Category Archives: Public Policy Radar

Principles and Policies Podcast for 12/29/2012- David Gregory, High-Capacity Magazines, And “Tiered Justice”

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday December 29, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis take a look at David Gregory’s blatant and wanton violation of Washington DC’s ban on high-capacity magazines. We point out the absurdity of the law and speculate that Gregory will not be prosecuted or will be given some laughable punishment for his “crime.”

Article link- http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/26/usa-people-gregory-idUSL1E8NQ3M020121226

Principles and Policies Podcast for 12/28/2012- Newt Gingrich Proves That He Is No Conservative- Surprise, Surprise!

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Friday December 28, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze a recent statement by Newt Gingrich who sold himself as a conservative while abandoning conservative principles at the earliest opportunity for his entire political career. History repeats itself. We look at the “why’s.”

Article link- http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gingrich-gop-must-accommodate-and-deal-reality-same-sex-marriage

Principles and Policies Podcast for 12/27/2012- Still More Media Bias And How To Deconstruct It

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Thursday December 27, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis look at a critique of a Reuters article (actually a propaganda piece) on gun shows and determine that we all need to learn how to read “news” stories with an eye for bias.

Article links- http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/22/us-usa-gun-shows-idUSBRE8BL0DP20121222

http://pjmedia.com/michaelwalsh/2012/12/22/assault-the-democrat-media-complex-strikes-again/?singlepage=true

Principles and Policies Podcast for 12/26/2012- Even More Media Bias

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday December 26, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis provide even more examples of biased reporting in the media designed to bring the reader to a specific conclusion that the actual facts of the case might not.

Article links- http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/22/us-usa-gun-shows-idUSBRE8BL0DP20121222

http://pjmedia.com/michaelwalsh/2012/12/22/assault-the-democrat-media-complex-strikes-again/?singlepage=true

 

Principles and Policies Podcast for 12/22/2012- How Gun-Free Zones Make It Easy For Massacres

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday December 22, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze the effects of gun-free zones on madmen who are trying to find the perfect victims. They make it VERY easy for them.

Article links- http://cnsnews.com/blog/pete-winn/worst-school-massacre-american-history-was-gun-free

http://technology.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=43890&content=85301757&pageNum=-1

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/The-violent-country-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html

 

Principles and Policies Podcast for 12/20/2012- A Primer On How To Shift Blame From Criminals To Their Tools

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Thursday December 20, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze the insistence by liberal media types that it is the tools that criminals use and not the criminals themselves that commit crimes.

Article links- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2249185/Nancy-Lanza-Did-paranoid-gun-crazed-mother-trigger-Sandy-Hook-Connecticut-killing-spree.html

 

Principles and Policies Podcast for 12/18/2012- Looking More Deeply At The Why’s Of The Newtown Murders

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday December 19, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis look at some new revelations in the Newtown murders and expose the “it was the guns” meme for the fraud that it is.

Article links- http://www.davidbahnsen.com/index.php/2012/12/16/the-horror-of-newtown/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2249185/Nancy-Lanza-Did-paranoid-gun-crazed-mother-trigger-Sandy-Hook-Connecticut-killing-spree.html

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jakewallissimons/100194425/before-wringing-your-hands-at-the-madness-of-american-gun-laws-read-this/

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/335739/facts-about-mass-shootings-john-fund#

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/18/fear-being-committed-may-have-caused-connecticut-madman-to-snap/

http://www.businessinsider.com/adam-lanza-taking-antipsychotic-fanapt-2012-12#ixzz2FR0r4Fys

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/16/gun-free-zones-larry-pratt/1773473/

http://www.redstate.com/2012/12/17/question-one-in-our-national-conversation-why-did-gun-control-fail-the-families-of-newtown/

 

Principles and Policies Podcast for 12/17/2012- Thinking Logically During An Avalanche of Emotional Appeals

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Monday December 17, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis do our best to understand what happened in Newtown, CT from a biblical perspective. As usual, our viewpoint is somewhat different that the main stream media.

Article links- http://www.davidbahnsen.com/index.php/2012/12/16/the-horror-of-newtown/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2249185/Nancy-Lanza-Did-paranoid-gun-crazed-mother-trigger-Sandy-Hook-Connecticut-killing-spree.html

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jakewallissimons/100194425/before-wringing-your-hands-at-the-madness-of-american-gun-laws-read-this/

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/335739/facts-about-mass-shootings-john-fund#

Principles and Policies Podcast for 12/10/2012- Why We’re Headed For A Fiscal Cliff

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Monday December 10, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze the REAL reason we’re headed for the fiscal cliff. It’s not what you’ve been told. (Sorry for the bad audio quality- engineering glitch)

Article link- http://cnsnews.com/news/article/73-new-jobs-created-last-5-months-are-government

Principles and Policies Podcast for 12/8/2012- Monopolies, Fiscal Cliffs, And Bribes

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday December 8, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis take a deeper look at governmental shenanigans involving Ohio state government created monopolies in the coin and metal business. We discover some very odd things and wonder what will happen now that the State of Ohio has been discovered with its hand in the cookie jar.

We also take a look at US House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner and his demotion of prominent conservative Congressman from key committees and his open threats to “practice discipline” against anyone who tries to hold the line on taxes and spending. Still think Boehner’s a conservative?

Article links- http://www.ohioconstitution.org/2012/12/06/federal-court-ohio-precious-metals-dealers-licensing-scheme-unconstitutional/

Liberty Coins Opinion

http://www.politico.com/story/2012/12/conservative-groups-rebel-against-boehner-84546.html?hp=l1

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/271173-boehner-members-punished-for-their-votes

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gohmert-we-went-cliff-august-2011

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/cbo-current-law-brings-55-increase-annual-spending-425t-new-debt-and-record-taxation

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/boehner-president-has-obligation-give-plan-congress

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/bozell-time-conservatives-start-looking-new-home