Mickelson's Podcast - Powered by the Iowa Firearms Coalition

  Christian Adams says Steve King is right about the Obama administration's "favoring blacks over whites". ..former DOJ attorney who says the Obama adminstration won't defend the voting rights of non-minorities.   WHAT?   Then, Iowa State Senators Randy Feestra and Jerry Behn say the Culver administration is about to hire 1,100 new state workers in a time of budget distress...WHAT?   Chris Tucker...

    Senator Grassley serves up a great question to SCOTUS nominee Kagan.  Result?   Brain freeze.  Solution?  Gun rights  5-4 "vote" is not a good sign.  Congressman Steve King ...issues.

    Iowans wonder about water damage,  analyze an anti-King hit piece and rate the ethics of rest stops...  just for starters.

    Iowan's say the strangest things...and sometimes without helmets... :)  Lotsa open-line.

    Jonathan Narcisse   (515-770-1218) running for governor as an independent.  Weather pushes us around a bit...then,  open-line feedback on a recent immigration guest.   Vigorous.

      Iowa political conundrums which confuse the host...again.   'Nuther judicial outrage...then  Daniel Griswold from Cato Institute in Iowa telling us that illegal aliens should be viewed as economic assets.    Steve Camorata from CIS disagrees.   Iowans give them an earful.

    Congressman Steve King talks about the Obama race dust-up.   Then, a lady who lost her ability to smell stuff.. "Remembering  Smell". ..  Bonnie Blodgett.    Carol Barnier is coming to the weekend NICHE conference. ..deals with ADHD.   Then making students clean up their own messes....shocking.

    Van Harden takes over the talk show and reverses the roles.... he interviews Mickelson for a while.   Issues.

    Sue Perry is a researcher with Consumer Reports. ..the current issue of  Shop Smart says the rules of repairing appliances have changed.   Then some of the music at the World Cup isn't joyful.. .just annoying.    What are the rules of shower etiquette and kids.

    The Bike Snob tells some stories...then Dirty Harry's gun is obsolete ....then Mennonites want us to help them control their sin,    but they are tearing up Iowa's roads.   Huh?

  Pat Jury from the Iowa Credit Union League and Jeff Russell, Exec VP of the Member's Group want to inform us on changes in debit card billing issues.   Then Mickelson finally figures out why Iowa law enforcement won't enforce immigration laws.   And he's embarrassed about it.

    Iowans do some post-primary sound off.   Vigorous.

    Eric O'Keefe talks about the national implications of the political primaries.   Iowans with last minute political speeches for their candidates.

    Nuther bad judge gets nominated.   Penny Nance says Judge Robert Chatigny is unfit to serve.   Nuther traffic atrocity.   Then,  Fred Karger is a gay Republican...he wants to run in Iowa.   Ok?

  Dave Funk running for congress...issues.    Karl Rove coming to Iowa...issues.  John Wohlstetter defends Israel for flotillagate... Sarah endorses Terry...issues.

    Rod Roberts running for Governor of Iowa.    Issues.   Then,  does Iowa need a leader like New Jersey's Governor Christie?  Issues.

    Heather Cox Richardson takes us back to Wounded Knee ...what caused the massacre?  Politics.   George Eichhorn wants to be Iowa's Secretary of State.  Issues.  Brett McMahon wants to Halt the Assault on the taxpayers by union pensioners.

      Andrew McCarthy explains The Grand Jihad. .. how Islam and the Left Sabotage America.     The USDA sissified ....the usual suspects. Who did it?   Arthur Brooks thinks The Battle is a fight worth fighting.  It's the 70-30 battle.  Then,  what can a census worker really do? 

    Professor David Meyer   from Regent University talks about recent miltary history and future conflicts....extremely interesting.    Wayne Karlin wonders about Wandering Souls ...sorting out the personal histories of the Vietnam War.  They did what to the Honor Soldiers on the way from Iowa to Washington....they really put them through security?  AAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!    An editorialist says a...

    Jim Gibbons wants to be a congressman.   The Iowa Congressional Delegation splits it's vote on Don't Ask, Don't Tell.      Iowans with military experience gives them an earful.  Spirited.

  Square Foot Gardening ....the next generation... Mel Bartholomew and Walter Jahncke.   Senator Chuck Grassley says he'll vote no on higher oil taxes to pay for oil spill clean-ups.  Then,  welfare raccoons take over parks...the rest of the story.

  Morry Taylor ,  CEO of Titan Tire,  promoting a golf tournament,   and updating us on his political views.    Emmett McGroarty , National Director of Preserve Innocence and Iowa's new director, Eric Goranson, want to hold the system more accountable to virtue. 

  Lotsa open-line.   Slipnot remembered .  A Muslim tower where the Twin Towers used to be?  Racy pictures at the mall?    Grade school art video?    Teacher suspended ....enough?

    Brad Zaun is running for congress...issues.  Newt Gingrich wants "To Save America". ..issues... Aissa Wayne, daughter of John Wayne is coming to Iowa to highlight the birthdays and anniversaries.

    Vast quantities of open-line Friday... Iowa veterans confront crazies in Perry, Iowa...an Iowa sheriff says we can't afford an Arizona-like immigration law.  Vigorous talk.