Category Archives: Critical Thinking

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 9/9/2017- Wild Fires, Presidential Libraries, And Moving Pieces On The Political Chessboard

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 9/9/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis talk about Chuck’s recent event filled trip to the Los Angeles area complete with reports from a close encounter with the LA wild fires, and a visit to the beautiful Reagan Presidential Library. We also analyze President Trump’s decision to work with Democrats on raising the debt ceiling. We also discuss the destruction of historic monuments, based on a terrible grasp of history, and why things happened the way they did. We analyze the Cato Institute’s strange statement on the “tolerance” of Islam and what weird stuff is happening in Washington DC and environs.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 8/19/2017- Lunacy, Nibiru, And Moore About A Strange Senatorial Primary

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 8/19/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the lunar eclipse as well as some of the prophecy nonsense which the eclipse has ignited. Nibiru is coming! We also discuss the Alabama senatorial primary and why the results are important. We also discuss some of the absurd reasoning behind the Oregon Governor Kate Brown’s order that insurers provide FREE abortions to anyone in the state. Along the same line we dissect the problems with Iceland’s claim to have “eradicated” Down’s Syndrome (Trisomy 21) by aborting all cases.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 8/5/2017- God And Rational Thought

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 8/5/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis begin by discussing one of the attributes of God, namely logical thought and the implications of that. We also discuss President Trump’s recent trip to West Virginia and the Governor’s switch to the Republican Party. We also discuss portable amusement rides, and the Ohio Governor’s race.

Article links- 3rd Rail Politics sheds light on the Gubernatorial race

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/29/2017- God’s Character, Christian Evangelism, and Obamacare

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/29/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis start the show with a discussion of God’s character and the implications of that. We then move over to debates with the Christian community  regarding how to evangelize Muslims and other non-believers. We finish with the Republican betrayal of the people who elected them, in part, to rid us of the albatross of Obamacare. We expose liars and phonies like Rob Portman, Lisa Murkowski, John McCain, etc. who ran on the promise to repeal Obamacare then voted against it.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/22/2017- It’s Bizarre Out There…And There’s A Reason For That

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/22/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze the bizarre happenings around all of us and explain why it’s not all that difficult to understand why and even predict, in general terms, what will happen in the future.

Article Links- Teenagers laugh and joke while a fellow human being drowns

Police say teens filmed and mocked a drowning man

US Congress makes Charlie Gard and his parents permanent US residents

What is Edwards Syndrome?

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/15/2017- Charlie Gard In Depth

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/15/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis look at the Charlie Gard case in some detail and with a biblical worldview in mind.

Article links- A technically flawed explanation of the Charlie Gard situation submitted by the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission

The Patients Rights Organization

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/8/2017- The Intricacies Of The Ohio Budget And Unintended Consequences

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/8/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the Ohio budget follies and the overrides of gubernatorial vetoes. That segues into the developing race to replace John Kasich and grandstanding by the potential candidates. Grandstanding always has unintended consequences and that leads to a deeper discussion of pharmaceutical marketing issues.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/1/2017- Ohio Budget Disaster, Ohio Health Buffoonery, And Another Special Election Disaster For Democrats

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/1/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze the Ohio legislature’s sudden reckoning with the budget that they created by giving a tax and spend RINO governor everything he wanted so he could be elected president and get them all Washington DC appointments. We discuss the Kansas budget issue and work to debunk the socialist argument that lower taxes caused the problem. We also discuss the Ohio Department of Health and their complete disconnect from reality in ignoring the homosexual community and the inherent danger of doing what they do while encouraging them to stop smoking…huh?

Article links- Dissolve Illinois?

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 6/17/2017- The Boiling Pot Blows Off The Lid

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 6/17/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze the attempted massacre of Republican Congressmen by a radical socialist and professional protester in suburban Washington DC. We discuss the hypocrisy of the left in allowing if not encouraging rhetoric calling for violence against conservative Republicans

Article links- Fifteen times celebrities envisioned violence Trump and Republicans

Julianne Moore demonstrates that she is very pretty and very dimwitted

Pat Buchanan asks if we are on the edge of a civil war

 

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 6/10/2017- Welcome To The Jungle

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 6/10/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss creating a handy guide to understanding the times and actually have to work to understand what some of the terms in the guide mean. We analyze what is wrong with modern education including church education and what it is leading to. This leads to an interesting sidebar discussion on William Shakespeare and who he was.

Article links- Social Justice mobs emulate “A Clockwork Orange” at Evergreen State University in Washington state

Kathy Griffin piles on herself with an embarrassing press conference