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David Karki

David is a born and raised Minnesotan with a lifelong interest in politics, majoring in Political Science at St. Olaf College in Northfield in 1994 before serving as an assistant press secretary on Sen. Rudy Boschwitz's 1996 U.S. Senate campaign. Since then, he has worked in the IT field (developing a healthy love/hate relationship with Microsoft) and cheered rabidly for the Minnesota Vikings at every opportunity. He presently resides in Bloomington, Minnesota.

 

David's Previous Columns

 

Conservative Have Bailed: Now What? - May 12, 2008

 

Conservatives: Time to Abandon the Republican Ship - May 9, 2008

 

Government-Free Education: Do It For the Children - May 5, 2008

 

Conservatives' Unease With McCain - April 28, 2008

 

If Obama Can’t Handle Charles Gibson, Democratic Trainwreck Looms - April 22, 2008

 

Energy Policy: Drill, Baby, Drill . . . Or Get Ready For Hell - April 21, 2008

 

Pelosi Betrays Colombia: The Left’s Alphabet Soup Base Demands No Less - April 14, 2008

 

Iraq Hearings: The Execrable Speaker Pelosi - April 7, 2008

 

John McCain Leads the Gutless Old Party - March 31, 2008

 

Fighting the Left’s Control Agenda - March 24, 2008

 

The Liberal Agenda: It’s Obviously Not to Solve Anything, So It Must Be Control - March 17, 2008

 

Have Rush Limbaugh and GOP Crossovers Helped Revive a Nightmare Ticket? - March 10, 2008

 

Hillary's Swan Song? - March 4, 2008

 

The Cold War Never Ended; Media, Education and Hollywood are the New Soviets - March 3, 2008

 

Minneapolis Children’s Deaths Reveal the Lethality of Liberalism - February 25, 2008

 

The Dangerous Substance of Barack Obama - February 18, 2008

 

The Conservative Quandary: Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama? - February 12, 2008

John McCain's CPAC Speech Falls Flat; Will His Campaign? - February 11, 2008

 

John McCain’s Triumph Leaves No Left or Lefter, Just Up Or Down - February 4, 2008

 

Hey, Al Gore! Give Me Light Bulbs and Thermostats or Give Me Death! - January 28, 2008

 

The GOP: Going the Way of the Whigs - January 21, 2008

 

Thank You, Michigan, for Stopping John McCain’s Coronation - January 17, 2008

 

The Press and the Primaries: A Tale Told by Shakespearean Idiots - January 14, 2008

 

Obama and Huckabee in Iowa: Oprah vs. ‘Jesus’ - January 7, 2008

 

Pakistan After Benazir Bhutto: No Good Answers - December 31, 2007

 

Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore about Global Warming - December 21, 2007

 

How to Stop Incidents Like Coloraro Shooting? More People Carrying Guns! - December 12, 2007

 

Mitt Romney’s Problem: The Liberalism, Not the Mormonism - December 10, 2007

 

Primary Preposterousness: Iowa and New Hampshire Can Kiss My Ass - December 3, 2007

 

If You Have a ‘Right’ to Goods and Services, then Hillary Can Make Me a Slave - November 26, 2007

 

Reality: Unrecognizable to Denial-Afflicted Democrats - November 19, 2007

 

Minneapolis Bridge ‘Victims’ On Board for the Sickest Lottery Imaginable - November 12, 2007

 

Without Private Property Rights, Other Rights Don't Mean Much - November 6, 2007

 

So, Empress Inevitable Hillary Clinton Has No Clothes - November 5, 2007

 

Democratic Congress: A Perverse Pride in Doing Nothing - October 31, 2007

 

California Wildfires Prompt the Intervention: Democrats, Meet the Truth - October 29, 2007

 

God Help Us if the Democrats Actually Believe the Things They Say - October 22, 2007

 

While Hillary Marches On, Where Is the Fight in the Right? - October 15, 2007

 

SCHIP = Socialist HillaryCare - October 8, 2007

 

What Ahmedinejad Reveals About Us - October 1, 2007

 

What Will It Be? Freedom or HillaryCare? - September 24, 2007

 

While Dems Slander, Gen. Petraeus Brings Forth Truth from Iraq - September 12, 2007

 

As New Orleans Descends into Chaos, Liberalism’s Failure is Undeniable - September 10, 2007

 

Senator Larry Craig and ‘Hypocrisy’ - September 3, 2007

 

Alberto Gonzales Leaves a Job Only a Masochist Could Want - August 28, 2007

 

The War Against Liberals for America’s Future: Are Conservatives Up for It? - August 27, 2007

 

Petraeus Report Looms: Can the Democrats Please Grow Up? - August 20, 2007

 

Liberals Cause, Then Exploit, Minneapolis Bridge Collapse - August 13, 2007

 

Minneapolis Bridge Collapse: It's Not For Lack of Tax Dollars - August 3, 2007

 

Democrats’ Three Choices: Cut the Funds, Impeach or Shut Up - July 30, 2007

 

Democrats’ Goal: America the Kleptocracy - July 23, 2007

 

Calling the Democrats Out for Seeking America’s Defeat in Iraq - July 16, 2007

 

Live Earth: Al Gore’s Hypocrisy on Parade - July 9, 2007

 
Freedom Undercut by Censorship this Fourth of July - July 2, 2007
 
The Dangerous Ethanol Boondoggle - June 25, 2007
 
Stopping Illegal Immigration: You Don't Have to Like It, You Just Have to Do It - June 18, 2007
 
Next for the Nanny State: The American Wall? - June 11, 2007
 
Be Afraid, Very Afraid, of Comrade Hillary - June 4, 2007
 
Iran's Ahmadinejad: Would Someone Please Shut This Twerp Up? - May 28, 2007
 
Amnesty: The Lawless Aiding the Lawless - May 21, 2007
 
Mad About High Gas Prices? Politicians Did It - May 14, 2007
 
Congress's 'Hate Crime' Against the Constitution - May 7, 2007
 
If Iraq 'Is Lost', Who Won? - April 30, 2007
 
Moral Weakness Leads to Death at Virginia Tech - April 23, 2007
 
Pluribus Kills the Unum - April 16, 2007
 
Slap Constitution Cuffs on San Fran Nan - April 9, 2007
 
The Liberal Borg: Resistance Is Not Futile - April 2, 2007
 
America's Frogs in the Slowly Boiling Tax Water - March 26, 2007
 
Enemies Foreign and Domestic - March 19, 2007
 
Education: Exposing the Big Lie - March 12, 2007
 
Overgrown Children Run the Asylum - March 5, 2007
 
You Say You Want a Revolution? - February 26, 2007
 
The Vichy Republicans - February 19, 2007
 
They're From the Government and They're Here to Help - February 12, 2007
 
The Cult of Liberalism - February 5, 2007
 
No Harming America! That's Our Job! - January 29, 2007
 
Democrats on Iraq: Unserious, Infantile, Pusillanimous - January 22, 2007
 
Universal Communist Health Care - January 15, 2007
 
Socialism Beckons; Do Conservatives Have Any Fight Left? - January 8, 2007
 
If You Can't Say Anything Nice . . . - January 1, 2007
 
Bread and Circuses - December 25, 2006
 
We Are Not Entitled to a Living - December 18, 2006
 
America's Will to Win Is Gone - December 13, 2006
 
Senators to Exxon: Tow the Line Or Else - December 6, 2006
 
The Hand That Won't Rock the Cradle - November 29, 2006
 
Does Anyone Feel the Crush of the Leviathan? - November 22, 2006
 
No Time to Lick GOP Wounds - November 15, 2006
 
Media Wins Election; God Help Us All - November 8, 2006
 
What If the Guaranteed Dem Win Doesn't Happen? - November 1, 2006
 
The Grownups vs. the Children - October 25, 2006
 
Is This Really The Best We Can Do? - October 18, 2006
 
Thank Jimmuh and Bubba - October 11, 2006
 
Democrat 'Outrage': The Ultimate in Chutzpah - October 4, 2006
 
McCain Has Disqualified Himself for the Presidency - September 27, 2006
 
Awesome Bush Speech Will Force Muslims and UN to Choose - September 20, 2006
 
The Dems Must Lose, At All Costs - September 13, 2006
 
The Control Agenda - September 6, 2006
 
The Biggest Big of Them All:  Big Government - August 30, 2006
 
What Would Harry Do? - August 23, 2006
 
Refusing To See the Obvious - August 16, 2006
 
Excitement for Cuba as Fidel Faces the Heat - August 9, 2006
 
North Korea:  Sooner Rather Than Later - August 2, 2006
 
Stem Cells:  Our Brave New World - July 26, 2006
 
Mideast Turmoil:  Calling a Spade a Spade - July 19, 2006
 
The Treason of the Times - June 28, 2006
 
Democrats: GOP's Best Friend, Conservative's Nightmare - June 14, 2006
 
A Second American Revolution? - May 31, 2006
 
Words Mean Things, Or At Least They Used To - May 17, 2006
 
Iran: America's Coming 'Flight 93' Moment - May 3, 2006
 
Gas 'Crisis': Courtesy Of Your Friendly Environmentalist - April 26, 2006
 
The War on the Automobile - April 12, 2006
 
Mexico Is Not Our Friend - April 5, 2006
 
What's $90,000,000,000,000 Among Friends? - March 22. 2006
 
Do-Gooderism: First Refuge of a Scoundrel - March 8, 2006
 
The Harm the Income Tax Hath Wrought - March 1, 2006
 
Illegals Raise Middle Finger to Law While U.S. Dithers - February 15, 2006
 
We Are All Agent Smiths Now - February 8, 2006
 
Global Warming: An Inconvenient Fraud - February 1, 2006
 
Missing the Point About Abramoff - January 18, 2006
 
A Policy for Energy Insanity - January 11, 2006
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