Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
A)   Deal will happen on the fiscal cliff now--Boehner and Reid willing to compromise:
JONATHAN WEISMAN, 11/7/2012 (staff writer, “Notes of Bipartisanship as Parties Seek Way Ahead After Bitter Campaign,” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/us/politics/back-to-bargaining-table-with-fiscal-cliff-dead-ahead.html?pagewanted=all, Accessed 11/7/2012, rwg)
Mr. Boehner’s gesture was... Republican majority in the House.
b) Plan unpopular with Congress—bipartisan
Leonor Tomero, Director for Nuclear Non-Proliferation at the Center for Arms Control, and Travis Sharp,¶ ommunications Director and Military Policy Analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, 11-21-07 EightSenators Call For Reduced Nuclear Reprocessing Funding,http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/audience/media/senators_call_for_reduced_gnep/

Washington, D.C. – The Center for Arms Control...criticized DOE's current proposal.

c) Presidential leadership is key to a compromise – the alternative is the collapse of hegemony, a double-dip recession, and war in the Middle East
Hutchison, U.S. Senator from the great state of Texas, 9/21/2012
(Kay Bailey, “A Looming Threat to National Security,” States News Service, Lexis)
Despite warnings of the dire consequences,...growth and punish working families.
d) Middle East war goes nuclear
James A. Russell, 2009  Senior Lecturer, National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, ‘9 (Spring) “Strategic Stability Reconsidered: Prospects for Escalation and Nuclear War in the Middle East” IFRI, Proliferation Papers, #26, http://www.ifri.org/downloads/PP26_Russell_2009.pdf
Strategic stability in the region is...risk for the entire world.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
A.    New reforms will help Russia’s economy grow now---but high oil prices are key to keep the economy afloat
Reuters 11/9/12 “Russia fiscal tightening will hit growth” http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/11/09/russia-economy-idUKL5E8M9B2J20121109
The Russian Economy Ministry... fiscal stability and higher spending
B. There is a substitution effect between nuclear and oil prices
Lee and Chiu 10
(Chien-Chiang, Yi-Bun – University Kaohsiung Taiwan;“Oilprices, nuclear energy consumption, and economic growth: New evidence using a heterogeneous panel analysis”; Energy Policy Volume 39, Issue 4, April 2011, Pages 2111–2120) BHB
This paper applies panel data analysis...growth in the short run.
C. Collapse in Russia’s economy causes nuclear prolif and nuclear war:
Patrick F. Speice, 2006 (staff, William and Mary Law Review, February 1, 2006. Online. Lexis. Accessed January 27, 2008).
Moreover, the end of the Cold...use of nuclear weapons.
 

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Text: The United States Congress should;
-       Ban the production of nuclear material for use in fission
-       Prohibit the building of new nuclear plants
-       Phase out currently operating nuclear plants
Nuclear fission is dangerous and alternative energies solve – Congress should ban NP
Ross and Owley Dec. 14, 2011, Ph.D., JD., MS., MLA. Berkeley, Associate Professor, Environmental Advocacy Seminar Avoiding Apocalypse: Congress Should Ban Nuclear Power. http://law.buffalo.edu/Academic_Programs_And_Research/submenu/conEvironLaw/ross12.pdf

For almost as long as... operating nuclear plants. 

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Energy policy is embedded in a mode of technological thinking that reduces nature to a standing-reserve. Enframing nature with wind power distorts its true ontology and advances desire for domination of the natural world
Xuanmeng 3( Yu, “Heidegger on Technology, Alienation and Destiny,” The Humanization of Technology and Chinese Culture Chinese Philosophical Studies, XI, Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change, Series II, Asia, Vol 11, http://www.crvp.org/book/Series03/III-11/contents.htm)
First, "The revealing that rules...but with a process or phenomenon.
Enframing of the natural world makes violence and war inevitable
Jenkins 6 (Martin Pathways School of Philosophy, “Heidegger, Technology, and Our Future,” Philosophy Pathways, Issue 123, http://www.philosophos.com/philosophy_article_137.html)
Through en-framing all Being...What is humanity to do?


Enframing prevents us from authentically being-in the world and leaves us in a state of ontological damnation that overshadows consequentialism
Zimmerman 94 (Michael E., Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University, Contesting Earth’s Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity, 119-20)
Heidegger asserted that human self-assertion... were never "disclosed" by humanity.
The alternative is to reject the affirmative. Enframing and frantic action to save the world is itself the problem. By doing nothing we fragment the destructive dualism of action, creating a vacuum where non-calculative thought and solutions can exist
McWhorter 92(Ladelle, Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies Department of Philosophy University of Richmond, “Guilt as Management Technology: A Call to Heideggerian Reflection,” Heidegger and the Earth, 1-9)
Our usual response to such prophecies...thinking that must be allowed to dissipate.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Fifty years of research and develop and a strong and widespread consensus prove—Yucca is safe
Daren Briscoe, 11/21/2008 (“Obama’s Nuclear Reservations,” http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/11/21/obama-s-nuclear-reservations.html, Accessed 9/30/2012, rwg)

Sounds reasonable enough. Except that sound science already comes down firmly on the side... Sound politics is more like it.
Yucca is safe- 30 year long process of scientific examination proves
Institute for Energy Research 12 (“Yucca Mountain: The Safe Future for Nuclear Energy” Posted June 19, 2012. http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2012/06/19/yucca-mountain-the-safe-future-for-nuclear-energy/ MJT)

In this light, the March 2010 decision...America’s nuclear powered future.
Turn: Reprocessing makes nuclear terrorism more probable
McGoldrick 11 – has extensive experience in nuclear non-proliferation and international nuclear policy fields. He held senior positions in the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of State, where he negotiated U.S. peaceful nuclear cooperation agreements and helped shape U.S. policy to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. He also served in the U.S. Mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna. Since his retirement from the State Department, he has been a partner in Bengelsdorf, McGoldrick and Associates, LLC., an international consulting firm (Fred, “Limiting Transfers of Enrichment and Reprocessing Technology: Issues, Constraints, Options,” May, Harvard Kennedy School: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/MTA-NSG-report-color.pdf)

The diffusion of enrichment...to countries that lack such capabilities.

Turn: Reprocessing would hurt U.S. nuclear waste management efforts.
UCS 12 (Union of Concerned Scientists. “Nuclear Reprocessing. 2012. http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_risk/nuclear_proliferation_and_terrorism/nuclear-reprocessing.html)

First, there is no spent fuel storage... needed to site a geological repository.¶   

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Resource wars don’t escalate
Victor ‘08 David G., Victor is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and the director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development. He is also a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he directed a task force on energy security. A frequent writer on natural resources policy, he is the author of The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming (Princeton University Press, 2001) and the co-editor of Natural Gas and Geopolitics, January 2, “Smoke and Mirrors”, Debating Disaster: The World Is Not Enough, http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=16522

MY ARGUMENT is that classic resource wars—efforts to tame demand are also needed.
(--) And tech solves—we constantly create new resources:
Julian Simon, 1994 (February 9, 1994, http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource/TCHAR28.txt)

This point of view...to the stock of natural resources.

Resource War’s Don’t escalate
Thomason 3(James, THE RAREST COMMODITY IN THE COMING RESOURCE WARS, Center for Naval Analysis, http://www.cna.org/documents/5500030300.pdf)

In the land of Oz, the tin woodman...extended to strategic mineral needs.

 No Central Asian war – the SCO checks conflict
Maksutov in ‘6 (Ruslan, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, “The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: A Central Asian Perspective”, August, http://www.sipri.org/contents/worldsec/Ruslan.SCO.pdf/download)

As a starting point, it is fair to say that... now loom so large by comparison.

No escalation and multilateral organizations check
Weitz 6 (Richard, Senior Fellow and Associate Director of the Center for Future Security Strategies – Hudson Institute, “Averting a New Great Game in Central Asia”, Washington Quarterly, 29(3), Summer, Lexis)

Concerns about a renewed...bilateral ties traditionally have predominated.

Sino-Russia war won’t happen- bilateral military exchanges and mutual security interests check
Bhadrakumal ’09 B.K., Ambassador and career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service with assignments including the Soviet Union, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Germany, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kuwait and Turkey, “China dips its toe in the Black Sea,” http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/KH01Ad01.html

First, high-level exchanges...
communications, engineering and mapping.
Nuclear Reprocessing: Dangerous, Dirty, and Expensive
UCS 12 (Union of Concerned Scientists. “Nuclear Reprocessing. 2012. http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_risk/nuclear_proliferation_and_terrorism/nuclear-reprocessing.html)

Nuclear Reprocessing: Dangerous, Dirty, and Expensive¶ Reprocessing ...
develop nuclear weapons programs.
New reactor types undermine nuclear conformity – uniform designs promote security
Lester and Rosner 9 (Richard and Robert, The growth of nuclear power: drivers and constraints, http://lion.chadwyck.com.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/searchFulltext.do?id=R04200587anddivLevel=0andarea=abellandforward=critref_ft)

In its earliest years, the ... international nonproliferation efforts?
US reprocessing opens the floodgates.
UCS 11 – Union of Concerned Scientists (“Nuclear Reprocessing: Dangerous, Dirty, and Expensive,” April 5, http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_risk/nuclear_proliferation_and_terrorism/nuclear-reprocessing.html)

U.S. reprocessing would undermine...proliferation-prone than direct disposal.
No push coming for reprocessing without the plan.
NNL 12—National Nuclear Laboratory (UK), Comparison of thorium and uranium fuel cycles, NNL (11) 11593 Issue 5, A report prepared for and on behalf of Department of Energy and Climate Change, http://www.decc.gov.uk/assets/decc/11/meeting-energy-demand/nuclear/6300-comparison-fuel-cycles.pdf

The purpose of reprocessing spent uranium...invest in new ¶ reprocessing plants.
 2NC

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
(--) Disad outweighs and turns the case:  A) Magnitude:  you should prefer a US-Russian nuclear war to any other impact—it’s the only existential risk:  
Bostrom 2 (Nick, PhD Philosophy – Oxford University, “Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios”, Journal of Evolution and Technology, Vol. 9, March, http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html)
The unique challenge of existential risks...encounter in the 21st century.
B) Time-Frame:  Perception of the plan triggers the link immediately:
Brannon 3/29/12 (Director of Economic Policy as well as the Director of Congressional Relations for the American Action Forum http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/294768/domestic-oil-policies-do-impact-oil-prices-ike-brannon)
Oil speculation is essentially the process...bring down prices today.

Russia’s economy is strong now—but heavily dependent on oil:
Baltic Times, 9/19/2012 (“Russian trade grows as economy rebounds,” http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/31875/, Accessed 9/19/2012, rwg)
Russia’s economy will expand...  potential is there for the future.”

Russia’s economy is stable now:
Felix Goryunov, 9/19/2012 (staff writer, “Foreign banks may contribute to Russia's economy,”
http://rbth.ru/articles/2012/09/19/foreign_banks_may_contribute_to_russias_economy_18403.html, Accessed 9/19/2012, rwg)
Against the financial turmoil...foreign banks - 17.4 percent.

Oil Prices are sustainable- will remain elevated
Zhu 12 (Winnie, reporter at Bloomberg, July 5, “Brent Oil Exceeding $100 A Barrel ‘Sustainable,’ Mirae Says” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-05/brent-oil-exceeding-100-a-barrel-sustainable-mirae-says-1-.html TM)
Brent crude’s rebound to more... highest level since at least 1989.
Oil prices sustainable- the world economy is more resilient
Farchy 12 (Jack, writer for the Financial Times, May 28, “World more resilient to oil price rises” http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/11c38c74-a8e4-11e1-b085-00144feabdc0.html#axzz20MkRZzeV TM)
The world economy has become ... negative impact of a rise in prices.
Japan proves:  move to nuclear decreases reliance on oil
Emergency Response Management Consulting, 5/9/2011 (“Why Japan Won’t Abandon Their Dependence on Nuclear Power,” http://ermcglobal.com/2011/05/why-japan-wont-abandon-their-dependence-on-nuclear-power/, rwg)
Japan won’t abandon nuclear power...buildings in any cities anywhere.
Incentives for nuclear power lowers oil prices – trades off
US Fed News 8 (5/6/08. “SKYROCKETING GAS PRICES HIGHLIGHT NEED TO USE AMERICAN RESOURCES” http://www.lexis.com/research/retrieve?_m=08d0fc06b2da1455085f3578e4de428danddocnum=6and_fmtstr=FULLand_startdoc=1andwchp=dGLbVtz-zSkAland_md5=f4756b7493583c302d5375ed8a4b39a8)
Despite promises of a "commonsense...new nuclear power plants.

The plan will be perceived and causes massive ripples in the oil market.
Paul Roberts, 2004. Journalist. The End of Oil, p. 95, accessed via google books.
Within the oil world... to be bearish or bullish.”
Oil markets will exaggerate the effects of the plan:
David Kuo, 8/15/2012 (staff writer, “The Outlook for Oil and Gas Shares: Part 1,” Accessed 8/15/2012 at
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48678759/ns/business-motley_fool/, rwg)
David: Good morning to you ...Gulf of Mexico and so on.

Tournament: Indiana | Round:  | Opponent: Louisville  | Judge:
Contention One is the link debate – there are three arguments:
The first is limits - a targeted dialogue with clearly demarcated and equitable sides of controversy is key to cultivate agency and decisionmaking skills that affect our everyday lives – we may be able to engage with their advocacy on a conceptually broad level but that’s not sufficient to make it valuably debatable – confining the controversy to a specific question still allows for affirmative creativity but prevents the debate from devolving into a competing set of untestable facts
Steinberg, University of Miami Communication Studies Lecturer and Freeley, Attorney, 2008
David L.. and Austin J. “Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making p. 43-45

Debate is a means of settling...outlined in the following discussion.
The second link argument is that the simulation of policy proposals are key to skills development - Policy simulations revolutionize traditional forms of pedagogy by situating students as the agents of the decision-making process -  we control terminal uniqueness for changing mindsets – students already have preconceived notions of how the world works – engagements with the resolution encourage debaters to abandon their perspective in order to improve societal outcomes
Esberg and Sagan, 2012
Jane, New York University’s Center on International Cooperation Special Assistant, Scott, Stanford Political Science Professor and Center for International Security and Cooperation Director, “NEGOTIATING NONPROLIFERATION: Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Nuclear Weapons Policy,” The Nonproliferation Review, Volume 19, Issue 1, 2012, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10736700.2012.655089#tabModule

These government or quasi-government...contextualize and act on information
The third link argument is that switch side debate is key – The conditions necessary to produce effective deliberation not only enhances agency skills, but can only be realized in a switch-side format where participants step outside of their own perspective and engage in political contestation
Roberts-Miller, 2003
Patricia, University of Texas Associate Professor of Rhetoric, “Fighting Without Hatred: Hannah Arendt’s Agonistic Rhetoric,” http://www.jaconlinejournal.com/archives/vol22.3/miller-fighting.pdf

Totalitarianism and the Competitive...independent but not expressivist rhetoric.
The second contention is the impact debate - Effective Decision-making outweighs and turns the case:

It’s key to improve social outcomes in every and all aspects of life
Steinberg, University of Miami Communication Studies Lecturer and Freeley, Attorney, 2008
David L.. and Austin J. “Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making p. 1

If we assume it to be...or a combination of methods.
Furthermore, it’s the only portable skill we take away from the debate space – this turns the case because it proves that only our method can access their harms but not the other way around
Steinberg, University of Miami Communication Studies Lecturer and Freeley, Attorney, 2008
David L.. and Austin J. “Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making p. 9

After several days of intense debate...our favored political candidate.
The terminal impact is extinction – effective decision making is vital to prevent a slew of imminent existential threats
Lundberg, UNC Chapel Hill Communication Professor, 2010
Christian O., “Tradition of Debate in North Carolina,” in Navigating Opportunity: Policy Debate in the 21st Century, edited by Allan D. Louden, p. 311-313

The second major problem ...democracy in an increasingly complex world.
No offense - academic debate over energy policy is key to create a shift in public consciousness and stem imminent environmental collapse
Crist, 2004
Eileen, Virginia Tech Department of Science and TechnologyProfessor, “Against the Social construction of nature and wilderness,” Environmental Ethics, Vol. 26, p. 16, accessed: google pdf

Yet, constructivist analyses of “nature...pressingly calling us to change it.

Tournament: Northwestern | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
A) Uniqueness – Comprehensive immigration reform is top priority and will pass – Obama’s push building momentum
Fifield 2/5 (Anna, “Republicans soften tone on immigration”, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f6e10720-6fb6-11e2-8785-00144feab49a.html#axzz2K9hMM4pj, CMR)

Conservative Republicans in the House...of the union address next week.
New energy policy decisions cause backlash against Obama
Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, 1/9/12, Obama Plays Safe on Energy Policy, Lexis
With less than a year to go until he faces re-election...success in other energy policy areas ( PIW Feb.23'09 ).
C) Immigration reform will increase skilled worker visas:
Elise Foley, 1/15/2013 (staff writer, “Obama Gears Up For Immigration Reform Push In Second Term,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/obama-immigration-reform_n_2463388.html, Accessed 1/23/2013, rwg)
Beyond the border, Obama will...better flexibility for foreign migrant labor.
D) Key to hegemony – outweighs the aff on timeframe
Kliman ’10 – visiting fellow at the Center for a New American Security Daniel, “Immigration and American Power”, May 28, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/28/opinion/main6525992.shtml CMR

President Obama’s National Security ...foreign talent to America’s shore.
E) America’s dominant position of power solves multiple great power wars
Thayer 2006 (Bradley, Professor of Defense and Strategic Studies, In Defense of Primacy, National Interest, Proquest)
THROUGHOUT HISTORY, peace and stability ...their citizens as well as for advancing the interests of the United States.  

Latin America Impact Mod:
A) Immigration reform key to US-Latin American relations:
Arturo Lopez-Levy, 11/24/2012 (doctoral candidate at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies of the University of Denver, “The Latin American Gorilla,” http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/opinion/the-latin-american-gorilla-318169.html, Accessed 1/23/2013, rwg)
Few political acts would...preferences of expatriates from those countries.
B) US-Latin American relations solve a host of existential scenarios:
Shifter 12 (Michael is the President of Inter-American Dialogue. “Remaking the Relationship: The United States and Latin America,” April, IAD Policy Report, http://www.thedialogue.org/PublicationFiles/IAD2012PolicyReportFINAL.pdf, Accessed 1/23/2013, rwg)
There are compelling reasons...for hemispheric partnership.

Economy Mod:
Immigration reform key to the economy:
Brooke Berger, 1/23/2013 (staff writer, “Villaraigosa: Comprehensive Immigration Reform Is Not Amnesty,” http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2013/01/23/villaraigosa-comprehensive-immigration-reform-is-not-amnesty, Accessed 1/23/2013, rwg)
What are the economic incentives...makes sense in the agricultural sector.
Global economic crisis causes war---strong statistical support
Royal 10 – Jedediah Royal, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 2010, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises,” in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-214
Less intuitive is how periods ...to an increase in the use of force.  

Tournament: Districts | Round: 6 | Opponent: Georgia CG | Judge: Sean Ridley
T- No Test Case

T- Courts
A) Courts don’t remove restrictions—they only affect enforceability of the underlying restriction:
MBNMS 2012 (Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, “Sanctuary Laws and Regulations”, June, http://montereybay.noaa.gov/intro/mp/regs.html, http://montereybay.noaa.gov/intro/mp/regs.html, Accessed 2/18/2013, rwg)
Federal agencies, such as NOAA...statutes and regulations.

T-Restrictions
Specific restrictions govern production – these are distinct from restrictions on leasing and exploration
Vann, 11
Adam Vann, Legislative Attorney, Congressional Research Service, “Offshore Oil and Gas Development: Legal Framework” 5/2/11, http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/crs/rl33404.pdf)

29¶ (2) ¶ preleasing activity...associated with ¶ these technologies.¶ 77

Conditions CP
Text: The United States federal government should grant substantial exemptions to restrictions on offshore oil drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf for a company if and only if that company includes in all exploration, production or development plans an oil spill containment and cleanup plan capable of handling a worst-case scenario spill.
Conditioning drilling permits on an oil spill plan is key – the aff’s unconditional elimination of restrictions makes spills inevitable
Niki Tsongas, Rep. D-MA, 5-12-2011, "Tsongas introduces legislation to ensure that any offshore drilling is done responsibly," Congressional Documents and Publications,)

This afternoon, Congresswoman...environment and our economy,” Tsongas concluded.
Unchecked oil spills crush marine and human life
Dempsey 84 (Paul Stephen Dempsey, Law Prof @ Denver, Summer 1984, "Oil Pollution of the Marine Environment by Ocean Vessels," 6 NW. J. INT’L L. %26 BUS. 459)

Although large amounts...submerging most coastal cities.
Loss of marine life culminates in extinction
Bryant 3 (Donald A. Bryant, Dep. Biochem @ Penn. State, 2003, "The Beauty in small things revealed," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, http://www.pnas.org/content/100/17/9647.full

Oxygenic photosynthesis accounts...oceanic photosynthetic productivity to be made

Same CIR Politics Shell as above with the Latin America Relations Module

Same Russian Oil Shell as above

Court Capital DA
A) Kennedy will strike out a middle ground now in Fisher v. Texas now—voting against Texas but saving Affirmative Action overall:
Allen Rostron, 2012 (Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, “AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, JUSTICE KENNEDY, AND THE VIRTUES OF THE MIDDLE GROUND,” Lexis/Nexis, Accessed 7/25/2012, rwg)
While it thus seems...a particular student would attend. n29
Decisions that anger powerful social movements will cause the Court to make decisions that realign themselves with that movement—if the Court angers Conservatives, they’ll do something to get back in their good graces:
Richard H. Fallon, Jr., Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School, April 2005
“Legitimacy and the Constitution,” http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=be00e4b6d189ddb647d9365044a5571cand_docnum=1andwchp=dGLbVzb-zSkVband_md5=7105aae1669b5f945e6a9318b42fc69d, rwg
Among other things, the...attitudes of their society.
Conservatives want to overturn Affirmative Action—returning the US back to the Jim Crow era:
Cho, professor, DePaul University College of Law, 2005 (Sumi, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, February, 2005, 7 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 809; Lexis)
Affirmative action proponents...rights, Jim Crow value.
D) Affirmative action is key to military readiness:
TODD NICHOLS, 3/24/2003 (staff writer, “Don't undo good done by affirmative action,”
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Don-t-undo-good-done-by-affirmative-action-1110489.php, rwg)
The Bush administration has...greatest civil rights success story.
E) Readiness solves nuclear war:
Kagan, 2007 (Robert, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “End of Dreams, Return of History”, 7/19, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/8552512.html)
The jostling for status and influence...make them more catastrophic.

On Case
Can’t drill our way to low prices
MICHAEL LEVI July/August 12 (Michael Levi is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations and director of its Program on Energy Security and Climate Change. "Think Again: The American¶ Energy Boom"http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/18/think_again_the_american_energy_boom?page=0,1

"We Can Drill Our Way Out...would be foolish to rule out a crash.
Natural Gas drilling means Russia maintains dominance over Europe
Ryan 12 (Margaret Ryan - Vice President, Double Forte’, Management Consulting Services, "Oil-linked Natural Gas Pricing Under Continued Pressure in Europe," August 28, 2012, energy.aol.com/2012/08/28/oil-linked-natural-gas-pricing-under-continued-pressure-in-europ/?icid=related2#?icid=apb2#page2)

Europe is supplied by a combination...hit by the ongoing economic crisis.
OCS drilling kills U.S.-EU energy cooperation---that’s key to overall relations which solve prolif, Russian expansion, Middle East stability and a peaceful Chinese rise
David Koranyi 9-4 is the deputy director of the Atlantic Council's Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, 9/4/12, “An Emerging Transatlantic Rift on Energy?” http://www.naturalgaseurope.com/romney-energy-policy-emerging-transatlantic-rift-on-energy

Republican presidential candidate...undermine trust within the alliance is in nobody’s interest.

No one model’s the U.S. – polls prove
Andrew Moravcsik 5, Professor of Government and Director of the European Union Program at Harvard University, January 31, 2005, Newsweek, “Dream On, America,” p. Lexis

Not long ago, the American...multinational, "then we overtake."
No judiciary modeling – distinct origins
Rubini 3 Daniel L. Rubini is the Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Justice in Iraq, “Ask the White House,” 11-03, http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20031113.html

Scott, from Washington...British common law system

Tournament: Districts | Round: 6 | Opponent: Georgia CG | Judge: Sean Ridley
Health care has bolstered the court’s political capital now:
WILLIAM MCGURN, 7/2/2012 (staff writer, “McGurn: Chief Justice Roberts Taxes Credibility,” Accessed 7/25/2012 at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527 02304708604577502933866909916.html, rwg)
Justice Scalia's dissent in Casey illuminates ...about the integrity of the Roberts court.

Affirmative action will be decided by the court next term:
Mike Sacks, 2/21/2012 (staff writer, “Supreme Court To Revisit Affirmative Action In University Of Texas Case,”  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/supreme-court-affirmative-action-texas_n_1290736.html, rwg)
Affirmative action is heading...of the presidential election.
Most likely scenario is that Kennedy will decide a middle ground position now:
Allen Rostron, 2012 (Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, “AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, JUSTICE KENNEDY, AND THE VIRTUES OF THE MIDDLE GROUND,” Lexis/Nexis, Accessed 7/25/2012, rwg)
Of course, Justice Kennedy might...really and truly will apply.
Fracking controversy has uniquely energizes and enrages the environmental base toward natural gas:
Bryan Walsh, 3/1/2012 (staff writer, “War on Coal: Why Polluting Plants Are Shutting Down Nationwide,”  http://science.time.com/2012/03/01/war-on-coal-activists-help-shut-down-polluting-plans-in-chicago-and-around-the-u-s/, Accessed 9/10/2012, rwg)
And that’s where the anti-coal campaign ....Beyond Coal may not prove so easy.
Plan consumes court’s limited capital – controversial rulings cost capital.
Grosskopf and Mondak, 1998 Profs of Poli Sci Long Island U and U of Illinois, 1998
(Anke Grosskopf, Assistant Prof of Political Science @ Long Island University, and Jeffrey Mondak, Professor of Political Science @ U of Illinois, 1998, “Do attitudes toward specific supreme court decisions matter? The impact of Webster and Texas v Johnson on Public Confidence in the Supreme Court” Political Research Quarterly, vol. 51 no 3 633-54 September1998)
The existence of a strong link...shape what answer we find.
Unpopular decisions erode the Supreme Court’s institutional capital:
Fallon, prof. of Constitutional Law @ Harvard, Harvard Law Review, April 2005, 118 Harv. L. Rev. 1787; Lexis
n183. Compare Gibson et al., supra...Court's institutional capital).
Court legitimacy will be the key deciding factor in Fisher:
Allen Rostron, 2012 (Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, “AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, JUSTICE KENNEDY, AND THE VIRTUES OF THE MIDDLE GROUND,” Lexis/Nexis, Accessed 7/25/2012, rwg)
Of course, the Supreme Court's...care reform legislation. n36
Judicial capital is finite – justices need to pick their fights—proves winners don’t win.
Grosskopf and Mondak, Profs of Poli Sci Long Island U and U of Illinois, 1998
(Anke Grosskopf, Assistant Prof of Political Science @ Long Island University, and Jeffrey Mondak, Professor of Political Science @ U of Illinois, 1998, “Do attitudes toward specific supreme court decisions matter? The impact of Webster and Texas v Johnson on Public Confidence in the Supreme Court” Political Research Quarterly, vol. 51 no 3 633-54 September1998)
The existence of a strong link...shape what answer we find.

Affirmative action is key to military readiness:
TODD NICHOLS, 3/24/2003 (staff writer, “Don't undo good done by affirmative action,”
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Don-t-undo-good-done-by-affirmative-action-1110489.php, rwg)
Senior military officers are...sources of officer candidates.
Top military officials agree—affirmative action key to readiness:
TODD NICHOLS, 3/24/2003 (staff writer, “Don't undo good done by affirmative action,”
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Don-t-undo-good-done-by-affirmative-action-1110489.php, rwg)
Twenty senior retired generals...institutions of higher education.
Readiness deters war:
Spencer 2000  (Jack, Policy Analyst - Heritage Foundation, The Facts About Military Readiness, 9-15, http://www.heritage.org/Research/MissileDefense/BG1394.cfm)
Military readiness is vital...interest, thereby preserving peace.
Leadership collapse causes global nuclear instability
Kagan 2011 (Robert, Senior Associate – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “The Price of Power”, The Weekly Standard, 1-24, http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/price-power_533695.html?nopager=1)

Today the international situation...the table will not fall over.
Primacy has resulted in the lowest level of war in history – best stats prove
Owen 2011 (John – professor of politics at the University of Virginia, Don’t Discount Hegemony, p. www.cato-unbound.org/2011/02/11/john-owen/dont-discount-hegemony/)

Andrew Mack and his colleagues...democracy remains strong.