Mickelson's Podcast

Mark Penn with "Micro Trends" ...  caffeinated, tattooed, archer-moms?   Huh?    Restaurant toddler tyrants?   Then,  Michael Novak is coming to Iowa to speak  at Vermeer.  Career and Calling   800-919-7307 if you want to go.

Pickin' up the pieces of Rush-gate.   Lotsa openline great conversation.

Harkin and gays in the military redux.  Senator Harkin lectures General Pace on the morality of homosexual behavior.   Then,  Craig Smith  looks at the future price of oil, gas, gold and currency.  800-289-2646

So,  why can people smell and hear their neighbors anyhow?   Poor building codes?   Then,  Senator Harkin has decided that homosexual and adulterous behavior should be added the Uniform Code of Military of Justice.

Alveda King inspires for life.  Hod Ben Zvi  is a peace activist  from Jerusalem.  Bill Sammon writes about "The Evangelical President" and the president's spread of moral democracy.   Bob Edgar  from Common Cause  wants public financing of elections.   Congressman Steve King  wants to re-evaluate the federal funding levels of  Iowa's Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).

Follow-up to the Alveda King-Roosevelt High School  issue.  Openline.   A great foodie,  Russ Parson with "How to Pick a Peach".  Then,  Urbandale is over-run with deer.  Don't feed 'em?

"Lives Per Gallon: the True Cost of Our Oil Addiction"  Terry Tamminen gives us the price tag.  Roosevelt High School yanks an invitation to speak from Alveda King,  niece of MLK.   She thinks civil rights for black folks begins before they are born.    Not welcome at Roosevelt High School.   Kim Lehman from Iowa Right to Life with the story.   Alexis McGee from ForclosureS.Com  says there's money ta be made in them thar foreclosures.   Bishop Jackson  says race relations in the US need lotsa work.  Including Roosevelt High School's dissing of Alveda King.

Editor Note:   Mrs. Kathie Danielson, Principal of Roosevelt High school later in the day clarified the cancellation.   She said the controversial nature of the presentation didn't give the administration sufficient time to notify parents.   Mrs. Danielson has committed to including Alveda King in a future assembly as part of Black History Month.

So the Western Civ Prof gets the sack  for calling the Bible fairy tales.   The rest of the story.  Then,  what's wrong with traffic checks anyhow?

"The Coming China Wars"   Peter Navarro.   A very strong interview.   Gary Gagliardi  with  Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"   lessons for Iraq.  Then, the Hawk-I  insurance plan for low income kids  is broke  and asking the feds for bucks.  

Brad Smith is a kinder and gentler bug assassin. Bugs, bats and snake stories.  YUCK!    Mike Andrews from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute  says kids who attend ivy league schools emerge with even less historical  knowledge than with what they started.   Here's the quiz.