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Regarding the juvenile justice resolution , I've seen several successful Aff cases that are based on providing full due process rights ...

Wishful--I mean, political--scientists have invented a democracy barometer. The barometer uses 100 empirical indicators to measure how well...

The Jan/Feb 2011 juvenile justice resolution has prompted another reader question. Dear Mr. Anderson/Jim Anderson/Decorabilia, Bri Cast...

David Arkush, in "Situating Emotion: A Critical Realist View of Emotion and Nonconscious Cognitive Processes for Law and Legal Theory,...

Regarding the juvenile justice resolution for Jan/Feb 2011 , a couple readers write, Hi Jim, We are wondering if you help us. We have rec...

This past Sunday, I was fortunate to be invited to the 2011 Northwest Round Robin . Eight of the region's sharpest LDers dueled in six ...

Federal Way High School has no wireless. Eastside Catholic School blocks email, Twitter, and blogs. (Blogs, ECHS? Really?) Hence, I have...

(A work in progress. Suggestions, questions, and criticisms are welcomed in the comments.) As a debate coach, I spend at least half my job...

By Guest-Blogger Bri Castellini most applicable to Public Forum and traditional LD debate My dad hates watching gymnastics and figure sk...

One of my favorite perpetual headlines around these parts is "School activities canceled due to threat of snow." Today's varia...

By Guest-Blogger Bri Castellini I debated Public Forum all of my junior year of high school with my best friend and now Marine Corps soldi...

Regarding the juvenile justice resolution , one of the more intriguing Affirmative arguments I heard this weekend considered age as an arbit...

By Guest-Blogger Bri Castellini In my first post, the first commenter (identified only as Anonymous ) asked for a generic list of Aff/Neg...

By Guest-Blogger Bri Castellini I'm one of those crazy people that actually read the monstrosity that is Atlas Shrugged , Ayn Rand...

By Guest-Blogger Bri Castellini Jim has granted me the privilege of occasionally guest blogging on the topics of LD, so to build myself up...

This is the seventh in an annual tradition, and because I am lazy, bereft of ideas, and still moping about with a shoulder injury, there are...

Denis Dutton , founder of the essential Arts and Letters Daily , has passed away. Nick Gillespie's kind words are worth reading. In ef...

Regarding the LD January-February 2011 topic , a reader writes, How would I counter the neg claim that recidivism rates are lower in juveni...

Problem : You have a separated shoulder, requiring ice every few hours. But you can't just hold a Ziploc bag up there for twenty minute...

A reader, H Siddiqi , has answered the call and offered to guest-blog. The topic: using theory in LD. So a lot of you have probably hear...