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Month: March 2011
Here are the results of the Vestavia Hills High School Tournament, held on February 25th-26th at Vestavia Hills High School in Vestavia Hills, Alabama. The tournament was a TOC qualifier and all finalists received TOC bids. We appreciate the tournament sendings us the results so we could post them here.
Champion: Teddy Huerta (Dickson County High School, Tennessee)
2nd: Alexandria Gilbert (Lamp High School, Alabama)
3rd: Jared Keys (Oak Grove High School, Mississippi)
4th: Sam Hurd (Montgomery Bell Academy, Tennessee)
5th: Armand Jhala (Montgomery Bell Academy, Tennessee)
6th: Sam Weien (Montgomery Bell Academy, Tennessee)
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Here are the results of the 2011 Alaska State Activities Association/First National Bank High School Drama, Debate, & Forensics Championships, held on February 17th-19th, 2011. All of these extempers have earned automatic qualifications to the 2011 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions at Northwestern University.
U.S. Extemp
Champion: Jesse Lehman (South Anchorage High School)
2nd: Bexley Brown (South Anchorage High School)
3rd: Zephyr Feryok (Sitka High School)
4th: Nathaniel Rubin (West Anchorage High School)
5th: Sydney Treuer (West Anchorage High School)
6th: Orion Cohen (Juneau-Douglas High School)
Here are the results of the Newark CFL #5 Tournament, held at Ridge High School in Basking Ridge, N.J. on February 26th, 2011.
Champion: Zach Klein (Montville High School)
2nd: Caitlin Murphy (Ridge High School)
3rd: Chuck Richardson (Montville High School)
4th: Henry Chapman (Millburn High School)
5th: Nick Hansen (Ridge High School)
6th: Gia Farooqi (Ridge High School)
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Here is your R&D for March 1st:
The Political Math: Washington – Dollars = Plus for States from the Wall Street Journal
As red ink flows out of Washington, the states are recouping power and are defying the idea that federalism is a dead constitutional concept. Currently, more Americans have confidence in their state governments than the federal government and support for the federal government has fallen twice as far within the last decade.
States offered early opt out from the Washington Post (courtesy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
President Obama told the National Governors Association that he would allow states to opt out of the Affordable Care Act by 2014 if they could offer health care coverage to as many people that would receive coverage under the law and reduce the deficit. This accelerates the opt out provision by three years.
Edwards Lies Low, but That Won’t Last from the New York Times
For Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards may soon be indicted for campaign finance violations. Edwards stands accused of diverting some of his campaign funds to support and cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter.
1. Why is Japan going through so many prime ministers?
2. Is Britain headed for an Irish-style economic implosion?
3. How can African states overcome the “resource curse”?
4. Is the status of women in Afghanistan better now than it was ten years ago?
5. Why does India need to crackdown on corruption?
6. Is Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons inevitable?
7. What does the Khodorkovsky sentence say about Russia’s judicial system?
8. Will recent protests in the Middle East strengthen or weaken the position of Israel’s right wing parties?
9. Would a Southern Sudanese-style peace plan work for Darfur?
10. Will the Egyptian military allow the Muslim Brotherhood to gain political power?
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