Mickelson's Podcast

Iowans talk about on-line gambling legislation...go double or nothing.   Then,  does the "Stand your ground" law need a better title?

So...Justice Delayed is Justice Provided?..  then Iowan's love GPS stories and geo-cashing...  Then what are the Wisconsin protestors protesting?

Brett McMahan from says we need to break government employee unions before they break us.   Des Moines police detective, Dave Murrillo says,   "Not so fast"  on that union busting thing.   Then Ralph Reed with an update on an upcoming Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition Presidential Forum.  Then, holy crap...you think IPERS is messed up.. lookit this.

The highest achieving kids credit faith for their success.  Who woulda thought?  Then,  how much bias is there in academia?  Iowans have opinions.

 Jenifer Bowen from Iowa Right to Life wants to block an infanticide clinic from opening in Council Bluffs.  Contact your legislator.   Governor Huckabee in Iowa to talk about his new book..."Simple Government."   Oh,  Senator Harkin has re-written the Constitution.

Obama says he won't defend DOMA.  Iowans really want in on the debate.  And Iowan's aren't too thrilled with the behavior public labor unions either.  Gov. Christie is our new hero.   Wanna hear the new theme song of  SEIU?   "Take "Em Down"...

Girls wrestling boys.  The Iowa story which keeps popping up nationally.  Then,  media bias covering the Wisconsin public employee's protests.  Iowans respond to the Iowa sympathy rallies.

The Iowa judiciary selection process is flawed...ways to fix it...  Federalist and law professor Stephen Ware with reform ideas to make the process more democratic.   Then Rep Lance Horbach  with HSB 117....labor reform in Iowa to save money and avoid the Wisconsin problems.

Iowans take a closer look at the public employee labor strife in Wisconsin.   The Iowa T-Party is planning a counter protest at the union demonstration at the Iowa Statehouse.

Rep Kim Pearson gets HF 153 started in committee.  If passed,  abortion would be illegal in Iowa.  Iowans respond to the public employee unrest in Wisconsin.  Unrest. Then,  Suzy.

A top young man wrestler has refused to compete against a qualified female high school wrestler because he and his parents object to the propriety of the contact.   Iowans REALLY have strong opinions.  Fascinating

The Democrats are bashing Governor Terry Branstad for "double dipping"...Iowans offer political advice.  And what about what's going on in Wisconsin?  Governor Clark and the their new legislature has canceled their collective bargaining agreement with the state employee's union.  Hit the fan.

Huh, Oh... Johnny Cash was a  gun grabbin' liberal?  Who knew?  Then... Whadamean I can't bobby trap my stuff?  Congressman King talks about defunding Obamacare.    And what a great website!... love it when Senator Gronstal's name can be turned into a verb.   And look at what the  villiage atheists  did on your property this time.

 Ray Stevens says "The Skies Just Ain't Friendly Anymore"... Jerry Zandstra says he's unraveled "The Genesis Code"...a family friendly movie opening this weekend in Iowa.  Then,  Fred Stoeker and Rev. Mike Demastus highlighting the upcoming "Real Men's Conference."  And an open borders group is buying snotty commercials targeting Congressman Steve King's position on birthright babies.   Then,  for no particular reason...very funny.

There are credit cards actually charging 59.9% interest.   And Americans are buying them.  Then WHAAZUUP with Ottumwa?   National story about crime rates.

A Frank Luntz focus group in Des Moines sets off a firestorm when its reveal that a bunch of Iowans think Obama is a Muslim.  Lawrence O'Donnell from MSNBC blames Congressman Steve King.  Boom...Iowans respond.

Lionel Terzi says a National Constitutional Convention is a very bad idea.   Pulitzer Prize winning author,  Stacey Schiff gives us an closer look at the real Cleopatra:  A Life.   Then,   a psa about sexual violence gets an Iowa activist international hate mail.  Howscome? 

Gary Moore with  "Hey Buddy"...  a look at the life and music of Buddy Holly.  Then,  tech talk...push starting automatics and tethering  a phone with a laptop....stuff.

Before I reverse engineer Zach’s well done presentation,   I going to review what the main tactics of the gay lobby are and have always been. 

 In the late 80’s I interviewed Marshall Kirk who wrote a book called "After the Ball: How America will Conquer its fear a & hatred of Gays in the 90’s"

It’s the tactical textbook of the gay lobby describing the techniques intended  to work us over.   The tactics  worked beyond his wildest expectations. (BTW he died of AIDS)

The tactics?  Desensitization, jamming and conversion… Brainwashing tactics 101.

He wrote, "All normal persons feel shame when they perceive that they are not thinking, feeling or acting like one of the pack…the trick is to get the "bigot" (anyone who disagrees with them) into the position of feeling a conflicting twinge of shame…thus propagandistic advertisements can depict homophobic bigots as crude loudmouths…it can show them criticized, hated , shunned "

"Our effect is achieved wrote, Kirk, without reference to facts, logic or proof…"   Get that part? …without reference to facts, logic, or proof.."

How?  

"Portray gays as victims of circumstance and oppression, not as aggressive challengers. In any campaign to win over the public, gays must be portrayed as victims in need of protection so that straights will not be inclined to refuse to adopt the role of protector…we must forego the temptation to strut our gay pride publicly  to such and extent that we will undermine our victim image."

The main logical fallacies used to advance the cause are many,   but the main ones are:

1. Ad hominem…just heap insults or verbal abuse upon those who disagree.

2.  Begging the question…   The Register does this all the time… in fact the judiciary and Democrat Party do this all the time…assuming the validity of what they trying to normalize or approve.   “Putting discrimination into the Constitution” assumes the legitimacy of same gender marriage and the claims of the gay lobby…without proof,  logic or reason.

 3.  Then, the false claims of equality of unequal things.    “We are just like everyone else.   All sexuality is equal” … and the rights derived from those claims are equal…and if we are denied those rights, we are being abused.

 So..  let’s begin…  First,   Zach's complete presentation.    Then,  piece by piece.

 1. Here, Zack is establishing his boni fides…   six generations…long enough to know better I’m thinking.   BTW being an Iowan is of no distinction to this argument…just an appeal to regional patriotism.   My wife’s people came over on the Mayflower…mine got here in time to be drafted into the War Between the States… so what…  there are sixth generation Iowans in prison.   Ethics aren’t based upon seniority or geography.

 2. “Reared  by two women”…  lotsa Iowans are reared by two women..   Mom’s and  older sisters…  Mom’s and grammas…  Mom’s and step moms…  nothing unusual about that…note he doesn’t use the “L” word…  Lesbians.   This is the Spin of Omission

 3.   Acknowledge what?  That the artificial insemination had worked?    Or the incomplete and defective relationship into which their grandchild would be born?   Here you have the first budding claims of victim status.  “I was rejected even before I was born”… very powerful…   just like Jesus…He was unacknowledged…I was unacknowledged…  therefore, I must be someone special….

 4.   Of course…we don’t blame kids for the lame things their parents do.  Lucky you were cute though.

 5.   They didn’t live to see my two mommies get a fake marriage license after a judicial scam.    But his point here is to arouse another round of sympathy based upon the empathy all of us feel upon hearing of a profound loss like this.    ‘Nuther layer of victim status.

 6.   Ah… a chip off the old flask…swimming out of the same gene pool….why lucky?   An absentee dad is still gone whether or not he donated once or twice.   What’s the point?

 7.   No different than most Iowa families?    Ya…most Iowans have two moms…and a sperm donor for a dad …  “we do go to church and fight though” …  sometimes in that order… this is just a warm fuzzy… the fallacy of equating two unequal things.    Oh…by the way,  “we go to church together too….  This is his way of saying, “God thinks it’s ok,  so should you” … the unspoken message of the fallacy.

 8.  My mom got a really nasty illness…wheelchair... struggles….nuther layer of victim status… sad story about mom…so I’ll use your empathy for my mom to manipulate sympathy for the lesbian sub theme of the story.    Again…two fallacies…the victim status which imputes unearned virtue and listing similar life experiences, conferring moral equivalency upon the relationship.    I’m half way surprised we didn’t hear a story about a sick puppy.

 9.   “We are Iowans…we bear are own burdens”….nuther round of regional,  flag waving patriotism … this is another rhetorical device designed equate two different notions.    Iowa is a political entity.   It is just geography and politics.     Everyone who lives here gets to call themselves Iowans.    There are good Iowans,  bad Iowans,  smart ones and stupid ones.  Rich ones and poor ones…honest ones and criminals.   To label youself an Iowan in this context has no objective content…it isn’t supposed to … he’s saying if you are an Iowan,  you are special…and by implication so is he.    Spin by gratuitous flattery.    Toss in a little more equivocation for good measure.

 10.   Again this is the fallacy of equating unequal things then demanding equal treatment.   A two-fer…then begging the question by asserting  an equivalent status for same gender marriage,   something  which most Iowans have rejected over and over…first by DOMA… then by firing activist judges.      He says we “just hope for equal and fair treatment from our govt”…    He as a person…his mom as a person… get all the equal and fair treatment the rest of us get.    He is arguing for something Iowans have rejected…  his or his mom’s self selected sexual identity conferring rights beyond those conferred by gender,   notion which only silly judges could contemplate.

 11.  “ Can gays even raise kid?”.     Of course they can.   That never has been the question.  The question is “should they”… then,  the follow up question is,  “Do people of the same gender qualify for a marriage license?.”       All kinds of kids have overcome the disadvantages of incomplete or dysfunctional relationships; however, there is no reason subsidize even  more.   Since people of all descriptions have been rearing children for centuries,   we now know what the ideal is for the best predictable results.  Intentionally equating or subsidizing anything else is risky and unbelievably self destructive.

 12.   I believe he was referring to the Iowa Test of Basic Skills..  not ACT… Eagle Scout…cool.    Business owner…cool..   Yes… cool… any dad would be proud of a high functioning kid….  Too bad you didn’t get a chance to know the guy in the flask.   Plus,  this just a rhetorical device and another fallacy of logic.

1.   Some moms are lesbians.

2.   My mom was a lesbian.

3.   I turned out well,  productive and healthy.

 Therefore, lesbianism is productive and healthy.   

 Complete nonsense

 13.   Exactly… the state doesn’t create marriage.  And you’re right,  my family doesn’t derive it’s sense of self worth from the state.  It would be tragic if anyone or anything of any description did.    However when it comes to same gender marriage only a lawless state would create such a thing since it certainly did not emerge out the created order and only the state can bully the rest of us into compliance.  

 14.   Love and commitment are indeed the bonds of a family under the covenant of God.  This is the first thing you’ve said with which I’m in agreement.  And in a world without a welfare state, your “family” arrangements would be irrelevant to me.   But in this world, your manufactured bonds would have an extended reach into my back pocket through the tax code, and hundreds if not thousands of other ways.   You said so yourself in our recent conversation.

  15.     Something else we can agree on.   But again this would change a bunch of laws which subsidize the family and grant spousal equivalency access to benefits including social security….etc.     This is what this push is really all about… access to OPM.

 16.  Full circle…back to the fallacy of equating two unequal things.  Then grabbing benefits based upon begging the question.

For the record, homosexual behavior is just that…it is behavior.   There is no genuine “identity” based upon homosexual behavior.  That’s the Kinsey Fraud.   Orientation toward same sex behavior does NOT confer minority status or civil rights.   Homosexual behavior does NOT form group entitlement, nor is it a protected class, except in the minds of activist bureaucrats and softheaded politicians and judges. 

Discrimination regarding marriage is everywhere in our form of government.   So is marriage equality.   Everyone who is qualified can get married.

 Here are the qualifications.

1.  A partner who wants you.

2.  You both are of the appropriate age.

3.  If not, you have parental permission.

4.  Your partner must not be your brother, sister, your mom,  your dad,  your    neighbor’s wife or husband,  or livestock…and one at a time please.

5. You must not be of the same gender…(which we are now in the process of re-negotiating)

6. And  that you are mentally, morally, physically, economically and spiritually fit..  (Assuming you have a functioning relationship with your parents and pastor who can help you through the screening process)

 17.    Bullhockey… you can indeed marry the one you love if they and you qualify.  I just listed the qualifications…. And this is nothing new.   You have not discovered some recent impediment, but one that has existed for thousands of years…only to be messed with recently by sexual identity politics and softheaded judges.

 18.   What colossal arrogance.    The unspoken fallacy in this little barb is that unless some perceived threat affects me personally on a existential level,  there can be no legitimate concern.     What a selfish attitude.      Apply that logic to just about any social ill you can think of and the objection evaporates.   Plus, as I said,  we live in a welfare state, so another group of people jumping into an already broken safety net is hardly  the smart thing to encourage.   We in Iowa know better than most, that we get more of what we subsidize. 

 19.  Zach your whole argument and the fact that you felt it necessary to make, refutes your conclusion.  It is totally understandable though.    You are a bright and sensitive kid.  No child ever likes to think ill of his parents…just like most parents want to think only the best of their children.   Nobody wants to think their parents have flaws…or that they are broken.   I’ve watched this happen over and over.

 I’ve watched people who are pro-life…who have been politically active for life…gone to life rallies… who have called abortion murder…campaigned against pro-abortion candidates…do a complete 180 when they find out someone in their family has had one.    They say,  “My daughter had an abortion…  I love my daughter… I can’t think of her as a murderer, so I’ve changed how I feel about abortion.”

 Zach I don’t expect you to think less of your mom.  You love her.   You should.   But because you love her,  you don’t need  to idealize all of her choices…especially her broken ones…  even if she eventually produced something special… you.

 And as a personal aside.   While you are at school,   spend less time in sociology class and more time working on engineering ….  As a challenge,  let me invite you to apply the  logic and skill sets of  your engineering discipline  to the claims advanced by the gay lobby.     If you do, you may find most of their claims are as bogus as the majority of Iowans do.

 Prof Brian Fitzpatrick was at the judicial forum last week at which the fired former justices spoke...Judge Streit called his detractors...idiots, rednecks and victims of paranoia and media propaganda.  That was just the GOOD stuff.   Then,  a viral video making the rounds...hyped by the gay lobby.  The think piece is taken apart for its logic and propaganda techniques... then,  Brian Sussman tells Al Gore its not global warming...it's just the weather.  Then,  an Iowa sheriff is strong arming local businesses into declaring themselves gun free.  Wow.

Michael George thinks he can fix what ails our deficit and debt problem country wide. Strong America Now.  (Iowa Contact Vickie Stogdill VMSmobile@mchsi.com )  Then,  a school bullying story gets state wide attention.  

Everything from the end of the world coming on May 21st,  to testing welfare recipients for drugs.  Lotsa stuff.

 Gerald Celente explains the mess in Egypt...coming to US?  Listen.   Then,  "Why the Left Hates Sarah Palin"...a wise think piece.   Then,  more propaganda nonsense deciphered.  Then,  Red Light-Green Light camera scam expanding in Iowa.  Plus,  a much more effective way to deal with speeders.   Oh,  and for no apparent reason...cartoon economics...purdy good.    And dang it's cold in Iowa.

 Tom Coates and Professor John  Kindt  support Gov Branstad's call to increase taxes on Iowa gambling centers.   The Great White Bear...Kieran Mulvaney give us a close up look at polar bears.   Plus Johnson County Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek is worried about some of the people he's giving carry permits to.  Sean McClanahan says,  "Not to worry." 

 Gonna be nuther gay rights cliché-fest at the Iowa State Capitol...how to decipher the cliché's and fallacies.   Gov Tim Pawlenty is touring Iowa on his book tour.   Then,  the anti- gun lobby is mounting a counter-attack.  Requiring gun owners to wear them in plain sight?  Really?

Missouri judges are informed of the cost to the taxpayers of their sentencing practices.  Good idea?   Time to re-design our criminal justice system?  Then, Jamie Johnson the lead singer of the Grascals explains the history of "I Am Strong"...a powerful fundraiser for St. Judes Children's Hospital cancer wing.

Conor Grennan tells the story of his trek to Nepal...to the Home of the Lost Children...Little Princes.    

Peter Meyers with a guide to the "Best iPAd Apps"...  and the fella wants to impeach Rep Clel Baudler cuz of his CA pot sting attempt. 

 Senator Rick Santorum in Iowa...issues.  Vigorous.   Pastor Frank Cook  from Union Park Baptist Church wants to clear the record on the theology of "forgiveness". 

We chase Zacchaeus up a tree and use him to define justice.   Then,  Al Sharpton blasts Rep. Michelle Bachman for something she said in Iowa.  Vigorous.  Then,  cuz a listener sent me the link.....something wonderful.   Then,  something really clever.

Our furnace repair expert talks about staying warm efficiently... Roger Fouche from Schaals Heating and Cooling.    Then the politics of  AG Tom Miller... Obamacare and gun bans...elections count.   Then the politics of forgiveness.

Reclaiming the American Revolution....Williams Watkins from Independent Institute... recovers some of our juiciest history.   A keeper.  Former  New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson brings issues to Iowa.   Then a collection of bent sex stories...what to do about it.

Ed Failor introduces Con. Michele Bachmann and deals with HF 45...a bunch of money saving measures passed by the Iowa House.   Jim Hawkins surveys his membership....results?   Then,  stovers and Blackjack gum...collectible barns and stuff.

Congressman Tom Latham checks in on the repeal of Obamacare.   Iowans also react to Governor Branstad's plan to drastically reduce Iowa govt spending and size of Iowa government...including early childhood education.

 Eric Blehm with "The Only Thing Worth Dying For"...How Eleven Green Berets Fought for a New Afghanistan.  Ralph Benko proxies for Congressman Mike Pence...trying to draft him to run for president.  Congressman Steve King is in the forefront of the Obamacare repeal effort.   Ken Timmerman discovers St. Peter's Bones...with insight into the digital warhead attack against Iran's nuclear weapons program.

 "Your Baby is Speaking to You"...Dr. Kevin Nugent says he can interpret.  Adam Robinson apologized to Iowa and asks for another chance to play for the Hawks.  Ok with you?   Gay presidential candidate Fred Karger wants to be invited to the party.  Iowans seem to have lost the invitation.  Secretary of State Matt Schultz explains the new voting rights after felony rules. 

Pre-inaugural (Gov. Brandstad)  openline...flunking Perry Mason 101.  Then Dahl's bans handguns from the store.  Whoops.

 A congresswoman says if a public official feels the need for a gun for self-defense, he should find another line of work.   Then,  the State of the Judiciary speech by Justice Cady sets off the impeachment crowd....vigorous...   Senator Kent Sorenson responds. 

President Obama is headed to Tucson to make a memorial speech.  What should he say?   Iowans respond. And an amazing insight into the mind of the killer.

A little tech talk,  weather talk...and a bunch of vigorous conversation on the tactics of  leftist hate baiters...abbreviated for Governor Culver's last state of the State address.

Nathan Tucker starts  Iowa Judicial Watch to keep track of judges decisions and their selection.  Then,  Iowans respond to the Arizona shootings. 

Entrepreneur and political activist Mike Whalen along with Suzanne Lee talk about economic and social issues.

Patrick Albanese sits in...  more conversational stuff...

Patrick Albanese sits in...  the politics of illumination.

Ross Peterson sits in...  Joel Silverman...animal trainer a pet expert.  Then the John Bunyan Story.

Scott Taylor gives us our annual low-carb booster shot...always great information.   Then,  Sean McClanahan from Iowa Fire Arm Coalition welcomes the new Iowa carry law to the calendar...answers questions about how to get a permit.

 David Yepsen,  former Register political writer sits in...issues

Patrick Albanese sits in...issues...college education bubble.

Patrick Albanese sits in...issues.

Ross Peterson sits in...  issues...  a spokesman from One Iowa on gay issues.  

Congressman Steve King... sits in for Jan...  issues..

Iowans play armchair economists and theologians for a while...then a bunch of really great Christmas stuff....some of my favorite Christmas songs.

Senator Lindsey Graham says Dems ate Reps lunch in the lame duck session. Why?   Then,  Senator Grassley says now that DADT has been repealed he'll help the military make it work... huh?   Iowans respond.  Then,  Scott Mickelson talks about gold and silver.  Then something silly,  for no particular reason.   Then, something beautiful...cuz it's Christmas.

 2010 Notable Quotables...the annual best case examples of flagrant political flag waving on the part of media types.  Tim Graham serves up the awards.  Then a distressed family is being forces out of housing which doesn't meet code.   Iowan's respond in a big way.   (Park Ave Christian Church..288-1914)  Merry Christmas

Professor Roger McEowen, ISU Ag Law expert evaluates what stayed the same and what's changed in the new tax code bill.  Money Issues.   Dr. Jim Blessman  is taking Iowans on a health mission in South Africa.   Then,  Barney Frank tells why the estate tax is justified.  Iowans respond.

Raymond Francis tells how "Never Be Sick Again".. then,  if Christmas music is offensive,  then just re-write the lyrics...everything is solved...right?   Paul Shanklin...Songs of the Revolution...his latest parody cd.   Then,  Iowans respond to the end of DADT. 

Drew Berquist, former spook,  now novelist,  talks about the US future in Afghanistan.   Congressman Steve King explains the inside story on the tax cut and budget issues.  The English explain the collapse of the EU.    Whoops,  this is what happens when you don't close the back door during an Iowa blizzard. Indianola HS canceled a Christmas assembly cuz of the perceived "unrest".   A last look at Bob Feller.  Then,  Suzy.

 Senator Rick Santorum in Iowa...issues of the day.  Judy Hintz from Educational Resources with some happy parents and on the warpath for education reform.  Then,   the theology of yodeling.  

The kids from Joshua Christian Academy sing and recite for Christmas... a real blessing.  Then,  an Indianola dad is still not happy with the way an attack on his son is being treated and how warnings of potential violence are not dealt with.  Here's  some pictures of known threats he warned about...and reportedly not acted upon.   Then, 'nuther lawsuit about judicial retention...this time says the ballots were unconstitutional.  Delicious

Hope Ministries...puts a non-seasonal face on homelessness in Iowa.  Dave Burrier and Jeff Scott with the rest of the story.   Then,  part of a University of Iowa Hawkeye press conference dealing with drugs in the sports programs.   A winter driving expert, Mark Cox,  from the Bridgestone Winter Driving Schools with driving and winter tire selection tips.   More on the Indianola High School student attack case from the parent of the attacked student.   Ken Miller with a summary of the Hawkeye press conference.

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty talks issues....then a local dad is incensed by an attack on his child in school.   He isn't satisfied with the three day suspension the attacker received...wants more.   Iowans seem to agree.

Iowa's being offered an incentive to expand passenger rail service.  Deborah Thornton says "I think I can"..  Iowan's wonder if cops are our friends...the lawyer says "Don't Talk to Cops"...  and truck drivers agree.

E-Cigarettes?   What the heck is that?   Iowans are way ahead of the curve on this one too.   Then, why didn't drug testing cut the DJK drug bust off at the past.  Steve King blasts the Dream Act.

 Tom Pauken says we can fix our economy by "Bringing America Home"...the USA is the trading sucker of the universe....no equal playing field out sources our jobs.  Then,  DJK gets busted for drugs...out the Insight Bowl...maybe jail.  Sound Off reporter  Jon Miller tells the inside story.  More Iowans with ideas.

 Obama's tax cut and extended unemployment compromise....do Iowan's approve?   Then,  nuther case of Christmas symbols being removed from the public sqare...this time in Ames.    Then,  electronic pickpockets?   Holy Shinola!    And IowaLive puts Pearl Harbor into perspective..  check out the pictures....

The Bush tax cut compromise?  Dr. Merrill Matthews with a bold proposal.   Then,  Sarah Palin shoots a caribou.  WOW! Do Iowans have a response!   A silly letter...and a serious song.     And finally,  a serious debate on the government money pit.  

Roy Beck,  from NumbersUSA,  blows the whistle on the Dream Act currently under debate....nuther back-door amnesty and money grab.    Iowans bring a bunch of issues to open-line Friday.   And here's the story about people playing the system....earning more than hardworking taxpayers.  

 Oh,  this cartoon isn't funny...  silver manipulation for the sheeple....

Black Friday out-of-control crowd stories.   Then, why is the Iowa horse population in such distress?  Another story of animal abuse and neglect...why?    The Dereck and Beverly Joubert,  National Geographic wildlife journalist on  "Big Cat Week"...  remarkable lion stories.   Robert Reilly takes us into "The Closing of the Muslim Mind".  Sharia or not?  That's the question.  Plus, US taxpayers are now bailing out world banks.  AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!

Congressman Steve King blasts the Pigford 11 reparations settlement...issues.   Then, John Mueller with "Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element"... the theology of economics.   Then,  middle school kids youtube their fights.   Now what? 

 So what's been left out of the reporting on the Wiki-leak story?   The American serviceman who served up the classified material had a motive which hasn't been reported by mainstream media.   Cliff Kincaid from Accuracy in Media tells the rest of the story.  Should this story effect the DADT debate?    Then,  did the FBI entrap Muhamad?    Iowans disagree.  Vigorous.  And what the heck is Pigford 11?  Congressman King, on C-Span.

 And you were worried about scanning at the airport?   Lookit dis.

Lotsa open-line Monday... Willie gets busted for pot, again.   Iowans are sending a drug case to the Supreme Court...why?   Then, should those teenagers who shot the deer get rewarded or fined? 

Jonathan Narcisse with a post campaign report on issues.   Ed Vos is raising money for Toys for Tots again. (Sunday 7:30 Nov. 28 Funnybone Comedy Club WDM)   Republican activist Doug Gross takes off  the silencer and unleashes both barrels.  Wow.    Iowans report on the ice storm and on their TSA feedback.  Spirited.  Oh, if you think the full neked scan and body grope is bad,  whaddaya think they will do about this?

OMG....  do you think this could have something to do with a messed up economy and political system?  Happy Thanksgiving!

Fred Karger wants to be president.  He's a gay Republican.  Issues.   Then,  should Iowans REALLY forgive Michael Richard Swanson,  the convenience store murderer?  Intense.

Jackie Gingrich Cushman has The Essential American...a great resource book and dvd for American researchers.   Iowans react to TSA groping and body scans...new TSA bumper stickers.  :)   Congressman Steve King reacts to the first lame-duck Obama race-based reparations hustle.   Then,  "Re-Thinking AIDS"...David Crowe helps review The House of Numbers.  Conclusion?  AIDS is another case of a money making scam based upon junk science.   Almost everything about it we think we know is likely bull-hockey. 

Friday open line....Congressman Steve King on Fox promises to fight birthright citizenship.   Bob Vander Platts is still being slimed by the Register.  (a peek a some hostile email...but I have a nice smile.)   Eminent domain...the same as "special condemnation"?   The next judicial selections may be made by Branstad after all.  And what is the history Iowa's death penalty? 

Chuck Hurley says WHO listeners can get free tickets to a Governor Huckabee speech this Sunday.   A caller wonders if the farm community will repeat the 80's crash.  Congressman King responds to 'nuther Olbermann "Worst Person in the World" award..  Then flag etiquette and Iowa grief.

 Then,  what a cute video.

Then, the next time a politician says,  "Do the Math"...  do they mean this?

 Richard Wolffe says there's a battle going on in the Whitehouse between the Revivalists and the Survivalists.   Brannon Howse is bringing a Worldview Weekend to Iowa.   And Iowans respond to the latest killing spree.  Time to renew the death penalty?  Vigorous discussion.

Quantitative Easing Explained.   Hilarious!

Nuther video, not so funny...the lastest updated Immigration By the Numbers...Roy Beck

 Newt Gingrich takes us to Valley Forge plus weighs in on Iowa's judicial retention vote.  Thinks it would be outrageous for outgoing Governor Culver to replace the vacancies instead of incoming Governor Branstad.    Iowans are really engaged on this issues.   Spirited conversation.  Oh,  that inspirational performance of the Messiah at a shopping mall.

 America: The Story of Us...an illustrated history.  Kevin Baker.   Then, Share What You Wear...Grace Church and a truly inspirational story of giving.   Iowa drug abuse has a treatment center.   St. Gregory's Retreat Center.   Success stories.   Then,  Sen. Gronstal tells Iowans to stick it.

Bob Vander Platts tells what's next in the same gender marriage issue. And Huckabee's coming back to Iowa.  Patrick O'Donnell with a chunk of Korean War history. Give Me Tomorrow.  Powerful.   Then, a school bomb threat is a hate crime?  Is that the best we can do?  Suzy.

Jim Sandager talks about changes in the tax code and how to protect your assets from the grasshoppers.  Then if graphic images on cigarette packs will cut down on smoking,  what other images could be used for other stuff?   Iowans unleash the snot glands. 

Ron Salisbury from ABC Pest Control  (800-267-9442)  goes after bed bugs....tips for prevention.  Charles Goyette describes the Dollar Meltdown and what to do about it.   Then,  they catch the kid who made the bomb threat in Ankeny...now what?

 "Kasey to the Rescue"... heartwarming story of tragedy and overcoming.    Then,  food may be the cheapest right now for the foreseeable future.   What does wise food buying a storage look like?

Can Iowans define justice better than the criminal justice system does?  Yup.   Show ya.

Jay Feinman  says insurance companies "Delay, Deny, and Defend"...cuz they can.  Sally Pipes talks about the downside of Obamacare.  Lotsa chat.

 Congressman Tom Latham re-elected and  in search of issue feedback from Iowans.  Iowans still raising a ruckus over the recent election.  Vigorous. 

Post Election Day feedback on the returns.  Matt Strawn,  Chair Iowa Republican Party...issues.   The new guy,  Matt Schultz...newly-elected Secretary of State...getting to work on a picture ID for Iowa voters.   Issues.

Last minute politicking by everybody....  Michael Steele...Congressman King...bunch of Iowa races...  and the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.

John Walker with the "Resurrection of a Nation"...says the US is shooting itself in its energy foot.  Develop our own, doggonit!.   Brenna Findley with an AG update.  Craig Robinson gives one last sales pitch for an Iowa Constitutional Convention.   Professor Herb Titus dissects the same sex Iowa Supreme Court Decision.  Then, former Congressman Bob McEwen says the US dollar is being assassinated so it can be replaced.  The best political ad of the season...holy shinola.

The Spirit of 1776 Summit is coming to Iowa for Tea Party activists.  Greg Cummings and Mary Spaeth with details.  Iowans continue fierce conversation about a ballot measure to fund more natural resource programs. Then, the best campaign ad of the season. Rev. Cary Gordon.   Then,  Brad Zaun, congressional candidate,  with a campaign stop.  Issues.   And Tom Quiner says Holy Trinity's Peace and Justice Committee doesn't speak for him.

Measure 1 on the 2010 Iowa Ballot is to amend the Iowa Constitution for the purpose of future funding of Iowa's Natural Resources.  Mark Ackelson, President of the Natural Heritage Foundation and Matt O'Connor, from Pheasants Forever say it's a good idea.  Don Peterson from the Farm Bureau says it isn't.  Vigorous.  Jim Sutton, chair of the platform committee of the Iowa Democrat Party.  Issues.  Dr. Don Racheter from the Public Interest Institute...election issues.

Judy Hintz from Educational Resources brings some of her friends to talk about kid fixin'.  Fred Karger, gay Republican candidate for president lobbying to retain Supreme Court judges.  Iowa Senate Republican Leader Paul McKinley with issues.  Daron Robert Shaw polls Iowans...bunch of Iowa races and issues are toss-ups.  David Hanson from STAND is looking for phone tree help on the retention vote.  

Former PA Senator Rick Santorum in Iowa...issues.  Steven Mansfield looks at Sarah Palin's Faith and Values.  ISU AgTax expert, Dr. Roger McEowen says the tax law flux has everyone flummoxed.   Congressman Steve King on the Judge Bus.  Issues.

  Senator Chuck Grassley...issues.  Jim Alderson,  Medicare fraud whistle-blower...issues.  Pete Sepp, National Taxpayer's Union...voter's guide...issues.   Brenna Findley,  running for Attorney General...debate analysis...issues. 

A point of personal privilege...Mickelson responds to a newspaper hit-piece.  (and that's all I have to say about that...forever, I hope).   Then Matt Schultz wants to be Iowa's Secretary of State.   Then,  Judge Roy Moore and Pastor Cary Gordon defend their Iowa tour challenging  judicial retention.

 Carl Kerby from Answers in Genesis (coming to Iowa) says if folks actually read their Bibles,  racism would disappear.  Inspirational.  Then,  whaazzzupp with the new controls on the interstate.  Jonathan Narcisse explains Iowa's education free-fall.  Issues.   Vigorous

 Thomas Kidd with some delicious history..."God of Liberty" helps demonstrate religious foment was there at our founding too.   Then, post-debate feedback from Bob Vander Platts on the judicial retention issue.  Vigorous...Iowans want in on this subject big time.  Here's the video.

 Dr. Judith Reisman blows the whistle on the Kinsey scam.."Sexual Sabotage".    Then,  the John Paul Stem Cell Research Institute...Kim Lehman and Dr. Allan Moy with a medical inspiration.   Then the guy asks,  "When did you decide to be straight?"   Answers?

Terry Branstad breaks a campaign promise before the campaign is even over....sigh.   James Duffy says Charles Lindbergh was the victim of a political smear... "Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt" ...then responding to emails about justice.

"I Want Your Money" Ray Griggs has produced a great political commentary movie on what and how the political class has ripped us off and how to fix it.   Iowans ponder mandatory universal service laws pitched by Democrats...then Suzy.  

 Joel Silverman is a celebrity dog trainer...Companions for Life.  Great conversation.   Then,  attorney Dan Dykstra tells "What Mom ( and Everyone Else) Should Know About the Judicial Retention Vote"... vigorous.