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	<description>with Coach Vance Trefethen</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 04:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>2008-2009 Resolution Voting</title>
		<link>http://www.strategicdebate.com/2008/05/2008-2009-resolution-voting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.strategicdebate.com/2008/05/2008-2009-resolution-voting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 04:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NCFCA has released the 3 choices for the 2008-2009 academic year in Policy Debate, as shown below:
A - Resolved: That the U.S. should significantly change its foreign policy toward one or more of the following countries: Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru.
B - Resolved: That the United States should reform its policies to substantially reduce world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See You At Nationals</title>
		<link>http://www.strategicdebate.com/2008/05/see-you-at-nationals-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.strategicdebate.com/2008/05/see-you-at-nationals-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 15:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I look forward to seeing many of you in a couple weeks at Nationals in Birmingham, Ala.  I plan to be there on Thursday and Friday of the week-long festivities.  Stop by the Training Minds table during the week to meet the writers, publisher and coaches who put together the Blue Book and Red Book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican Official Endorses Border Fence</title>
		<link>http://www.strategicdebate.com/2008/05/mexican-official-endorses-border-fence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.strategicdebate.com/2008/05/mexican-official-endorses-border-fence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 23:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the harms of illegal immigration from Mexico to the US that has often been overlooked by Affirmative teams is &#8220;harm to Mexico.&#8221;  Is it good for a country to lose large chunks of its able-bodied working population ever year?  What if all those hard-working people stayed home and built Mexico into a strong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Current State of Border Enforcement</title>
		<link>http://www.strategicdebate.com/2008/04/current-state-of-border-enforcement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.strategicdebate.com/2008/04/current-state-of-border-enforcement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this Apr 2008 article from the LA Times on the current state of US enforcement efforts at the Mexican border.  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/latinamerica/la-na-chertoff19apr19,1,2162957.story
It covers issues like expanding the Border Patrol, the partial fence currently under construction, the attempts at building a &#8220;virtual fence,&#8221; and the question of how serious the Administration is about really doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debate Camps - 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.strategicdebate.com/2008/04/debate-camps-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.strategicdebate.com/2008/04/debate-camps-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Colorado (Aug. 27-Sept. 1)
California (Sept. 25-29)
Virginia (Oct. 30-Nov. 3)
This is the schedule for 2008 Training Minds Debate Camps.  More info is available at www.trainingminds.org.
These camps have had a fantastic growth in popularity since starting with 12 students around my dining room table in 2003.  Today, we have hundreds of debaters from all over the country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask Coach Vance: Effects Topicality with Illegal Immigration</title>
		<link>http://www.strategicdebate.com/2008/03/ask-coach-vance-effects-topicality-with-illegal-immigration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.strategicdebate.com/2008/03/ask-coach-vance-effects-topicality-with-illegal-immigration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q.  What is your advice for dealing with &#8220;effects topical&#8221; cases this year? There&#8217;s a team in our region running a case that runs on the premise that if we fix our legal immigration system, we can solve for illegal immigration. It doesn&#8217;t sound topical, but they defend it by defining the word &#8220;on&#8221; to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask Coach Vance:  Impacting Dropped Arguments</title>
		<link>http://www.strategicdebate.com/2008/03/ask-coach-vance-impacting-dropped-arguments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.strategicdebate.com/2008/03/ask-coach-vance-impacting-dropped-arguments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vance</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Q.  Hi! I was wondering what is the best way to explain the impact and “seriousness” of dropped arguments to a community judge. I’ve found that they don’t care too much (and I totally understand why- it seems like a technicality) but it would help us a way for it to make sense to them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona does Basic Pilot / E-Verify</title>
		<link>http://www.strategicdebate.com/2008/02/arizona-does-basic-pilot-e-verify/</link>
		<comments>http://www.strategicdebate.com/2008/02/arizona-does-basic-pilot-e-verify/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got back from India Friday afternoon and finally got around to updating the blog here.  I&#8217;ll be judging at tournaments the next two weekends here in N.C.  Meanwhile, I know many of you are running Basic Pilot / E-Verify cases.  You might want to check out this link:  http://www.reason.com/blog/#124914
&#8230;which also has links to other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debate Camp Success Stories</title>
		<link>http://www.strategicdebate.com/2008/01/debate-camp-success-stories-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.strategicdebate.com/2008/01/debate-camp-success-stories-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to some alumni of 2007 Training Minds Blue Book Debate Camp who have recently won awards at big tournaments out west.
At a recent California tournament, 2 of the 4 teams that qualified for Nationals were 2007 Camp alumni:
Nicholas Townes / Esther Townes
December Rutledge / Aaron Krive
And in Utah for Region 3&#8217;s regional qualifier, both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Debaters - A Great Movie</title>
		<link>http://www.strategicdebate.com/2008/01/great-debaters-a-great-movie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.strategicdebate.com/2008/01/great-debaters-a-great-movie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 03:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went and saw THE GREAT DEBATERS over Christmas break, with my wife.  Fantastic movie.  It brought back a lot of memories of my own experiences.  Not in the 1930s, of course, and I didn&#8217;t have to deal with any racial issues in my environment.  But driving to tournaments for long hours with the coach [...]]]></description>
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