Category Archives: Federal Legislation

Principles and Policies Podcast for 9/28/2013- When A “Debate” Is Really A Sales Pitch

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday September 28, 2013. This is a rerun of a program done in August. We are running this now as a response to the recent We The People conference which was touted as a “debate” over the question of an Article V Constitutional Convention. As Barry and I predicted there was no debate. What happened was a facilitated sales pitch in which questions were not taken from the floor but chosen from questions written in advance by the audience, submitted, and edited to suit the needs of the facilitators. No opposition was allowed to speak or rebut the points made by the speakers there. Many of the things said echo what is being said by Mark Levin in this interview and many of our refutations would have been more pointed at the conference had we been invited. We were not.

Chuck Michaelis and Barry Sheets dissect an interview of Lawyer, author, and talk show host Mark Levin about his book The Liberty Amendments. We find much to agree with but also find glaring errors which put holes in his argument for an Article V convention to sink it without a trace.

Levin’s presentation is a sales pitch without question. Sadly, so was the We The People presentation despite the hype.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 9/7/2013- More On An Article V “Amendments” Convention

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday September 7, 2013. Chuck Michaelis and Barry Sheets host a compilation of previous programs on a a so-called “federal amendments convention” (an entity which is non-existent). We discuss why it is an exceedingly bad idea and will not yield the result its conservative cheerleaders hope.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 8/24/2013- Why We’re Still Afraid Of An Article V “Amendments” Convention

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday August 24, 2013. Chuck Michaelis and Barry Sheets discuss the problems with  attempts to call a new constitutional convention (calling it an “amendments” convention, a category which does not exist) in a series of programs done during the last time this tactic was tried.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 8/17/2013- The Rights And Wrongs Of Mark Levin’s Liberty Amendments

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday August 17, 2013. Chuck Michaelis and Barry Sheets dissect an interview of Lawyer, author, and talk show host Mark Levin about his book The Liberty Amendments. We find much to agree with but also find glaring errors which put holes in his argument for an Article V convention to sink it without a trace.

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 7/13/2013- From Theory To Practice In Analyzing Legislation

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday July 13, 2013. Chuck Michaelis introduces a lecture given by Barry Sheets of Principled Policy Consulting and The Institute For Principled Policy on how to biblically and constitutionally analyze legislation. This is the second lecture in the series and puts “feet” on part I by moving from theory to practice.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/26/2013- The Cost Of Unnecessary Regulation

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday June 26 June 11, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis continue our discussion of  a “commencement address” given by the President which is really a policy statement. This statement should send a chill down the spine of anyone who like having electricity available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week because it involves a war on coal.

Article links- http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wh-climate-adviser-war-coal-exactly-what-s-needed_737807.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/politics/obama-plan-to-cut-greenhouse-gases.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/25/2013- Barack Obama And The War On Electricity Production

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Tuesday June 25 June 11, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss a “commencement address” which is really a policy statement. This statement should send a chill down the spine of anyone who like having electricity available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week because it involves a war on coal.

Article links- http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wh-climate-adviser-war-coal-exactly-what-s-needed_737807.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/politics/obama-plan-to-cut-greenhouse-gases.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/12/2013- Clarifying Just What Edward Snowden Did And Didn’t Do

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday June 12 June 11, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis say “we told you so” on the subject of revelations made by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and how the President and the intelligence community would react to them.

Article links- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/06/09/nsa-leaker-is-no-hero/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338418/Steve-Clemons-leak-Intelligence-officials-overheard-joking-NSA-leaker-disappeared-handing-classified-documents-press.html#ixzz2VosEpB00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338367/NSA-sucks-realtime-data-FIFTY-companies.html

Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/11/2013- Is The PRISM Program Making America A Prison?

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Tuesday June 11, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis continue discussing the PRISM surveillance program and the revelations of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden

Article links- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/06/09/nsa-leaker-is-no-hero/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338418/Steve-Clemons-leak-Intelligence-officials-overheard-joking-NSA-leaker-disappeared-handing-classified-documents-press.html#ixzz2VosEpB00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338367/NSA-sucks-realtime-data-FIFTY-companies.html

Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/10/2013- Looking At Everything You Do Through A PRISM

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Monday June 10, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis begin to look at the revelations of widespread and pervasive surveillance on American citizens in the name of “protecting” them. We discuss the fact that we predicted just this more than 10 years ago.

Article link- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/06/09/nsa-leaker-is-no-hero/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338418/Steve-Clemons-leak-Intelligence-officials-overheard-joking-NSA-leaker-disappeared-handing-classified-documents-press.html#ixzz2VosEpB00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338367/NSA-sucks-realtime-data-FIFTY-companies.html