AFF: If we give independence, we're obviously not trying to control them.
NEG: No, we're not trying to control them - we gave them independence.

Judge: I vote AFF because waffles are fun.

My first standard is "ground"... and that's bad. Theirs is, I mean.

Motor vehicle emissions are responsible for 300,000 premature deaths each year in the United States.

Global Warming progresses: So, every year, the Earth is getting hotter and this is evidenced by... ...science.

The average college student drops out either because they commit suicide or because they can't afford their books - but some decide to come back to school.

It's not about whether the chicken came first - it's about how a fish turned into a chicken in the first place.