Category Archives: Critical Thinking

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 12/9/2017- Who Gets Coal And Sticks And Who Gets A Good Gift?

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 12/9/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis look at who deserves a great gift and who deserves sticks and coal at Christmas. 

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 12/2/2017- Accusation Vs. Conviction; “Social Justice” And The Christian Worldview

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 12/2/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the sudden avalanche of sexual harassment and assault accusations and what it means from a Christian worldview perspective. We also discuss the difference between so-called “social justice” and actual justice based on absolutes of right and wrong.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 11/18/2017- “Macaca,” The Wayback Machine, and “Inappropriate Behavior”

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 11/18/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis use the Wayback Machine® to draw a parallel to more recent events revolving around “inappropriate behavior.” We discuss men’s biblically mandated duty behave appropriately towards women. We also analyze the consequences being experienced by those who have not only ignored those mandates but have flouted them.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 11/11/2017- Media Agendas, Shootings, Compromised “Pastors,”Attacks By Radicals, And Political Hatchet Jobs

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 11/11/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis take a closer look at the Texas church shooting and the major problems with the agenda driven coverage. We segue into “Pastor” Carl Lentz’s attempt to excuse infanticide followed by a completely hollow “backtrack” We then look at a possible connection to Antifa’s call for violent revolution starting on Nov. 4 to both the Texas church shooting and the attack on and grievous injury of Senator Rand Paul by a radical liberal neighbor. We finish up with a discussion of the “October Surprise” accusations of Judge Roy Moore, a candidate with a 17 point lead in the Alabama US Senate special election whose timing is , to say the least, curious.

Article links- A chainsaw bayonet? Seriously?

“Pastor” Carl Lentz compromises on infanticide on The View

“Pastor” Carl Lentz tries to backtrack, proves that there is no middle ground

 

 

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 11/4/2017- ISIS Strikes, Election Polls, And The Federal Heartbeat Bill

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 11/4/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze the coverage and reaction of the ISIS attack in New York City and what we think of the immigration policies that are a major contributor to this and other attacks.  From there we discuss how theology affects how all sides think on this issue. We also discuss current polls in the Alabama Senate race and the hearings on the Federal version of the Heartbeat bill. We finish up with a sexual harassment scandal in the Ohio Legislature.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 10/28/2017- Reformation Day Eve? What Happened To Halloween? Scarier Things Lurk In Columbus And Washington DC

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 10/28/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis do a quick explanation of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s nailing of 95 theses to the Wittenburg church door on October 31, 1517 and what it became and why it’s still relevant. We warn that a vote on resolution SJR1 calling for a constitutional convention may be happening in the Ohio Senate. Barry gives a rundown on Ohio political musical chairs which is a “don’t miss.” We use this as a segue to discuss the US Senatorial chess board and the larger strategy at play. We finish up with an analysis of Uranium One and the 180 degree turn in the “Russian Election Collusion” meme.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 10/21/2017- Scandals, The Reasons Behind Them, And Where Else Those Reasons Are Leading

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 10/21/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis use a discussion about an Ohio state Senator who has been forced to resign into a wider discussion of the Harvey Weinstein scandal and some of the biblical reasons and other implications of these scandals. We follow up with our reasons for opposing Ohio State Issues 1 & 2

Article links- The Cincinnati Enquirer reports on the resignation of an Ohio State Senator

Third Rail Politics blog delves into the Ohio Senator who was forced to resign

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 10/7/2017- Cultural Arrogance, Tragedy, And Hope

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 10/7/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis talk about Columbus Day and some of the nonsense surrounding the current trend to belittle and denigrate everyone involved in the settlement and founding of the United States based on some of their, admittedly, imperfect views of many things. We also discuss the concept of evil from a biblical perspective and the consequences of not grasping the concept from that perspective. The Las Vegas massacre is a case in point.

Article links- Speaking ill of Hugh Hefner

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 9/23/2017- On Not Being Wiped Out By Nibiru, Planet X, Or Anything Else

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 9/23/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis demonstrate by comparison that flat-earth thinking exists in many areas of life and politics. We discuss the reasons why the Electoral College is actually an engenius design

Article links-David Chilton’s “Days of Vengeance”

The Center For A New American Security

Leftist “security experts” suddenly find the Electoral College is a “national security threat”

 

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 9/16/2017- Solar Flares, Constitutional Conventions

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 9/16/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis begin by discussing solar flares and their effect on everything, not just communications, which we know about due to problems from last week’s show. Next we discuss yet another hearing on a new constitutional convention and my testimony in opposition to that.

Article links- Chuck Michaelis’ testimony on Ohio SJR1