seems to make explicit what was left studiously vague during the campaign: Obama will call on citizens of all ages...
View ArticleWelcome Instapundit (and Change.gov!) readers
Quite an eventful night here: after Glenn Reynolds linked to my item on the Obama transition website and the plans it outlined for mandatory national service, upwards of five thousand visitors read the...
View ArticleNational service: Ben Smith (Politico) misses the story
He’s oh-so-dismissive of John Derbyshire for overreacting to an Obama national service plan that (in Smith’s words) “is, whatever its merits, voluntary”. His commenters pile on. Meanwhile, Smith...
View ArticleRahm Emanuel and compulsory universal service
We said something relatively nice yesterday about the president-elect’s incoming chief of staff, but there’s no way to sugar-coat one of the less appealing items on the Illinois congressman’s record:...
View ArticleNovember 14 roundup
Pajamas TV interviews me on Obama cabinet prospects (RFK Jr., Caroline Kennedy, Schwarzenegger, Gorelick, etc.) (Nov. 13, subscription-only) Federal court in New Orleans hits attorney with five-year...
View ArticleMicroblog 2008-11-19
Some backers of big national service plan say better roll it out now before the crisis atmosphere passes [Welch, Reason "Hit and Run"] Sorry ma’am, if hubby’s policy excludes coverage for injury to...
View ArticleAugust 21 roundup
More criticism of $671 million California nursing home verdict [Tracy Leach/Examiner, California Civil Justice, earlier] Community service as precondition for college tax credits? [Charlotte...
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