Krusty Konservative Archive

Bob Vander Plaats Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats held a press conference last week calling for tougher drunk driving laws. It was a nice way to earn some media, but the Vander Plaats press release was a bit odd. First, it talked about DWI’s, not OWI’s. Now I realize that Vander ... Full story

Let’s see. Some dude tried to blow up a plane by smuggling explosives onto a plane in his shoes back in 2001, ever since we have had to remove our shoes before boarding an airplane. Now some crazy terrorist sews explosives into the crotch of his britches and tries to detonate it with ... Full story

Urban Meyer: There are a couple of things I can’t stand. The first is political candidates that announce that they might announce that they are running for a particular political office. An example of this would be my buddy Bob Vander Plaats. Last January Bob made the media rounds to say that ... Full story

When I first started my blog, Firday’s were reserved for things like photo caption contests or Haiku contests. Haiku’s were smuggled into America from Japan with the Iron Chef competition that can be watched on the Food Network. My blog brother Grant wrote yesterday how he longs for another Haiku contests, so since ... Full story

Herschel Krustofski Yes, even I am fair game to be on this list. You see, I totally blew off posting my weekly idiots yesterday because I was traveling for the holidays. To be honest, there was nothing preventing me from writing it, I just had other things on my mind. To be honest it’s ... Full story

Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Rants sent me an email yesterday after I had posted the video attacking him for taking over a million dollars of special interest money. Rants forwarded me an email he sent to Kevin Hall of the Des Moines Examiner. Rants said that Hall didn’t use much ... Full story

For most of this year, Christopher Rants has been the one candidate who has aggressively attacked his opponents. Last summer, he questioned Bob Vander Plaats tenure at Opportunity unlimited. This fall he has relentlessly attacked Terry Branstad. To date, nobody has returned fire on Rants. The only shot any candidate ... Full story

Maybe you have noticed that it’s really cold outside. The low last night was -1 outside. So imagine my surprise this morning when I check in with The Bean Walker and see the new editor of the Bean, Bill Schickel, in an “exclusive” video which shows him sitting on a patio with a ... Full story

Terry Branstad: What was it that John Kerry said back in 2004, something like, “I actually voted for it before I voted against it?” Well break out the flip-flops because Branstad just had a senior moment or something. He bashes Culver for wanting to use money for roads to pay for state troopers, but forgets ... Full story

Many people don’t think Iowans will ever see much good from the hundreds of millions of dollars that Chet Culver and the state government pumped into film projects that were shot in the state. A new video from Kornfed Productions might change all of that. The video taps into the frenzy surrounding the Iowa Hawkeyes football team. It was filmed in Cedar ... Full story