volokh.com - 11/8/2008
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Mandatory Community Service and Labor Unions: InstaPundit, OverLawyered, and Coyote point to the Obama transition site , which says: The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation’s challenges. President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like ...
volokh.com - 11/3/2008
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McCain and Obama: Stark Contrast on Guns Rights
That's the title for my guest op-ed in this...
morning's Denver Post . John McCain disagrees with the NRA (and me) on the gun show issue, and he said so when he spoke at the NRA's annual member meeting this ...
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volokh.com - 11/5/2008
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Obama the Second African-American President?: No, given the
social construction of race, he's clearly the first. But,...
here's a trivia question: which 20th-century president was "accused" of having recent black ancestry, responded to those rumors with ...
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volokh.com - 11/6/2008
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Not so fast: Is Prop 8 an "amendment"
or a "revision"? The state constitutional challenge to Prop...
8 turns out to be more interesting than I initially supposed. The California constitution recognizes two types of changes: "revisions" and "amendments." ...
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America Serves — but who and how?
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... voluntary volunteers.) Radley Balko wonders what kind of service would prove credit-worthy. Something tells me that you’d be more likely to get one of Obama’s vouchers by going door to door for one of ACORN’s living wage campaigns than, say, volunteering for a libertarian nonprofit organization that advocates against things like government-mandated community service. Eugene Volokh raises another point: If national servants are assigned real jobs, what about the people doing that work now? If, for instance, college students help out in schools, I take it there’d be fewer jobs ...
The Obama campaign air-brushes out his call for mandatory service
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... contributing to their family's welfare by working? What about kids who are needed to babysit younger siblings? And do some of these groups really want a kid who has been forced to volunteer coming in an hour or so a week? Someone has to supervise that kid and find something for the kid to actually do that would be helpful. It's not that charities don't want volunteers, but they want those who come willing and eager to help, not forced into it by an all-knowing federal government. Eugene Volokh points out the concerns that unions might have if, for example, student aides in ...
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