Category Archives: Public Policy Radar

Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/13/2013- When Promises Evaporate

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Thursday June 13 June 11, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis say “we told you so” (again) about the gigantic increase in insurance premiums that Ohioans, and other states as well, will be paying in 2014.

Article links- http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/06/10/ohio-dept-of-insurance-obamacare-to-increase-individual-market-health-premiums-by-88-percent/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/02/08/how-ohios-medicaid-expansion-will-increase-health-insurance-premiums-for-everyone-else/

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

Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/7/2013- Same-Sex Attraction And Genetics

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Friday June 7, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze an article which itself does an analysis on several identical twin studies regarding human sexuality, specifically a “same-sex preference.” The study concludes that genetics is “at best, a minor factor.” In other words, homosexuals are made not born.

Article link- http://www.hollanddavis.com/?p=3647

Principles and Policies Podcast for 5/17/2013- The Devil’s In The Details Of The IRS Scandal

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Friday May 17, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze an article that claims that the IRS targeted both conservative and liberal groups in its harassment efforts. We say “wait a minute” and show why the devil’s in the details.

Article link- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-15/irs-sent-same-letter-to-democrats-that-fed-tea-party-row.html?alcmpid=politics

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 5/16/2013- Republicans Take Conservatives For Idiots…Again

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Thursday May 16, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss a recent Ohio Republican Party fundraising email in which they allege that they are standing “shoulder to shoulder” with TEA Party groups that they have just chucked under the bus. And they wonder why they keep losing.

 

Principles and Policies Podcast for 5/15/2013- Watching The IRS Cockroaches Scatter In The Light

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday May 15, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze the events surrounding the IRS and its harassment of conservative and TEA Party groups

Article links- http://cnsnews.com/news/article/internal-irs-mandate-be-lookout-organizations-involved-educating-constitution-and-bill

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/12/IRS-scrutinized-groups-conservative

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/10/IRS-statement-partisan

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324715704578478851998004528.html?mod=rss_mobile_uber_feed

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-15/irs-sent-same-letter-to-democrats-that-fed-tea-party-row.html?alcmpid=politics

Principles and Policies Podcast for 5/14/2013- Anti-Christian Bigotry And Logical Fallacy

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Tuesday May 14, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis look more deeply into the Pentagon’s  hiring of an anti-Christian bigot as a consultant on how to deal with people of faith in the military.

Article Links- http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/07/Pentagon-Relationship-with-Anti-Christian-Extremist-Started-in-2009

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/07/Congressmen-Probe-Pentagon-on-Growing-Religious-Liberty-Scandal

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/05/01/Breaking-Pentagon-Confirms-Will-Court-Martial-Soldiers-Who-Share-Christian-Faith

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/13/56-Congressmen-Demand-Hagel-Explain-Meeting-with-Anti-Christian-Extremist

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/05/11/Congress-Must-Tell-Pentagon-Protect-Troops-First-Amendment-Rights

http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/

Principles and Policies Podcast for 5/2/2013- Christian Bashing At The Pentagon

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Thursday May 2, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis delve into the Pentagon’s  hiring of an anti-Christian bigot as a consultant on how to deal with people of faith in the military.

Article link- http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/04/28/Pentagon-Consults-Extremist-Who-Calls-Christians-Monsters-and-Enemies-of-the-Constitution-to-Develop-Religious-Tolerance-Policy

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-l-weinstein/fundamentalist-christian-_b_3072651.html