Mickelson's Podcast - Powered by the Iowa Firearms Coalition

  Edgar Browning says we're "Stealing from Each Other". ..  about 25%,  if you're keeping track.   Then,  responding to the heavy-metal grief following the deaths of some Iowa teenagers.   The power of music.  

    Mary Ellen Geist ... Measure of the Heart: A Father's Alzheimer's,  A Daughter's Return.   One of the sweetest stories, ever.    Edward Failor   examines the Obama's connection to a 60's radical,  William Ayers.. . with a snotty political commercial.   Steve Flood  is running for the Des Moines School Board.  Lotsa talk.

Lotsa stuff... Democratic National Convention feedback.   Then,  sex abuse?   Whazzat anyhow? Sex offender? 

    Is there a link between lyme disease and autism?   Tami Duncan and Brian Rozner   make the case. Mark Stricherz tells "Why the Democrats are Blue".    Jeri Corsi on "Obama Nation"  ...then,  Suzy.

  "The Vulture Culture" ...  Eric Gerst says the US insurance industry is in for a financial fall.   Congressman Steve King talks about energy.  T-Boone Pickens   does the same.  Senator Sam Brownback talks about presidential politics.

    Christopher Reed wants Senator Tom Harkin's job.  Then,   "What is your Explosive Child Trying to Tell you?"    Then,  Rob Hubler   wants Congressman Steve King's job.

  "The Case Against Barack Obama"   David Freddoso.    Michael Klare   tries to make sense of the Russian invasion of Georgia.  "Rising Powers". ..  then,    Doug Wilson   is a classical education activist.   An inspiration.  

  Mike Pike is running for Des Moines School Board.  Issues.   Joe S. McIlhaney on Hooked:  New Science on How Casual Sex is Affecting Our Children   says,  we are wired for monogamy... sorry.    Then a grade school teacher opens class.

   Senator Paul Mckinley   back from Turkey...culture and education.    Iowa novelist Patrick Culhane   with his latest, "Red Sky in Morning".    Lotsa Fair jabber.

  Iowa Concrete Association tossed out the traditional opening block of cement at the Fair.   Is power walking  really gay?   Congressman Tom Latham   with issues.   Mathew Padilla with the Chain of Blame. ..h ow Wall Strreet caused the mortgage and credit crisis.    Jim Hawkins recruiting for Professional Educators in Iowa. 

     Lawrence Solomon talks about "The Deniers" ,  scientists who stood up the global warming hysteria.  Plus, the Whirlpool-Matag economic tragedy continues...pulling the plug on retirees health care.   Then,  a great T-shirt... Bob McCarty with "Bipolar Bear Disorder".     Congressman Steve King on the energy debate.   Then,   'nuther Postville shoe falls. 

    Brain expert,  Dr. Scott Swarzwelder,   talks about what drugs do to your head.  "Buzzed"   Then,  why are we giving schools resource officers cars to drive back and forth to work?   Better question:  "Why are there resource officers at all?"    Then,  it's a conspiracy...  so many of them we need a guide to the "Web of Conspiracy".     James Broderick.

  Dr. Robert Zubrin with an encore visit on "Energy Victory". .. highlighting an upcoming conference, Citizens for Energy Freedom   in Des Moines this September.  ( WHOOPS... during this segment,   I report on an inaccurate news story which attributes a critical commentary against Obama's fundraising history to NYT columnist Maureen Dowd.  It was a bogus story... from a  usually reliable source.)...

  Sarah James from the Alaska Wilderness Society   is spiritually bonded with the  porcupine caribou and wants to stay that way.   No drilling for oil in her sacred hunting lands.   Lotsa energy talk.

   Kenneth Adelman says Americans oughta be building the new air tanker,   not the French.   You ain't gonna believe what Planned Parenthood   thinks is cute and fun with some of your money and kids..   Then,   red-shirting your kids...good idea?  Great stuff.

    California earthquakes and Iowa tornados compared.  Richard Louv says our kids have nature deficit disorder.   Plus,  looking way too closely at the words politicians use.  McCain first...then Obama. 

    Larry Disney   wants his old job back...now held by Iowa House Leader Kevin McCarthy.    Then,  the next shoe in the Postville comedy routine   has fallen...couldn't make it up if I tried.   

  Life Line is offering come community screening to prevent strokes.   Then,  Postville protest reaction.     Mark Kirkorian   with "The New Case Against Immigration"     the best overview yet.  Flag?  Highly recommended.      

    The Mecum collectible car auction.    Every wanna sue the government?   Doug Gross did it... suing the education   establishment in Iowa cuz it sucks.

  An illegal plows into an Iowa business with her car.  Busted?  The rest of the story.   Mark O'Connell, a Harvard researcher,  describes "The Marriage Benefit".      Susan Tully from FAIR is organizing a counter-rally at Postville this weekend to protest the protestors.  Vigorous.

    Feedback from our judicial tyranny debate....  then,  Dr. Jim   promotes an upcoming Iowa premiere of a new Dr. Phil creation,  "The Doctors".      Then,   the dynamics of tipping.    I missed another memo.

    Chris Korzen with Catholics United stirs up a hornets nest with his "A Nation for All"  manifesto:  How the Catholic Vision of the Common Good Can Save America from the Politics of Division"    Lotsa talk.   Time to reset adult responsibility at Iowa's colleges?

  Iowa gets more weather related hostility....reports.    Herbert Romerstein,   looks at the communist who helped mentor Obama. ..  "The Venona Papers".      Des Moines Register says its time for outrage over Iowa's education slide...really.

    John Nichols from Nation magazine   in town to stoke the fires of progressivism.   Lance Izumi   says bi-lingual education holds kids back....in favor of total English immersion.    Sen. Ron Wieck   predicts little or no genuine immigration reform from the next session.

  Walter Williams describes "The Politics of Bad Ideas" says GWB is the worst president in our history.   Senator Chuck Grassley targets some televangelists... Kelly Shackelford   from the Liberty Legal Institute worries about that.    Cliff Kincaid   has turned up another embarrassing Obama radical association.   And Governor Culver is targeting the contract worker scam.