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• Debate: Child beauty pageants - May 28th, 2011.

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Featured pro and con arguments from this article:

• PRO: Despite outliers, the average beauty pageant is tame. Melbourne mother of four Kristin Kyle, who is organising Australia's first beauty pageant in 2011: "We are asking people to educate themselves. Toddlers & Tiaras is a reality TV show. They have to make it dramatic so people will watch it. Our pageant is not going to be like that."[1]

• CON: Moms enter kids into beauty pageants for own insecurities Leslie Cannold. "The ugly face of child beauty pageants." Sydney Morning Herald. May 21, 2011: "Some pageant mums are living out their own dreams of 'go[ing] somewhere in life', as one mother put it, rather than being 'stuck at home' due to early childbearing. While self-focused female ambition continues to be stigmatised in Western societies – with the ambitious working woman always contrasted unfavourably with the mum who sacrifices her career to stay at home – pageant mums justify their application of false eyelashes or even Botox to their children as evidence of a competitive desire for their daughter to win."

• Trans fat ban - May 19th, 2011.
• China "one child" policy - May 12th, 2011.
• Release of Osama bin Laden death photos - May 6th, 2011.
  
• Osama Bin Laden Sea Burial - May 3rd, 2011.
• Return of Israel to pre-1967 borders - April 30th, 2011.
• Term limits for legislators - April 19th, 2011.
• Seattle deep-bore tunnel - April 13th, 2011.
• Should the US arm Libyan rebels? - April 2nd, 2011.
• High-speed rail - March 30th, 2011.
• Mandatory military service - March 26th, 2011.
• No-fly zone over Libya - March 15th, 2011.
• Military recruiting in public schools - March 11th, 2011.
• Bullfighting - March 8th, 2011.
• Collective bargaining rights for public unions - March 4th, 2011.
• Was the War in Iraq worth it? - February 24th, 2011.
• UN Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families - February 16th, 2011.
• Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies - February 2nd, 2011.
• Concealed carry vs open carry gun laws - January 25th, 2011.
• Castration of sex offenders - January 21st, 2011.
• Palestinian right of return - January 14th, 2011.
• Ban on mountaintop removal coal mining - January 12th, 2011.

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• Return of Israel to pre-1967 borders US President Barack Obama said on May 19th that he was committed to the pre-1967 borders as a starting point for negotiations on the Palestinian-Israeli border, re-elevating the debate on the subject to center stage.NPR article on subject.
  
• Enhanced interrogation techniques: Following the killing of Osama bin Laden, with useful information obtained through interrogation techniques, some have argued that it was "enhanced interrogations" that lead to Osama bin Laden's death. This has lead to renewed debate over the practice.
• Should the West arm Libyan rebels? and No-fly zone over Libya have been in the news big time since the conflict began in March. Debatepedia's resources are excellent on these topics.
• Nuclear energy rose into the limelight once again as a debate, following the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, which damaged over four nuclear power plants and threatened to cause a national and global nuclear fallout.[2]

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• May 24th. Debate: Child beauty pageants next for the Debate Digest.
• May 19th. Debate: Trans fat ban completed for the Debate Digest.
• May 18th. Dadula argued on Debate: Is dancing a sport? that "dancing cannot be objectively judged."
• May 17th. Jasonschantz wrote the following in favor of releasing Osama bin Laden's death photos: "Al-Qaeda will see withholding photos as sign of their impact. Why they released the death picture of Saddam but don't dare to release that of Osama's? The only reason is that Iraq is down but Al-Qaeda is still there, so their path of terrorism is effective. It is an encouragement to them."[3]

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