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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Thursday February 2, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis look at Ad Busters’ call for radicals to come to Chicago for the G8 Conference from a historical perspective with a view to modern implications.
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday February 1, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis take a rather unenthused victory lap about Occupy Wall Street and its money bag man George Soros.
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Monday January 23, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis Begin a close look at a Republican “Congressional District Census” and discover that the stated purpose of the “census” is not the ACTUAL purpose of the “census.”
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Friday January 20, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis finish analyzing the clip from Congressman Charlie Dent then have a good laugh at what may possibly the most stupid analysis of the value of gold ever made.
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Friday December 30, 2011. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the complete failure of UN conferees in South Africa to cover up the scandals of the IPCC and their role in doctoring data to try and prove man-made global warming by forcing through a new, more onerous treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocols. We also reveal what we think might happen in 2012.
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday December 24, 2011. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis give an update on the political “sausage-making” exercise in Ohio SB 165. Then we dive into the deep end of the farcical cesspool of government spending by looking at Sen. Tom Coburn’s Wastebook 2011.
Chuck and Barry are discussing the following items-Straight From The Source in the Columbus Dispatch and Senator Tom Coburn’s (R-OK) 2011 Wastebook.
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Monday December 12, 2011. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis of the Institute For Principled Policy try and explain why teachers are looking over their shoulders with apprehension at a state proposal to standardize teacher evaluations? Could merit pay be far behind?
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Thursday December 8, 2011. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis of the Institute For Principled Policy take  time to say “We told you so” on Ohio’s 2011 Issue 2. Now that Issue 2 has passed and SB 5 is history, the chickens are coming home to roost. Public employees are losing their jobs because the money isn’t there to pay for their Pay-Benefit-Pension plans- the exact thing that SB5/Issue 2 was supposed to fix.
Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss an important article in Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government Blog entitled Union Bosses Win, Ohio Workers Get Fired. One of the public entities discussed is Chuck’s local school district the Westerville City Schools. We discuss in more detail some of the antics that the Westerville City School Board of Education have used in the past and are planning to use to attempt and force the passage of a large tax increase, most of which will be used to pay for large pay increases and continued benefit and pension increases for district employees.
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Tuesday November 29, 2011. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis of the Institute For Principled Policy analyze what went wrong with the United States Congress Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (the “Super Committee”).
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Monday November 28, 2011. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis of the Institute For Principled Policy take a closer look at “Black Friday (or was it “Black and Blue Friday?”) and what we observed may mean.