SPEECH

Edgeley students earn honors at speech tourney

Edgeley School was the lone competitor from a Class B school at the March 27 Invitational meet at Fargo North. Clare Geinert placed second in radio broadcasting in a tie-breaking decision resulting in a class A/B split with both students qualifying for state. She placed third in dramatic interpretation and ninth in humorous interpretation.

March 31, 2010

Jamestown Speech results announced

The Jamestown Speech team is at mid-season. The team traveled to Mandan, N.D., on Feb. 22. Here are the results: Anna Weisenburger, senior, placed seventh in extemporaneous programmed reading. Jamie Kessler, senior, placed seventh in poetry and sixth with her humorous duo with Jace Erickson, sophomore. Another humorous duo, Jana Lynch and Brittany McIntyre, both freshmen, placed eighth.

March 23, 2010

Unprotected speech

The Supreme Court has decided to take a case that may change the boundaries for types of speech protected by the First Amendment. The case was brought by a Maryland man whose son’s 2006 funeral was picketed by members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas.

By Cal Thomas , March 12, 2010

Jamestown Speech Team members place at Feb. 20 event

The Jamestown Speech team traveled to Bismarck St. Mary’s High School on Feb. 20. Emily Engels, a senior, qualified for state in Extemporaneous Programmed Reading, and placed third in Dramatic Interpretation. Anna Weisenburger, a senior, also placed fifth in EPR.

March 03, 2010

Jamestown High School team competes in three speech meets

The Jamestown High School speech season has begun. The first meet took the team to Valley City High School on Jan. 16. Emily Engels, senior, placed second in extemporaneous programmed reading. In EPR, the speaker is given an hour to cut a selection (given to them at the meet) down to 7 minutes, including the introduction.

February 16, 2010

Obama declares 'I don't quit' in State of Union

WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring ``I don't quit,'' an embattled President Barack Obama vowed in his first State of the Union address Wednesday night to make job growth his topmost priority and urged a divided Congress to boost the still-ailing economy with fresh stimulus spending. Defiant despite stinging setbacks, he said he would not abandon ambitious plans for longer-term fixes to health care, energy, education and more.

By Jennifer Loven , January 27, 2010

Anti-Islamic Dutch lawmaker speaks at U.S. college

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Amid tight security and a large turnout of protesters, Dutch right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders told an assembly of Temple University students that Europe and America must fight an ongoing “stealth jihad” that threatens democracy and free speech.

October 20, 2009

Zinke wins speech contest

In lieu of its regular meeting, Jamestown Toastmasters members attended the Area 42 Humorous Speech Contest in Valley City, N.D., on Sept. 29. The meeting was held at the Ag Country Farm Credit offices. Area 42 is comprised of clubs in Jamestown, Valley City and Carrington, N.D., and Aberdeen, S.D.

October 06, 2009

What was all the fuss about?

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any stupider, schools across the nation decided to censor President Barack Obama’s speech urging kids to work hard because “being successful is hard.” And that, ladies and gentlemen, was the terribly scary bit of propaganda that prompted certain Americans to cry “socialism” and “indoctrination,” and force some schools to opt out of hearing the president’s message Tuesday.

By Kathleen Parker, Orlando Sentinel , September 10, 2009

Carrington woman attends speech

About 6 p.m. Tuesday, Ellen Linderman got a phone call in the Carrington, N.D., home she shares with husband, Charles Linderman. It was the White House, asking her to hop a plane to Washington to attend President Barack Obama’s speech on health care reform Wednesday night. She sat right next to first lady Michelle Obama at the address to a joint session of Congress.

By By Stephen J. Lee, Grand Forks Herald , September 10, 2009

Hopes, fears of an ‘Obama effect’

After decades of criticizing public schools as places where hardly anybody learns anything, suddenly conservatives are upset that a 15- to 20-minute Webcast in schools might teach too much. That’s because the Webcast is by President Barack Obama. His critics fear he might teach something that they’d rather not have our schoolchildren hear. Seldom has so much power been imagined for a short video presentation that does not carry an X-rating.

By Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune , September 08, 2009

Obama tells children in speech: Stay in school

In a speech that drew fire even before he delivered it, President Barack Obama is telling the nation’s schoolchildren he “expects great things from each of you.” “At the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, and the best schools in the world,” Obama said. “And none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities.”

By By Ann Sanner, The Associated Press , September 08, 2009

The White House on Friday dismissed as pointless the furor over President Barack Obama’s plan to deliver a televised back-to-school speech to the nation’s students.

By By Ben Feller, The Associated Press , September 05, 2009

Colin Powell urges missile defense system

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says the U.S. can't let Russia dictate whether it pursues a global missile defense system.

July 08, 2009

Sharia continues to strangle speech

I am being patted down by a female Danish security officer in the basement of the parliament building in Copenhagen and I have a thought. I have just triggered the metal detector — my heels, I’m sure — en route upstairs to the Landstingssalen, formerly the parliament’s upper house. There, I am scheduled to deliver a speech at the invitation of the Danish Free Press Society, or Trykkefrihedsselskabet. (Say that three times fast — or slow.)

By Diana West, Washington Times , June 24, 2009