Thursday October 16 2008

 

Lotsa post debate Iowa reaction...should people who qualify for Obama's tax cut be allowed to vote... :)

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Wednesday October 15 2008

 

Jonathan Fast  describes "Ceremonial Violence:  a psychological explanation of school shootings" ...then, more on Iowa election issues.  Harkin closes the barn door.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-10-15.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:41am CDT

Tuesday October 14 2008

 

Nick Tasler  gives us insight into "The Impulse Factor"...it's in the genes...:)    Ed Begley Jr. wants to bring solar power to third world folks to liberate them from subsistence cooking.   Marientta Miller-Meeks  is running for congress in Iowa's 2nd district.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-10-14.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:23am CDT

Monday October 13 2008

 

 

Congressman Tom Latham...another look at the bailout money slide.  Another look at Iowa's smoking regs.   Then,  Dr. David Hartsuch responds to a McCain snub while in Iowa.

 

Then,  an October Surpise?  A video about Obama's birth certificate.  OMG!

And the Fact-Check response.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-10-13.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:31am CDT

Friday October 10 2008

Stephen Mansfield looks at "The Faith of Barack Obama"   Chuck Norris,  practices some "Black Belt Patriotism"  on the bailout and Washington.   Alan Karmin from RADAR says Senator Joe Biden's Violence Against Woman Act has had some painful and expensive consequences.   Rev. Thomas Euteneuer  takes on Sean Hannity  and Senator Tom Harkin.   Oh.. here's that  Saturday Night Live bit on the Washington-Wallstreet SNAFU.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-10-10.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:24am CDT

Thursday October 9 2008

 

Robert Zubrin says don't forget energy's role in the Wall Street collapse....Christopher Reed  wants Harkin's job.   Jerry Corsi has to buy his way out of Kenya for investigating after getting "busted" for looking into Obama's history.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-10-09.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:20am CDT

Wednesday October 8 2008

Col Richard Klass and Col William Hauser in town for the Center for Arms Control and Non Proliferation.   Strong conversation.  Sol Stern makes the Bill Ayres-Obama connection  for Manhattan Institute.   What's Bill Ayres  up to now?    Then,   Chris Pirillo  back in Iowa with geek talk...

Direct download: mickelson-2008-10-08.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:06am CDT

Tuesday October 7 2008

 

John Lofton with pithy observations about the bailout and Palin.   Then,  "Lives Per Gallon"  Terry Tamminen...drives a hydrogen car.  Congressman Steve King  with post bailout conversation.   Jonathan Narcisse...two sets of books on school violence?  Why?  $

Direct download: mickelson-2008-10-07.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:32am CDT

Monday October 6 2008

 

Danny Carroll  wants his old legislative job back.  Issues.    Congressman Tom Latham  wants to keep his job,  voted against bailout.   Issues.   Rep Chris Rants rolls out the Republican legislative agenda.  Issues.

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:43am CDT

Friday October 3 2008

 

 

Post Palin-Biden VP debate feedback.  Fact-Check.  Lotsa great comments.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-10-03.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:11am CDT

Thursday October 2 2008

 

State Senator David Hartsuch  is running for congress against Congressman Bruce Braley.   Issues.    Andrew Snow  is worried about global warming.    Brad O'Leary and "The Audacity of Deceit"  hammers Barack Obama.

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:43am CDT

Wednesday October 1 2008

 

Ken Blackwell worries about voter fraud and Acorn.   Ed Fallon doesn't trust the "bailout" either.    "And American Carole"   is opening this weekend in Iowa.   Bears in Iowa?   Oh, my! 

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:14am CDT

Tuesday September 30 2008

Congressman Steve King on the bailout vote.  Why, "No".   Then,   smoker's revenge... Sen Brad Zaun,  Sen Paul McKinleyTom CoatesTodd Shanno and Norman Kjono with a round table on revising Iowa's smoking ban. 

Direct download: mickelson-2008-09-30.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:22am CDT

Monday September 29 2008

 

More bailout feedback.  Anybody in favor?  Anybody?  No, seriously...anybody?

 Editor note...  file association is messed..  workin' on it..  sorry.

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:09pm CDT

Sunday September 28 2008

The debate topic was ,  "Should gay rights prevail over Biblical sexual ethics?"    Sunday night,  September 29th, 2008 at ISU.       Hector Avalos,  Professor of Religious Studies at ISU and Jan Mickelson.   Dr. Avalos takes the affirmative.      (Editor's note...  the sound quality is very mixed...Dr. Avalos ended up with a clip mike,   Mickelson with a hand held after his clip mike failed...  the line had a hum,  plus the sound levels were erratic)   

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:03am CDT

Friday September 26 2008

 

The crisis on Wall Street and Washington continues.  Stu Iverson,  Chris Rants,  and Steve King,  check in with comment....lots open line, too.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-09-26.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:33am CDT

Thursday September 25 2008

 

 

Brad Erlich,  WHO's traffic reporter,  is now a heroic crime buster!  Who knew?  Then,  feedback on the president's address to the nation on the economy.  Vigorous.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-09-25.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:10am CDT

Wednesday September 24 2008

More economic shoes fall.  More pins and tails.   David Limbaugh  is coming to town.  Persecution.

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:46am CDT

Tuesday September 23 2008

 

To Bail Out,  or Not To Bail Out?     That is the question.   Vigorous.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-09-23.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:39am CDT

Monday September 22 2008

 

"Dewey"  the Iowa cat,  not the presidential candidate.   Vicki Myron from Spencer, Iowa  with a cat tale.  Then,  the anti-Palin  stuff gets very nasty.  (Language warning)  Pierre Pierce has a job in France.  Why not let him go?

Direct download: mickelson-2008-09-22.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:56am CDT

Friday September 19 2008

 

Open-line Friday.   Our flag flying at half mast for a what?   President Bush proposing economic fixes.   Where's the beef comin' from?   Will the economy take out Iowa's ethanol industry?   Lotsa great conversation.

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:47am CDT

Thursday September 18 2008

 

 Ron Ritterer  from the National Corn Grower Association defends the ethanol industry.  Ephren Taylor describes the collapse of the financials...  then,  so does Peter Schiff,  hoping you were Crash Proof.    Congressman Steve King  introduces legislation to prevent money mis-managers  from profiting from failure.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-09-18.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:22am CDT

Wednesday September 17 2008

 

John Fund with an update on "Stealing Elections"  and update on our fraud-friendly system.    Then,   stolen horse tails  provoke a great conversation on up-coming animal rights legislation.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-09-17.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:01am CDT

Tuesday September 16 2008

 

 

A shooting on I-235 brings some questions and some interesting stories.   Then,  what about a third party candidate?   Ready for one?

Direct download: mickelson-2008-09-16.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:16am CDT

Monday September 15 2008

 

Banks fail....why?  DSM School board wants to censor whom?   The Palin-Gibson interview reaction.   Lotsa energy.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-09-15.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:28am CDT

Friday September 12 2008

 

Dr. Michael McGregor makes a house call to our mouths...  then in search of the perfect smell...then Suzy.

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:20am CDT

Thursday September 11 2008

 

Christopher Fettweis says "Losing Hurts twice as Bad"...describing moving beyond Iraq... combat vets talk about post-tramatic stress issues.   Powerful.   Benjamin Taylor  is performing in Iowa.   Purdy music.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-09-11.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:58am CDT

Wednesday September 10 2008

 

Paul Lockhart introduces us to the "Drillmaster of Valley Forge"...then election feedback,   plus telemarketing cures.

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:48am CDT

Tuesday September 9 2008

 

"Eat This, Not That"...  Matt Goulding knows.    Kim Schmett  wants Congressman Leonard Boswell's job.   Then,  a foster care parent loses her own child...  why?

Direct download: mickelson-2008-09-09.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:33am CDT

Monday September 8 2008

 

 

 Richard Vander Mey,   Assistant County Attorney for Tama County...more ironies from the cheap seats.... and more tax payer dollars going to the Meskwaki tribe.    Dr. Linda Young  tells how to deal with cyber bullying....lessons for parents.   Steve Flood with a get out the vote visit.   School Board Polling Places for Polk County.   Updated list....Then,  The Gay Agenda

Direct download: mickelson-2008-09-08.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:17am CDT

Friday September 5 2008

 

Incumbent Des Moines School Board members up for re-election.  Dick Murphy, Ginny Strong,  and Jeanette Woods.   Spirited.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-09-05.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:24am CDT

Thursday September 4 2008

 

Bill Tancer  goes "Click"...  an internet guru with some great marketing insight.   Then,   post-Palin speech reaction.   Iowans evaluate "the speech".

Direct download: mickelson-2008-09-04.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:17am CDT

Wednesday September 3 2008

 

Congressman Steve King  back from Iraq, Afghanistan and Georgia...a detailed report.   Great insights.   Then,  a blind guys gets his sight back.  What a story.   Robert Kurson with "Crashing Through".   Can trains block traffic?  Iowans want to know.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-09-03.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:49am CDT

Tuesday September 2 2008

 

 

 "10 Books That Screwed Up the World"  Benjamin Wiker  with a humdinger.  Then, the smear against Jonathan Narcisse continues...but in the process,  outs itself.    Then, more feedback on the Palin family issues.

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:45am CDT

Monday September 1 2008

 

 

More Des Moines School Board talk...Jonathan Narcisse.    Then hurricanes, oil, and is Barracuda Palin really a hockey mom?

Direct download: mickelson-2008-09-01.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:43am CDT

Friday August 29 2008

 

Nuther Des Moines School Board Candidate, Kristine Crisman.  Issues.   Obama's speech,   McCain's VP Pick,   Iowa Central Community College President Paxton handed a $400,000 parachute with a gold-plated rip-cord.  Not enough time.

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:00am CDT

Thursday August 28 2008

 

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.  

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:27am CDT

Wednesday August 27 2008

 

 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.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-08-27.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:48am CDT

Tuesday August 26 2008  

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

Direct download: mickelson-2008-08-26.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:36am CDT

Friday August 15 2008

 

 

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.

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:16am CDT

Thursday August 14 2008

 

"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.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-08-14.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:17am CDT

Wednesday August 13 2008

 

 

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.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-08-13.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:32am CDT

Tuesday August 12 2008

 

"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.  

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:13am CDT

Monday August 11 2008

 

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.

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:20am CDT

Friday August 8 2008

 

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

Direct download: mickelson-2008-08-08.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:31am CDT

Thursday August 7 2008

 

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...how Wall Strreet caused the mortgage and credit crisis.   Jim Hawkins recruiting for Professional Educators in Iowa. 

Direct download: mickelson-2008-08-07.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:17am CDT

Wednesday August 6 2008

 

 

 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. 

Direct download: mickelson-2008-08-06.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:47am CDT

Tuesday August 5 2008

 

 

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.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-08-05.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:16am CDT

Monday August 4 1008

 

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.)    Then,  a vigorous discussion on courts and the rights of juries after a story about a judicial aside from the bench.   Here's the Citizen's Handbook.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-08-04.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:36am CDT

Friday August 1 2008

 

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.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-08-01.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:42am CDT

Thursday July 31 2008

 

 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.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-07-31.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:17am CDT

Wednesday July 30 2008

 

 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. 

Direct download: mickelson-2008-07-30.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:00am CDT

Tuesday July 29 2008

 

 

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.   

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:38pm CDT

Monday July 28 2008

 

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.   

  

Direct download: mickelson-2008-07-28.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:37am CDT

Friday July 25 2008

 

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

Direct download: mickelson-2008-07-25.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:12pm CDT

Thursday July 24 2008

 

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.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-07-24.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:51am CDT

Wednesday July 23 2008

 

 

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.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-07-23.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:42pm CDT

Tuesday July 22 2008

 

 

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?

Direct download: mickelson-2008-07-22.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:06pm CDT

Monday July 21 2008

 

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.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-07-21.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:27am CDT

Friday July 18 2008

 

 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.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-07-18.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:34am CDT

Thursday July 17 2008

 

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.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-07-17.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:47am CDT

Wednesday July 16 2008

 

"Globality"  James Hemerling, with what it will take for US to be competitive world wide.   Jonathan Narcissee  puts his case to print.   The DSM Education Times.   The National Center for Responsible Gaming  is on tour in Iowa...want to teach kids about responsible gaming.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-07-16.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:35am CDT

Tuesday July 15 2008

 

Obama has bi-lingual troubles....with one word.   "LaRaza"....  and he thinks enforcing the law is terrorism.   And it's only Tuesday.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-07-15.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:39am CDT

Monday July 14 2008

Back from a Peru trek...  lotsa sound and stories...plus they are thinking about firing up a national 55 mph speed limit again... sigh...what have we learned since the last one?

Direct download: mickelson-2008-07-14.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:15am CDT

Friday June 27 2008

 

 

Congressman Steve King  weighs the results of some SCOTUS decisions.   National Taxpayers Union takes a poke at ethanol.   Srdja Trifkovic ponders the "Dream Ticket"  and sees a nightmare.   He examines the Soros-McCain connection.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-06-27.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:18am CDT

Thursday June 26 2008

 

 

KJ Dell'Antonia  helps babies "Begin Smart"  with a new reading series.   Curmudgeon, John Lofton,  takes apart the political theology of Obama.  Weather beats us up a while.   Then,  Senator Chuck Grassley  on ethanol mandates.  SCOTUS affirms the 2nd Amendment.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-06-26.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:18am CDT

Wednesday June 25 2008

 

 

Ed Vos stays after school to tell of his Afghanistan experience.   Iowa is under a cloud...of mosquitos.    Dr. Patricia Quinlisk describes the health risks associated with our flood bugs.   Then slob bikers are at it again...sigh

Direct download: mickelson-2008-06-25.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:07am CDT

Tuesday June 24 2008

Raging crows,  Jane Fonda nearly makes sense,  Glenn Sacks against the Single Mother by Choice movement.  Did I mention Jane Fonda nearly makes sense?

Direct download: mickelson-2008-06-24.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:13am CDT

Monday June 23 2008

 

Glen Kertz says he can grow ethanol from algae which can meet our entire thirst for oil... David Barton blows the whistle on judicial activism and same gender marriage.  IPTV techie Bill Hayes talks about the new digital TV standards and what we'll need to comply.  Stephen Halbrook  talks about the "Founders' Second Amendment"  and the upcoming DC decision.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-06-23.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:50am CDT

Friday June 20 2008

 

 

Dr. Michael McGregor from Briarwood Dental  cures my morning mouth.   Brian Kennedy from Energy Research Institute deals with off-shore drilling myths and facts.   The bird sounds of Iowa...beautiful..."Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America"...Ted Floyd  takes us birding.   Dr. Dennis Neder on "Being a Man in a Woman's World"....really... 

Direct download: mickelson-2008-06-20.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:39am CDT

Thursday June 19 2008 HTML clipboard

 

Mark Mueller thinks he's got a gadget which can kill flood stink in homes.   AirFantastic Technology.  Then,  guess who's against drilling for oil...good guess.    Christopher Tennant  with guidelines for people with too much money.  "The Official Filthy Rich Handbook".    Then, some Cedar Rapids citizens are still shut out of their homes... and  are annoyed.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-06-19.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:50am CDT

Wednesday June 18 2008

 

 

J. Craig Williams,  fair-weather Iowan,  describes "How to Get Sued"  and other high-toned notions.   Then from  Casey Luskin  from Discovery Institute describes how Louisiana passed a law giving  science teachers academic freedom.  Should Iowa?   Then,   Iowa is asking for a waiver from FEMA to relieve us from contributing to disaster relief.   Good idea? 

Direct download: mickelson-2008-06-18.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:41am CDT

Tuesday June 17 2008

 

 John McWhorter says it's "All About the Beat",   why hip-hop can't save Black America.   Vendo wars...I win.   Bridgette Gabriel  say radical Islam is bringing hate to a town near you...teaching violence and intolerance to the next generation.   Jamilah Frasor from FEMA with instructions on how to apply for assistance.  800-621-FEMA (3362)

Direct download: mickelson-2008-06-17.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:46am CDT

Monday June 16 2008

 

 

Lotsa openline time....flood talk...police powers in Cedar Rapids. ...flood safety...Russert, Obama and Iowa.  

Direct download: mickelson-2008-06-16.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:30am CDT

Friday June 13 2008

 

 

Brooks Hansen tells his family's story dealing with infertility and international adoption. The Brotherhood of Joseph.   Iowa House Minority Leader, Chris Rants' blog is bilingual despite Iowa's Official English law.  Citizen's arrest.  Flood and weather coverage. Global warming?  The Accuweather guy  says, "Nope."    We meet Ray Lewis the singer of the world's snottiest song.    Then,  Suzi. 

Direct download: mickelson-2008-06-13.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:28am CDT

Thursday June 12 2008

 

Dave Rosenak says our grandkids will those of us who have been "Running Amok"    Amity Shlaes says we should remember "The Fogotten Man"  and not let the next political class return us to previous failed remedies.   Then Max Schultz clears up a bunch of energy myths.   And global warming activists blame the Iowa boy scout tornado tragedy on man-made climate change.   

Direct download: mickelson-2008-06-12.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:49am CDT

Wednesday June 11 2008

 

 

The only way to make the floods of 2008 more bearable?  Talk about "Legendary Motorcycles"...Basem Wasef.   Lotsa fun.   Then,  amidst flood coverage,   Daniel Flynn with "A Conservative History of the American Left"...  who dunnit?   and why?   More flood safety talk.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-06-11.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:08am CDT

Tuesday  June 10 2008

 

 

 

"A World of Wealth"...Thomas Donlan talks about the world of money and politics.  We fix everything that's busted.   Plus,  grease wars  and a touch of Lincoln bashing.

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:06am CDT

Monday June 9 2008

 

 

Flood water everywhere...stories, remedies and lotsa talk. Water has taken out an Iowa landmark...the suspension bridge in Charles City.  Dang.    Then, Richard Louv is coming to speak in Iowa... ""Last Child in the Woods"...  is on a mission to re-acquaint the next generation with the out-doors.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-06-09.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:05am CDT

Friday June 6 2008  

 

Robert Scheer  with "The Pornography of Power" without pictures....darn.   Post tornado warning ponderings.  "Marriage: the Dream that Refuses to Die"  no matter how hard we try... Shelia Ambrose-O'Connor.   Plus,  the world's snottiest song.   Then,  fuel rustlers are out there.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-06-06.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:52am CDT

Thursday June 5 2008

Lotsa openline... what is too young to allow kids to use a BB gun?  A family feud.  The,  former Iraqi,  now Iowan, Julliet Cunnigham and Iowa Marine Ben Hayden, founder of Vets for Freedom,  support our Iraq mission.    Then,  why does Obama's rhetoric resonate with his follower?.   The answer.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-06-05.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:08am CDT

Wednesday June 4 2008

 

The Des Moines School Board clipped Jonathan Narcisse's  term.  Big surprise, huh?   Steve Winzenburg hits a home-run with "Employers, meet 'entitlement' Grads."    Are drivers slowing down to save gas?   Peggy Post with "A Wedding Like No Other".    Then, a  case of delayed trophy syndrome at Dowling. 

Direct download: mickelson-2008-06-04.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:17am CDT

Tuesday June 3 2008

 

 Michaelene Fredenburg, founder of Abortion Changes You Outreach, explains her personal story in "Changed".     Fox News commentator Greta Van Susteren with a political update...says Democratic Party Hillary supporters are livid about how Hillary was treated.   Iowan, Dr. Caroline Crocker, cellular biologist,  was also "expelled" by radical Darwinists.   She tells the story.    Plus,  last minute politics on primary day.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-06-03.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:03am CDT

Monday June 2 2008

 

 

 

Got a quarter in your pocket?  Then you have a "Pocketful of History"   Jim Noles.    George Eichorn wants to run against Senator Tom Harkin.   Then,  Judy Hintz  has a team of successful students and parents.  Wow!  What an inspiration!

Direct download: mickelson-2008-06-02.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:57am CDT

Thursday May 29 2008

 

 

Ed Fallon is running against Congressman Leonard Boswell.   Issues...and some tension.   Then,  maybe  Parkersburg  could rebuild the schools with monolithic domes...tornado proof.   Is McClellan  a hero or a goat?

Direct download: mickelson-2008-05-29.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:03am CDT

Wednesday May 28 2008

 

 

Food vs Fuel.   a panel discussion with WHO's Ken RootJulius Schaaf,  Iowa Corn Board...Craig Lang, Iowa Farm Bureau..Bill Couser Iowa Renewable Fuels Associaton...Eldon Meyers, Iowa Petroleum Retailers Association...Bruce Rastetter,  Hawkeye Renewables.     Lotsa calls. 

Direct download: mickelson-2008-05-28.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:09am CDT

Tuesday May 27 2008

 

 

 

Robert Zubrin declares "Energy Victory" is possible and talks about winning the war on terror by breaking free of oil.   Says ethanol critics are very wrong.   Inspirational.   Mark Stein  describes how Iowa's borders were drawn.  "How the States Got Their Shapes"   Then turtles and tornadoes.   Spring in Iowa.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-05-27.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:04am CDT

Friday May 23 2008

 

 

 

Ruth Lycke just back from China  talks about the devastation of the earthquake and gives us a progress report on her mission to aid stroke victims.   Here's that gas price estimator for your next trip.   Then,  the Portland Obama rally  includes the music group the  Decemberists,  a group which usually opens their concerts with the Soviet National Anthem.   

 (editor's note.   There are conflicting reports on whether or not the Decemberists opened the rally with their signature Soviet National Anthem.   I'm still not certain even after more research...although it appears unlikely they did.   It is likely they purged their signature open.)  

Then,   a systems engineer from Rockwell-Colllins gets fired for resisting the company's mandatory diversity training which requires employees to "accept, celebrate and embrace homosexuality".  Tom Meeker  and his attorney, Bill Kurth,  an Iowa-based Rutherford Institute attorney with the rest of the story. 

It's just a matter of time until "Don't ask,  don't tell"  applies to Christians in the work force.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-05-23.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:17am CDT

Thursday May 22 2008

 

 

Andy and Johnathan Hilstrand aboard the  "Time Bandit"  crab rustlers on the Bering Sea,  Deadliest Catch.   Congressman Bruce Braley  wants to get tough on Agri-processors. Plus,  pain at the pump.  How bad can it get?

Direct download: mickelson-2008-05-22.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:30am CDT

Wednesday May 21 2008

 

 

 Drinking Liberally.   A local drink tank talks the issues.   Enough to drive me to the bottle.   Christian Ucles and Amanda Mittlestadt mix it up on the issues.  Jerry Falwell's  wife and widow, Marcel, writes fondly about her husband.   Then,  what's behind the Harkin-McCain  political tension?   Let's go to the short video Full 17-minute interview here.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-05-21.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:24am CDT

Tuesday May 20 2008

 

 

Ira Mehlman from FAIR says the amnesty lobby is using a military appropriation bill to grant amnesty for illegals.   Rockwell-Collins  fires a Christian employee  because he won't embrace homosexuality.    Microsoft wants Yahoo so they can compete with Google.  Randy Skoglund from  ATL says it's a good idea for the consumers.  Pundit Greg Jackson  says,  "No,  the California courts didn't legalize gay marriage....the whole thing is a legal fiction."   Jack Martin audits the costs of illegals to Iowa's taxpayers.   Worse than you think.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-05-20.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:09am CDT

Monday May 19 2008

A formal debate.   "From Darwin to Hitler :  Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism"   author and Discovery Institute  Fellow, Dr. Richard Weikart  debates  ISU professor,  Dr.  Hector Avalos...  premise "Was Darwinism MORE significant than Christian anti-Judaism in explaining Nazi ideology".   Feel free to post your own response to the debate within the comments section.    Then, "Boys Should be Boys"   Meg Meeker with an impassioned plea to adults to be adults.    Craig Nelson from ProjectUSA  says the Postville mess is even worse  than we thought.  What a scam!   Then,  Peter Teahen,  wants 2nd District Congressman Loebsack's  seat.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-05-19.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:26am CDT

Friday May 16 2008

 

 

Tony Colosimo CEO from Artistic Waste Services tells us where we can put it.   Nasty dogs and the post office don't mix.  What's to be done?   Then,  Suzy!

Direct download: mickelson-2008-05-16.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:08am CDT

Thursday May 15 2008

 

"Ignorance is Blitz" so says Professor Anders Henriksson.    Then,  more gas drive offs in Cedar Rapids than Des Moines...  mean less or more honest in Cedar Rapidians?   Barbara Corcoran  give us a test and takes us to "Nextville".      Stephen Bloom  takes us to Postville.   Insight. 

Direct download: mickelson-2008-05-15.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:08am CDT

Wednesday May 14 2008

 

"Ending the Food Fight"...Dr. David Ludwig  wants at least a truce.   Then the other shoes in the Postville raid continue to fall.    Agri-processing, Inc gets the chutzpah award from the National Labor Relations Board... you ain't gonna believe it.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-05-14.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:55am CDT

Tuesday May 13 2008

 

Christopher Reed wants to run against Senator HarkinGary Marcus says your brain is a Kluge...a haphazard, clumsy inelegant solution to something.   Rep Christopher Rants  says this immigration bust shouldn't have been necessary.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-05-13.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:26am CDT

Monday May 12 2008

 

Congressman Steve King with insights from the border states and what the Official English law means in Iowa...again,  for the hearing impaired.   Doris Hamil, NASA scientist,  explains the  "Challenge of Why".   Scott Gray,  head lending broker at ING  talks about "The Liar's Loan"... predicts housing market bounce back.    ICE Raids Agri-Processors in Postville.    Benjamin Wiker  lists the 10 Books That Screwed Up the World"   and tosses in a few more as a bonus.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-05-12.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:37am CDT

Friday May 9 2008

 

Bill Bishop say the "Big Sort"  is busting up the country.   David Sheff  writes about his addicted son, Beautiful Boy.    Dr. Lyle Rossiter puts "The Liberal Mind" on the coach.  And why aren't we buying Bleaux-Ray movies...yet.

Direct download: mickelson-2008-05-09.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:50am CDT

Thursday May 8 2008

"The Last Lecture" the origin of the speech now watched by millions... the Randy  Pausch  story as told by Jeffrey Zaslow.    Then,  John Lofton  says President Bush doesn't have a prayer...at least not a Christian one.  Vigorous.     Meskwakies have lowered the gambling age to 18.    Nice thing to do?

Direct download: mickelson-2008-05-08.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:06am CDT

Wednesday May 7 2008
 Steve Rathje is running against Senator Tom Harkin.  Why?   Kevin Kwan  is a Luck expert.   The LiveStrong cycle ride is coming up this weekend.   Dr. Richard Deming (medical director of oncology at Mercy Cancer Center), Khristen Cadman, cancer survivor;  plus,  ride organizer Bridgete Kasik from CityView.    State Auditor David Vaudt, says Iowa is going bust while trying to save moneyNuther pizza delivery guy mugged....sigh
Direct download: mickelson-2008-05-07.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:41am CDT



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