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• 08.31.09
  Politics Post on Planet Debate
  The 3NR (0)

  Stefan has posted a brief 411 on the politics disad for the start of the year. I agree with his sentiment that if you are going to read an Obama good disad you should read healthcare so I won’t belabor that point. But I do think the article was a little light on where the disad will most likely get pushed- which is Obama bad disads. Nothing is gonna pass, there is way to much division in the democratic party. The amount of link cards written for a winners win style Obama needs to take command link is ridiculous.
  
  
• 08.31.09
  Killer moths (shades of Mieville), killer PSATs, killer tweets, killer dummies
  Coachean Life (0)

  This is the last day of August. Once again we wonder how we managed to squander an entire summer without feeling as if summer ever happened. In the northeast, this was possibly the worst weather ever, with a couple of nice days but mostly rain whenever you needed sun, and cold whenever you need warm, and generally bleeech whenever you needed aahhhhh. So it goes. If past were meteorological prelude, the coming winter would look like something out of some story with a lot of winter in it (I can’t think of one offhand, so you’ll have to be a ...
  
  
• 08.31.09
  Debating Struggles with Modern USA Trends and Thrives
  Global Debate (0)

  Image by Miss Lyndsy via FlickrFrom http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090820/COL01/908230311/1019/EDIT/Amid+blogs++tweets++art+of+debate+keeps+us+civil August 20, 2009Amid blogs, tweets, art of debate keeps us civil Editorials By Krista Ramseykramsey@enquirer.com Civilization, John Ruskin said, is the making of civil persons.In a world of venomous blogs and catty tweets, this is no small
  
  
• 08.31.09
  Come to the Kaiser
  Victory Briefs Daily (0)

  MONTICELLO, N.Y. — The twenty-second annual Dr. Robert J. Kaiser Invitational at Monticello High School — better known simply as “the Kaiser” — will take place this year on October 9 and 10, 2009. Information for the tournament is now online on Tabroom.com; registration will open tomorrow, September 1, at the same site.
  
  
• 08.31.09
  Utilitarianism and Deontology, or, the only time I’ll ever argue against bacon
  Lucy does some 'splaining (0)

  In my last post about impact comparisons, I made the point that "magnitude" is usually a straightforward comparison - which war is worse, which policy harms the economy more, which impact should we avoid if we want to save the most lives. Comparing the size of two impacts is easy if they are both measured in dollars or lives, but what if there is no such apples-to-apples comparison? How do you compare an economic collapse to the existence of institutional racism? How do you evaluate a policy which ends a human rights violation, but risks starting a war?On the scale ...
  
  
• 08.31.09
  Australs Videos Now Available
  Global Debate (0)

  Thanks to Logan of Korea and his debaters for making these and making them available. The final is above.FINALS2009 Australasian Intervarsity Debating Champions: Monash University 1(Amit Golder, Tim Jeffrie, Fiona Prowse)Runners-Up: Victoria University of Wellington 1(Polly Higbee, Stephen Whittington, Ella Edginton)Grand Final Topic: "That Palestine should accept demilitarisation inreturn for a
  
  
• 08.30.09
  Adam Torson: Minnesota Coach of the Year Nominee
  Victory Briefs Daily (0)

  MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — I would like to congratulate Victory Briefs’s own Adam Torson, who is one of two outstanding individuals nominated as Minnesota Debate Teachers Association Coach of the Year. The other nominee is Jason Johnson of Henry Sibley High School. Well-deserved recognition for both Minnesota debate community leaders!
  
  
• 08.30.09
  Fairness Impact
  The 3NR, Uncategorized (0)

  I found this going through a bunch of old files of “misc” stuff that I never organized into an actual file. Larry Cata Backer* Executive Director, Tulsa Comparative & International Law Center, Professor of Law, University of Tulsa College of Law; B.A. 1977 Brandeis University; M.P.P. 1979 Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; J.D. 1982 Columbia University University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review Summer, 1999 Our goal must be fairness. Fairness is a condition with perhaps an immutable definition but with a complex and transitory application. Fairness tolerates difference, but fairness ought not to tolerate disadvantage, either within a group ...
  
  
• 08.30.09
  My Evidence is Better
  PFDebate Blog (0)

  The 3NR has a nice article about how to compare conflicting evidence.
  
  
• 08.30.09
  Colombia Calls for Open TV Debate on US Military Ties
  Global Debate (0)

  From http://en.mercopress.com/2009/08/27/colombia-calls-for-open-live-tv-debate-on-all-regional-military-issues Go Thursday, August 27th 2009 - 8:33 am UTC Colombia calls for open, live TV debate on all regional military issues Colombia wants the coming Unasur (Union of South American nations) summit in Argentina to be open to all media ...
  
  

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