DEBATE-Kansas City’s partner ALOUD is working with Virgil Film and Entertainment to promote their new movie “Love and Debate.” The movie is described as follows on their Facebook page. “With beautiful Miami as a backdrop, a cutting-edge soundtrack, and a hot sexy young cast, it is the perfect setting for a girl to choose between [...]

From The Kansas City Star: Area voters thirsting for their own health care town hall forum will get their elixir Monday. Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, says she’ll take questions about health care reform at the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Swinney Recreation Center, 5030 Holmes St., at 4:30 p.m. Attendance is first-come, first-served. McCaskill’s [...]

Music and art often make political arguments. It is important that we as debaters examine evidence of a non-traditional nature (i.e. music) in order to become a more well rounded and ultimately better advocates. Debaters can learn from music how to make their arguments more passionately and poetically. Music can also expose us to different [...]

Isaac Allen gives some tips on being a presiding officer and explains the difference between precedent and recency.

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