Category Archives: Public Policy Radar

Principles and Policies Podcast for 5/25/2012- Tax Policy And Citizenship

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Friday May 25, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis explain the relationship between federal tax policy and citizenship repudiation.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 5/24/2012- Will A Small Catholic University Bring Down Obamacare?

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Thursday May 24, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis attempt to hash out the actions of Franciscan University in dropping health care for its students due to a provision in new federal legislation requiring forms of contraception which interfere with Catholic church doctrine.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 5/23/2012- Why The President Continues Digging The Hole

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday May 23, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis attempt to explain President Obama’s insistence on alienating one core group of supporters in favor of another because he thinks he has the former “in the bag” already.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 5/22/2012- Judicially Restoring The Constitution

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Tuesday May 22, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss a recent court decision which takes a baby step towards restoring the Bill of Rights by finding provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which allowed the arrest without warrant, and detention without trial for poorly defined “terrorists.”

Principles and Policies Podcast for 5/21/2012- Disaster Averted- No Vote on HJR3 In The Ohio House

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Monday May 21, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis describe their experience in testifying against HJR3, a House Joint Resolution calling for a new constitutional convention for an amendment to the US Constitution requiring state approval to raise the federal debt ceiling.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 5/19/2012- Pro-Life 101 At Camp American

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday May 19, 2012. Chuck Michaelis hosts a Camp American class taught by Mark Harrington of Created Equal. The class, Pro-Life 101, is a training seminar that teaches tactics for dealing with confrontations that occur in the work to preserve unborn human life.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 5/18/2012- Progressives Reveal The Truth About The President’s Position On Marriage

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Friday May 18, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis continue their examination of President Obama’s “evolution” on gay marriage and find that many of his more progressive supporters knew his real position all along and aren’t afraid to say so.

Article Links- http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/05/16/black-pastors-doubt-same-sex-stand-hurts-obama.html

http://nation.foxnews.com/gay-marriage/2012/05/15/urban-radio-callers-slam-obama-over-gay-marriage-support

Principles and Policies Podcast for 5/17/2012- Pastors Spitting In God’s Face

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Thursday May 17, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis take a deeper look at  President Obama’s “evolution” from a position of allowing for “domestic partnerships” (that is, counterfeit marriage) to promoting “homosexual marriage” (a contradiction in terms). The Columbus Dispatch weighs in with a biased “journalistic” screed ignoring the principled position on gay marriage.

Article Links- http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/05/16/black-pastors-doubt-same-sex-stand-hurts-obama.html

Principles and Policies Podcast for 5/14/2012- I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Monday May 14, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss a recent Defense Department policy statement that states that domestic military drone intelligence will be made available to federal, state, and local law enforcement and regulatory agencies. Barry and Chuck say “we told you so.”

Article Links- http://www.infowars.com/air-force-document-drones-can-be-used-to-spy-on-americans/

http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/usaf/afi14-104.pdf

Principles and Policies Podcast for 5/4/2012- Since When Does Free-Speech Require A License?

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Friday May 4, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis examine a case of a regulatory board who believe themselves to have far more power that they actually have and compare the example to the attempts in Ohio to define and restrict that power here.

Article links- http://www.diabetes-warrior.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Website_Review_Cooksey_Jan._2012.pdf

http://www.diabetes-warrior.net/

http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=129_HB_259

http://www.principledpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/HB259Letter.pdf