Category Archives: Critical Thinking

Judicial Activism, Apologetics, Marriage and Family, Public Policy Radar, Commentary, Public Policy Principles News, The Church, Biblical Worldview, Podcast, Critical Thinking, Family

Principles And Policies Podcast For 9/26/2015- Presuppositions, The Church, Insurance, And Culture

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday September 26, 2015. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss presuppositional apologetics, Christ’s Church, the effect of the Obergefell decision on it and how church insurance companies are helping to facilitate the Church’s surrender to the culture on same-sex “marriage.”

Apologetics, Taxation, Public Policy Radar, Commentary, Public Policy Principles News, The Vote, Biblical Worldview, Podcast, Critical Thinking

Principles And Policies Podcast For 9/19/2015- Debate Recap, Planned Parenthood Funding Follies, Candidate PAC’s, And State Ballot Issues

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday September 19, 2015. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis put on our hip waders and slog into the waste treatment ponds of the current political process. We discuss presidential debates, how planned Parenthood is funded by state government while they claim they aren’t funding them, candidate PAC’s demanding money back from candidates withdrawing from races, and the Ohio statewide ballot issues.

Article links- The 2015 Ohio State Ballot Issues

Marriage and Family, Critical Thinking, Crime and Punishment, Judicial Activism, Education, Apologetics, Public Policy Radar, Commentary, Public Policy Principles News, The Church, The Vote, Biblical Worldview, Constitution, Podcast

Principles And Policies Podcast For 9/12/2015- By What Standard Is There A Rule Of Law?

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday September 12, 2015. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the concept of higher law and how it applies to the rule of law. We also explain why courts can’t create law but must only work with the law given them.

Article links- Mike Huckabee explains that the rally to support Kim Davis was really a Mike Huckabee campaign rally

American Vision demonstrates that the lower magistrate has the duty to interpose between the citizen and the higher magistrate when the higher magistrate is lawless

Other lower magistrates also understand their duty to uphold higher law

 

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Principles And Policies Podcast For 9/5/2015- A Court Cannot “Create A Right” But A Lower Magistrate Can Interpose

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday September 5, 2015. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis explain the biblical and constitutional principle that courts don’t and in fact CAN’T create rights and discuss how far we’ve come from the roots of our original understanding of these things that this has to be explained.

Article links- ACLU proves that it fails to grasp what the basis of constitutional law is and what rights are

Zack Hunt in the Huffington Post eisegetes Romans 13 to arrive at a pre-determined incorrect conclusion

Chuck Michaelis’ article on Romans 13

In The Gates Volume 3- The Institute For Principled Policy’s marriage collection

 

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Principles And Policies Podcast For 8/29/2015- Worth Repeating: The Supreme Court’s Homosexual “Mirage” Decision

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday August 29, 2015. This is a repeat of our broadcast from 7/18/2015. It’s an important one.

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 7/25/2015- Does Anybody Believe That A Group That Murders Infants Is Above Profiting By Selling The Parts?

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday July 25, 2015. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze the film released by the Center for Medical Progress showing Dr. Deborah Nucatola, senior director of medical services at Planned Parenthood Foundation of America, negotiating for the sale of aborted fetus parts.

Article links- The edited version of the Center for Medical Progress video

Planned Parenthood Video Explains Late-Term/Partial-Birth Abortion Movement — MONEY

Planned Parenthood’s Dead Baby Trafficking & 10 Other Major Stories Our Media Missed
‘A Lot of People Want Liver’: Planned Parenthood’s Bloody Business- National Review

Flashback: Obama Told Baby Organ Harvester Planned Parenthood “God Bless You” (video)

New Planned Parenthood spin: Organ harvesting, sales “a humanitarian undertaking”

AP: It’s Not Selling Aborted Unborn Baby Parts, It’s the ‘Disposition of Fetal Remains’

Racist, Pro-Nazi Roots of Planned Parenthood Revealed

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 7/18/2015- From Republic To Oligarchy

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday July 18, 2015. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the deeper implications of the Supreme court’s Obergefell decision in which they purport to create a “right” to homosexual “marriage” (or, with a tip of the hat to Pastor Douglas Wilson, homosexual mirage). We demonstrate the Christian view of marriage (the Radical 2 Kingdom surrender notwithstanding).

Article links- Mitch McConnell gets it wrong on rolling back the Obergefell decision

Toledo area judge refuses to participate in performing homosexual marriage and cites his faith a reason

Lyle Denniston, judicial journalist,makes a plea for resisting the Supreme court’s decision- on the SCOTUS Blog!

John Nolte exposes Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood’s racist origins at Breitbart

Dr. Joel McDurmon explains how pietism contributed to the church’s withdrawal from the public square which helped create the atmosphere where Obergefell could happen

Dr. McDurmon’s book Inglorious Kingdoms

Tom Woods and Kevin Gutzman discuss what the 14th Amendment actually was for-
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Principles and Policies Podcast for 7/4/2015- Making Biblical And Constitutional Public Policy

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday July 4, 2015. Chuck Michaelis hosts a class from the 2014 Camp American taught by Director of the Institute For Principled Policy, owner of Principled Policy Consulting and Principles and Policies co-host Barry Sheets. The class is making biblical and constitutional public policy
 
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Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/27/2015- Jiggery Pokery Alakazaam! The Supreme Court Does Legal Sleight-Of-Hand!

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday June 27, 2015. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis break down the Supreme Court decision on (more correctly rewrite of) on the Affordable Care Act.

Article links- Chief Justice Roberts tortures the English language to bend it to his will

Supreme Court decision is completely lawless

Associate Justice Scalia’s scathing dissent

Senator Jeff Sessions states the obvious- the Supreme Court can’t save you

Associate Justice Scalia continues his dissent

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/20/2015- The Historical And Biblical Implications Of The Right To Self-Defense

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday June 20, 2015. Chuck Michaelis hosts a lecture given at Camp American in 2014 by Pastor David Whitney of the Institute On The Constitution. Pastor Whitney explains the biblical and historical implications of the right to self-defense.

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