Addiction issues.. Joe Mientz is director of admissions at an Iowa-based treatment center. (888-778-5833)   Impressive.   Brad Erlich with some Iowa economic news.  Lotsa open-line conversation,  including a fellow who builds western leather gear and talks about gun fighters...Will Ghormley.

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-30.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:21am CDT

 

Wanna know how treaties can amend the US Bill of Rights in the US Constitution?   James Hirsen can tell you...cuz he predicted it.   Congressman Steve King reacts to the Arizona judge on immigration law,  and blows the lid off the USDA Pigford scam and the Shirley Sherrod connection.  Don Racheter documents Iowa's Privileged Class: State Government Employees.   Nathan Tucker blows the whistle on the politicization of Iowa's  judicial selection.    Vigorous stuff.

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-29.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:31am CDT

 

 

Uh Oh...  Iowa flunks the Opie Golden Rule test.  Iowa gets a big bill from illegals...  Bob Dane from FAIR gives us the bad news.   Sen. Paul McKinley says Iowa has dropped the baton in the Race to the Top.   Mitch Henry calls for the end of dog racing in Iowa.

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-28.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:28am CDT

 

 

Governor Terry Branstad and Auditor David Vaudt  with campaign issues.   Carrie Severino defends Senator Grassley's Kagan "No" vote.  Then,  how do treaties trump the US Constitution?   They don't,  unless dishonest politicians let them.

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-27.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:46am CDT

 

Mona Kilborn, an Iowa lady from Marshalltown re-tells the horrific story of her experience...losing a family member to an illegal alien drunk driver.  Years later,  still no justice.   Iowans with vigorous views.

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-26.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:12am CDT

 

Friday cafeteria of issues...everthang worth talking about....we talk about...and more.  Including peeping Toms at the airport.

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-23.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:27am CDT

 

 

Brenna Findley wants to be AG.   Issues.    Gov Gary Johnson from New Mexico coming to Iowa...  Ragbrai...Issues.   Ambassor Michael Oren of Israel to the United States...issues.   A new program can kill phone text messages if the car is moving...issues.

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-22.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:47am CDT

 

Richard Bernstein  addresses  "Duped America" ...a great legal brief against liberal clichés'.   Gov Vilsack may change mind about a fired USDA employee.  Senator Grassley votes "No" on Kagan.  Why?  And should Iowa farmers give up land so truckers can go potty? 

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-21.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:14am CDT

 

 

Former Congressman Jim Nussle from Growth Energy is trying to expedite ethanol.   Obama wants to extend unemployment benefits.   Iowans respond

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-20.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:37am CDT

 

Now Obamacare is a tax,  so it's constitutional...huh?  Lotsa openline. And Obama can't be a socialist, cuz he is an American.   Guess who said that? Spirited conversation.

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-19.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:43pm CDT

 

 

Dana Mecum and Larry Kline highlight the weekend live auction on HDTV.   Jim Marrs with The Trillion Dollar Conspiracy makes us flunk the kook test.   A lady loses her job over tinted windows.  And Suzy.

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-16.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:30am CDT

 

 

Dr. Gal Luft  "Turning Oil Into Salt"...time to get serious about energy independence and fuel choice.    Joshua Lyon was a Pill Head...tells how to avoid becoming one.   Then,  former Governor Branstad makes a major campaign position shift on immigration.  Ready for Arizona law?

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-15.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:12am CDT

 

Crystal O'Connor says our kids need business coaching... she's running summer courses for teenagers.  Kidpreneur.   Then an Iowa Tea Party billboard makes national news...Iowan's respond to the attention.

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-14.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:51am CDT

 

Paul Collier says it's time to un-plunder "The Plundered Planet"...says we don't have title to the Earth so don't abuse the place.   Cameras to replace cops in Des Moines?  Yuck.   Dr. Betsy McCaughey is a constitutional expert...worries about Obama care...reviews the health care bill and finds it not Constitutional.

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-13.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:30am CDT

 

The conversation started with a news story from Iowa which made national news.  A drunk driver was busted.  Nothing unusual about that, but in this case he was driving his riding lawn mower down the street weaving about the center lane.  That's not the part of the story which landed it on Drudge.  It was the kicker line in which the local arresting sheriff claimed, "In Iowa, it's illegal to drive any motor vehicle anywhere while intoxicated, the driver could have been charged while mowing his own lawn."

When I read that one on the air,  I wondered how law enforcement could get jurisdiction to bust an intoxicated mower rider on his own property.  

The first caller said the sheriff is "Stuck on stupid...no such jurisdiction exists in Iowa code."

A cop called in to say,  "Yes there is.  It's Iowa code 321.J.  

So I pushed him.   "What does it say?"

I could hear the pages of his cop code book being rifled in the background,  "I can't find it."

Then a public official called to say that although it wasn't actually in the code,  "...it's been interpreted that way by the courts."

At that point all the little Constitutional hairs stood up on the back of my neck.  "Judges have said its ok?"

"Yes"

"Even though the law doesn't authorize it?"

"Yes,  the legislature doesn't have a problem with it." he said.

I said,  "That's not a very high standard."

Said the official,  "Where in the Constitution or Iowa code does it say on CAN drive your lawnmower while drunk, on your own property?"

"That turns our relationship with the state upside down.  We don't get our rights from the state or it's code.  We don't need permission from the law or a government employee to drink a beer while mowing one's own yard.  It's our property."

Said the official, "If you kill somebody on your property or counterfeit money in your basement, police can arrest you on your own property can't they?"

"Yes, but in either of those cases, there are victims.  It IS the proper function of government to protect the lives, liberty and property of its citizens.  It is not the proper role of government to protect me against myself.  Plus,  judges can't re-write Iowa code from the bench.  Judge-made "law" is null and void.  If the legislature won't defend their turf from activist judges, the rest of us must."

So,  am I really going to argue that a citizen of the United States can legally mow his own yard while two-sheets to the wind?   With deepest apologies to my long-gone,  tea-totaling mom,  the answer is,  "Yes".    It may be sinful,  but it shouldn't be illegal.  

(Unless you mow diagonally...an un-American and evil practice.  We have to have some standards. )

Category:general -- posted at: 1:35pm CDT

 

Tara Ross says Democrats are trying to change our form of government by trashing our electoral college.   Newt Gingrich says he wants to toss a wrench into the Obama machine.   The Iowa's establishment are still pushing open borders in Iowa.

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-12.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:27am CDT

 

 

Stephen Meyer thinks he can read the Signature in the Cell....darn it...means we will never rebuild dinosaurs.  Maggie Gallagher says the Boston judicial ruling on DOMA has Elena Kagan's finger prints on it.  Dr. D.C. Gray says Obama's death panels and rationing are back with a vengeance.   Then an Iowa drunk makes national news...driving a lawnmower...does one have the right to drive drunk on one's own property?   Great Question.

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-09.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:37am CDT

 

 

Judy Hintz from Educational Resources brings in a passel of interesting folks... Naneen, Joel, Kathy and Craig...inspirational.   Carrie Severino blasts Elena Kagan as an unqualified SCOTUS nominee.    Penny Nance says TSA wants to filter nasty stuff from their computers...and it ain't porn.    Are the people who feigned outrage over Congressman King now a little embarrassed?   Should be. 

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-08.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:18am CDT

 

 

Congressman Steve King takes on the Obama Arizona lawsuit.  Fierce.    Drowning doesn't look like drowning...some of the best summer survival info available.  

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-07.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:55am CDT

 

William Voegeli says there is "Never Enough"  OPM for the welfare state.   So let's fix it.   Then Iowa odds and ends open-line.   Fun

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-06.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:51pm CDT

 

Thomas E Woods with a how to fix it book ... "Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century"...a humdinger...best book of the year.   What caused cops to appear in Des Moines 144 times  in just a few hours?  Then,  Iowans recall their own experiences with runaway horses. 

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-05.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:41am CDT

 

New DNR regs for boating safety...several reps...Susan Stocker, Nate Hogevein, and Aaron Arthur with a Q&A.  Then,  a black bear mauls a hiker in Kentucky,  setting off Iowa bear phobics.  

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-02.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:53am CDT

 

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 say environment activists are trying to block access to a treasure trove of natural gas.  A critique of "Gasland".  And flood-watching.

Direct download: mickelson-2010-07-01.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:48am CDT

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