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My final summer at Camp Rock Enon, 1970, shortly before finishing requirements for Eagle<\/p><\/div>\n

Chicago AM 560 and Salem Radio<\/a><\/strong> host Dan Proft<\/strong><\/a> and I had fun in this 13 minute interview hammering the TSA, statue-hating rioters, overheated school reformers, and Boy Scout leaders who are virtue-signaling the Scouts into extinction.\u00a0\u00a0 The Scouts announced last week that they will require a new “Diversity and Inclusion” merit badge to qualify for Eagle rank<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Will the new merit badge feature ashes and sackcloth, or what?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/section>\n

The skills I most enjoyed learning in the Scouts<\/a> \u2013 building fires, camping in winter, shooting white water rapids in a canoe \u2013 involved getting your hands dirty and surviving bumps and bruises. While attending a National Scout Jamboree in Idaho, I also learned how much I dislike marching in step wit<\/a>h thousands of other people. Scouting taught me to view minor hardships simply as transaction costs for great adventures. The Scouts are ill-advised to shift away from their rough-and-tumble heritage. The people who hate the Scouts will never be mollified no matter how much groveling Scout leaders do to the latest social justice warrior fashions.<\/section>\n
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