2009-2010 NCFCA Team Policy Debate
Resolved: That the United States Federal Government should significantly reform its environmental policies.

• Notes and links on environmental policy on our Environment page here.

• Schedule for FEE Seminars and guest talks for homeschool students.

2009-2010 NCFCA Lincoln Douglas Debate
Resolved: That competition is superior to cooperation as a means of achieving excellence.

Essay on this topic from Liberalism, Values and LD, a collection of articles on past LD topics and debating values:

• Competition, Cooperation, and Personal Projects (pdf)

• Full LD book in pdf free for download. The first few essays highly recommended for LD debaters.

• Also highly recommended for LD debaters: The De-Moralization of Society by G. Himmelfarb

• Also this essay: "Can LD Debate Teach Values without Ethics?" (my title).

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Summer Reading Ideas: Enjoyable books on history and economics.

• Schedule for upcoming seminars on economics & LD here.
• SCHEDULE AND REGISTRATION PAGE FOR HOMESCHOOL SEMINARS
  

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Recommended Reading on economics and public policy
(for debate and extemp)

• Ludwig von Mises, Economic Policies: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow (online introduction to economics and public policy).
• The Law by Frederic Bastiat
• What is Seen and What is Not Seen, Bastiat's excellent essay, "There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen."
• Give Me Liberty by Rose Wilder Lane. More information about Rose Wilder Lane (daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder) and author of The Discovery of Freedom in this brief Action Institute article, and this Hoover museum page.