 |
mmadderom's Debates
  |
The CIA is a terrorist organization
I will open with an essay I have written on the topic: In 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed and put into effect the newly passed National Security Act. This act created the United States Central Intelligence Agency, the country's first peacetime intelligence and covert operations agency ever. The CIA came to power during a time of great fear and anxiety: the Soviet Union was quickly becoming a superpower and had seized control of Eastern Europe. The threat of Communism had begun to sprea...
There is a smallest distance
My position is that there is not a smallest distance. We'll start with this for my opening argument, just because I'm sort of obligated to say something: There is no smallest distance because it is always possible to halve said distance. That said, I guess I'll wait for an opponent....
The Patriots undefeated season should have an asterisk on it.
The patriots have a superior team this year, arguably the best of all time, and should not be punished for mistakes of the past. I think if the patriots finish the season it should go down in history, as it should, as the best season in NFL history....
Barack Obama will win the Nevada caucuses tomorrow on the Democratic side.
The Nevada caucuses start approximately 15 hours from now. I have several good reasons for thinking and predicting that Barack Obama will carry the day on the Democratic side. 1. He has the support of the most powerful union in the state, the Culinary Workers. They will mobilize caucus-goers far more effectively than other organizations backing Hillary or Edwards. In a political environment like Nevada, where turnout is expected to be relatively mild - especially compared to Iowa - activism...
Assisted suicide/euthanasia should be legal
In light of Jack Kevorkian speaking at my school tonight, I offer up this debate to anyone who wishes to take it on. Bottom line, physician-assisted suicide should be legal. It is absurd that anyone or any group should have the authority to tell someone else what they can and cannot do with their own life with regard to this issue. I believe it to be the height of arrogance that someone can feel as though they can enforce their morality on someone suffering from a terminal disease. The overly...
The "big bang" theory is ridiculous, can not be proven, and should not be taught in schools.
The whole "big bang" theory is ludicrous on it's face. It surmises that the entire universe is the result of nothing expanding into something through the force of density and temperature. If there was nothing, then where did the density come from, how do you gauge the temperature of nothingness? The theory suggests that space itself is constantly expanding. Now, I'm no scientist, but if anyone can please explain how space is expandable I'd love to make my living room a tad larger. There is...