• What limits are responsible?
• What limits are realistic?
• How to protect abortion doctors, pregnant women and the unborn protection of abortion clinics vs right to protest
• Partial birth abortion
• Scientific evidence vs definition of viability
• Stem cell research
• Unborn victims of violence

• Relative equality has been achieved vs serious inequities continue
• Can racial balance in business, education, military be achieved without policies that promote Affirmative Action
• Reverse discrimination
• NOW, National Organization for Women

• Rights of the individual vs community safety (or campus safety)
• Funding for research
• U.S. obligation to third world countries
• Manufacturing of generic drugs vs U.S. pharmaceutical companies
• How contagious diseases "jump" from animal hosts to human

• Limits for campus safety vs personal freedom
• Implications on violence and crime
• Issues with binge drinking

• Leniency because of condition vs community safety
• Revoking drivers license vs being able to attend classes and work
• The inequitity state by state of convictions
• Age discrimination of violators

• Animal rights vs medical research
• Humane treatment of animals vs factory farms
• Animal welfare in slaughter houses
• Animal protection vs business, employment interests

• School prestige vs academic standards

• Correlation to academic achievement? behavior problems? creativity?

• Fear of mistake vs demands of justice

• Needed in public school library/curriculum?
• Needed in entertainment industry?
• Needed on the Internet?

• Business vs parental responsibility
• Right to privacy of a child with AIDS vs safety of other children

• Democratic kingmaker, influence on political succession
• Impact of global initiative
• Influence on fundraising

• influence as Secretary of State
• foreign policies
• Influence on women

• Potential benefits vs potential abuses
• Ethical issues

• ACT or SAT score requirements
• Promotional techniques, such as 1st time scholarships
• 4 year vs 2 year colleges

• Online porn vs freedom of speech
• Stalking, invasion of privacy vs reasonable access
• Hacking crimes--workable solutions?

• Is downloading of media (music, videos, software) infringing on the rights of media producers and causing economic hardships on media creators?
• Should media producers prosecute students and individuals that they suspect of downloading copyrighted materials?
• Programs such as Spotify and Pandora

• Age limitations on surgery
• Addiction to surgery
• Demand for beauty by society
• The dangers of breast implants for teenagers
• The cost of cosmetic surgery

• Victim's rights vs rights of the accused
• Should hate crimes be a separate category?

• Negative texting, instant messaging, email
• Is cyberbullying as bad as face-to-face?
• Kinds of punishment for cyberbullying
• Media response

• Mutual consent vs exploitation
• Campuses with "no touch" policy
• Drugs associated to Date Rape

• Government support vs parental financing
• Benefits vs harmful effects
• Elder Care

• Punishment vs treatment
• Family reactions
• Social acceptance

• Community safety vs legalization
• United States military involvement in Colombian drug trade?

• Causes? society's portrayal of women
• Statistics
• Bulemia
• Anorexia

Parochial

• No government support vs fairness to parents who pay twice for education
• Separation of church and state vs religion's contribution to the public good

Policy

• Placement by age vs placement by academic ability
• Mainstreaming students with disabilities vs special classrooms for their special needs
• Required standardized tests for advancement vs course requirements only
• National standardized tests vs local control of education
• Multicultural/bilingual education vs traditional basics
• Teacher competency tests vs degree requirements only
• Teacher's needs/demands vs teaching as a service profession

School Violence

• Policing schools
• School's responsibility vs parental responsibility

Youth Problems

• Drug and alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide
• Zero tolerance toward violence vs toughness with flexibility
• Permit corporal punishment

• Global warming
• Pollution, air, and water
• Endangered species
• Rain forests
• Alternative energy?
• Excessive burden on industries?
• Drilling for oil in Alaska in ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge)
• Gasoline consumption vs SUV's popularity
• Wildlife protection vs rights of developers
• Clean air and water standards--weakened vs strengthened

• Protecting victims vs rights of the accused
• Women who kill abusing husbands vs punishment for murder
• Marital rape?
• How to protect children vs respect for parental rights
• Children who kill abusing parents
• Child abuse--workable solutions?

• Organic farming vs mainline use of chemical sprays
• How to best protect the environment; conservation
• Family vs corporate farms
• Food production costs

• Interventionism?
• Third world debt and World Bank/International Monetary Fund
• Military support vs economic development of third world countries
• Human rights violations
• European Union in competition with the U.S.
• Unilateralism
• Relevance of the United Nations
• Neocon role in foreign policy
• Christian right influence on foreign policy
• Pentagon vs State Department
• Nation building as a policy
• Arms control
• Obama's National Strategy for Counterterrorism
• Control of al Qaeda
• Drawdown of U.S. Armed Forces in the Middle East

• Easy way to earn revenues vs social damage
• Individual freedom vs social damage
• Do lotteries actually benefit education or is it a scam?

• Youth gangs, prison gangs, international gangs--workable solutions?
• City government initiatives

• Marriage rights?
• Adoption rights?
• Need special rights for protection?
• College campus response

• Elderly to share in the tax burden vs government support of elderly
• Future of social security
• Job discrimination
• Child rearing
• Employment issues
• Generational differences

• Rights of business vs protection of workers, consumers, environment

• Sustainability of buildings
• Recycling programs
• Cost of "green" programs
• Wind turbines
• Landfill issues
• Renewable fuels

• Community and police safety vs unrestricted right to bear arms
• NRA (National Rifle Association)
• 2nd Amendment

• Community safety vs freedom of Speech
• Punishment inequities
• Bullying
• Persecution of alternative lifestyles

• Prevention of hazing
• Greek organzations and rituals of hazing
• Statistics of death or injury due to Hazing
• High Schools and Hazing

• Low carbohydrate vs low fat diets
• Benefits of weight training vs aerobics
• How much weekly exercise is needed to achieve lasting health benefits
• Health websites give too much information
• Psychological disorders, such as cutting and self-harm, eating disorders, Autism, Tourette Syndrome, ADHD, ADD, Asperger Syndrome

• Symptoms and treatments
• Causes
• Types of Hoarding

• Urban restrictions vs needs of the destitute
• Workable solutions?

• Definition of human trafficking
• Child traffficking
• Statistics
• Prostitution
• Organizations to combat trafficking

• Food programs
• Welfare reform
• Governmental supplimentation

• Access to public school and public programs?
• Policing borders--workable solutions?
• Employment and/or taxation

• Realistic limits vs openness toward people in need
• English as official language vs respect for diversity

Interpersonal Communication

• Decline of communication due to technology
• Online social networks and their influence
• Impact of texting and cell phones

• International trade
• Arms control
• Democratization
• "Shock and awe"
• U.S. occupation vs liberation
• Iraqi run vs U.S. puppet state
• Oil and Gas prices-Control of resources
• Effective self-government
• War on Terrorism

• Sentencing as juveniles vs as adults
• Beginning age for capital punishment?

• Limitations of the media
• Marketing to children
• Sexual innuendos in marketing

• Parental leave for both parents
• FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act)
• Bonding time

• Limits on extraordinary, costly treatments vs doing everything possible
• Nutritional/alternative therapy vs mainstream medical treatment insurance coverage for alternative treatment?
• Government grants for alternative treatment research?
• Health superiority of alternative treatments?
• Assisted suicide vs preservation of life
• Governmental insurance requirements

• Ethics of experimentation on humans?
• Ethics of experimentation with aborted fetuses?
• Ethics of experimentation on animals?

• Preemptive strike policy
• Precision weapons
• Intelligence reliability
• Afghanistan - a success or stalemate

• Governmental support
• Preparedness
• School emergency plans
• Community warning systems
• Damage costs

• Domestic policy
• Separation of church and state
• Judge nominations and make up of supreme court
• Congressional opposition to presidential nominees/filibusters
• Affirmative action
• Erosion of civil liberties vs protection against terrorism
• Patriot Act One and Two
• Health care
• Tax cut as economic stimulation
• Needs of the states vs needs of the individuals
• Budget deficits and deficit spending
• Rich vs poor

• Disadvantages or advantages
• Hazards
• Societal acceptance

• Police brutality vs dangers that police face
• Racially motivated brutality?
• Profiling

• Mudslinging
• Most controversial political ads
• Media response and public outcry to political ads
• Campaign funds and their relation to political advertising

• Politician's right to privacy vs the public's right to know
• Campaign financing reform vs reform is unworkable

Population Explosion

• How serious? Causes? Workable solutions?
• Funding abortion as a form of birth control in third world countries?

• Limitation of social deterioration vs freedom of speech
• Definition of Pornography
• Child Pornography

• Amount of money going into presidential campaigns
• Views on abortion, gay marriage, and other controversial topics
• Political debates throughout history
• Third-party candidates at presidential debates

• Building prisons vs alternative sentencing
• Adjusted sentencing for lesser crimes
• Community service
• Diversion Programs for inmates

• Prostution laws in the US and abroad
• Benefits and drawbacks to legalizing prostitution
• Psychological effect on prostitutes and former prostitutes
• Sex slavery, buying and selling

• Protection of victims vs freedom of speech/rights of the accused
• How to improve race relations
• Profiling

• Do harsher punishments mean fewer convictions?
• Date rape: consent vs exploitation
• Drugs-Rohypnol, GHB, Ketamine
• Legalization of Date Rape Drugs

• Rights of religious citizens vs freedom from imposition (e.g. prayer in schools)
• Religious motivation for political involvement vs cultural pluralism
• Christian Right's influence on foreign policy

• Media coverage--accurate, unbiased, over dramatized
• World-wide epidemic vs temporary regional health crisis
• Economic impact
• Role of health organizations--CDC (Center for Disease Control) & WHO (World Health Organization)
• Hot spots and new contagious diseases
• How contagious diseases "jump" from animal hosts to humans

• Limits for community good vs freedom of speech
• Does sex on television increase sexual behavior in teens?

• Pornography or conversation?
• Legal issues
• Definition

• Protection of victims vs freedom of speech/rights of the accused
  campuses with "no touch" policy?

• Safety of space shuttles after the Columbia tragedy
• NASA's future
• Future of space flight

• Legal rights of the homeowner
• "No duty to retreat"
• Castle Doctrine

• How to protect potential victims vs freedom of movement
• Rights of victims vs rights of the accused

• Student loan scams
• How to avoid student loan debt
• Managing student loan debt

• Helping infertile couples vs ethical abuses

• Progressive vs flat tax
• Excessive taxes vs worthwhile programs

• Osama Bin Laden
• World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings
• September 11, 2001
• Al-Qaeda
• War on terrorism
• Afghanistan
• Taliban

• Health issues
• Technological advances
• Cost
• Instant Messaging: Short-hand

• Public attitudes toward veterans
• Health issues caused by service time
• Organizations for veterans
• Governmental support for veterans

• Limits for community good vs freedom of speech
• Link to agressive behavior
• Definition of Violence
• Graphic displays of violence in the media

• Necessary safety net vs creating dependency
• Obama's Welfare Reform
• Social Services

• Is there a glass ceiling?
• Obstacles to women running for political office?