WINNERS YIR 2005-2006

Congratulations to this year's winners. If you'd like to hear a rebroadcast of the Year In Review show, please check out the August 2, 2006 America's Debate Radio Archive.

Here are all the winners:

Best topic: Big Trials and Legal Cases
Supreme Court allows property seizures for persona, Private property rights turned on head
Started by JustLeaveMeAlone
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Best Topic: Casual Conversation
Your handle: What's the story?, some interesting names in here
Started by Lordhelmet
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Best Topic: Constitutional Debate
Presidential Signing Statements, Executive abuse or legal clarification?
Started by Doclotus
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Best Topic: Democrat Debate
(winner by default)
Who "lost" Kerry the election?
Started by nebraska29
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Best Topic: Domestic Policy
The Ills of Marriage Visited Upon Homosexuals, The attempts to ban same-sex marriage
Started by entspeak
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Best Topic: Economy & Business
Gas Prices, Who is to blame & what can be done?
Started by nemov
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Best Topic: Education
Junk Food in Schools, Should it be banned?
Started by The Boney King of Nowhere
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Best Topic: Election 2006
Coretta Scott-King's Funeral Turns Political, A "Wellstone" Moment?
Started by Doclotus
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Best Topic: Environmental Debate
A New Poll on Global Warming, stop warming or learn to live with it?
Started by nemov
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Best Topic: Foreign Policy
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran, What should we do?
Started by nebraska29
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Best Topic: General Political Debate
Cheney Mistakenly Shoots Hunter, Cheney shoots man while quail hunting
Started by DaytonRocker
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Best Topic: Health & Medicine
Cervical Cancer a Thing of the Past?, or will the sex-is-dirty crowd fight it?
Started by DaffyGrl
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Best Topic: History Debate
History's Greatest Conqueror
Started by lederuvdapac
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Best Topic: Independent/3rd Party Debate
Independent Leanings, What side of the fence are you on & why
(winner by default)
Started by overlandsailor
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Best Topic: International Debate
The Muhammed Cartoons Fiasco, The story takes a new turn...
Started by Carlsen
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Best Topic: Men's Issues
Threatened Masculinity Makes Men Macho, Hunk or Bunk? Or just chicken and egg?
Started by Julian
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Best Topic: Principals and Personal Philosophy
Should we Legalize Prostitution?, ... Part Two
Started by VDemosthenes
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Best Topic: Race Debate
White America Out of Touch?, The lights are on....
Started by turnea
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Best Topic: Science & Technology
Intelligent Design, Teaching in schools ruled out
Started by Julian
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Best Topic: The Media
Fox News, If it's so bad.. then why is it #1..
Started by Sleeper
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Best Topic: War on Terrorism
Was Bush misled by the Intelligence?, An analysis of the Intelligence
Started by Kuni
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Best Topic: Women's Issues
Abortion Issues, Who Should Have The Final Say?
Started by doomed planet
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Best Edition of America's Debate Radio
May 10, 2006
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Funniest Political Joke
posted by Fife & Drum:
Link
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Best Introduction
Quarkhead
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Best Resource
National Security Archive
submitted by Mustang
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Best Link Within A Post
Americans for Energy Independence
by overlandsailor
in Energy Independence, Can this plan work in America?
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Best quotation by a member
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Most Convincing Post
BY: turnea
From topic: How did we get here? Widening political divide?
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Member you wish posted more often
Mustang
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Member you most want to meet
MrsPigpen
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Member you would like appointed to the USSC
Amlord
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Member you would most like to see elected to office
nighttimer
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Best Researcher
Wertz
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Most Level Headed Member
MrsPigpen
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Best Overall Debater
Wertz
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No eligible nominations: Best Topic: Libertarian Debate, Best Topic: Republican Debate and Best Topic: Gender Issues


Thanks to everyone who contributed - in making the topics, posting to them, nominating, and voting. It's been an incredible four years. We look forward to many more together with you. Cheers!

Congratulations to all of the winners.

Of course, we all win by participating and learning from others. Having one's ideas challenged is one of the best ways to ascertain why you believe what you do and if your stance on an issue is really a defensible one.

Here's to four more years!!

Four more years!!
Four more years!!

Congrats to all the winners, though to be honest, everyone is a winner on

Imagine my surprise to see my name on that list when I have been absent for so long. I am REALLY glad that Americans for Energy Independence got some positive notice! This is a solid group with a real vision, that takes into account some interesting ideas that we do not hear about everyday.

Ok, plug concluded.

Yippee!

I got two gongs!

Thanks everybody.

Of course, it's not a competition, and we should all be glad that the whole community is to such a high standard. But that makes it even better when your peers nominate and vote for you. Congratulations to all winners!

I want to give a shout-out, big ups, props and much love to all the winners and nominees with a special to Wertz, who in his mastery of the Best Researcher and Best Debater categories is rapidly becoming the Tom Hanks of

I'm comin' for ya in 2006-07, big guy!

Oh, and on a sidenote, I noticed Mike and Jaime seemed just a tad regretful that they didn't get more birthday shout-outs when AD turned four years old.

Hey, ya nimrods. Don't lock the thread before a brutha gets a chance to say:

HAPPY (Belated) BIRTHDAY, AMERICA'S DEBATE!

Thanks everybody, and especially you nighttimer. Not that you needed to, you showed up for the bday chat. That meant a lot.

Mike made new awards graphics for the winners and I be posting them later this evening. I also have a big 'I love AD' post for the what I've learned thread, that I will get up tonight.

It's been a great year. I look forward to many more with all of you.

Wow, somehow I must have missed Should we Legalize Prostiution being nominated...

Do, please - you were robbed this year!


Congratulations to the winners, to those who helped make all the nominated topics so stimulating, and to everyone who participates here. Thanks to those who moderate the place and to those of you who work to keep things civil - and massive kudos to Jaime and Mike for creating and sustaining this oasis.


And, yeah...

...I was robbed, lol.... but congrats to all the winners and may this forum and its members continue to prosper.