Mickelson's Podcast

 Senator Grassley serves up a great question to SCOTUS nominee Kagan.  Result?   Brain freeze.  Solution?  Gun rights  5-4 "vote" is not a good sign.  Congressman Steve King...issues.

Iowans wonder about water damage,  analyze an anti-King hit piece and rate the ethics of rest stops...  just for starters.

Iowan's say the strangest things...and sometimes without helmets... :)  Lotsa open-line.

Jonathan Narcisse  (515-770-1218) running for governor as an independent.  Weather pushes us around a bit...then,  open-line feedback on a recent immigration guest.   Vigorous.

Iowa political conundrums which confuse the host...again.   'Nuther judicial outrage...then  Daniel Griswold from Cato Institute in Iowa telling us that illegal aliens should be viewed as economic assets.    Steve Camorata from CIS disagrees.   Iowans give them an earful.

Congressman Steve King talks about the Obama race dust-up.   Then, a lady who lost her ability to smell stuff.. "Remembering  Smell"...  Bonnie Blodgett.   Carol Barnier is coming to the weekend NICHE conference...deals with ADHD.   Then making students clean up their own messes....shocking.

Van Harden takes over the talk show and reverses the roles.... he interviews Mickelson for a while.   Issues.

Sue Perry is a researcher with Consumer Reports...the current issue of  Shop Smart says the rules of repairing appliances have changed.   Then some of the music at the World Cup isn't joyful...just annoying.   What are the rules of shower etiquette and kids.

The Bike Snob tells some stories...then Dirty Harry's gun is obsolete....then Mennonites want us to help them control their sin,   but they are tearing up Iowa's roads.   Huh?

Pat Jury from the Iowa Credit Union League and Jeff Russell, Exec VP of the Member's Group want to inform us on changes in debit card billing issues.  Then Mickelson finally figures out why Iowa law enforcement won't enforce immigration laws.   And he's embarrassed about it.