Category Archives: The Vote

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 10/28/2017- Reformation Day Eve? What Happened To Halloween? Scarier Things Lurk In Columbus And Washington DC

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 10/28/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis do a quick explanation of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s nailing of 95 theses to the Wittenburg church door on October 31, 1517 and what it became and why it’s still relevant. We warn that a vote on resolution SJR1 calling for a constitutional convention may be happening in the Ohio Senate. Barry gives a rundown on Ohio political musical chairs which is a “don’t miss.” We use this as a segue to discuss the US Senatorial chess board and the larger strategy at play. We finish up with an analysis of Uranium One and the 180 degree turn in the “Russian Election Collusion” meme.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 10/21/2017- Scandals, The Reasons Behind Them, And Where Else Those Reasons Are Leading

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 10/21/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis use a discussion about an Ohio state Senator who has been forced to resign into a wider discussion of the Harvey Weinstein scandal and some of the biblical reasons and other implications of these scandals. We follow up with our reasons for opposing Ohio State Issues 1 & 2

Article links- The Cincinnati Enquirer reports on the resignation of an Ohio State Senator

Third Rail Politics blog delves into the Ohio Senator who was forced to resign

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 9/16/2017- Solar Flares, Constitutional Conventions

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 9/16/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis begin by discussing solar flares and their effect on everything, not just communications, which we know about due to problems from last week’s show. Next we discuss yet another hearing on a new constitutional convention and my testimony in opposition to that.

Article links- Chuck Michaelis’ testimony on Ohio SJR1

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/29/2017- God’s Character, Christian Evangelism, and Obamacare

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/29/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis start the show with a discussion of God’s character and the implications of that. We then move over to debates with the Christian community  regarding how to evangelize Muslims and other non-believers. We finish with the Republican betrayal of the people who elected them, in part, to rid us of the albatross of Obamacare. We expose liars and phonies like Rob Portman, Lisa Murkowski, John McCain, etc. who ran on the promise to repeal Obamacare then voted against it.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/8/2017- The Intricacies Of The Ohio Budget And Unintended Consequences

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/8/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the Ohio budget follies and the overrides of gubernatorial vetoes. That segues into the developing race to replace John Kasich and grandstanding by the potential candidates. Grandstanding always has unintended consequences and that leads to a deeper discussion of pharmaceutical marketing issues.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/1/2017- Ohio Budget Disaster, Ohio Health Buffoonery, And Another Special Election Disaster For Democrats

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 7/1/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze the Ohio legislature’s sudden reckoning with the budget that they created by giving a tax and spend RINO governor everything he wanted so he could be elected president and get them all Washington DC appointments. We discuss the Kansas budget issue and work to debunk the socialist argument that lower taxes caused the problem. We also discuss the Ohio Department of Health and their complete disconnect from reality in ignoring the homosexual community and the inherent danger of doing what they do while encouraging them to stop smoking…huh?

Article links- Dissolve Illinois?

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 5/20/2017- The Tyranny Of Unintended Consequences

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday May 20, 2017. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss a lawsuit brought by widely disparate political websites against the State of Ohio for passing a clearly unconstitutional law purportedly for the purpose of restricting online harassment but is ripe for abuse in prosecution of speech critical of government or members of the government.

Article links- Lawsuit filed against online harassment law by liberal blog Plunderbund and the Portage County Tea Party

Democrat Representative Val Dennings proves that she is constitutionally ignorant and therefore disqualified from holding a federal elective office

Eugene Volokh weighs in on the Ohio internet harassment law. He’s not impressed

 

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 5/13/2017- The Ides Of March…In May

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday May 13, 2017. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the main stream press and its blind determination to sink Donald Trump’s presidency even if it means sinking themselves. We also discuss the Comey firing.

Article links- Why Trump fired Comey when he did

Former Clinton campaign (mis)manager Robby Mook says the firing of James Comey “terrifies him”

Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz debunks the idea that the firing of Comey is illegal

A badly addled Sen. John McCain weighs in on the Comey firing, and proves he’s way past it

John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign chairman was against Comey on the morning of and a cheerleader for him in the afternoon of his firing

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 4/22/2017- Electoral Economics In One Easy Lesson

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday April 22, 2017. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze the current state of the Ohio economy and how that will affect the attempts by Governor John Kasich to run for either Senate or President in 2020.