Public Transit & Light Rail Neg
Here is an article I found that has some great neg cards against a public transit case or light rail. It is a bit dated (2003) with one particularly damaging quotation regarding public transit: The “race” between the automobile and public transit is over. The auto has won. Nothing short of an economic debacle that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Travel Ban Files
Thanks again to Will Chamberlin from Univ of Pacific for sending him an example affirmative and negative case on the Travel Ban case. Here, again, are great examples of what you want for files. Quick note – these are the versions at the end of the year – they are a product of a full [...]
Sample Disadvantage
Thanks to Will Chamberlin from UoP for sending in this sample disadvantage based on oil drilling. It really is an outstanding file and one that would be good for everyone to review and see how to construct a quality disadvantage file for NFA-LD. Drilling Disadvantage Here is the negative answers in case anyone ran the [...]
Generic Neg Evidence
As PSCFA Fall Champs approaches I’m sure a lot of students will be attending their first NFA-LD tournament of the semester. One of the things that always reassured me as a debater was to have a set of evidence that would apply to 99% of cases the affirmative can run. Here is a set of [...]
Wow – inaccurate quotations from the McCain campaign?
We’ve talked about how to cut evidence before but it’s always a good thing to brush up on. Cards are the evidence that you read during a debate round. They should include three things: Tag, Citation, Quotation. The tag is a one sentence summary of the point of the article. Avoid powertagging or removing qualifiers [...]
Interesting Article on Cuba Economy
Great article from INHT available here. Discusses both the fact that Cuba’s economy is was growing before the hurricane, and that the way the Cuban economy is measured may be circumspect. Good article to cut for both aff and neg! Cuba’s measurement of GDP includes spending on free health care, education through college and monthly [...]
Generic Neg Evidence
Here is some evidence that we prepared for the last tournament to run against every (topical) case. It may not be the best negative evidence but it something to read against solvency. Again, like other individual events, I like that in NFA-LD we can constantly improve our evidence and cases. Until Nationals, I would always [...]
Finding articles
Google news provides an excellent service of ‘alerts.’ These are automatic emails to any email account based on certain keywords. Right after the Cuba topic was announced I setup an alert for Cuba and everyday Google sends me a email with major articles about Cuba. It’s great for debate because you can setup tons of [...]
