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Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 8/18/2018- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis explain why things seem to be more and more insane in modern society. With a growing lack of critical thinking ability and a lack of a moral compass we’re really not surprised.
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Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 2/24/2018- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis interview Catherine Wood of Relationships Under Construction about the very difficult job they do very, very well in public schools. We also discuss the upcoming Relationships Under Construction banquet.
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Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 10/7/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis talk about Columbus Day and some of the nonsense surrounding the current trend to belittle and denigrate everyone involved in the settlement and founding of the United States based on some of their, admittedly, imperfect views of many things. We also discuss the concept of evil from a biblical perspective and the consequences of not grasping the concept from that perspective. The Las Vegas massacre is a case in point.
Article links- Speaking ill of Hugh Hefner
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Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 6/10/2017- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss creating a handy guide to understanding the times and actually have to work to understand what some of the terms in the guide mean. We analyze what is wrong with modern education including church education and what it is leading to. This leads to an interesting sidebar discussion on William Shakespeare and who he was.
Article links- Social Justice mobs emulate “A Clockwork Orange” at Evergreen State University in Washington state
Kathy Griffin piles on herself with an embarrassing press conference
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday April 29, 2017. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis interview Cyndy Rees of 3rd Rail Politics (www.3rdrailpolitics.com). Common Core, charter schools and lots and lots more.
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday February 18, 2017. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis talk about reading history over fiction and why history is better. We also do an important exercise in critically analyzing the written word in the form of a newspaper article on economics. We also deconstruct a laughably bad story from the Washington Post about Jeff Sessions, voter ID, and “voter suppression”
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday November 21, 2015. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the fact that 2016 is shaping up to look a lot like 1968 in many ways, especially racial and electoral politics. And we tie the Bible back to the way we should view our world and live the whole of our lives because of it, including our view of public law and policy.
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday September 12, 2015. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the concept of higher law and how it applies to the rule of law. We also explain why courts can’t create law but must only work with the law given them.
Article links- Mike Huckabee explains that the rally to support Kim Davis was really a Mike Huckabee campaign rally
Other lower magistrates also understand their duty to uphold higher law
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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday September 5, 2015. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis explain the biblical and constitutional principle that courts don’t and in fact CAN’T create rights and discuss how far we’ve come from the roots of our original understanding of these things that this has to be explained.
Article links- ACLU proves that it fails to grasp what the basis of constitutional law is and what rights are
Chuck Michaelis’ article on Romans 13
In The Gates Volume 3- The Institute For Principled Policy’s marriage collection
POSTPONED UNTIL JANUARY
We the People have the duty to restrain a government operating outside Constitutional boundaries. The Institute on the Constitution invites you to learn how by discovering your American heritage and birthright.
INSTITUTE ON THE CONSTITUTION – Course Description & Information
A great history and non-partisan government class for adults and teens to be introduced to the U. S. Constitution, our Biblical heritage and the concept of limited government. Twelve weekly classes of approximately 2 hours each are comprised of a 30-minute video lecture, group review and discussion questions. Beginning with the Bible you will learn of the origins of history, law and government, followed by stories of America’s discovery, settlement and evangelization from exciting, primary sources you never saw in school! Then, the worldview of the founding fathers is discussed, which leads straight to the text of the Constitution.
Your live instructors will be Barry Sheets, Executive Director of the Institute for Principled Policy and owner of Principled Policy Consulting, LLC and Chuck Michaelis Executive Director of Camp American and Vice-chairman of the Institute For Principled Policy. Barry has nearly two decades of experience working with elected officials and public policy. Chuck is a biochemist with a voluminous knowledge of history. Lt. Colonel John Eidsmoe is the video instructor. Lt. Colonel Eidsmoe is a Constitutional attorney and professor with degrees in theology, law and political science. He is a published author and frequent lecturer at colleges, churches and community groups. This timely and relevant course’s cost is $75 per person prior to Monday September 9, 2015. Registration after that date will be $85. Your course fee includes the 12 weekly lectures, a Student Manual, and a number of supplemental books that will be read during the course.
CLASS DATES AND TIME – Begins Thursday September 17, 2015, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. for 12 weeks
CLASS LOCATION –Vineyard Christian Fellowship Church, 3005 Holt Road, Grove City, Ohio 43123 MAP
TO REGISTER, CONTACT – Chuck Michaelis, 614-893-5986–[email protected], Barry Sheets, 614-989-5293 — [email protected] or register online at www.campamerican.com
Join in the cause of preserving our God-given Liberty and restoring our Constitutional Republic. After all, if you don’t defend Liberty, who will?