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Principles and Policies Podcast for 11/6/2012- Just The Facts, Ma’am

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Tuesday November 6, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis talk about the electoral implications of an exercise Chuck ran on his Facebook page. Chuck asked supporters of Mitt Romney to provide actual proof of Mitt Romney’s positions. The result? Exactly 0% of the replies (more than 60!) contained ANY proof whatsoever. Exactly 100% of the replies contained attempts to question the motivations behind the exercise, whining about the rules, attempts to bypass the rules, arguing about the rules, claims that the rules were a violation of “freedom to argue,” etc., etc. Now why do you suppose that is?

By the way, you can friend Barry Sheets (Gallipolis, OH) and Chuck Michaelis (Westerville, OH) on Facebook and while you’re at it Like the Institute For Principled Policy and Friends of Camp American.

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 10/4/2012- Death Panels Are Back And Quite Real

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Thursday October 4, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the admission by Obama adviser Stephen Rattner that “We need death panels” to make Obamacare work. No kidding. When does Sarah Palin get her apology from the media?

Article links- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/opinion/health-care-reform-beyond-obamacare.html?_r=1

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/09/bailing-out-obamacare-sarah-palin-was-right.php

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obama-adviser-admits-we-need-death-panels/

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 10/3/2012- The Real-Life Results Of Sojourning Into Jim Wallis’s Fantasyland

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday October 3, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis expose the real-life results of the implementation of Jim Wallis’s vision of “fairness.”

Article links- http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/subsidized-cell-phone-program-nearly-doubles-in-oh/nRDqC/

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 10/2/2012- Sojourning In Economic And Political Fantasyland

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Tuesday October 2, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis continue our journey into the economic and political Fantasyland created by Jim Wallis of The Sojourners and Mark Tooley of the Institute On Religion And Democracy, neither of whom are operating on a Christian worldview.

Article links- http://sojo.net/sojomail/2012/08/30

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/09/27/a-shifty-sojourner

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 10/1/2012- Sojourning Into Lands Where Lies Are Truth And Words Mean Anything The Writer Wants Them To

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Monday October 1, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis critically examine a disingenuous  article from The Sojourner’s Jim Wallis and an equally puzzling article written about this article in the American Spectator by Mark Tooley and determine that both have flawed worldviews.

Article links- http://sojo.net/sojomail/2012/08/30

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/09/27/a-shifty-sojourner

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 9/29/2012- The Corrupting Power Of Money And Why We Won’t Get Fooled Again

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday September 29, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis lift the hood of the Romney-Ryan money machine and find a much more ugly and corrupt engine than most Christian leaders know about or want to admit exists. The second portion is a very succinct explanation of why we won’t get fooled again in politics.

Article links- http://cnsnews.com/news/article/paul-ryan-says-hes-now-okay-gays-military

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444230504577615731345627296.html

http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/06/paul-singer-to-fund-progay-gop-super-pac-125717.html

We would like to thank Kevin Swanson and the team at Generations With Vision’s radio outreach Generations Radio for their kind permission to rebroadcast their program from September 25, 2012 as the last half of this program.

The book mentioned in the Generations Radio show–

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 9/25/2012- Smart Meters Are A Dumb Solution To An Artificial Crisis

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Tuesday September 25, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis look at the consequences of allowing the installation of smart meters. If you value your privacy and your control over your own energy usage then you will get involved in getting your local governments to say “NO” to so-called “smart” meters.

Article link- http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/government-it/smart-meter-data-shared-far-and-wide-20120922-26dvp.html

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 9/21/2012- Chick-Fil-A…More Fox Than Chicken

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Friday September 21, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis take a look at several sources in the recent Chicago Alderman-Chick-Fil-A dustup and discover that the Alderman may be trying to make the tattered sow’s ear of his attempt to railroad Chick-Fil-A into a silk purse. Looks like an epic FAIL!

Article link- http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-chick-fil-a-chicago-0919-20120919,0,3725045.story

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 9/13/2012- Unraveling The Pretzel Logic Of The Obamacare Decision And Some Of The Accompanying Commentary

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Thursday September 13, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis demonstrate that John Roberts stepped outside his authority in re-writing the Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).

Article link- http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/09/09/how-the-court-made-a-bad-bill-worse-obamacare-john-roberts/#more-804855

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 8/22/2012- Why Public-Private Partnerships Are A Bad Idea

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday August 22, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis continue their critical analysis of a white paper written by the Buckeye Institute and the Reason Foundation on the subject of “public-private partnerships” and conclude that the problems far outweigh the supposed advantages of these dangerous liaisons.

Article link-  http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/uploads/files/Ten Myths and Facts on Transportation P3s (Final).pdf