Mickelson's Podcast - Powered by the Iowa Firearms Coalition

Count yer blessings or I'll hit you.   Then,  Iowa farmland...best of times , worst of times.  Mostly highly valued,   soon to be most highly taxed.   Who invented the modern progressive estate tax?  An Iowan,  dang it.

Potluck...education reform... Jonathan Las t talks about "singletons". .. "A Nation of Singles"...   the basis of our civilization is at risk .   And are "preppers" dangerous?

Senator Kent Sorenson wants to restore the death penalty in Iowa.  Noreen Gosch says it's overdue.  Iowans respond.  The "The Sackster" says the Midwest is losing national influence.  What to do?

Peal Harbor Day ...revisionist history... John V Denson   and   John Koster.   Important.   Then what happens to Iowa if we go over the fiscal cliff?   So,  what do we want?  Then, economic and political guru, Wayne Allyn Root says the cliff is in our rear view mirror.

Iowan's ponder stuff.   Including the African American National Anthem ...the Hobby Lobby....and why is George Bush speaking up on immigration?

The election is over...so?  Polk County and Windsor Heights put Gotcha Cams on the  fast track.   Iowans say,  "Not so Fast!".   This is way more than just a whining session.  Some great conversation about how to be "self-governing".   Is more Big Brother the only way to handle a self-centered culture?

Inspirational birth stories.    Senator Rand Paul Paul on the fiscal cliff.   And why are Democrats still playing the race card now that the election is over?  Cuz it works?

Bob Costas blames a murder suicidal behavior of a football player on the gun.  Huh?  Then,  Sean Faircloth talks about the Attack of the Theocrats!   spirited.

A movie review of Lincoln the movie.   The perils of onions.  And Michael Ware and Rick Largess give us a Prepper 101 class.  

Robert Franklin says Americans accused of wrong doing have lost the presumption of innocence.    Mike Farris from the HSLDA, says the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is going to hand over American sovereignty to the UN...again.  Iowans wonder about Wisconsin's white deer.  

Dr. Georgia Purdom says it would have been perfectly OK for Senator Rubio to say the Earth is young.  Makes the case for a young Earth.   Then,  our favorite eagle gets electrocuted.  How?  Plus,  do we really want to send Singleton to go to prison for 16 years?  

Brian Peskin,  health guru,  back in town tonight 7pm Hilton Garden Inn,  Johnston.  Sponsored by Healthy for Life 327-0200.  Then,  is it time to let parents use their own money to educate their OWN kids...hmmm?   

Melvyn Fein   Post-Liberalism:  The Death of a Dream.  Cheeky.  Plus,  Iowans define justice for a cop harasser.    And lottery talk.

Coyotes are moving into urban areas of Iowa.  Johnston residents are concerned.   DNR isn't.   What do real experts say?  Great Iowa stories.   Worthwhile indeed!

Justin Lee "Torn:  Rescuing the Gospel from The Gays-VS.-Christians Debate" .  Spirited.  Varnum v Brien, the Iowa court case.  Then,  what's the story on Catholic & non-Catholic marriages?   Plus,  the lady says modern High Efficiency clothes washers suck ...cuz of the feds.

JP McCarthy warns us against "The Money Spiders, the Ruin-Nation of the United States by the Federal Reserve".     Clayton Cramer says our neglect of the mentally ill is costing way more thank a real solution would. My Brother Ron: A Personal and Social History of the Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill.   Plus pondering Petraeus.

Bill Dix wants Iowans help to "Fix the Debt".    Doctors are warning patients Obamacare will leave them without doctors.  Thor Moreno is an Iowa filmaker. ..under production.  Then, Obama wants to nationalize Iowa lakes, rivers, and streams.  

Fishing for HHO in Iowa.   Got some bites.  Then,  historian Russell Corde r writes about the Confederate Invasion of Iowa.  Huh?  Yup.    Judge Andrew P. Napolitano   . .. Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedoms.  

Steve Locker talks about entry level ham radio.   Then,  Iowans wonder about the why and wherefores of the economy and the election.

How to be an existential threat 101.  Merrill  Mathews points to the financial cliff.  Congressman Steve King with an agenda for the new upcoming session.  Issues.

Post election sound-offage.   Fire the coach?  Fire the players?  Change the playbook?   Fire the refs?   And other stuff.

Senator Mark Chelgren has some election day predictions and issues.  Then,  an election day open invitation to all  Iowa politicians to make their cases.

Lt Governor David Dewhurst proxies for Mitt Romney.  AJ Spiker Iowa Republican Party Chair.  Issues.  Craig Robinson ,  The Iowa Republican,   pre-election coverage.  Issues.  A delivery guy gets pissed off and pisses on a tip stiffer.   Sounds like a country song, don't it?

Dan Charleston is running for Polk County Sheriff.  Issues.  Dave Funk with Sportsmen for Romney-Ryan.   Maureen Malloy Ferguson with The Catholic Association ..Catholics for Romney.  Pastor Mike Demastus has a church sign which worries all the right people.

From the "No Wiggins Bus Tour" ,  Bob Vander Platts with last minute campaigning.  Confronting a critic who calls the Family Leader a hate group.  Frank Meeink.   Then,  RJ Mandell writes about "The Killing of Innocence". ..speculation about the possibility of the overturning of Roe v Wade.