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Principles and Policies Podcast for 5/3/2014- The Principles Of ’98

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday May 3, 2014. Chuck Michaelis hosts as we present the audio portion of a video filmed at Camp American.  The presenter is Barry Sheets, Director of the Institute For Principled Policy and CEO of Principled Consulting.

The recording was made at Camp American in June of 2012 and is also available as a video DVD from Camp American. The question that is asked in this (and a future follow-up) presentation is “what recourse do the states and the people have when the federal government oversteps its specifically enumerated powers?” Barry gives a presentation that begins to answer that question but in answering it gives a great presentation on the history, philosophy, and, yes, theology behind the doctrine of interposition.

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 3/8/2014- Is Homeschooling In Danger From The Feds?

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday March 8, 2014. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis talk with Mark Stevenson of Ohioans For Educational Freedom about the case of the Romeike family. The Romeike’s are a German family who fled their native country because of persecution of those who want the liberty to home educate their children.

We discuss the dangerous tack taken by the US Justice Department, Immigration and Homeland Security in arguing that there is no fundamental right to home educate their children and that this fact made the Romeike family dangerous.

Article links- Romeike case denied by Supreme Court

Romeike’s can stay in the US

Romeike’s wont be deported

Why did the Obama Administration back away from the Romeike case?

Marriage and Family, Federal Legislation, Executive Usurpation, Critical Thinking, Public Policy Radar, Apologetics, Commentary, Public Policy Principles News, The Church, The Vote, Economics, Biblical Worldview, Podcast, Ohio Legislation

Principles and Policies Podcast for 2/1/2014- The REAL State Of The Union

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday February 1, 2014. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the State of the Union and what the President should have said. We also go into some detail about what the President did not say.

Article links- Al Gore, “global warming,” and “fertility management”

Same-sex marriage push in Ohio

The “sexual revolution” and throw-away families

GOP set to fold on “debt limit”

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 1/11/2014- Things To Come

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday January 11, 2014. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis talk about what we might expect over the next year. Our lack of short-term optimism is only tempered by our long-term optimism for the future.

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 11/9/2013- Election Bloviation And International Law Vs. Constitutional Law

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday November 9, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss this last weeks election from a philosophical viewpoint in the first half of the show. In the second half we discuss a pivotal issue in constitutional interpretation and the effect this has on personal liberty. The question is can a treaty override the Constitution?

Article link- http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303482504579177843100832368

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 10/26/2013- Tyranny In Ohio State Government

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday October 26, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the seizure of legislative authority by Governor Kasich by a slick maneuver in which he abused his line item veto power to negate a section of the budget law passed by the Ohio legislature which outlawed Medicaid expansion in Ohio. The Governor then stacked the deck on the Ohio Controlling Board with the help of House Speaker Bill Batchelder to thwart the will of the Ohio legislature and expand Medicaid anyway. Barry and Chuck explain why it’s a tyranny for the executive branch to usurp legislative authority and what it may cost the governor.

Barry and Chuck also discuss testimony given by Senate President Keith Faber in which he completely misses the mark on the powers of a convention and exactly how and why a convention works.

Article links-  http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/10/22/Medicaid-tax-cut.html

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Tom DeWeese Agenda 21 Leadership Training

Tom DeweeseTom DeWeese of the American Policy Center is coming to the Central Ohio area. He’s coming to give a unique presentation that will be made at NONE of the other scheduled stop on this tour of Ohio!

Tom has graciously agreed to give a special training seminar on Agenda 21, the UN driven attack on private property rights now being adopted by so many local governments. It will include information on how to recognize the signs that your city, township, county or state has adopted these measures and how to fight back. He will present concrete examples demonstrating that it can be done- because it HAS been done- successfully. Tom will show you how

The best part is that this seminar is FREE! That’s right- FREE! Unlike Tom’s other presentations this one is a leadership training and there is no charge at the door.

We’d like to know you’re coming but feel free to show up! Here’s a flyer on Tom’s Ohio tour

Where : Berlin Church, 5175 S. Old State Rd, Lewis Center, OH   MAP

When: July 19, 2013 6:30 PM

RSVP: http://www.wrench2.eventbrite.com

Contact: Barry Sheets at 614.989.5293  email:[email protected]

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/26/2013- The Cost Of Unnecessary Regulation

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday June 26 June 11, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis continue our discussion of  a “commencement address” given by the President which is really a policy statement. This statement should send a chill down the spine of anyone who like having electricity available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week because it involves a war on coal.

Article links- http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wh-climate-adviser-war-coal-exactly-what-s-needed_737807.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/politics/obama-plan-to-cut-greenhouse-gases.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/25/2013- Barack Obama And The War On Electricity Production

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Tuesday June 25 June 11, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss a “commencement address” which is really a policy statement. This statement should send a chill down the spine of anyone who like having electricity available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week because it involves a war on coal.

Article links- http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wh-climate-adviser-war-coal-exactly-what-s-needed_737807.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/politics/obama-plan-to-cut-greenhouse-gases.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

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Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/12/2013- Clarifying Just What Edward Snowden Did And Didn’t Do

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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday June 12 June 11, 2013. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis say “we told you so” on the subject of revelations made by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and how the President and the intelligence community would react to them.

Article links- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/06/09/nsa-leaker-is-no-hero/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338418/Steve-Clemons-leak-Intelligence-officials-overheard-joking-NSA-leaker-disappeared-handing-classified-documents-press.html#ixzz2VosEpB00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338367/NSA-sucks-realtime-data-FIFTY-companies.html