by Lydia Bode | Dec 23, 2012 | Bonus Evidence
Damaging or strengthen relations with other countries or reducing the tendency of the United States to be a global policeman are important issues. But sometimes the most fundamental parts of government (money) decide which programs or commitments go, and which ones...
by BrennaBakke | Dec 17, 2012 | Research Tips
I’ll never forget the moment. It was my third year of debate (revenue generation policies) and my partner and I were at our second tournament together. Both of us hated research and our evidence box was in a very sorry shape. In round 2, we hit a young team that ran a...
by Drew | Nov 19, 2012 | Lincoln-Douglas, Strategy
I wrote a version of this for HSD (homeschooldebate.com) a while back, but the Ethos blog-master wanted me to write up a version for Ethos in case you missed the article before. This article is more closely affiliated with a stream of consciousness, than a...
by Zack Voell | Sep 21, 2012 | Coaching, Communication/Rhetoric, Technique
“Humor has always played an important role in argument, sometimes as the sugar that makes the medicine go down. You can slip humor into an argument to put readers at ease, thereby making them more open to a proposal you have to offer.” Unfortunately,...
by Zack Voell | Sep 12, 2012 | From Novice to Intermediate, Technique, Tournaments
Taken/compiled from “The Debate Bible”, by Jon Bruschke Partner Interaction: 1. DO NOT interrupt your prepping partner unless they explicitly ask for your help. Immediately before they get up to speak, you get 30 seconds to tell them the 3 or 4 most...
by Zack Voell | Aug 14, 2012 | Bonus Evidence
Foreign Policy In Focus 09 – US pays $250 billion annually for overseas military bases Anita Dancs, [assistant professor of economics at Western New England College, Foreign Policy In Focus analyst], “The Cost of the Global U.S. Military Presence”,...