Category Archives: Public Policy Principles News

Principles and Policies Podcast for 10/5/2012- What Blowback Looks Like

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Friday October 5, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis explain what foreign policy “blowback” is, where it originates, and what it looks like.

Article links- http://cnsnews.com/news/article/wh-adviser-contradicts-wh-spokesman-91112-being-self-evident-terror-attack

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gingrich-intelligence-community-was-not-out-touch-libya-attack-administration-says

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/20/press-gaggle-press-secretary-jay-carney-en-route-miami-fl-9202012

http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/this-scandal-could-dwarf-fast-and-furious/?cat_orig=us

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/20/press-gaggle-press-secretary-jay-carney-en-route-miami-fl-9202012

Principles and Policies Podcast for 10/4/2012- Death Panels Are Back And Quite Real

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Thursday October 4, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the admission by Obama adviser Stephen Rattner that “We need death panels” to make Obamacare work. No kidding. When does Sarah Palin get her apology from the media?

Article links- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/opinion/health-care-reform-beyond-obamacare.html?_r=1

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/09/bailing-out-obamacare-sarah-palin-was-right.php

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obama-adviser-admits-we-need-death-panels/

Principles and Policies Podcast for 10/3/2012- The Real-Life Results Of Sojourning Into Jim Wallis’s Fantasyland

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday October 3, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis expose the real-life results of the implementation of Jim Wallis’s vision of “fairness.”

Article links- http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/subsidized-cell-phone-program-nearly-doubles-in-oh/nRDqC/

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio[/youtube]

Principles and Policies Podcast for 10/2/2012- Sojourning In Economic And Political Fantasyland

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Tuesday October 2, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis continue our journey into the economic and political Fantasyland created by Jim Wallis of The Sojourners and Mark Tooley of the Institute On Religion And Democracy, neither of whom are operating on a Christian worldview.

Article links- http://sojo.net/sojomail/2012/08/30

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/09/27/a-shifty-sojourner

Principles and Policies Podcast for 10/1/2012- Sojourning Into Lands Where Lies Are Truth And Words Mean Anything The Writer Wants Them To

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Monday October 1, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis critically examine a disingenuous  article from The Sojourner’s Jim Wallis and an equally puzzling article written about this article in the American Spectator by Mark Tooley and determine that both have flawed worldviews.

Article links- http://sojo.net/sojomail/2012/08/30

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/09/27/a-shifty-sojourner

Principles and Policies Podcast for 9/29/2012- The Corrupting Power Of Money And Why We Won’t Get Fooled Again

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday September 29, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis lift the hood of the Romney-Ryan money machine and find a much more ugly and corrupt engine than most Christian leaders know about or want to admit exists. The second portion is a very succinct explanation of why we won’t get fooled again in politics.

Article links- http://cnsnews.com/news/article/paul-ryan-says-hes-now-okay-gays-military

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444230504577615731345627296.html

http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/06/paul-singer-to-fund-progay-gop-super-pac-125717.html

We would like to thank Kevin Swanson and the team at Generations With Vision’s radio outreach Generations Radio for their kind permission to rebroadcast their program from September 25, 2012 as the last half of this program.

The book mentioned in the Generations Radio show

Principles and Policies Podcast for 9/26/2012- Using Guilt And Pity To Push For Ignoring Fraudulent Voters

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday September 26, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss citizenship, vote fraud and attempts to defraud the public into accepting fraudulent voters using the “politics of guilt and pity.”

Article link- http://www.wfsb.com/story/19617886/study-voting-rule-changes-may-deter-10m-hispanics

Principles and Policies Podcast for 9/25/2012- Smart Meters Are A Dumb Solution To An Artificial Crisis

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Tuesday September 25, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis look at the consequences of allowing the installation of smart meters. If you value your privacy and your control over your own energy usage then you will get involved in getting your local governments to say “NO” to so-called “smart” meters.

Article link- http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/government-it/smart-meter-data-shared-far-and-wide-20120922-26dvp.html

Principles and Policies Podcast for 9/22/2012- Distributing Guns To Drug Dealers and Confiscating And Redistributing Wealth

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday September 22, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis dissect the Fast and Furious Inspector General’s report and explain how it definitely DOES NOT exonerate Attorney General Eric Holder. We also discuss Barack Obama’s statements regarding redistribution of wealth and demonstrate how it fits in with leftist progressive rhetoric. We discuss code words like “the third way” and “we all belong to government,” etc.

Article links- http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-justice-department-fast-and-furious-report-20120919,0,305599.story

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ig-white-house-made-it-impossible-pursue-lead-fast-and-furious-probe

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gLa9Te8Blw[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0PUUpa5X4E&feature=related[/youtube]

Principles and Policies Podcast for 9/21/2012- Chick-Fil-A…More Fox Than Chicken

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Friday September 21, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis take a look at several sources in the recent Chicago Alderman-Chick-Fil-A dustup and discover that the Alderman may be trying to make the tattered sow’s ear of his attempt to railroad Chick-Fil-A into a silk purse. Looks like an epic FAIL!

Article link- http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-chick-fil-a-chicago-0919-20120919,0,3725045.story