Category Archives: Podcast

Principles and Policies Podcast for 4/5/2012- The Constitution, The Supreme Court, And Obamacare

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Thursday April 5, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis examine some of the questions and arguments being asked and made before the Supreme Court on the Patient Protection and Affordability Act and discover that the justices seem to be almost as clueless about what the Constitution says as the Solicitor General  of the US does.

Article links- http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57408181-503544/obama-supreme-court-overturning-health-care-would-be-unprecedented/

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504564_162-57408827-504564/appeals-court-fires-back-at-obamas-comments-on-health-care-case/

Principles and Policies Podcast for 4/3/2012- More Quackery In The Guise Of “Scholarship”

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Tuesday April 3, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis expose yet another attempt to paint conservative thinking in a bad light using biased pseudo-science behind a mask of learned neutral academia.

Article link- http://www.miller-mccune.com/politics/is-conservatism-our-default-ideology-40703/

Principles and Policies Podcast for 4/2/2012- When PhD Stands For “Piled Higher And Deeper”

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Monday April 2, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis strip the academic mask from Professor Kari Norgaard, a pseudo-scientist from the University of Oregon who thinks that skepticism regarding man-made climate change is a mental illness.

Article link- http://www.infowars.com/climate-change-skepticism-a-sickness-that-must-be-treated-says-professor/

Kari Norgaard’s University of Oregon faculty page- http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/norgaard.php

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 3/27/2012- How Not To Argue For “Climate Change”

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Tuesday March 27, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis continue a critical review of an opinion article written in the Columbus Dispatch by Dr. Steve Rissing, Professor of Biology at the Ohio State University. We find that a PhD doesn’t necessarily mean clarity of thought or freedom from logical fallacy in the argument. In fact it may contribute to the opposite.

Link to the article Biology: Anyone Still Doubt Climate Change?- http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2012/03/25/any-one-still-doubt-climate-change.html

Principles and Policies Podcast for 3/26/2012- A “Climate Change” Fallacy Tour De Force

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Monday March 26, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis deconstruct an opinion article written in the Columbus Dispatch by Dr. Steve Rissing, Professor of Biology at the Ohio State University. We find that a PhD doesn’t necessarily mean clarity of thought or freedom from logical fallacy in the argument. In fact it may contribute to the opposite.

Link to the article Biology: Anyone Still Doubt Climate Change?- http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2012/03/25/any-one-still-doubt-climate-change.html

Principles and Policies Podcast for 3/23/2012- Free Sterilization, College Co-Ed’s, And Critical Analysis

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Friday March 23, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis do a critical analysis of statements made by Rep. Jan Schakwosky and Rep. Xavier Becerra regarding the requirement that sterilization be provided for free in STUDENT health plans.