Category Archives: Critical Thinking

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 6/3/2017- A Deeper Look At Islam, How Monument Destroyers Are Like The Taliban, And The Glaring Stupidity Of Kathy Griffin

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 6/3/2017-Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze an article expanding on the discussion on Islamic doctrinal differences appearing on the Breitbart website. We ask who is more like the Taliban- those who want to look at US history in a broader context or those who wish to impose their interpretation of history, especially regarding the War Between The States on everyone. We also analyze the glittering moronicity of Kathy Griffin.

Article links- Understanding the factions inside Islam

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 5/27/2017- Memorial Day-A Look Back And Look Forward

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday May 27, 2017. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the origins and meaning of Memorial Day. We also discuss important distinctions in doctrinal differences between protestants and Roman Catholics vs. doctrinal differences between factions within Islam. We also explain how children are stolen ideologically from their parents by the educational system.

Article links- Debbie Wasserman-Schultz threatens for gathering evidence on a crime by Congressional Democratic staffers

Democratic IT staffers under investigation flee to Pakistan for asylum and treated like heroes

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 5/20/2017- The Tyranny Of Unintended Consequences

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday May 20, 2017. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss a lawsuit brought by widely disparate political websites against the State of Ohio for passing a clearly unconstitutional law purportedly for the purpose of restricting online harassment but is ripe for abuse in prosecution of speech critical of government or members of the government.

Article links- Lawsuit filed against online harassment law by liberal blog Plunderbund and the Portage County Tea Party

Democrat Representative Val Dennings proves that she is constitutionally ignorant and therefore disqualified from holding a federal elective office

Eugene Volokh weighs in on the Ohio internet harassment law. He’s not impressed

 

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 5/13/2017- The Ides Of March…In May

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday May 13, 2017. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the main stream press and its blind determination to sink Donald Trump’s presidency even if it means sinking themselves. We also discuss the Comey firing.

Article links- Why Trump fired Comey when he did

Former Clinton campaign (mis)manager Robby Mook says the firing of James Comey “terrifies him”

Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz debunks the idea that the firing of Comey is illegal

A badly addled Sen. John McCain weighs in on the Comey firing, and proves he’s way past it

John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign chairman was against Comey on the morning of and a cheerleader for him in the afternoon of his firing

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 5/6/2017- The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday May 6, 2017. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the pluses and minuses of President Trump’s executive order on religious liberty protection, the Johnson amendment and the possibility of its repeal (the GOOD and the BAD). We also discuss the replacement of the Affordable Care Act with the American Health Care Act and that it’s really not that much different and looks like a health insurance corporate welfare program (the UGLY).  

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 4/22/2017- Electoral Economics In One Easy Lesson

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday April 22, 2017. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze the current state of the Ohio economy and how that will affect the attempts by Governor John Kasich to run for either Senate or President in 2020.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 4/15/2017- A One Year Retrospective Show

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday April 15, 2017. It’s always good to do a retrospective and that’s what we do this week. From one year ago.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 4/8/2017- Relationships Under Construction Banquet Report And Report On A Committee Hearing on An Article V Convention Call

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday April 8, 2017. There were some audio issues with this broadcast. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis begin by recapping the Relationships Under Construction banquet and go into a discussion of Ohio’s attempt (yet again) to get the legislature to call for a new constitutional convention. We also discuss the attempt to repeal and “replace” Obamacare (the ACA).

Article links- Relationships Under Construction

Lawrence Lessig blog

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 3/25/2017- Obamacare And An Article V Convention; The Never Ending Stories

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday March 25, 2017. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis begin by looking at the radical Islamic attack on the Parliament building at Westminster in London England. We then discuss both the failure of the unspeakably bad attempt at federal health care “reform” and yet another attempt to get Ohio to call an Article V convention.

Article links- 3Rd Rail Politics continues its outstanding work in exposing the corruption of the Fordham Foundation and Ohio Senator Peggy Lehner regarding the funding of charter schools

A blissfully clueless Wall Street Journal pot calls the Donald Trump kettle “black” regarding “credibility” (warning: suicidal pay wall at WSJ.com)

Rep. Devin Nunes makes a Kafkaesque statement regarding Trump campaign surveillance and “incidental” information collection

More on Rep. Nunes ridiculous assertions

Is the odious James Comey the most powerful man in Washington at the moment?

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 3/18/2017- Et Tu, Brute? And How That Relates To The Media/Democrat Party Playbook Failure

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday March 18, 2017. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze the Ides of March and how it relates to media self-immolation as it attempts to fire-bomb President Trump

Article links- Rachel Maddow puts her head in the lion’s mouth only to have it close its jaws

Disgraced former Gawker publisher gives virtually useless advice on “how to beat Trump with Zen Buddhism”

Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) leads to attack of conservative radio talk show host as he eats dinner by himself in a San Francisco restaurant

McDonald’s gets trolled by a hacker (possibility a contractor) with TDS

Hawaiian judge who set aside a Trump immigration executive order is a Barack Obama law school classmate

More evidence of the above