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Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 2/23/2019- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis talk education, taxes (specifically gas taxes), wasteful government spending, and potential outcomes regarding state and municipal loans.
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Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 8/18/2018- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis explain why things seem to be more and more insane in modern society. With a growing lack of critical thinking ability and a lack of a moral compass we’re really not surprised.
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Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 2/24/2018- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis interview Catherine Wood of Relationships Under Construction about the very difficult job they do very, very well in public schools. We also discuss the upcoming Relationships Under Construction banquet.
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Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 10/7/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis talk about Columbus Day and some of the nonsense surrounding the current trend to belittle and denigrate everyone involved in the settlement and founding of the United States based on some of their, admittedly, imperfect views of many things. We also discuss the concept of evil from a biblical perspective and the consequences of not grasping the concept from that perspective. The Las Vegas massacre is a case in point.
Article links- Speaking ill of Hugh Hefner
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Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 6/10/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss creating a handy guide to understanding the times and actually have to work to understand what some of the terms in the guide mean. We analyze what is wrong with modern education including church education and what it is leading to. This leads to an interesting sidebar discussion on William Shakespeare and who he was.
Article links- Social Justice mobs emulate “A Clockwork Orange” at Evergreen State University in Washington state
Kathy Griffin piles on herself with an embarrassing press conference
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday April 29, 2017. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis interview Cyndy Rees of 3rd Rail Politics (www.3rdrailpolitics.com). Common Core, charter schools and lots and lots more.
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday February 18, 2017. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis talk about reading history over fiction and why history is better. We also do an important exercise in critically analyzing the written word in the form of a newspaper article on economics. We also deconstruct a laughably bad story from the Washington Post about Jeff Sessions, voter ID, and “voter suppression”
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday November 21, 2015. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the fact that 2016 is shaping up to look a lot like 1968 in many ways, especially racial and electoral politics. And we tie the Bible back to the way we should view our world and live the whole of our lives because of it, including our view of public law and policy.
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday September 12, 2015. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the concept of higher law and how it applies to the rule of law. We also explain why courts can’t create law but must only work with the law given them.
Article links- Mike Huckabee explains that the rally to support Kim Davis was really a Mike Huckabee campaign rally
Other lower magistrates also understand their duty to uphold higher law
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday September 5, 2015. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis explain the biblical and constitutional principle that courts don’t and in fact CAN’T create rights and discuss how far we’ve come from the roots of our original understanding of these things that this has to be explained.
Article links- ACLU proves that it fails to grasp what the basis of constitutional law is and what rights are
Chuck Michaelis’ article on Romans 13
In The Gates Volume 3- The Institute For Principled Policy’s marriage collection