Category Archives: Critical Thinking

Education, Commentary, Biblical Worldview, Constitution, Podcast, Critical Thinking, Camp American, Apologetics

Principles and Policies Podcast for 7/6/2013- Analyzing Legislation From A Biblical And Constitutional Perspective

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday July 6, 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.

Camp American, Science, Education, Commentary, Economics, Biblical Worldview, Podcast, Critical Thinking

Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/29/2013- Rescuing A Broken America; “Climate Change” And Liberty

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday June 29 June 11, 2013. Chuck Michaelis introduces a lecture given by Dr. Michael Coffman of  Environmental Perspectives, Inc. at Camp American in 2010. The subject is the fraud of man-made global warming and its use as a tool to restrict your liberty.

Biblical Worldview, Podcast, Critical Thinking, Business, Public Policy Radar, Commentary, Public Policy Principles News, Economics

Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/27/2013- What’s Right And What’s Wrong In Australia

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Thursday June 27 June 11, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss Australia’s banning of a couple of video games for their ultra-violent content. We discuss what’s right with what they’ve done and what’s wrong with what they’ve done.

Article links- http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/06/26/australia-bans-second-video-game-in-24-hours/?intcmp=obnetwork

Public Policy Principles News, Biblical Worldview, Podcast, Federal Legislation, Critical Thinking, Science, Taxation, Business, Education, Executive Usurpation, Public Policy Radar, Commentary

Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/26/2013- The Cost Of Unnecessary Regulation

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday June 26 June 11, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis continue our discussion of  a “commencement address” given by the President which is really a policy statement. This statement should send a chill down the spine of anyone who like having electricity available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week because it involves a war on coal.

Article links- http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wh-climate-adviser-war-coal-exactly-what-s-needed_737807.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/politics/obama-plan-to-cut-greenhouse-gases.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

Economics, Biblical Worldview, Podcast, Federal Legislation, Critical Thinking, Taxation, Business, Executive Usurpation, Public Policy Radar, Commentary, Public Policy Principles News, Prayer Request

Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/25/2013- Barack Obama And The War On Electricity Production

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Tuesday June 25 June 11, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss a “commencement address” which is really a policy statement. This statement should send a chill down the spine of anyone who like having electricity available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week because it involves a war on coal.

Article links- http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wh-climate-adviser-war-coal-exactly-what-s-needed_737807.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/politics/obama-plan-to-cut-greenhouse-gases.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

Biblical Worldview, Podcast, Critical Thinking, Family, Education, Public Policy Radar, Commentary, Public Policy Principles News

Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/14/2013- The Bright Future Of Home Schooling

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Friday June 14 June 11, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the very rapid growth of home schooling and the reasons for that growth.

Article link- http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/07/Report-Growth-in-Homeschooling-Outpacing-Public-Schools

A Rube Goldberg Device

Commentary, Public Policy Principles News, Economics, Biblical Worldview, Podcast, Critical Thinking, Business, Public Policy Radar

Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/13/2013- When Promises Evaporate

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Thursday June 13 June 11, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis say “we told you so” (again) about the gigantic increase in insurance premiums that Ohioans, and other states as well, will be paying in 2014.

Article links- http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/06/10/ohio-dept-of-insurance-obamacare-to-increase-individual-market-health-premiums-by-88-percent/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/02/08/how-ohios-medicaid-expansion-will-increase-health-insurance-premiums-for-everyone-else/

Public Policy Radar, Commentary, Public Policy Principles News, Biblical Worldview, Constitution, Podcast, Federal Legislation, Critical Thinking, Judicial Activism, Crime and Punishment, Surveillance, Executive Usurpation

Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/12/2013- Clarifying Just What Edward Snowden Did And Didn’t Do

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday June 12 June 11, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis say “we told you so” on the subject of revelations made by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and how the President and the intelligence community would react to them.

Article links- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/06/09/nsa-leaker-is-no-hero/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338418/Steve-Clemons-leak-Intelligence-officials-overheard-joking-NSA-leaker-disappeared-handing-classified-documents-press.html#ixzz2VosEpB00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338367/NSA-sucks-realtime-data-FIFTY-companies.html

Public Policy Radar, Commentary, Public Policy Principles News, Biblical Worldview, Constitution, Podcast, Federal Legislation, Critical Thinking, Executive Usurpation

Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/11/2013- Is The PRISM Program Making America A Prison?

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Tuesday June 11, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis continue discussing the PRISM surveillance program and the revelations of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden

Article links- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/06/09/nsa-leaker-is-no-hero/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338418/Steve-Clemons-leak-Intelligence-officials-overheard-joking-NSA-leaker-disappeared-handing-classified-documents-press.html#ixzz2VosEpB00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338367/NSA-sucks-realtime-data-FIFTY-companies.html

Executive Usurpation, Public Policy Radar, Commentary, Public Policy Principles News, Biblical Worldview, Constitution, Podcast, Federal Legislation, Critical Thinking

Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/10/2013- Looking At Everything You Do Through A PRISM

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Monday June 10, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis begin to look at the revelations of widespread and pervasive surveillance on American citizens in the name of “protecting” them. We discuss the fact that we predicted just this more than 10 years ago.

Article link- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/06/09/nsa-leaker-is-no-hero/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338418/Steve-Clemons-leak-Intelligence-officials-overheard-joking-NSA-leaker-disappeared-handing-classified-documents-press.html#ixzz2VosEpB00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338367/NSA-sucks-realtime-data-FIFTY-companies.html