Mickelson's Podcast

Ed Vos facilitates for the VA... veterans health issues.   Busted for a BB gun,  Iowa Democrats pay a socialist to headline their fundrasier, the GOP wants to increase the gas tax in Iowa,  and how we can pay for road and bridge repair without raising a penny.  Friday stuff...  Oh,  Rick Santorum isn't in the hole filling business.

David Young is running for Congress.  A redux on a conversation from 2006 wondering about Saddam's WMD's.  Georges Sada was a Saddam insider.  Saddam's Secrets.  Why does the USDA need sub-machineguns?

Getting yer lawnmower going for spring.  PNP Small Engines Guy...Jeff Nicholson.   Senator Rand Paul explains his recent statements on ID issues.  Senator Mark Chelgren says the law should be one size fits all.  Senator Rick Santorum endorses Sam Clovis...and writes a book.  

Time for Iowa to strap down?      Dr. Joyce Herzog is coming to the NICHE Homeschool Conference.   Plus odds and ends from Iowa's underbelly.  Then Joe Biden is tithing with other people's money again.  And more from the "You will made to care" file.                                    

Nationwide the VA Hospital system is under scrutiny for under-performance and in some cases,  malpractice.   So what about Iowa?  Iowans evaluate.  Then, Fr. Robert Sirico says the new Pope really isn't a political leftist...redistribute benefits, not wealth.  A valid distinction?   Then,  should Iowans have the same rights to carry at the statehouse as government employees do?

Dr. Lee Hieb,  Libertarian candidate for Iowa Governor.  Spicy Conversation.  Joel Gilbert, filmmaker, There's No Place Like Utopia.  Craig Lang, dairyman, wants to stop protecting sugar.  Sugar wars.  Then milk wars.

 Matt Kibbe says Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff.  Sounds like a plan.   Then  Linda Schrock Taylor says why the Common Core dropping cursive writing is a disaster. She recommends Betty Peters as a source on Common Core problems.    Ranger Doug and the Riders in the Sky are coming to Iowa May 31st.   VP Biden says illegals are Americans already and that  the US doesn't have a creed.  Bull-hockey.   And Iowa makes national news for not having good security at statehouse...oh good.

A Newton newspaper editor gets fired for accurately reporting on the Queen James Bible.   Monte Shaw is running for Congress. Vigorous discussion.  And a 2nd helping of the Newton editor issue.   And a new trike shows up!  Cool...

 Sonny Onoo talks about the upcoming River City Sports Festival May 9-11.  Sounds like fun. Matt Whitaker wants to be a senator from Iowa...answering a vicious endorsement from the Register.  Reb Bradley speaking at an upcoming homeschooling conference.  Some dangers to watch for.

An Iowa farm equipment salesman to Ukraine tells what it is like doing business there now in the middle of the new cold war. Gordie Siebrin.  Then Iowa shooters try to correct Joni Ernst's shooting form on her new campaign spot.  Then, a metro sporting complex at the old Dico location?