Sample Extemp Topics

April 11th , 2005

1. Jeremy Jaynes: Was 9 years excessive?

2. Will the new passport requirement for visitors from North America improve border security?

3. Is prosecution against Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador politically motivated?

4. Will the beginning of bus service across the Pakistani-Indian divide in Kashmir bring the two countries closer to end of conflict?

5. Would shorter tours of duty help improve recruitment and rentention in the US Armed Forces?

6. Will the decision to allow Cardinal Bernard Law to preside over a funeral mass for Pope John Paul II do long term damage to the Roman Catholic Church?

7. Did the effort by pro immigrant groups to accuse the Minuteman Project of holding an illegal alien backfire?