Mickelson's Podcast

 

It's Lyme Disease season.  Judy Weig with an tick season warning.  515-432-3628 for an upcoming seminar.  Father Frank Bognanno   from Christ the King  is going to do a seminar  on the Da Vinci Deception.   Oh,  and BTW,   another book by the same title,  also good.   Then, the Suzy curse.

Richard Sipe tells about  "Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes".   What to do about child abusing priests.   Then the mom of a little girl, mauled by a pit bull  tells her story giving healing update and what she hopes the law can do to prevent more incidents in the future.

Whirlpool  just pulled the plug on Maytag.   100 years of Iowa economic history comes to end.  Why?  What does it mean.  Iowans react.

Iowan Tobin Miller  is in the cast of United 93.  As an air traffic controller he is an eyewitness to history.  Presidential and congressional approval ratings are in the tank.  What to do?  Congressman Steve King  back from Arizona border patrol...horrific stories.

Carrie Lukas with the "Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex and Feminism"   says eventually we may begin to honor moms and motherhood.    Then the Vatican says folks who believe the Bible are pagans,  but God may have had a small part in creation,  while a Brussels Bishop says it is our Christian duty to turn churches into mosques for illegal aliens...no,  really.   Then a plague of geese.

So... let's beat up on a different Kennedy for a change...as long as its in the same gene pool,  it counts.   A bunch of really great openline.

 

The 2006 Asian Heritage Festival  is coming up...  Then,  can Arizona  Sheriff Joe Arpaio  teach Iowans anything about illegal immigration? 

United 93 is a grim but inspirational movie about 911.    Lou Dobbs echoes the high cost of cheap labor in Iowa.  Then,  Iowa restaurant chislers.  Plus,  Deputy Ag Secretary Chuck Conner says ethanol progress is being made.   Steve Camarota from the Center for Immigration Studies says immigration control is truly a multi-partisan issue.   The poll numbers are huge!

More intense immigration discussion.  Congressional Candidate Mike Whalen  wants the 1st District job.  Great conversation.

It's May 1st  and it's a Day Without Immigrants.   How ya holding up?  Iowans continue to respond to immigration protestors.  Spirited discussion.

Iowans react to the upcoming Mayday "A Day Without Immigrants".. but, not in the way organizers were hoping for though,  and to the new Hispanic version of the National Anthem,  Nuestro Himno.

How about a great public school success!   Woodlawn Elementary School kindergarten teacher Patti Fiderlick has her class reading at the 2nd Grade level!  How?  With a highly creative phonics course. Congressman Steve King wonders why the Register  did a response to a King editorial  which they didn't choose to print in the paper.   Then,  culture warrior Gary DeMarr  talks about the theology of immigration.

"Why Birds Sing"    David Rothenberg.  Really.   Kevin McLaughlin with  Iowans for Discounted Taxes  want to bribe seniors to stay in Iowa.    "Leading from the Front"   Courtney Lynch a Marine with a mission to teach leadership.   Then,  Iowa immigration redux.

Another pit bull mauls a child i n Iowa.   Nuff?   Spirited debate.    Tama County Assistant Prosecutor Richard VanderMey gives the inside story on the cost of law enforcement and illegal aliens.

I busted my compassion gland.   How come?   Then,  the internet chain letter re:  the Brown Recluse Spider.   The pictures are awful.   The stories Iowans tell are worse... totally justifiying my  arachnobia.     Then,   Iowa City educrats get rolled  by a Wisconsin atheist  Annie-Laurie Gaylor.     The plug gets pulled on a volunteer  fundraiser basketball game,  designed to raise money to repair tornado damage on St Patrick's Church after atheists threaten to sue.   Chuck Hurley says his organization,   The Iowa Family Policy Center,  will defend any Iowa institution in the future against any future bogus threats.  1-877-866-IFPC

Democrats say Iowa lacks diversity,  so we should lose our first in the nation position for presidential politics.  What about universal tagging of farm animals?   Dr. Stanley Greenspan talks about "Engaging Autism" .    Then,  Tim Hamilton says it ain't Arabs and Ethanol driving up gas prices.   Guess who? 

John Cox for President 2008.   Throwing out the first presidential pitch.  Then,  what to do when a high school editorial cartoon assignment doesn't pass the ideological teacher test.

Eyal Press  and "Absolute Convictions"  the story of early abortion wars in Buffalo.  Then,  the President can't control his own front yard.   Peter LaBarbara  with Americans for Truth  talks about the sexual politicizing of an Easter Egg roll.   Lotsa open conversation about stuff.

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 Graduation rates  in Des Moines schools are dropping,  but Jonathan Narcisse says it's worse than you think.   Then,  what do we want to say to the Rev Fred "Billy-Bob" Phelps?  He gets a bit piece of Iowa's mind.

The Hollywood film industry has ADHD.    All the big money makers affirm traditional values, yet they produce garbage.  Why?  Dr. Ted Baehr with MovieGuide.     Then  Dr. Chad Rohlfsen  says Iowans would have done better without the mumps innoculation.   How did we get the income tax anyhow?

I byte cha one byte at a time with a wrap-up of the most absurd stuff of the week.   Dan Gainor  trains us how to detect media spin.   And is Senator McCain right about Americans?   There are jobs that we not only won't do,  but can't? 

Frank Beard started a new Drake University student organization CTB,  Citizens for Tight Borders.     Then, Jerome Corsi say phoey on the "...we are running out of fossil fuel so expect to pay more..." argument.  "Black Gold Strangelhold"  says oil is produced within the core of the planet,  not by liquified dinosaur parts.

Why is everybody pickin' on Archie?   Should he resign from city council.    Natalie Myers and Judy Flynn from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  answers questions about the new Medicare Prescriptions Drug Coverage.  800-633-4227  or 800-351-4664 for SHPS.

Congressman Steve King  with lots of immigration related information.  Jeannie Eller from  Action Reading   (800-378-1046) describes the most efficient way to teach  ESL  (English as Second Language) classes and why literacy should be achieved by the end of the first grade.

Red-State Comedian Brad Stine       "Live from Middle America"     gets silly and profound.    Iowa is passing the Fred Phelps Law... and the best known use of a Harley.    More Iowa reaction to pro-illegal immigration rallies.

New Mickelson in the Morning  jargon.    I explain what  "Getting the Bennie Gibbs"  is all about.    Will Iowa Corn Growers be blamed for higher gas prices this summer?  Then,  Chad Thompson  and Dr. Warren Throckmorton propose new communication guidelines  for dealing with sex orientation issues in public schools.   Then,  Suzy....the one formerly known as the  Nearly Psychic Suzy.

Mickelson for Thu, Apr 6