Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday November 30, 2011. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis of the Institute For Principled Policy expose a direct attack on the Bill of Rights in the form of the National Defense Authorization Act or S. 1867.
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”).
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.
Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday November 26, 2011. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis of the Institute For Principled Policy look at some of the antics of Congress, the courts and administrative agencies and find some pratfalls that would make Larry, Curly, Moe, and yes even Shemp cringe.
Our Principles and Policies radio show for Friday November 25, 2011. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis of the Institute For Principled Policy examine God’s sovereignty and its impact on the Pilgrims and Thanksgiving.
Our Principles and Policies radio show for Thursday November 24, 2011. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis of the Institute For Principled Policy explode myths about the Pilgrims and Thanksgiving on our Thanksgiving Day edition of Principles and Policies.
It used to be common knowledge that America’s first national Thanksgiving Day was established by President George Washington in 1789. While a few modern critics might be rankled by, as Washington’s proclamation puts it, an official “day of public thanksgiving and prayer,” for most Americans the holiday stands as an enduring reminder of Washington’s wise vision for American religious freedom.
Both chambers of Congress requested that Washington establish an official day to thank “Almighty God” for allowing the American people to create a republican “form of government for their safety and happiness.”
The vast majority of Americans still believe that was a good decision. In a survey conducted earlier this month, respondents were asked whether the federal government did the right thing when it established Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday. They were told that the government recommended that Americans engage in thanksgiving and prayer to “acknowledge with grateful hearts” the blessings of Almighty God.
Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday November 23, 2011. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis of the Institute For Principled Policy discuss the question of the REAL founders of America and the connection to the first Thanksgiving.
Our Principles and Policies radio show for Tuesday November 22, 2011. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis of the Institute For Principled Policy delve a little more deeply into the REAL history of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving.
With great care Barry demonstrates that the founding fathers were not just a group of “deists and skeptics” but were overwhelmingly believers, deeply ingrained with both the Bible and its greatest expositors and the teachings of the great thinkers of the Reformation, who argued for the application of biblical principle to all of life. Even men of the founding era who were unorthodox in their faith demonstrated unmistakable marks of the Christian worldview in their writings and actions.