Evidence
Great Resource
Found this article which basically has everything you could possibly need to write an affirmative. In my lecture on the first affirmative constructive I mention finding the solvency advocate to make writing your case easy… here is an example! I think this study can also be helpful on the negative to counter any small cases [...]
Back to the financial debate
Saw this article in the NYT today on Road and Rail Spending Proposals Stall as Lawmakers Punt on Revenue Fix Off the Hill, however, most transportation experts agree you cannot address the nation’s infrastructure without a new revenue source. As some contended on this post (and this one on funding) this quotation is proof that [...]
Stimulus package – not enough?
Saw this article regarding the impact of the Stimulus package on transportation infrastructure. I think an interesting negative strategy this year will be to claim that the stimulus should have already solved – this article makes the argument that we will still be facing problems next year: And while the owners of construction firms are [...]
Full Citation or Last name & Year?
Again, a round of thank yous to Dr. Kasle for organizing the RCC debate camp last month. It was a terrific experience for me the day I was there and helpful to a lot of students and coaches from around the country. We had a great discussion at the camp regarding the rule regarding evidence [...]
Google Alerts – the lazy research technique
At the RCC debate camp I mentioned briefly the ability to sign up for google alerts to do some of your research for you. I thought it might be helpful to explain how to do this in more detail. Here is a video explaining how to use google alerts generally: Some of my thoughts on [...]
23 USC Section 101
We will likely become very familiar with 23 US Code this year as it has lots of official policy information about domestic transportation infrastructure. Here is the definitions section which may help people when they are researching. It includes 35 definitions of key terms for domestic transportation policy. There could also be a lot of [...]
A good year for counterplans?
While last year seemed near impossible to run good counterplans based on the requirements of the NFA-LD rules for counterplans, this year seems really solid. Specifically, the rules state that counterplans: The negative may present one counterproposal specific to the affirmative problem area. By this, we mean that the counterproposal must deal with the problem [...]
2009 NFA-LD Debate Cooperative Evidence Set
The 2009 NFA-LD Debate Cooperative Evidence Set is available for download. You can download the file at: http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~forensics/2009 NFA-LD Debate Cooperative Evidence Set.pdf Last year, I heard a few complaints that the camp evidence was still being relied on late into the season. My advice is to not let that happen this year. This year’s [...]
Surface Transportation Authorization Act of 2009 Case
For next week’s camp at RCC I wanted to put together a quick beginner case to hand out to participants. This way, in case anyone is lost with this topic, you’ll have some evidence. Here it is, on the STA ACT – 1AC – Aug 2009 (here are all the STA ACT – cards 1 [...]
Inherency – taken care of?
I was going through one the links in the past post and found this gem for inherency: Smith 2009 [Scott | Kansas City Star $500 billion plan to upgrade U.S. transportation hits federal pothole, p.online | 07/13/2009 | Accessed 08-05-09 ~ http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/1322647.html !DJC] Unfortunately, Oberstar’s bill has collided with a proposal put forth by Transportation [...]
Backfiles
I just want to remind everyone that the site has over 60 free evidence files from that past three years available on the evidence page for free for anyone to download. One of my goals for this site when I first created it was to house example evidence so new debaters and programs could get [...]
Resources updated
Thanks to Michael Miller for posting so many great resources here and on debate cooperative. I’ve updated the resources section of this site to include places to help you research for this year. If you come across any good sites please post them here. (If you are looking for Cuba resources click here). NOTE: I’m [...]
