Mickelson's Podcast - Powered by the Iowa Firearms Coalition

Amity Schlaes , The Forgotten Man/Graphic Edition, a new pictorial version of her best selling history.  Secretary of State Matt Schulz , running for congress...issues.  Dr. Merrill Matthews says the VA scandal will endure into the next election cycle...then Iowans respond.   Then, Gary Stewart tell his adoption story, The Most Dangerous Animal of All ...his birth dad.  Why?

Monte Shaw is running for the 3rd District congressional seat.  Issues.  The Meat Racket , Christopher Leonard says the Iowa pork and beef industry is at risk.   William Perry Pendley says the 1982 Plyler case case was poorly decided and should be challenged, cuz some people think it requires Iowa taxpayers to pay for the education of the children of illegals.   And "No Fishin" from downtown bridg...

Sam Clovis is running for US Senate.  Issues.  Should non-party members vote in party primaries?  Hey!  The majority of Iowans can't swim...in fact most Americans can't swim .

Dana Fedman , pet behavior expert, describes how not to get bit.  Then a dog that did bite and sentenced to be executed gets a lawyer.   Verbiages ensues.  Lotsa verbiage.

Iowa State Senator Brad Zaun wants to be a congressman.  Issues.  Then,  remember the hero kitty that rescued the little boy from the attacking dog?  A PR expert, Ben Kaplan,   explains the phenomenon of "viral". A local church gets bullied by the gay lobby, again.  Crickets.    Plus, when automatic pilot doesn't work.

Brigitte Gabriel nukes CAIR and the apologists for Islam relative to the Nigerian mass kidnapping case.  Because the Hate Us .   Bob Cramer is running for congress.   Steve Goreham blasts climatism as a false religion...worse...it's just wrong.  Then,  why not some true common sense for a change.

David Nelson , The Shade Tree Choir , talks about overcoming childhood abuse and thriving the help of his friends.  Janine Stange is the National Anthem Girl.  Con. Peter King says he'll run against Senator Cruz and Senator Paul to avoid a Charles Lindbergh moment.  A taste of the past with Lindbergh's Des Moines speech history.   Then, school permits for 14 year olds?  Iowans think about it.

Ed Vos facilitates for the VA... veterans health issues.   Busted for a BB gun,  Iowa Democrats pay a socialist to headline their fundrasier, the GOP wants to increase the gas tax in Iowa,  and how we can pay for road and bridge repair without raising a penny.  Friday stuff...  Oh,  Rick Santorum isn't in the hole filling business.

David Young is running for Congress.  A redux on a conversation from 2006 wondering about Saddam's WMD's.  Georges Sada was a Saddam insider.  Saddam's Secrets .  Why does the USDA need sub-machineguns?

Getting yer lawnmower going for spring.  PNP Small Engines Guy...Jeff Nicholson.   Senator Rand Paul explains his recent statements on ID issues.  Senator Mark Chelgren says the law should be one size fits all.  Senator Rick Santorum endorses Sam Clovis. ..and writes a book .  

Time for Iowa to strap down?      Dr. Joyce Herzog is coming to the NICHE Homeschool Conference.   Plus odds and ends from Iowa's underbelly.  Then Joe Biden is tithing with other people's money again.  And more from the "You will made to care" file.                                    

Nationwide the VA Hospital system is under scrutiny for under-performance and in some cases,  malpractice.   So what about Iowa?  Iowans evaluate.  Then, Fr. Robert Sirico says the new Pope really isn't a political leftist...redistribute benefits, not wealth.  A valid distinction?   Then,  should Iowans have the same rights to carry at the statehouse as government employees do?

Dr. Lee Hieb ,  Libertarian candidate for Iowa Governor.   Spicy Conversation.  Joel Gilbert , filmmaker, There's No Place Like Utopia.   Craig Lang , dairyman, wants to stop protecting sugar.  Sugar wars.  Then milk wars.

 Matt Kibbe says Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff.   Sounds like a plan.   Then  Linda Schrock Taylor says why the Common Core dropping cursive writing is a disaster. She recommends Betty Peters as a source on Common Core problems.    Ranger Doug and the Riders in the Sky are coming to Iowa May 31st.    VP Biden says illegals are Americans already and that  the US doesn't have a creed....

A Newton newspaper editor gets fired for accurately reporting on the Queen James Bible.    Monte Shaw is running for Congress. Vigorous discussion.  And a 2nd helping of the Newton editor issue.   And a new trike shows up!  Cool...

 Sonny Onoo talks about the upcoming River City Sports Festival May 9-11.  Sounds like fun. Matt Whitaker wants to be a senator from Iowa...answering a vicious endorsement from the Register.  Reb Bradley speaking at an upcoming homeschooling conference.   Some dangers to watch for.

An Iowa farm equipment salesman to Ukraine tells what it is like doing business there now in the middle of the new cold war. Gordie Siebrin.  Then Iowa shooters try to correct Joni Ernst's shooting form on her new campaign spot.  Then, a metro sporting complex at the old Dico location?  

More interesting spin on the gotcha cam cost shifting scam in Iowa.   Congressman Steve King is being targeted by Democrat Senator Schumer.   Sam Clovis talks issues.  Vigorous issues.

Turns out that eating chicken drumsticks make kids aggressive and disobedient.  Horrors for the State Fair.   Eric Trager is an expert on the Muslim Brotherhood.  Speaking tonight at Drake, Olmstead Center at 7PM.  Then is our new national ethic produce prosperity?  Iowans like Iowa and are stayin'.    But,  Iowans do lack sympathy over the "botched" Oklahoma execution.

Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination -- Thomas Bogar.   What happened to those guys anyway?  Des Moines steals the tax refunds of people who fail to pay their gotcha cam fines. The tax guy says if scoff-laws won't pay, then taxpayers will have to raise the difference.  Then,  Jim Glassman says let's build an economy and stop saying "No" so much.

Iowa racism?  Jonathan Narcisse ruminates.   Then,  and Iowa Ice Trucker, Jeff Parkis talks about driving on the ice highways in the tundras of Alaska.  Plus the racism of  Donald Sterling has wrinkles not being discussed.

Pardon the Disruption: the future you Never saw Coming .  Clayton Rawlings says technology will soon be able to extract "truth",  and nothing but the truth  from people accused of crime.  Then,  why government needs to have some influence on marriage.  Not a bunch,  but some.

Matt Schultz ,  Iowa  Secretary of State, explaining some hiring and firing controversy.  Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers are coming to  Paton, Iowa. Saturday.  Plus lotsa tricky issues.

James Graham writes about the Kennedy's affection for sailing, Victura.  Sunday book signing at Beaverdale Books at 2pm.  Tie softball games, outrageous.  Then a scam phone call from the IRS.   A man runs down a bald eagle with his boat.  And an Iowa cop, shooting instructor shoot himself.  And PETA wants to build a 10 foot tall memorial for turkeys killed in a truck accident.  

 The US Senate Family Forum is coming up April 25th.  Bob Vander Platts.  The Chinese are stealing from Iowa seed companies.  A big legal yawn?  Steve King has earned Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg's ire.  What's up with that?  And we have to pay the money losing business of dog racing to go away.