Rudy Takala column

Rudy Takala is a twenty-year-old graduate of Hamline University and the chair of Minnesota's Pine County Republicans. He has been involved in Republican politics since 1998; he served as a campaign manager for a state Senate candidate in 2006, and was offered a position as campaign manager for a U.S. Congressional candidate later in the year. His first column appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune at the age of 14. Since then, his columns have appeared on a number of websites, including NewsWithViews.com, WorldNetDaily and many others.

Rudy hopes for a career in which he is able to continue antagonizing proponents of the State. Currently, he spends his free time laboring over a book concerning the American government's school system.

Rudy Takala

May 10, 2009

The Biblical book of Esther tells an insightful story about Haman, the equivalent of Persia's prime minister in 500 B.C. Haman demanded that all who were . . .

Rudy Takala

December 13, 2008

Watching the early moves of Barack Obama has been enlightening. They have been the actions of someone who does not completely understand the politics of Middle . . .

Rudy Takala

November 10, 2008

"You have sat here too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!" — Oliver Cromwell Few . . .

Rudy Takala

October 27, 2008

"The lessons of great men are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our . . .

Rudy Takala

September 7, 2008

I was overjoyed with John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin for vice-president. She has spent her entire political career taking down what she herself has dubbed  . . .

Rudy Takala

August 23, 2008

Delenda est carthago: Carthage must be destroyed and obliterated. These words were once written to Alexander Hamilton by a friend with respect to the . . .

Rudy Takala

June 10, 2008

The Republican establishment has spent many of its recent days bemoaning the idealistic rhetoric of Barack Obama, complaining that it is neither realistic nor . . .

Rudy Takala

May 4, 2008

"Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle.... One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; . . .

Rudy Takala

March 18, 2008

In the state of Minnesota, 63,000 Republicans turned out to vote on Super Tuesday, not quite thirty percent of the 213,000 Democrats who turned out to vote. . . .

Rudy Takala

February 6, 2008

Peggy Noonan's recent observation that George Bush destroyed the Republican Party was true, but the brevity of her statement left unspoken a thousand nuances. . . .

Rudy Takala

January 29, 2008

In a recent column, I commented on the repression exercised by college professors upon their impressionable students. Their goal is to mold those students who . . .

Rudy Takala

January 26, 2008

There are a couple of ways that you might categorize people in politics. One brand is characterized by idealists who believe in what they are doing, advocating . . .

Rudy Takala

January 12, 2008

Not much time remains until presidential candidates are nominated (at least informally), and Christmas has served as a brief interlude to the frenetic political . . .

Rudy Takala

January 6, 2008

Barack Obama's win on Thursday was historic. It was not just another political event. It pierced our culture on a thousand levels; such a radical blow to . . .

Rudy Takala

January 2, 2008

Election 2008 brings to my mind a poem of Robert Frost's. "Some say the world will end in fire," says the poem, but "some say in ice." The images conjure up . . .

Rudy Takala

December 11, 2007

In 1976, Ronald Reagan waged a historic battle against the Washington establishment, and against a creeping strain of totalitarianism that had been re-emerging . . .

Rudy Takala

November 3, 2007

Over the past several years, an interesting trend has manifested itself in New Hampshire. Electorally it has turned from red to blue, but without any shift in . . .

Rudy Takala

September 15, 2007

The 2008 election is prominent in the news, and the impact that evangelical Christians will have is, as usual, a factor being observed. It is unfortunate that . . .

Rudy Takala

August 15, 2007

As we watch the 2008 presidential election unfold, we are seeing certain characteristics of the new millennium coalesce to create a type of politics different . . .

Rudy Takala

August 12, 2007

Lost in the global fray surrounding the Minneapolis bridge collapse is a perspective more prominent to those of us who live in Minnesota, and who have the . . .

Rudy Takala

July 17, 2007

With the decline of John McCain's campaign treasury comes the accentuation of a spectacle worth noting. McCain currently has $2 million available in his . . .

Rudy Takala

May 19, 2007

"So we fought against this curse [of thinking]. We tried to forget our lessons, but we always remembered.... We looked upon Union 5-3992, who were a pale boy . . .

Rudy Takala

April 5, 2007

To: Linda Hanson, President, Hamline University CC: Fernando Delgado, Dean CC: Presley Martin, Assistant Dean Subject: FYSEM I am writing with regard to . . .

Rudy Takala

February 22, 2007

Recently, I transferred to Hamline University, a private Methodist college in Minnesota. Barring any unforeseen problems, I will graduate in 2008. Nonetheless, . . .

Rudy Takala

November 13, 2006

"We didn't just lose our majority. I believe we lost our way." So said Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) in announcing he would run for minority leader of the House . . .

Rudy Takala

August 11, 2006

There are few desirable candidates seeking political offices this year, something we can attribute to the fact that monarchs within the party establishments . . .

Rudy Takala

March 18, 2006

In the midst of the Republican Party's highly publicized denials of an internal crisis, the reasons for their predicament have been lost. The debate, rather . . .

Rudy Takala

January 22, 2006

Talk about reforming the Republican Party has become all the rage these days, but the means to doing that are scarcely mentioned. No one wants to assign blame . . .

Rudy Takala

January 1, 2006

U.S. District Judge John Jones, in a recent 139 page ruling out of Pennsylvania, droned that mentioning intelligent design in a biology course violated the . . .

Rudy Takala

December 7, 2005

The University of Kansas is establishing a new course, called, "Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationisms and Other Religious Mythologies." . . .

Rudy Takala

November 20, 2005

Opponents of public education will often hold beliefs that, while seemingly consistent, will paradoxically work against each other. It must be understood that . . .

Rudy Takala

October 16, 2005

The 2005 school year officially began this past September. For younger children, that means receiving explanations from teachers about how you shouldn't copy . . .

Rudy Takala

September 11, 2005

Since New Orleans was demolished by Hurricane Katrina, there has been no end to the number of factors people have cited as responsible for the resulting damage. . . .

Rudy Takala

September 1, 2005

On August 19th, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a prison violated an inmate's religion by not allowing him to form a prayer group. According to the . . .

Rudy Takala

August 22, 2005

Conservatives will often bemoan the degradation of American culture, perceiving that it is being destroyed by perverts and miscreants with low morals. And, . . .

Rudy Takala

August 14, 2005

I recently finished reading Hans Zeiger's new book, Get Off My Honor: The Assault on the Boy Scouts of America. It attempted to demonstrate, as most political . . .

Rudy Takala

July 31, 2005

Fyodor Dostoevsky once wrote, "In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'" Such words would seem to . . .

Rudy Takala

June 26, 2005

In a recent Supreme Court decision, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote, "If the peasants sow the fields poorly, they should be helped — and this particularly . . .

Rudy Takala

June 17, 2005

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently gave a fifteen minute commencement address to the graduates of Santa Monica College. He was forced to do so . . .

Rudy Takala

June 11, 2005

I was attempting to watch the news a few days ago, which isn't something I use a television for particularly much. Unfortunately, I quickly recalled why I don't . . .

Rudy Takala

June 4, 2005

Lately, I've been receiving quite a few messages from liberals who accuse me of over-generalizing them as socialists, traitors, and any number of other things. . . .

Rudy Takala

May 28, 2005

Democrats generally claim to be fervent adherents to the doctrine of church-state separation. And they usually are; unless, that is, they can find a religion . . .

Rudy Takala

May 26, 2005

Republicans have been understandably elated over the Democrats' recent decision to elect Howard Dean as the national chairman of the Democratic Party. Dean has . . .

Rudy Takala

April 28, 2005

Violence against women is plaguing the United States today. According to liberals, pornography and public vulgarity appear to be the answer. I will forewarn . . .

Rudy Takala

April 27, 2005

The concoctions of socialism have indeed made life on this earth a tumultuous one. Socialism today continues to torment millions, simply because socialists . . .

Rudy Takala

April 10, 2005

The war for the children has been reaching ridiculous extremes as of late, with the ownership of children being an object of dispute. Socialism has always . . .

Rudy Takala

March 25, 2005

The legitimacy of certain performance-enhancing drugs has recently been a popular subject in the news, crusaders of government action as usual asserting the . . .

Rudy Takala

March 13, 2005

In a recent incident in the most tolerant state of the Union, a controversy has arisen in the Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC) of California. It was triggered . . .

Rudy Takala

March 6, 2005

As a precursor to the attacks of 9/11, Fidel Castro toured Iran in May of 2001. While visiting, he told an audience in Tehran that "Together, we [Cuba and Iran] . . .

Rudy Takala

February 12, 2005

Since my article entitled "Liberals Ain't Got No Manhood" recently appeared speaking to the comments of Lt. Gen. Mattis, I've received a sizeable amount of hate . . .

Rudy Takala

February 5, 2005

Lieutenant General James Mattis recently made comments at a forum in San Diego that are now pervading the news; he said, "It's fun to shoot some people... You . . .

Rudy Takala

January 29, 2005

Since the presidential inauguration, long-existing latent rifts in the Republican Party have become noticeably more apparent. In his inaugural address, Bush . . .

Rudy Takala

January 22, 2005

Chief Justice William Rehnquist administered the oath of office to President Bush last January 20th, making his first public appearance since mid-October. He . . .

Rudy Takala

January 15, 2005

As the day of President Bush's inauguration draws near, liberal organizations seem to be on the brink of implosion; they don't know what policies to pursue, . . .

Rudy Takala

January 8, 2005

Liberals in recent days have begun to assert their moral superiority over conservatives on various social issues. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, for instance, . . .

Rudy Takala

January 1, 2005

Just about a week prior to Christmas, the governor of Illinois felt compelled by the spirit of the season to propose extensive prohibitions on the sale of video . . .

Rudy Takala

December 12, 2004

As the holidays descend upon us, so do the unfortunate encounters with our vacuous relatives. On Thanksgiving, for instance, my uncle stated that he had "no . . .

Rudy Takala

November 30, 2004

The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation is suing to cut off federal funding to a Christian child-mentoring program called MentorKids USA, which, . . .

Rudy Takala

November 21, 2004

Recently, Belgium's supreme court outlawed the Vlaams Blok, its most popular political party. It did so with the justification that they were guilty of  . . .

Rudy Takala

November 9, 2004

The Republicans won November's elections in a landslide, taking control of the senate 55-44. Tom Daschle was the first Senate leader to lose an election since 1 . . .

Rudy Takala

October 29, 2004

Recent polls concerning the level of political awareness in the American electorate have provided an informative illuminant into the depth of the electorate's . . .

Rudy Takala

October 11, 2004

Friday night's debate between Kerry and Bush was fascinating; allegedly "undecided" voters sat all around, variously falling asleep or otherwise poking at . . .

Rudy Takala

September 22, 2004

Recently, I participated in a 4-H State Shoot. In it, hundreds of participants from around the state took part in a shooting competition. The factors that made . . .

Rudy Takala

September 7, 2004

Recently this year, the issue of smoking has been making headlines around the nation. In Virginia, a woman was sentenced to ten days in jail and fined $500 for . . .

Rudy Takala

August 21, 2004

As the date of the Republican National Convention nears, socialist revolutionaries, led by former California Congressman Tom Hayden, continue to verbally . . .

Rudy Takala

August 19, 2004

MTV's official "Rock the Vote" blog recently compared me to Jim Crow era racists (albeit an "innocent" one) for referring to rappers as "ignorant denizens." The . . .

Rudy Takala

August 2, 2004

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization in America. It's also given John Kerry its endorsement for president. . . .

Rudy Takala

July 22, 2004

Statists in America today have an obsession with so-called discrimination. Certain people don't like it when other people won't accept, tolerate and love them. . . .

Rudy Takala

June 30, 2004

During this election year, many attempts to shove ballots into the hands of new voters are being made. Observers say that there are 100 organizations of various . . .