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.