The Fallon Forum

Ed and Henry disagree pretty strongly about AgriSol's Tanzanian farm venture

We talk with Sen Rob Hogg about the nuclear power bill. Sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Sylvia DeWitt with IABusinessesForSale talks about the ins and outs of starting your own business. Peggy Patrick with BizSourceIowa joins us, too, to promote a conference for small business entrepreneurs on February 29. We also talk about the recent Iowa Poll showing President Obama losing to three of four possible Republican challengers

State Rep Dan Kelley (D-Newton) discusses the week at the Statehouse, including the gala surrounding China's Vice President, Xi Jinping. Then comedian/activist Lee Camp joins us.

We talk with Mark Cooper, a professor at Vermont Law School, about HF 561 before the Iowa Senate. Mark charges that the bill amounts to a form of socialism, requiring the general public to fund a major investment that Warren Buffet knows is too risky to take a chance on with his own money.

We talk about Komen's corporate connections. As Laurence Lewis writes in a recent Daily Kos column . . . One example is Komen's recent partnership with KFC to raise millions of dollars, and of course, just coincidentally, to associate the junk food giant with the promotion of health. (I'd like to thank an anonymous listener with an immediate family member who died of breast cancer for helping sponsor this show.)

Chris Neubert with Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement talks with us about the bank settlement and the ongoing foreclosure crisis. Ed shares Gabriel de la Cerda's analysis of Obama's politically clever moves involving contraception, the Republican presidential primary and the attorneys general bank settlement.

State Rep Dan Kelley (D-Newton) discusses the week at the State Capitol, including legislation on wind energy, energy efficiency, education, and legislative pay. We also discuss the controversy involving two married lesbian couples who appear to be victims of discrimination by the Iowa Department of Public Health.

Dr. Ian O'Neill, Space Science Producer with Discovery News, talks about solar flares, other celestial matters of public interest, and theories that 2012 could be the end of the world. Later in the program, we talk about how two married lesbian couples may be victims of discrimination by the Iowa Department of Public Health.

ISU professor of religion Hector Avalos discusses a recent opinion piece by a Register letter-writer insisting that the U.S. is a Christian nation. We also discuss President Obama's Catholic-contraception problem, Bob Vander Plaats' support of bullies, and a handful of other issues where religion and politics intersect.