Category Archives: Ohio Legislation

Principles and Policies Podcast for 4/21/2012- The Origin Of Rights And Constitutional Conventions

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday April 21, 2012. Chuck Michaelis plays an audio of a class from Camp American in June of 2009 that is still quite relevant today. Tom DeWeese of the American Policy Center discusses two views of rights; they are either God-given and inalienable or given by government and subject to the will of the majority in power. This is the crux of the attempts to call a new constitutional convention.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 4/20/2012- Presidential Executive Orders Cause Gas Pains

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Friday April 20, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis expose one of the veritable cornucopia of executive orders seizing extra-constitutional powers issued during the Obama administration. One of the most recent is an order seizing regulatory control over Natural Gas production.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 4/13/2012- Help Us! We’re Droning!

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Friday April 13, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis look at even more problems and potential problems with drones and find that not all that much thought has been given to some serious potential problem areas.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 4/12/2012- Droning Out The Opposition

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Thursday April 12, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis look a little deeper into the “necessity” for law enforcement to use drones and find some constitutional issues not being dealt with.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 4/11/2012- Droning On

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday April 11, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis begin looking at a trend that is surely dangerous to personal liberty- the use of unmanned drones both by the government and private entities.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 3/31/2012- The Basics For Understanding Why A New Constitutional Convention Is A Bad Idea

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday March 31, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis in a compilation of past 15 minute programs discuss the basics of constitutional conventions and what’s wrong with the Ohio Legislature’s reasons for attempting to call a new Con-Con.

Please call your state representative and ask them to oppose HJR 3! This is of the utmost importance!

Principles and Policies Podcast for 3/30/2012- How To Stop A Legislature Bent On Jumping Over The Cliff

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Friday March 30, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis interview Robert Owens, Delaware County attorney and former candidate for Ohio Attorney General, about his testimony and what he saw and heard at a recent hearing in an Ohio House of Representatives committee which was attempting to rush  HJR 3, a federal constitutional convention call, through the committee for a floor vote (before the opposition, that is-us, could find out about it).

Please call your state representative and ask them to oppose HJR 3! This is of the utmost importance!

Principles and Policies Podcast for 3/29/2012- Balanced Budgets And Con-Con Con Jobs

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Thursday March 29, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis dig deeper on the Con-Con con job being run on the Ohio Legislature and why it isn’t as it is being sold.

Please call your state representative and ask them to oppose HJR 3! This is of the utmost importance!

Principles and Policies Podcast for 3/28/2012- How Ohio Legislators Are Being Con-Con Conned

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday March 28, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis explain why the Ohio Legislature’s attempt to ram HJR 3, a call for a new federal constitutional convention, through committee for a vote with nearly no notice to opponents is lighting the fuse on a stick of dynamite.

Please call your state representative and ask them to oppose HJR 3! This is of the utmost importance!

Principles and Policies Podcast for 3/17/2012- Who’s Afraid Of An Article V Convention? We Are!

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday March 17, 2012.  Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis critically analyze an article which attempts to make a case for an Article V constitutional convention to “balance the budget.” We make the case that the Constitution is not the problem- our representatives are.

Link to the article- http://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2012/03/11/whos_afraid_of_an_article_v_amendments_convention