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 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 . . .




















































