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Rudy Takala
Rudy Takala is 17 years old and lives in Minnesota. He was homeschooled for nine years, and currently attends a local community college full time.

His columns regularly appear on a number of websites, including NewsWithViews.com, TheConservativeVoice.com, TheRant.us, RenewAmerica.us, MensNewsDaily.com, NationalLedger.com, OpinionEditorials.com, MichNews.com, SierraTimes.com, WebCommentary.com, ChronWatch.com, ConservativeNest.com, The Daley Times Post, ParentAdvocates.org, Publius' Forum, PoliticalUsa.com, RepublicanAndProud.com, RightSided.org, StarrJournal.com, OpinioNet.com, Out2.com, RadiofreeWestHartford.com, and YConservatives.com. Newspapers he's written for or appears in regularly include The North Carolina Conservative, The Recumbent, and The American Eagle.

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.

He maintains a blog at http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/blog/takala and can be contacted at RudyTakala@Yahoo.com.



Pence for President
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 . . .


Bill Clinton Republicans
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 . . .


Stimulus and response
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 . . .


Worthless reformers
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 . . .


Making Darwin right
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 . . .


Open-minded intolerance
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." . . .


A brief guide to reforming education
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 . . .


Smooth and harmonious learning communities
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 . . .


Christians in name only
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. . . .


Evolution is unconstitutional
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 . . .


The downside of perpetual youth
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, . . .


Get Off My Honor: a review
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 . . .


Bureaucracy is not freedom
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 . . .


Our rights proceed from Leninists
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 . . .


Just say no to educational failure
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 . . .


Fools don't matter
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 . . .


Not all liberals are evil
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. . . .


A liberal supports theocracy
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 . . .


We're all liberal Democrats now
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 . . .


The spectacles of feminism
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 . . .


Contemplations on socialism
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 . . .


The education debacle
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 . . .


The tyranny of the children
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 . . .


Anxious communists
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 . . .


UN pains Kofi -- and everyone else
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] . . .


A litany of hate
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 . . .


Liberals ain't got no manhood
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 . . .


It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty
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 . . .


Support a stupid chief justice
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 . . .


Problems the Democrats have
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, . . .


The Jesus question
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, . . .


Video games: Hitler's mentors?
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 . . .


Holiday observations
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 . . .


Godless communists
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, . . .


Regulatory hazards
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  . . .


Conservatism's future
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 . . .


America's future is not in secure hands
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 . . .


When waffles debate
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 . . .


Guns and the children
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 . . .


Anti-smoking Nazis
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 . . .


If Bush supports Swift Boat vets, Kerry supports terrorists
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 . . .


Stop rocking the vote — Part II
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 . . .


War on individualism
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. . . .


Discrimination culture
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. . . .


Stop rocking the vote
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 . . .


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