The Polish Wolf

New Study on Cannabis and Driving

February 16, 2012

A Canadian study has shed more light on the dangers of driving under the influence of cannabis. It seems that drivers under the influence of cannabis are about twice as likely as unimpaired drivers to get into a major car accident. This is one more reason federal policy needs to change so that marijuana can [...]

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Making hay when the sun shines, foreign policy style.

February 11, 2012

Many on the left seem to think that there is no difference between Bush and Obama in foreign policy – the idea being that since neither regarded sovereignty as inviolable, and both sought to decrease the number of regimes in the world unfriendly to US interests, the two were following identical foreign policies. There is [...]

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Think Locally, Falter Globally

January 30, 2012

Looking over differ House candidates’ positions on the ‘issues’ of the day, something is noticeably absent – only Franke Wilmer and Melinda Gopher say anything about foreign policy. I’m not saying that makes Daines, Gillan, Strohmaier, etc. bad candidates. It means we as voters have fallen down on the job We should be demanding that [...]

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Using Teachers Effectively

January 19, 2012

Tomorrow is the last day of semester tests in Helena Public Schools, and it seems like an appropriate time to reflect on testing as a concept. There has been some indication that a teacher who is good at raising student’s test grades is likely to improve their life outcomes as well. However, it is important [...]

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Wikipolitics

January 17, 2012

Even though I knew about the impeding wikipedia blackout over a day in advance, I am still annoyed by it. I’ve gone so far as to engage in a very difficult game of clicking links and then disabling my wireless internet in the brief second between loading the page I want and redirecting to the [...]

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The 99, and other key percentages.

January 2, 2012

Obviously there’s been a lot of discussion about the 99 percent, the 1 percent, and why there’s a gap. Some seem to think that the high unemployment rate is a result of these wealth inequalities; that’s possible, but not consistent with international data. But I think there are a few other percentages that are relevant [...]

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Poli-Scientific Method, Part II

November 12, 2011

The importance of voting carefully extends beyond the domestic realm and into an area that would ideally be almost completely non-partisan: foreign politics. Foreign policy oughtn’t be changed every four or eight years, because its objectives are longer-term than that. This has led some to believe that it doesn’t, that regardless of the party in [...]

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Poli-Scientific Method

November 8, 2011

I realize my blogging is increasingly being inspired by what goes on on the the comments section. I’m alright with that – there have been some though-through comments, and some of the ideas are worth looking at without having to scroll through dozens of comments. One recurring theme – how do we know there is [...]

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