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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Monday December 19, 2011. Chuck Michaelis trains a critical eye on Newt Gingrich’s position on the federal courts, the reaction it is getting from “conservative” sources and gets a little surprise in return.
Chuck is discussing the following items-Â Bringing the Courts Back Under the Constitution from the Gingrich campaign, EXCLUSIVE: Former Bush Attorneys General Call Gingrich Position on Courts ‘Dangerous’.
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday December 17, 2011. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze the worldview of Dennis Prager and how it skews his ability to evaluate candidates and public policies based on two articles written by Dennis Prager at the Townhall website.
The two articles being discussed are What Does Adultery Tell Us About Character? and Adultery, Character and Politics: My Responses.
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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 Saturday December 10, 2011. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis of the Institute For Principled Policy discuss the tactics being employed by the opponents of the Heart Beat Bill. There is opposition from both sides of the issue of protecting life. Barry and Chuck try and make sense of the opposition from the nominally “pro-life” side of the issue.
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Friday December 9, 2011. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis of the Institute For Principled Policy discuss a hearing that they both attended and at which Chuck testified. The bill was SB 165: The Founding of America Documents Bill. The bill was originally proposed by our friends at Ohio Christian Alliance and simply required that the foundational documents of the United States of America like the entire Constitution which includes the Bill of Rights and following amendments, the Declaration of Independence, Ohio’s Constitution, the Northwest Ordinance, the Federalist and Anti-federalist Papers, etc. be taught in Ohio’s schools as a separate curriculum item in their original context. Seems kind of simple and necessary, doesn’t it? Not according to the Democrat Party members on the committee. Why? Listen here and find out.
Chuck testified in his capacity as Executive Director of Camp American. His testimony in its entirety can be seen here.
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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 Moday December 5, 2011. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis of the Institute For Principled Policy do a follow-up on S. 1867 (news isn’t great) and discuss an effort to require Ohio students to study America’s founding documents.
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday December 3, 2011. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis of the Institute For Principled Policy take a closer look at why the character of a candidate for office should be a top priority when performing your biblical civic duty.
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Friday December 2, 2011. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis of the Institute For Principled Policy analyze an article in National Review Online What Is Constitutional Conservatism? and the current moves for a new constitutional convention.
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Thursday December 1, 2011. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis of the Institute For Principled Policy delve deeper into the direct attack on the Bill of Rights in the form of the National Defense Authorization Act or S. 1867.