Mickelson's Podcast

What's a Practical Farmer?    Ron Rosmann from the Rosmann Family Farm near Harlan, Iowa...National Geographic tells the story.    Then, the Founder's Bible...John Peterson...coming to the Family Leader Conference.  Then,  "White Girl Bleed Alot" redux...the examples of black racist crime keep accumulating.  Colin Flaherty.

A judge puts a temporary halt to Iowa's renewed horse slaughter.  Debate ensues.  Julie Fisher talks about  Importing Democracy with NGO's.   Then, more horse debate.  

Brown Bagging is racist?  Busting fawns in Wisconsin?  And tasing a 95 year old senior care resident because they wanting to "help" him.  TGIF.

Apparently attracting Japanese Beetles to their doom with sex hormones isn't the right thing to do...sigh.  Then,  The Virtues We Need Again says Mitchell Kalpakgian.  Rich.  And why don't we subsidize RV's instead of tax them? And are incoming college females being told they face a 1 in 4 chance of being assaulted on college campuses?  Apparently.

Jess Patton describes the perverse effects of Obamacare on Iowans...an upcoming IAHU Healthcare Symposium.   Then, Professor Jonathan Meer says the proposed $15 minimum wage would be a disaster.   Plus, poopy salad and fully informed consumers.  

An 18 year old home-schooled college junior just back from a mission trip to India trying to rescue young girls trapped in sex trafficking.  Brook Charleston.  Impressive.   Then,  what's a puppy mill?  Is the pet industry honorable?  Trying to separate fact from fiction.  And Rob Hurd is with America's Pet Registry, Inc.  He says animal welfarists and animal rights activists are doing harm to our pet future.

Things that make you wonder if we have guardian angels.  Then, the fifth suicide at SE Polk in the last few years...bullying.  Again.  What do Iowans think of it?

Iowa is failing the integrity standards for citizen access to public info. Emily Miller, Better Government Association,  has a state by state study.   Congressman Steve King is being Alinskied.  Plus, is Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers the law?  Not if it falls out the back of an armored truck.

Jerome Corsi  wonders  What Went Wrong: The Inside Story of the GOP Debacle of 2012...And How it Can be Avoided.    Then turtle soup anyone? Plus,  Mothers Against Violence is holding a weekend rally to raise awareness...great conversation.  

OTT--Brits are celebrating being reigned.  Americans shouldn't.  So why do we gush over royalty?  Then,  did Congressman Steve King step in it?   Iowans assess.