Mickelson's Podcast - Powered by the Iowa Firearms Coalition

  Greg D'Angelo says the SHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program)  is just another unsustainable middle-class entitlement program.  Then,  a great example of media spin.  This time Mickelson is the target.  The tape examples.  Congressman Duncan Hunter with an issues update.  Openline.

  Chuck Laudner is Executive Director of the Iowa Republican Party .  Talks about the recent Iowa Republican debate at Drake ,  the Iowa Straw Poll and a new direction for the Iowa Republican Party.   Steve Forbes gives feedback on the debate for Giuliani..  Bob Vanderplatts for Huckabee.    Senator Sam Brownback for himself.  Bill Salier for Congressman Tom Tancredo.   And a response to the Romne...

      Fred Heads describe their malady.   Paul Smith and Richard Rios are volunteers.  Then, another ISU professor attacks faith symbols...this time Warren Blumenfeld is shocked to find a cross in a chapel.    Plus lots openline.   Video note!   After some debate,  here's the re-posting of Thursday's intense exchange with Gov Mitt Romney.  A technical note... All of the in-studio presidential inte...

  Gov Tommy Thompson campaigns in Iowa.    Gov Mitt Romney campaigning... a very intense conversation.   Here's the video .  A shorter video .  Then,  Jerome Corsi   with the "Late Great USA" an expose of the proposed Security and Prosperity Partnership.

  Congressman Geoff Davis from Kentucky and Iowa Congressman Tom Latham join us from Washington.  Issues.   How about reparations for the US taxpayers for Iraq war costs?   Then, "What High Schools Don't Tell You". .. how to get your kid ready.  Elizabeth Wissner-Gross.

  History nuggets I discovered while doing summer reading.  The current state of terror.  Then, Senator Byrd says pit bulls are innocent peace lovin' creatures until they are corrupted by football players.

  The continuing stolen car saga...can we keep what is going on in California away from Iowa?  Then,  some campaign literature   I found in the church parking lot is actually inspirational.

  Former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad sits in for Jan Mickelson .  He's President of Des Moines University.  Progress report.

  Ross Peterson in for Jan Mickelson.  Pet behavior, Fair Tax and presidential politics.

  If California can confiscate the vehicles   of illegals or scofflaws,  why can't Iowa? And Iowa's Board of Regents still can't decide upon arming campus security guards. ..sigh.  The,  Steve Deace   "Without a Vision: the People Perish"    then,  an Iowa mom wants the troops home from Iowa. Sue Dinsdale 

  Dana Mecum   talks about collectible cars and an upcoming car auction.     Scott Taylor   warns about Lyme Disease. ..it's the season.   Then,  car theft stories...

  Congressman Tom Tancredo   in Iowa after the presidency.  Issues.    Congressman Duncan Hunter   in Iowa after the presidency.  Issues   Robert Novak ,  the "Prince of Darkness" knows where the bodies are buried..    Senator John McCain   in Iowa after the presidency (see shocking video below).  Issues.  Phyliss Schlafly wants to be on the record for Congressman Tancredo.    Issues.

    Senator Sam Brownback is in Iowa pursuing the presidency.   Ted Baehr reviews a couple of movies...the new Harry Potter movie and the new Adam Sandler movie, "I Now Pronounce you Chuck and Larry"   (the last segment with Rowan Scarborough is lost in technical purgatory...sorry)

    Rauch on the River ...neked perverts are cavorting along the Raccoon River . ..again...annoying family canoeing expeditions and puzzling the taxpayers....again.   Then, Cheryle Hart says your diet may be making you crazy.  "The Feed Good Diet". .    Iowa is making world news for our prison population diversity rates.   Tommy Thompson talks about practical solutions for stuff.

  Bishop Perry Jackson says Senator Ted Kennedy is trying to sneak another hate crimes bill   into a defense package.  Why is it a threat your 1st Amendment rights?  Then  extended coverage of Senator Tom Harkin's part in the US Senate all-nighter   on voting for US withdrawal from Iraq.  Iowans respond.

  Deirdre Barrett  with "Waistland". ..why two-thirds of us are concerned about weight and what to do about it.  Then a world-class tip to a waitress gets us started on the etiquette of tipping.

  "The Natural Family"   Allan Carlson has a manifesto to re-build the US family.  (Spence publishing has a deal for WHO listeners.  For every tenth personal email to webmaster@spencepublishing.com   a WHO listener will get a free book...do it!)   Then,  who keeps flunking the marshmallow test?   Plus,  why not use horse racing money for a better purpose ?

  Hindus open the US Senate with a meditation...and a protest.   Brown hamburger and the  frozen mystery meat.  Don Yaeger says "It's Not About the Truth"  The Untold Story about the Duke Lacrosse Case and the Lives It Shattered. ..   Congressman Duncan Hunter with presidential politics.  Then,  if Iowa is a sanctuary state,  why did they bust illegals in Marshalltown?    Plus Suzy.

  More ethanol bashing.   A great dialog.  Sandy Bourne  from the Independent Women's Forum worries about the "subsidies" and market distortions.  Monte Shaw from  Iowa Renewable Fuel Association responds.  Then,  a "bubbly" toddler gets the boot from a flight cuz mom won't feed him Benadryl.   Really.

  Thomas Woods comes up with "33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask" .   Very good stuff.  Then,  Bobbi Conner wants your kids to have "Unplugged Play". ..lots of un-electric games to keep the kids occupied this summer.   Plus,  a local family gets skunked out of the house.  How can we help?

  Judy Hintz talks about the Wall Street Journal front page story about "mainstreaming" troubles in Waukee. "When Discipline Starts a Fight".    Then,  Bill Salier and Jason Hamann with a new grass roots non-partisan organization.  "Everyday America".   515-401-2488 . 

  John Lott describes why the free market works in "Freedomnomics"  and why when women got the vote, government got bigger and families got smaller.  Then,  a mystery solved and lotsa openline.

  Ed Fallon for Mickelson.  To tax or not to tax... Project Destiny .   The debate.    Worthwhile.

  Columnist Chuck Offenberger sits in for Mickelson and talks about Iowa sports heroes. 

  Congressman Steve King   sits in for Mickelson.  Lotsa great political conversation.