Category Archives: Critical Thinking

Principles and Policies Podcast for 9/14/2013- How Not To Make A Policy Speech

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday September 14, 2013. Chuck Michaelis and Barry Sheets discuss the recent speech given by President Barack Obama on the subject of the Syrian civil war and the use of gas by some party in that conflict. We find the speech to be a jumble of indecision, innuendo, constitutional ignorance and just plain propaganda.

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 9/7/2013- More On An Article V “Amendments” Convention

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday September 7, 2013. Chuck Michaelis and Barry Sheets host a compilation of previous programs on a a so-called “federal amendments convention” (an entity which is non-existent). We discuss why it is an exceedingly bad idea and will not yield the result its conservative cheerleaders hope.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 8/31/2013- What’s Wrong With Grove City College?

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday August 31, 2013. Chuck Michaelis and Barry Sheets interview Pastor David Whitney of The Institute On The Constitution (IOTC) about attacks on IOTC and other groups which are attempting to teach the Constitution and American history and government from a Christian constitutional perspective by Dr. Warren Throckmorton. Throckmorton is a professor in the Psychology Dept. of Grove City College in Grove City PA. Grove City College is ostensibly a Christian college but we demonstrate that Grove City college is actively ignoring Throckmorton’s attempts to undermine the biblical view of sexual perversion and the biblical origins of American government using, to say the least, questionable tactics and shoddy scholarship in a blatant flouting of their mission statement.

Article links- http://www.iotconline.com

http://wthrockmorton.com/

http://www.constitution.org/vattel/vattel.htm

http://www.rickipepin.com/

http://www.teaparty911.com/info/pdf/founding-faith-conference-2013-impact-your-nation.pdf

http://www.gcc.edu/Pages/Grove-City-College.aspx

 

Principles and Policies Podcast for 8/24/2013- Why We’re Still Afraid Of An Article V “Amendments” Convention

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday August 24, 2013. Chuck Michaelis and Barry Sheets discuss the problems with  attempts to call a new constitutional convention (calling it an “amendments” convention, a category which does not exist) in a series of programs done during the last time this tactic was tried.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 8/17/2013- The Rights And Wrongs Of Mark Levin’s Liberty Amendments

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday August 17, 2013. Chuck Michaelis and Barry Sheets dissect an interview of Lawyer, author, and talk show host Mark Levin about his book The Liberty Amendments. We find much to agree with but also find glaring errors which put holes in his argument for an Article V convention to sink it without a trace.

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 8/10/2013- What’s Wrong With National Right To Life?

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday August 10, 2013. Chuck Michaelis and Barry Sheets interview Molly Smith of Cleveland Right To Life about the recent “disaffiliation” of Cleveland Right To Life by National Right To Life. Molly answers the question- “how can you disaffiliate an organization that is not affiliated with you in the first place?” Molly also talks about what happens when you’re an effective advocate for pro-life action in a pro-death culture.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 8/3/2013- Ohioans For Educational Freedom And COMMON Core

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday August 3, 2013. Chuck Michaelis and Barry Sheets interview Mark Stevenson of Ohioans For Educational Freedom about several VERY important topics that touch on topics like COMMON Core, the Ohio State School Board, Home Schooling, Public Schooling, and pending legislation that impacts everyone connected with education in Ohio (and that’s about everybody).

Principles and Policies Podcast for 7/27/2013- How You Know You’re Winning The Argument

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday July 27, 2013. Chuck Michaelis and Barry Sheets interview Ricki Pepin, a Christian, a home school mother, a grandmother, and a VERY active teacher of the US Constitution. Ricki is getting a first-hand lesson on how progressives react when you begin to make inroads into educating citizens about how the Constitution REALLY works and what it REALLY says. The result is usually a wild-eyed smear campaign and that  is exactly what Ricki is experiencing in the Dayton-Springfield OH area.

Article links- http://www.rickipepin.com/

http://www.theamericanview.com/iotc-in-controversy-in-springboro-ohio-school-system/

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/springboro-cancels-controversial-classes/nYdb6/

http://wthrockmorton.com/2013/07/springboro-school-district-cancels-controversial-constitution-classes/

http://www.springboro.org/districtNewsArticle.aspx?artID=108#sthash.61alEir1.dpbs

Principles and Policies Podcast for 7/20/2013- Why Christians Should Study The Constitution

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday July 20, 2013. Chuck Michaelis introduces a lecture given at Camp American by Pastor David Whitney, head instructor of the Institute On The Constitution, on the subject of “Why Christians Should Study The Constitution.”

Principles and Policies Podcast for 7/13/2013- From Theory To Practice In Analyzing Legislation

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday July 13, 2013. Chuck Michaelis introduces a lecture given by Barry Sheets of Principled Policy Consulting and The Institute For Principled Policy on how to biblically and constitutionally analyze legislation. This is the second lecture in the series and puts “feet” on part I by moving from theory to practice.