Archive for March, 2008
Next year’s topic discussion
Next year the topic area is Latin America. Not sure how happy I am to have another international topic – I think for educational balance and to grab as many people as possible it’s good to rotate each year so people who prefer debating domestic get a year and people who prefer international get a [...]
Drought Insurance – alternative solvency?
It appears there has been some new developments regarding drought in the Greater Horn from the EU. Here are some recent articles: Relief Web All Africa afriquenligne Share on Facebook
Debate Central
Here is a website for high school debate called debate central that has tons of free evidence that you could easily use for NFA-LD debate. Included is an interesting Pakistan tradeoff disadvantage that says any new aid to Africa will cut aid to Pakistan and lead to political collapse – yikes! Share on Facebook
Terrorism Aid – not inherent?
This may be a good article if your case involves terrorism assistance – I think there may be an inherency problem since: The mission of U.S. troops in Operation Horn of Africa is to detect, disrupt and defeat transnational terrorist groups in the region and to support coalition partner efforts to deny opportunity for re-emergence [...]
2008 PSCFA Spring Champs
Congrats to the following debate schools for participating in NFA-LD at the 2008 PSCFA Spring Champs. NFA-LD had 20 initial entries which dropped to 16 once round 1 began. The following six schools participated: Cal Baptist Cerritos College El Camino NAU Orange Coast Santiago Canyon Following the four prelim rounds it was a brutal break [...]
Great Testimony from Amnesty International
This is from the recent Senate hearing posted earlier here. Human rights concerns not the priority for US policy makers in Horn of Africa Fredriksson 2008 (Centering Human Rights in U.S. Policy on Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, Subcommittee on African Affairs, Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Testimony by Lynn Fredriksson, Advocacy Director for [...]
Two New Videos
I’m happy to announce that there are two more NFA-LD videos available online at Google video. The first is a prelim round from the 2007 PSCFA Fall Champs. The other is from the final gold round at the 2008 Southern California LD Champs. Thanks to all four debaters for allowing me to record their rounds. [...]
Some files From El Camino
Francesca Bishop, debate coach at El Camino College, sent in these introductory files for NFA-LD to be posted on the blog – thanks! It’s great that we are starting to develop a community of NFA-LD debate schools who are willing to help everyone out with free evidence to get started. No need to give away [...]
Upcoming Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee hearing on “EVALUATING U.S. POLICY OPTIONS ON THE HORN OF AFRICA”
Seems pretty important for NFA-LD debaters!!! The committee should put up all the written material up on the website. Talk about updating your evidence! Here is the list of speakers If anyone is free this Tuesday the meeting is at Time: 10:15 A.M. in SD-419 The Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington D.C. Let me [...]
Somalia Background
Interesting article here from the Jerusalem Post on US policy in Somalia. Good background information and some evidence about US policy (inherency cards). Share on Facebook
Interesting Neg Approach
This may be a good neg solvency card on any case that sends money. From the Economist. Growth in Africa constrained not by lack of funding but by weak political commitment, poor planning and conviction that a foreign donor or lender will come to the rescue Economist Feb 19, 2008 (“Buy Africa”, http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10715043) It is [...]
NYT Article on Food Aid
Came across this interesting article on Food Aid Policy in the NY Times. I know a lot of teams are running cases related to food aid. Malnutrition can be fatal. Every year, it contributes to the death of five million children under the age of 5. But more of the same kind of food aid [...]
