Tournament: Binghamton | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wilkes NW | Judge: Phillip George
The alternative is to reject the aff in favor of complex theoretical analysis

Complexity theory is uniquely key to address the ontological depth of differing social inequalities simultaneously
Walby 07 Sylvia Walby, Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, "Complexity Theory, Systems Theory, and Multiple Intersecting Social Inequalities," Philosophy of the Social Sciences, December 2007; vol. 37, 4: pp. 449-470cd

Social theory faces a ... central issue in social theory.

Tournament: Binghamton | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wilkes NW | Judge: Phillip George
Presidential war powers high
Posner 13 President Ruthless, Eric Posner, professor at the University of Chicago Law School, May 23, 2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2013/05/obama_s_speech_he_s_just_like_bush_in_pushing_the_limits_of_executive_power.html

In his speech ...Obama has violated the law.

Congressional restrictions undermine the executive- weakens national security
Yoo 6 Yoo, John, an American attorney, law professor, and author. He served as a political appointee, the Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice (OLC), during the George W. Bush administration, "Exercising wartime powers: the need for a strong executive." Harvard International Review 28.1 (2006): 22+. Opposing Viewpoints In Context.

The Iraq is beginning to ... US national security.

Hegemony solves extinction
Bradley A. Thayer 6 is an associate professor in the Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University, “In Defense of Primacy,” November/December 2006, Issue 86, National Interest, p.32, EBSCOHost, Accessed Date: 5-7-13 y2k

A grand strategy based on ... last as long as possible.¶

Tournament: Clarion | Round: 1 | Opponent: Liberty MW | Judge: Joe Patrice
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The affirmative fundamentally ignores the current socio-political occasion governed by a military metaphysics of violence.  We are in the midst of a neoliberal revolution converging with violence to place all life under the universalizing sign of the permanent war zone. The 1AC constitutes an act of willfully forgetting the task of the intellectual to render violence visible rather than (re)organize the ongoing production of violence.
This debate is a question of competing trajectories of intellectual inquiry - Vote negative to renounce the affirmative’s endorsement of scholarship that focuses exclusively on the technocratic administration of war.
Giroux 2013 (Henry A. Giroux, Professor at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University. The Violence of Organized Forgetting, Truthout | Op-Ed.  Monday, 22 July 2013 00:00, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17647-the-violence-of-organized-forgetting)

I want to argue that……on the side of domination.

Any determination of the ballot demands a prior question, one which attends to the unique confinements and constraints of both our current socio-political occasion but also this specific occasion and space of debate.
Bowers 2011 (C.A. Bowers, University of Oregon.  Ecologically and Culturally Informed Educational Reforms in Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies.  Critical Education.  Volume 2 Number 14 December 20, 2011 ISSN 1920-4125)

Classroom teachers and university professors…country’s traditional newspapers.

Tournament: Clarion | Round: 1 | Opponent: Liberty MW | Judge: Joe Patrice
CIR will pass, but it’s going to be close and a fight---PC is key and there’s momentum
Orlando Sentinel 11/1 “What we think: It'll take both parties to clear immigration logjam,” 11-1-13, http://www.orlandosen-tinel.com/news/opinion/os-ed-immigration-reform-congress-20131031,0,7750574.story?dssReturn, DOA: 11-1-13, y2k

For those who thought the end…future of their party.

Obama has PC now, but weakening his power allows conservative factions to take-over---wrecks his agenda
Ken Walsh 10/18 covers the White House and politics for U.S. News. He writes the daily blog, "Ken Walsh's Washington," for usnews.com, and "The Presidency" column for the U.S. News Weekly. He is the author of the new book "Prisoners of the White House: The Isolation of America's Presidents and the Crisis of Leadership."  Ken Walsh can be reached at kwalsh@usnews.com and followed on Facebook and Twitter. “Obama Strengthened for Now,” 10-18-13, http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/Ken-Walshs-Washington/2013/10/18/obama-strengthened-for-now, DOA: 10-19-13, y2k

President Obama emerges… the debt ceiling.

Comprehensive reform solves Mexican relations- that’s key to border security and stopping terrorism
Castaneda et al., NYU Politics and Latin American Studies professor, 2005
(Jorge, “NORTH AMERICAN COOPERATION ON THE BORDER”, HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION, 7-12, http://ftp.resource.org/gpo.gov/hearings/109s/28131.txt,  )

I think that attitudes…about these issues.

Extinction
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed, Al-Ahram Weekly political analyst, ‘04
Al-Ahram Weekly, "Extinction!" 8/26, no. 705,  http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/op5.htm

What would be the … will all be losers.

Tournament: Binghamton | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wilkes NW | Judge: Phillip George
A. Unique link – compromise on budget now – plan kills the process – healthcare pushes to the brink now
Dennis and Fuller, Roll Call Staff Writers, 9-18, 2013,
(Steven T. and Matt, "Talk of Shutdown Blooms, Despite Boehner's Best-Laid Plans", Roll Call, PAS) www.rollcall.com/news/talk_of_shutdown_blooms_despite_boehners_best_laid_plans-227726-1.html 9-19-13
House leaders’ best-laid ... over the failure to replace the sequester.

B. Failure of budget agreement collapses economy
White and Lee 13 Ben White and MJ Lee are Politico Staff Reporter, “Next fiscal fight: Why Wall Street should worry,” 8-12-13, http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=0D19E803-7946-46E9-8CB0-82AAD98BC574, DOA: 9-16-13, y2k

Talk to anyone on ...become a concerning story.”

Decline goes nuclear
Royal 10 director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 2010¶ Jedediah, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, pg 213-215

Tournament: Binghamton | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wilkes NW | Judge: Phillip George
Text: The President of the United States should issue a National Security Directive requiring the Department of Defense include in its Quadrennial Defense Review a recommendation to . The President should not de-classify information regarding this National Security Directive. 

QDR recommendations are followed – sequestration creates the perfect situation to reduce war powers
Parsons, National Defense Magazine Staff Writer, 2013,
(Dan, "Analyst: 2014 Defense Review Offers Opportunity for Real Reform", National Defense Magazine, 6-17, PAS) www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/lists/posts/post.aspx?ID=1182 9-2-13 

Instead of shoehorning its ... you balance the budget.Ӧ

Tournament: Binghamton | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wilkes NW | Judge: Phillip George
The affirmative fundamentally ignores the current socio-political occasion governed by a military metaphysics of violence.  We are in the midst of a neoliberal revolution converging with violence to place all life under the universalizing sign of the permanent war zone. The 1AC constitutes an act of willfully forgetting the task of the intellectual to render violence visible rather than (re)organize the ongoing production of violence.
This debate is a question of competing trajectories of intellectual inquiry - Vote negative to renounce the affirmative’s endorsement of scholarship that focuses exclusively on the technocratic administration of war.
Giroux 2013 (Henry A. Giroux, Professor at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University. The Violence of Organized Forgetting, Truthout | Op-Ed.  Monday, 22 July 2013 00:00, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17647-the-violence-of-organized-forgetting)

I want to argue that ... side of domination.

Any determination of the ballot demands a prior question, one which attends to the unique confinements and constraints of both our current socio-political occasion but also this specific occasion and space of debate.
Bowers 2011 (C.A. Bowers, University of Oregon.  Ecologically and Culturally Informed Educational Reforms in Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies.  Critical Education.  Volume 2 Number 14 December 20, 2011 ISSN 1920-4125)
Classroom teachers and university ... the country’s traditional newspapers.