Select a topic from one of the following, although you may narrow the topic that you choose. Once you make your choice, please drop me a note stating a reason for the choice and your current view of the issue.
1. Should there be mandatory drug testing in the workplace?
2. Should women be allowed full access to military combat specialties in the U.S. Armed Forces?
3. Should assisted suicide be legalized?
4. Should the use of animals in medical research be illegal?
5. Should an individual's right to privacy override the public's right to know?
6. Should "workfare" replace welfare?
7. Should "legalized gambling" in the form or state and regional lotteries be discontinued?
8. Should single sex classrooms be an option in the public educational system?
9. Should strict quotas on immigration be eliminated by the U.S. government?
10. Should affirmative action policies be eliminated?
11. Should there be a legal limitation on the building of casinos owned by Native Americans?
12. Should adopted children be allowed access to knowledge about their biological parents?
13. Should minors be tried as adults?
14.
Should "environmental activists," such as the Earth Liberation Front, be considered terrorists?
15. Should employers have access to genetic information of current and potential employees?
16. Should stem cell research continue?
17. Should the U.S. military exclude homosexuals?
18. Should all school employees be fingerprinted?
19. Should hate crimes be treated differently from other crimes?
20. Should all students receive scholarships to any grade school, public or private?
21. Should alternative medicine, such as the use of ephedra, be more closely regulated??
22. Should pregnant women who take illegal drugs be penalized?
23. Should public funding of election campaigns be increased?
24. Should people over a certain age receive only limited medical insurance?
25. Should nuclear electric generation be encouraged?
26. Should the new higher educational standards be lowered for some students?