Category Archives: Commentary

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 4/28/2018- How NOT To Draw Congressional Boundary Lines

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 4/28/2018- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss a pivoital election issue which was cynically placed on the ballot by the Ohio legislature on a primary ballot. Why is it cynical? because the election is sure to have a low turnout, thus ensuring only the party insiders and those energized on a single issue will vote, ensuring its passage.

We also discuss a recent Ohio Supreme Court decision which pulls the rug out from under a Planned Parenthood lawsuit trying to keep a Toledo abortion clinic which cannot find a hospital to allow admission to botched abortions from closing.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 4/7/2018- Weeds Or Seeds?

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 4/7/2018- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the roots of societal issues and whether or not we’re applying biblical or man-made solutions.  We discuss what biblical solutions might look like in contrast to secular attempts.

 

Article links- Weeds or Seeds?

 

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 3/24/2018-Finding Cures, Protecting Babies, And Those Who Think Those Things Are A Bad Idea

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 3/24/2018- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis delve into legislation currently before the Ohio Legislature to help find cures and protect helpless infants. Who could oppose such things? You might be surprised and we reveal reasons why they do.

Contact your Ohio legislator-

Bill to oppose: HB 512

Bills to support: HB 345, HB 565

Article links- Find your legislator

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 3/17/2018- Bad Judges And Bad Legislation

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 3/17/2018- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss a simply awful ruling issued by Federal District Court judge Timothy Black, an Obama appointee and a Republican Senate confirmation, allowing the abortion of children simply because they have an extra chromosome giving them Down’s Syndrome. Judge Black is a former general counsel and president of Planned Parenthood of Ohio. We discuss the frightening implications of a ruling in which a Federal Court judge rules that the murder of children due to a development anomaly is a categorical right. We also discuss the educational nightmare and the schizophrenic nature of so-called conservatives who support a bill in the Ohio Legislature that completely revamps the education in Ohio. The proposed system in HB 512 takes a system that is already badly broken and way too centralized into a Soviet-style and unaccountable bureaucracy.

Article links- Federal judge blocks the protection of unborn Down’s Syndrome children

State school board of Ohio opposes HB 512

Questions and answers on Ohio’s proposed merger of all levels its educational system contained in HB 512

Find your legislator

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 3/3/2018- Why Presuppositions Matter

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 3/3/2018- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis explain why our presuppositions and the presuppositions of those around us are vitally important to understanding the world around us and how we think God’s thoughts after Him about it.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 2/24/2018- Relationships Under Construction

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 2/24/2018- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis interview Catherine Wood of Relationships Under Construction about the very difficult job they do very, very well in public schools. We also discuss the upcoming Relationships Under Construction banquet.

Relationships Under Construction

Bringing America Back To Life

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 2/3/2018- The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 2/3/2018- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss two vitally important organizations and their upcoming gatherings. We then discuss the upcoming memo release, the people who are in a panic over its release and its possible implications. We also discuss how the meme argument that the FISA warrants were obtained using information untainted by political corruption.

Article links- Relationships Under Construction

Bringing America Back To Life

Jeh Johnson throws every and any argument he can think of to stop the release of the memo. It won’t work

James Clapper admits that the Steele Dossier was used to obtain the FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign

 

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 1/27/2018- A New “McCarthy Era?”

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 1/27/2018- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the emergence of a new era of “witch-hunting” in the form of requiring candidates for office to reveal membership in certain “taxpayer rights” organization for purposes of appointing school board members to fill a vacant seat. We also talk about the debacle of a “send-off party” for a Republican legislative staffer in which legislators and other party regulars demonstrated why politics and alcohol don’t mix well in gatherings. We finish up with why much of the current rash of societal problems can be tied to a loss of Christian worldview.

Article links- Neo-McCarthyism in local school board politics

Ohio legislators prove that they are tone-deaf regarding the appropriate behavior towards women

 

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 1/20/2018- The President Sets The Bar For Future President’s At The March For Life

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 1/20/2018- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyz.e Donald Trump’s decision to directly address March for Lifers. we also discuss the recent, if somewhat flawed, awakening to the limits on the judiciary in the Constitution. We look at how President Trump has hoist the press by their own petard by pointing out the absurdity of blaming Republicans for the coming government shutdown over DACA. We finish up with a warning on Ohio HB 160 which is a nightmare for churches and church affiliated organizations, not to mention small business owners, etc.