Category Archives: Life Issues

Principles and Policies Podcast for 9/5/2012- Froma Harrop’s Fallacy Clinic

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Wednesday September 5, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis continue their analysis of a fallacy laden opinion piece written by leftist columnist Froma Harrop. Harrop asks some really bad questions and some worse assertions based on her bad answers to those questions about the Todd Akin affair.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 9/4/2012- Froma Harrop, Logical Fallacies And Todd Akin

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Tuesday September 4, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze a fallacy laden opinion piece written by leftist columnist Froma Harrop. Harrop asks some really bad questions and some worse assertions based on her bad answers to those questions about the Todd Akin affair.

Article link- http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_froma_harrop/akin_s_consistency_is_gop_s_real_problem

Principles and Policies Podcast for 8/28/2012- Editorial Policy, Advocacy “Journalism,” And The “Ethics” Of Abortion

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Tuesday August 28, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis continue their discussion of advocacy journalist Julie Carr Smyth’s hit piece on Dr. Jack Wilkie, a long-time OB-GYN and advocate for life and the reasons for it.

Article links- http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ohio-doctor-helps-perpetuate-rape-pregnancy-ideas

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/23/President-Infanticide-Dem-Plank-Partial-Birth

http://theaquilareport.com/what-todd-akin-should-have-said-about-abortion-and-rape/

Principles and Policies Podcast for 8/27/2012- Using Todd Akin’s Misspeak To Assassinate The Character Of A Pro-Life Warrior

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Monday August 27, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss Missouri Senatorial candidate Todd Akin’s comments on “legitimate rape” and how the press is using it to support the abyssmal Clare McCaskill’s attempt to keep her seat.

Article links- http://theaquilareport.com/what-todd-akin-should-have-said-about-abortion-and-rape/

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ohio-doctor-helps-perpetuate-rape-pregnancy-ideas

Principles and Policies Podcast for 8/17/2012- The “New Normal” Is The Same Old Perversion

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Friday August 17, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis look at the implications of the clear attempt by a major network to create a new perverse “normal” through social engineering and psychological manipulation.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 8/13/2012- Murder, Mercy, The Law, And Appeals To Emotion

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Monday August 13, 2012. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss a murder in Northeastern Ohio which has been characterized as a “mercy killing.” We ask some probing questions about the law, the definitions of words, and what the prosecutor should do.

Article link- http://health.yahoo.net/news/s/ap/ohio-hospital-shooting-mercy-killing-or-murder

Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/23/2012- Defining Personhood

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday June 23, 2012. Chuck Michaelis hosts a program taught by Dr. Charles Rice at Camp American in which he demonstrates how to make a case for the personhood of the unborn from the moment of conception.

Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/18/2012- You Can’t Have It Both Ways

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Monday June 18, 2012. Chuck Michaelis analyzes a claim in the New York Times that the so-called “Plan B” contraceptive hasn’t been proven to be an abortifacient. Chuck says that you actually have to do the studies to be able to make that claim but no one seems to have bothered. Or they did but no one’s sharing the data. Could there be a reason?

Article Links- http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1616076

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/p/planb_contraceptive/index.html

Principles and Policies Podcast for 6/2/2012- The Biblical Basis Of The Right To Keep And Bear Arms

Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday June 2, 2012. Chuck Michaelis hosts a presentation of a class taught by Larry Pratt, the Executive Director of Gun Owners of America. This class was one of 2 taught by Larry Pratt at Camp American in 2010.

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.