Category Archives: Critical Thinking

Principles and Policies Podcast for 10/17/2012- Right To A Cell Phone With Pre-Dialed 911?

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday October 17, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis review a recent interview with retired Supreme court justice John Paul Stevens in which Stevens fields one of the most confusing gun rights question we’ve heard in a while and gives an even more incoherent answer.

Article link- http://cnsnews.com/news/article/justice-stevens-maybe-you-have-some-kind-constitutional-right-cell-phone

Principles and Policies Podcast for 10/13/2012- A Veritable Cornucopia Of Lies

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday October 13, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis compare and contrast attempts to deceive, cover-up, obfuscate, misdirect, spin yarns, and just plain lie from 2 different sources on 2 different subjects and determine that a lie is a lie is a lie…

Article links- http://cnsnews.com/news/article/state-dept-security-chief-we-had-correct-number-assets-benghazi-time-911-what-had-been

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/wh-benghazi-info-moving-picture

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gowdy-carney-rice-gave-demonstrably-false-statements-benghazi-attacks

http://news.yahoo.com/experts-global-warming-means-more-antarctic-ice-194009890.html

Principles and Policies Podcast for 10/11/2012- Obama Derangement Syndrome From The President’s Perspective

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Thursday October 11, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss a British paper’s view of the Obama Derangement Syndrome (ODS) as demonstrated by President Obama.

Article links- http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2012/10/obama-derangement-syndrome.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2215173/Obama-believed-beaten-Romney-Denver-debate-ignoring-advice-aides.html

Principles and Policies Podcast for 10/10/2012- Just A Dash Of Obama Derangement Syndrome

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday October 10, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the reaction to actress Stacey Dash’s decision to support Mitt Romney over Barack Obama in terms of Obama Derangement Syndrome (ODS).

Article links- http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2012/10/obama-derangement-syndrome.html

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2012/10/08/actress-stacey-dash-endorses-romney-liberals-fling-racist-insults

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/va-ex-rep-goode-may-pose-risk-romney

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/10/08/dash-changes-obama-romney

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/08/stacey-dash-endorses-mitt-romney-twitter-photo-clueless-_n_1947787.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false

Stacey Dash- Because she's part of the story, and...well...LOOK at her.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 10/9/2012- The Symptoms Of (GASP!) Obama Derangement Syndrome

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Tuesday October 9, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis talk about a terrible psychological disorder that is infecting the two major parties this fall- Obama Derangement Syndrome (ODS).

Article link- http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2012/10/obama-derangement-syndrome.html

Principles and Policies Podcast for 10/8/2012- How Not To Celebrate Columbus Day

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Monday October 8, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis talk about Columbus Day, some of the myths surrounding Columbus, and some of the political exploitation of some of those myths.

Article link- http://cnsnews.com/blog/dan-gainor/occupiers-f-bomb-columbus-anti-capitalist-convergence-protesting-discovery-america

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