Is Obama really taking vacations? Or is he fleeing a "major urban center in the US." Maybe he's not so sure his "friends" in the arab world will provide ample warning. Or...maybe those in DC should tale note of his absences and take a "vacation" of their own. You can never be too careful.

Allen West for President!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Up until now I thought the Patriot Post was a reliable news source but "Meltdown Imperils U.S" shows me differently. I suggest you access and read the following article.It is much more credible.

"Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors" by Dr. Josef Oehmen (M.I.T.)

BHO is an idiot!!!!!

Well said, Mark. He hides his head in the sand (aka golf course) because he doesn't know what to do about ANY of these situations and the personnel he's surrounded himself with, doesn't know any more than he does. Starting with the USA, if this whole world doesn't implode/explode before we get him out of office, I'll be very surprised. 2012 can't come fast enough.

Changing the subject, but has anyone kept count of the number of personal trips & vacations they've taken? We're so broke, we're about to bleed to death, and they keep going on these extremely expensive trips? Plain & simple, he just doesn't care about this country. Period.

To Helen:

I believe that the "Meltdown" reference was more a metaphore than literal to the reactor reference. More of a double entendre really. No where in the article was there a mention of radiation leaks. Keep reading.

I used to think your pieces were too "hairy," but I guess my growing disgust for our president has rendered them spot on.. today's "Reality Check" is an exact sentiment of mine. Thanks.

It's obvious that we have a 13 year old Marxist a** clown in the White House. What did anyone ever see in this guy that would warrant putting him in that posistion? May god help the people of Japan and I hope he can find time to forgive our nation for its stupidity.

President Obama is so incompetent that he makes Jimmy Carter look like a genious, Would incompetency be grounds for impeachment? If I'd been that incompetent in my line of work, I would have been terminated.

Paul B.

Had Bush acted so casual, so nonchallant, so cavelier, so unconcerned during ANY crisis, the media would have ripped him to pieces. In fact they did that even though he ALWAYS showed how deeply he did cared. Had he been flaunted, swooned over on national TV "picking his B-ball teams", the cries from the demos would have pierced our ear drums. Where is our "non-biased" media now??????? Where is the outrage, the name calling, the "disgust"???????? Where's a George Washington, Sam Addams, Thomas Jefferson, John Addams when you need one????????? When is the next Ronald Reagan going to step up to the plate, take firm control of the reins of government, and stop this political nonsense with its run-away economic policies and HIGHLY inflated egos???? Can't come soon enough as far as I'm concerned~~

Concerning the following:

"Closer to home, there's a war on our southern border, and it's out of control. For the record, there were more civilians murdered by warring drug factions in one Mexican border town, Ciudad Juarez, adjoining El Paso, Texas, in 2010, than were murdered by Taliban and jihadi forces in all of Afghanistan last year."

You failed to mention the USA Government involvement in the 1500 plus assault weapons funneled to the drug factions in Mexico. One of which has been tied to the murder of one of our agents.

I see this as A flagrant attempt to fan the fires of violence in order to attack our Second Amendment. Thank God for the Whistle Blowers.

"The state lies in all the tongues of good and evil, and whatever it says is lies, and whatever it has, it has stolen, everything it is, is false, it bites with stolen teeth, and it bites often, it is false down to its bowels."— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra [1896]

A combination of:

Personality Type B

These characters are extroverts to the soles of their boots and think that life is nothing but getting under the spotlight and spell binding the rest.

Personality Type D

These gentlemen really believe in inertia (inactive, sluggish) which they have no shortage of. Type D do their best to not stick their neck out there when it comes to taking responsibility and risks. Type D are the folks you tell what to do; they are followers not leaders. Type D are people engaged as clerks and other forms of bureaucrats.

Paul B.

Yes. Incompetence IS a grounds for impeachment (if Congress had a backbone). Of course, they'd also have to impeach the VP at the same time for the same reason.

I am beginning to see a pattern here. Does the Nero come to mind ??. The "one" seems to be always out of touch with the events of the day.

As usual, this was very well stated and I totally agree!

One thing I see many people saying is that BHO doesn't know what he is doing. I disagree. I think he knows exactly what he is doing. His plan is to bring our country down, to destroy it from the inside. Unfortunately, he is well on his way to doing so for no one will stand against him, impeach him and charge him with treason.

IF we make it to the 2012 elections, and IF he has not managed to control/intimidate the voters, and IF we can vote him out, we will have a very long, hard job of restoring our country.

I have been watching (recently retired)Col. Allen West, now US Congressman, from Florida. He knows the Islamic jihadist enemy from facing them over many tours of duty on the battlefront, as well as studying their writings, and is not afraid to engage them. He speaks very plainly that we should NOT be doing things as Obama has done and makes no bones about the fact he dislikes Obama. I hope and pray the Republican party will wake up and choose him as Presidential candidate in 2012 and not just push off another good old boy to put up against Obama. If so, we are doomed.

Sorry the facts are the facts

Lybia = He is Late !! Way Late !!

The horror of Japan .. call it what you will ..

The Horror that Japan is going through in a most Class Act and Top Shelf manor .. They will Rise from all this a better and stronger Nation however

Make no doubt This Shall effect Japan's economy in turn Shall effect our economy tenfold ..

I do hope with all My Heart Ameicans can pull it together and get over themselves and their "said I deserve benifits" .. to understand we have to cut back and rally together as a Nation to get through all this ..

Obama is not leading he is avoiding !!

He and his followers and cabnet do not deserve to be Our Nation's Leader period!

Looking for a mentor and advisors!

I really don't think you can compare Obama and Jimmy Carter. Carter was totally inept, but he at least MEANT well.

Obama is sure no example for a president, any major problem he disappears. Just enjoying spending all of our taxpayers money on trips and parties.Can't wait till he is out of office.

As usual, when the going gets tough, Obama votes "present"...

Who are the "contenders on the horizon" for the role of "national leader in the mold of Ronald Reagan"?

The 'president' is a complete incompetent. I coach 8-9 yr old hockey players each one of them has displayed more leadership this past season than Mr Obama has in the past 2+ years. Too bad none of them is eligible to be President I am positive they would do a better job. Of course I'm not so sure that Mr Obama is eligible either.

Where is the petition to recall this incompetent fool from the White House. The Nation needs to rise up with the power of the people and recall him from office as quickly as possible. He, by his actions and inactions is destroying the Nation.

BUT will we still have a country in 2 years?

Obama’s March Madness

With conflicts and disasters shaking the economies of our planet, Obama spent Tuesday, the Ides of March, playing golf and filling out his NCAA Bracket. The conflicts in the Middle East and our energy insecurity in the United States have been made more dangerous by Obama’s inaction in the Middle East and his attacks on energy production in the United States.

The American people are fed up with Obama’s Marxist political ideologies and his indifference to the plight of people both at home and abroad. Last Saturday in his weekly radio address, Obama was pushing for a bill to increase the salaries of women – Obama was politicking and not addressing the devastation in Japan, the civil war in Libya, and rising gasoline prices.

We the People voted many of the Obama supporters out of office last November. However, the Republicans seem to still lack the necessary courage to meaningfully cut taxes and government regulations, to dramatically cut government spending and to close down large unnecessary portions of our government, and to defund ObamaCare and every destructive program Obama has signed into law.

Donald R. May

“Mr. Conservative”

http://lubbockonline.com/conservative

You write very good stuff and I read each of your mails although some are far too long.j I forward each mail to all my addressees in hope they will forward. Whatever, you seem far too nice to this Obama person. You and most of the Conservitive journists apparently haven't yet awaken to what this man's agenda truely is and how dangerous his potential really is. He is a true and deadly enemy of our country and his methods are to slow and surely take over every department in our government as surly as all the other Markist dictators have done in the past. Don't ever give him an inch as he will surely takd a mile as the saying goes. Best Regards, geo.....................

Your use of the ~1958 Nuclear Device(Weapon) detonation photo in discussing Japan's Reactor problems is Asinine, and just adds to the Media Hype Re: these tragic events. Having written the syllabus & trained the DoD's 1st Nuclear Emergency Teams back in 1958, plus being a Sec. of the Army Research & Study Fellow @ LANL, 9/'88-8/'89, setting in the middle of the "bomb" designers, I can flatly state, A Nuclear REACTOR and a Nuclear WEAPON are NOT in any way PHYSICALLY Similar and a REACTOR CAN NOT FUNCTION like a NUCLEAR WEAPON!!! . . . Physically IMPOSSIBLE!!! STOP ADDING to the MEDIA "anti-Nuclear HYPE" with such pictures!!!!! [Yes, Cal Thomas's words are correct, but he needs to go a little further.] ("Asinine" is NOT a profane Word!!!)

I concur with Robert. I know enough to know know they aren't the same nor can they ever be the same. Still a danger is a a danger

I also concur Oboma needed more time before he ran for office. He drops the ball to much and gives mixed signals. With him it was a mistake. He is a weak leader.

As a centralist in politics I begrudgingly agree with a recall but the question becomes, replace him with whom? there are no viable candidates with the possible exception of D. Trump.

We need unity or there will be a Bachmann/Bucannon

dream of a 2nd party remedy. It will be working class taking out perceived threats and threats of GOP with there corporate backers and GOP against DNC and unions.

I've heard a lot of everything, now there's time for answers. It is up to us to provide leadership for our leadership on both sides are not doing the will of the people.

I agree with George. I also see a two tier system, the super rich GOP and the Super poor DNC. the dirty politics such as turning my home state of Mich into a communistic society is shocking. fore the judges, police chief, city council, county board and turn it over to Big Corporations?

I sometimes wonder if both political parties are &^%$ bent on turning us into either sociolist or communists.

Mr. Conservative, I'm for yet against Oboma care as it is currently written. yet Oboma care, Pres, Candidate Mitt Rommey put Oboma Care in his home state before the president presented his original plan. The president admitted he used it as a template. Which is worse, the disease or the cure?

Watching the Obama circus and sideshow since 2008, one quotation keeps running through my mind:

Geben Sie mir zehn Jahre und Sie erkennen nicht Deutschland. -- das Fuhrer, 1933, Nuremberg

(Give me ten years and you will not recognize Germany.)

In "The Republic," Plato records Sokrates's warning to Athens: Beware the physician who introduces disease into his patients and, then, once they have been infected, comes forward claiming to have the cure.

Sokrates was metaphorically warning Athens about their leaders.

During Lincoln's Administration, Democrats were known as "Copperheads" because they were unpredictable, devious, untrustworthy and immutable in their attempts to suddenly inject political poison into Lincoln's managing of the Civil War.

Since FDR's Administration, Democrats have been diligent in their poisoning of the Body Politic.

Over the past 75 years, Liberalism has metamorphosed, metastasized and mutated into a full-blown political cancer that threatens to destroy this Republic.

America's Democrat Party has ever been -- and ever will be -- an environmental pollutant far more caustic and far deadlier than nuclear radiation.

The latter can be mitigated and controlled through Applied Science. The former has only one cure: an aroused populace, determined to purge this Nation of what otherwise will most surely become a fatal infection.

I am not a fan of Ronald Reagan. During his eight years in office, the National Debt tripled. I still don't understand how we elected a grade "B" movie actor President.

http://www.intouch.org/broadcast/video-archives/content/topic/turning_the_tide

Please go this site. It shows the way to prevent the real meltdown that is on its way unless...

"If men(and Women) of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men(and Women_ possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation." --Samuel Adams

This would have been much better had it included the words in parentheses.

I've been refering to BHO as 'President Nero' since shortly after the inception of his administration. My democrat friends have been consistently calling me crazy for nearly as long. They do not agree with most of my conservative views but they don't call me crazy anymore....Hmmmm.

Sometimes my annoyance with media stupidity breaches its containment vessel. When I had had enough, I wrote the following:

MELTDOWN! American Media Panics!

http://tomcox.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/meltdown-american-media-panics/

Tom Cox

Charlotte, TN

The Prez and first mamma going to Rio? Is it to visit the new Petrobras oil rigs he set up for George Soros?

Rifleman, I love your first post. right on.

I was asked to explain my position about a two comments I made.

1 said the GOP/Tea Party Conservatives within those parties are going to kill people. I meant it.

"Lets defund NOAA." We don't need Tsunami warning. How many times was one issued over the last 3 years, who kept track of it? Let's defund NOAA. No Hurricane warnings. Those in the Gulf state, I guess they think it's a light summer rain with mild breezes. Lets defund NOAA. If you live in tornadoe Alley, a slight problem. I know this is a conservative post but my challenge is, lets view this cut and slash for the life you save might be your own or a family member.

I was also asked to clarify Mich as a communist state. One party one rule. the govenor has the authority to dissolve city/county council, police officer, sheriffs department, judges. He wants private large corporation to run the counties and town/cities. One man, one vote, one rule, his law and say so without check and balances. Communism.

We are so busy saying DNC is bad, Oboma is bad, recall the president, what is our party doing in respects to your freedom? Alex, if I'm wrong, I will apologize. We both know I'm not.

Rifleman made a terrific point when he Quoted Hitler. Hitler also said, "In order to kill a thing you must become the thing you wish to destroy."

This means freedom by creating an enemy, religion, the same. rep King is doing a terrific job there. Say you're all for whatever then take them over. So Business runs the state, make a guess who runs the business.

I wish someone would address my concerns. I was born in Mich and I will not say "Seig Heil," nor will I allow my life to be placed in peril by a cut and slash approach to our physical problems.

As a veteran of the nuclear power industry, I can assure you that the blight brought about by nuclear executives is far more economic than technological.

The 30 year moratorium in construction in the US was brought about by the industry raping rate-payers and tax-payers for unnecessary tens of billions of dollars squandered. The next generation of construction promises, thanks again to lax or nonexistent Service Commission oversight and even rubber-stamping corporate wish lists, to do it all over again. Of course all that is facilitated by the colossal squandering of taxpayer money by DOE and Obama in the department of non-energy since its inception.

Meltdowns can and will occur under the right crisis conditions. A fact of life. New technology will not avoid that, though the conditions may be different.

And don't take comfort in the idea that this technology is new. There will be a similar learning curve as there was the first time. But in the mean time, the manufacturers - now non-US companies one and all - will profit enormously. Thanks to the loan guarantees, subsidies, unlimited liability protection, and other regulatory perks, the US TAXPAYER WILL TAKE ALL THE FINANCIAL AND SAFETY RISKS AND PAY EVERY LAST DIME OF COST.

But hey, in the meantime, we can all watch the massive pile of undisposed nuclear waste which is now set to increase exponentially ad infinitum. Our terrorist enemies are.

Civilians with nuclear reactors? I'd rather see kindergartners with loaded handguns.

There was nothing wrong with our response to the Japan crisis. Like President Obama could do much immediately after such a horrible dissaster. You Rebulicans quickly forget George Bush's irresponsible response to 911, and his response to hurricane Katrina can be considered criminal.

Your childlish constant referral to using the Preident middle name, Hussein, is just a lame attempt to imply that he is a Muslin. Anybody with a half a brain can see through this sham.

True patriots can disagree with the opposition without trying to destroy the country.

Thanks, Mark, for putting it all so straight and truthful.

Our country has been indicted because it elected this pod. Hey, that's my new name for him, the POD, acronym for President of Dereliction....

Thank you for the best political commentary on the Internet!

My last post, right or wrong? to Nellie, I'm speaking straight and truthful, this is what they're cutting (NOAA) this is what Mich, Flor are doing. Where is the outcry but what they hey, it's your freedom we are blindly giving away in the name of what? A party and a warped ideology. Can you say, "Seig Heil!" I'm afraid that do to blind loyalty its only a few years away. Is this 1937 Germany?

All I read about King BamBAm's vacations, hiding in the closet/behind Oval Office draperies, running out of town for another high-cost vacation, etc.

This prompts a question:

Does anybody know of anything "Presidential" that this smooth-talking con-man occupant of the White House has done - either while a "look-at-me-senator or as the Arnold Palmer of Pennsylkvania Avenue?

Since early 2009, I have been expressing my (lack of) respect for the cureent occupant of the White House by referring to him only as "bho". Based on his more recent (lack of) performance, I have decided that a simple "0" is more appropriate. Will anyone wonder who I'm talking about?

Thank you for voicing all that is in my mind and heart, these days. I want to write my legislators, AGAIN, asking when they plan to stop acting like Jr. High kids. But, why bother? What happened to the $61B cut back? What about de-funding BOcare? Glen Beck talks about getting so mad your eyes bleed; guess what? I'm having regular subconjunctival hemorrhages! My best suggestion is to impeach BO and Biden, and get to work.

What is this country going to do? Who is going to lead us out of this hell-hole and NOT be in it for himself? If you're out there, HELP!!!!

Thank you for these posts. They really do help as well as enlighten.

Great job of putting the whole global spectrum in perspective and that of our leadership situation, or lack thereof. We're in such a radically different situation or climate in the US, as to leadership and direction. The words "empty shell" and "aimless" come to mind. Scripture warns of the hazards of a man with a divided mind. Our "leader" appears divided between half-hearted service and personal pleasure. In truth, he may be fully focused on the transformation of America to a very destructive state.

thanks Mark. Maybe in 2012, we conservative / tea party / gun lovers can get a nominee that we really can support and that can win a national election vs the candidate that I feel was chosen for us by the national media in 2008.

someone should be minding the store, I thought POTUS was a 24/7/365 job??

One comment:

The next President must be a PERSON of...etc.

Otherwise, I concur with Mr. Adams, and with you.

Jim and Mr. Davis,

A role-playing question: Let's say you and your neighbor each have a son. One day, your son beats up your neighbor's son without cause. When you perform your civic duty to restore peace, which parent would you rather discuss the situation with?

There are differences in the way men and women respond to conflict that are significant. This is "in general", but I suppose you may not have a choice when the court is finished with DOMA.

Perplexing Question of the Day:

Why would the Arab League support a no-fly zone over Libya?

The number one all time leader in ignorant,arrogant,narcisstic,greedy Washington weasel worders!!!!!!

I agree with your conclusion about the virtues of our next president with two exceptions: 1) he/she need not be a man and 2) we can do without the "zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being". If they choose to worship Allah, so be it, but they need to leave that "zeal" to their private life and be sure that such "zeal" does not include forcing their Muslim, or other religious, beliefs on the rest of us.

RE: The left using the apparent meltdown of nuke plants in Japan to inject feat into every American. In the words of that very estute american, Rahm Emanuel, we can't let a good crisis go to waste.

VR

Richard

Marc,

"2)" What someone does in their "private" life shapes what they do in "public". Private expressions indicate INWARD motivations even more than public expressions that are usually tempered by an extra "filter" for decency and manners. If you want to understand someone's actions, the best place to start is with their "private" life and the influences their private associations have on their character.

Regarding your ASSUMPTION that religions force their beliefs, only three come to mind that agree: Islam, Atheism and Evolution. Of all religions, UNDISTORTED Christianity is the only one that recognizes the depravity of Man and that only God has authority and power to change the heart of Man to do good. This is the root of the First Amendment that recognizes no one can be legislated into Christianity and why the goal of government is to restrict evil and preserve liberty to with the minimum resstratin as can maintain societal order. As the Founders frequently wrote in regards to the form of government and the constitution: the constitution was to govern a people of the Christian religion and its moral imperatives and it is wholly inadequate for the governance of any other; as such America's citizens should prefer Christians over any other due to their inward restraint and upholding of the Rule of Law with the recognition that God does not save all.

The people that voted for BHO must have thought he needed a vacation after all the hard work he did in the years leading up to the election, but we must make sure his VACATION stops after four years. I just wish that at the age of 71, I find the money and time for JUST ONE vacation of at least 2 weeks before I die. Have never had one unless you call this retirement with little money a vacation. Sure can't afford to do anything. OH sure, I got vacation time every year I worked, but my vacation was working at home, with little rest. It must be nice to go off and play once in a while. This president is on one long vacation--I guess he is making up for all the ones I never had. CPO,USN,Ret

A Tsunami is not the only way a reactor can melt down. The real issue is the substance the reactor is handling, and its' unnatural presence on this planet. The SPENT fuel (which reactors create) was dangerous in itself. I am barely scratching the surface of overlooked points here. Pardon me if this sounds rude, but do you have stock in nuclear energy? Why not divert it to wind power? A wind power system is being built near us which will negatively affect us and probably our property value, yet I choose it. I minored in nuclear energy when I earned my physics degree.

Obama may not be particularly stupid or incompetent, although it certainly looks that way. But remember he is just puppet. The One World Government/New Order/Free Masons are the ones pulling his strings and programming is teleprompter. There stated goal is to turn the United States into a 3rd world country by the end of 2012. They may accomplish it by the end of 2011.

The damage to the reactors from the tsunami was not as much structural, it was from contamination of the cooling water. The hype from the media rooting for a meltdown disaster is disgusting, as is the fear-mongering of reporting increased levels of radiation on the Left Coast, still a billion times below the hazardous level, equivalent to an airplane flight of a couple hours. I agree that the nuclear weapon detonation graphic is inappropriate. The media wailed and gnashed teeth about GWB's handling of Katrina, imagine their despair if he had actually left the country. Pray for our beloved country that the leadership of both parties returns to Founding Principles before we become, as Rifleman cites, unrecognizable.

German grammar footnote: Fuhrer is Masculine, so the article is der, not das, which is neuter.

Remember, more people died at Chappaquiddick than at Three Mile Island. Engineers designed and built the reactors in Japan. Political opportunists built the federal bureaucracy. The Founders would not be pleased to see the product of our stewardship.

Rob Risko, "evolution" tries to force its beliefs on others? Please explain. I agree that Islam tries to impose its beliefs on others, but so does Christianity in the US. Also, please cite an example of how atheism tries to force its beliefs on others. Just one. I bet you can't.

also Rob Risko - "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." - Albert Einstein, an individual whose intellect merits much more credibility than the anonymous Dark Ages authors of the bible

OBAMA FULFILLING THE BIBLE

Pres. Lincoln stated: "I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man." But several Bible verses are embarrassing to Pres. Obama:

Proverbs 19:10 (NIV): "It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury - how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!"

Also Proverbs 30:22 (NIV) which says that the earth cannot bear up under "a servant who becomes king."

And Ecclesiastes 5:2-3 (KJV) advises: "let thy words be few...a fool's voice is known by multitude of words."

Although Obama is not descended from slaves, he may feel that he's destined to become a black-slavery avenger.

Or maybe an enslaver of all free citizens!

For some stunning info on Pres. Obama and his fellow subversives, Google "Michelle Obama's Allah-day," "Obama Supports Public Depravity," "David Letterman's Hate Etc.," "Un-Americans Fight Franklin Graham" and also "Sandra Bernhard, Larry David, Kathy Griffin, Bill Maher, Sarah Silverman."

PS - Since Christians are commanded to ask God to send severe judgment on persons who commit and support the worst forms of evil (see I Cor. 5 and note "taken away"), Christians everywhere should constantly pray that the Lord will soon "take away" or at least overthrow all US leaders who continue to sear their conscience and arrogantly trample the God-given rights of the majority including the rights of the unborn. Do we need a second American Revolution?

(Theologically radioactive Harold Camping prophesied that Christ would return during Sep. 1994. Undaunted, con man Camping now predicts it will occur in May of 2011. Since Deut. 18:20-22 requires the death penalty for false prophets, Camping and his deluded groupies deserve inclusion in the above "take away" prayers. False prophets in the OT were stoned to death. Today they are just stoned!)

PPS - For a rare look at the 181-year-old, imported-from-British-crazies endtime escapist belief which has long neutralized millions by promising them an "imminent rapture" off earth - which has diverted them away from being prepared to stand against all enemies, domestic as well as foreign - Google "Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty" and "Pretrib Rapture - Hidden Facts" (both by the author of the bestselling book THE RAPTURE PLOT, the most accurate and highest endorsed work on pretrib rapture history - see Armageddon Books).

Marc,

I want to give a fair reply to your questions. I cannot do you justice right now, but will draft my reply and copy over to this forum in the next couple of days.

My beginning argument will be to demonstrate that Evolution is one of many systems used by Atheists attempting simply to deny God. Evolution itself will also be demonstrated at its root to be a "faith-based" system first, because it cannot be replicated to prove itself and second, that there are many areas of the natural world that it cannot explain and thus disproves itself as a valid theory and must be reassessed and modified to become a new theory to be tested. I hope to fully show that through iterative modifications we arrive at Evolution as a faith-based system that eventually drives the reasonable man to acknowledge God or the unreasonable man to deny God based on emotion.

Finally, I will seek to a treatment of Atheism as a “non-existence” – something that disproves itself for in defining god or God as an authority that creates rules and governs reality in a particular realm (whether personal or universal) means that to deny the universal God is merely replacing Him with another god - the State, society, self, etc. So no one can really be an Atheist, because there is ALWAYS at least a [little “g”] god to decide the rules.

I will attempt to present sufficient examples, absent from emotion and beginning from the “no God” presupposition, in hopes that you can see the logic and reason of the argument through the emotion this topic evokes...though from my Christian worldview, I acknowledge the required superintendence of THE God for you to actually see!

Christians among Patriots, pray that I treat this subject with due diligence!!

Rob Risko,

I will read with an open mind whatever you present. However, you must recognize that I am already aware of your bias - I hope that does not bias me in reading what your provide. I will respond now to the comments you have just made.

First, evolution is a proven fact (well within the bounds of statistical significance). Really. If you are truly interested in the subject, I refer you to the podcast series "Evolution 101". He does a meticulous job of explaining the concepts, the use of fossil records, DNA, and other methods, etc. Each episode is short (about 10 minutes) and made for the lay-person, so you don't need a PhD to understand. I have always accepted evolution, but, I did not realize how definitive the science is on the matter until I listened to that series. Listen to a few with an open mind.

Second, I'd suggest you don't over-complicate or over analyze theories about atheism. The concept is very simple - the logic against the existence of the supernatural (devils, gods, demons, goblins, leprechauns, the tooth fairy, witches, angels, etc) overwhelmingly outweighs evidence thereof. We can debate morality, who makes the rules, the need for a "god", emotions, etc. But, I disagree with your comment that "no one can really be an atheist." I am an atheist because I simply do not believe in the supernatural.

Be aware that I was raised in a very religious, Christian household, went to a Christian high school, and attended church regularly through my early 20s. My family is (mostly) still religious. I know what it is like to believe in god and I also understand firsthand the pressures, socially, business-wise, dating relationships, etc, to "tow the party line". However, there comes a time when a man needs to step back and not be afraid to think critically about the claims of religion, the history, the facts, and the evidence, then draw objective conclusions, and not simply continue to depend on one worldview (the one you claim).

I look forward to your additional comments.

Marc, sir,

Like you, I come from a "religious" family. But also, like you, I examined that religion critically and discovered that what I was taught was shallow because it failed to view the foundation properly and completely. It was presented without naming the facts on which it was based. It was not that the religion itself was wrong but that it lacked the explicit mentioning of what made it True. Evolution operates in much the same way, except its assumptions are not to be challenged as if it is in some way above reproach or exempt from modification.

Like you, I was "instructed" in Evolution independent of any critical thought of placing it along side equally (and perhaps more) reasonable "theories". Might I suppose that unlike you (from your own admission), God preserved me in the faith and strengthened it by ensuring I reasoned not only through Evolutionary ideas but also was tempered by His Word and counter-arguments that agree with His Word? In that, He was confirmed and glorified and human inventions were revealed as foolish deceit for me. I think this is evident to any Christian through their life and experiences that God preserves. By ignoring other possibilities, the reeducation into Evolution is itself biased and its indoctrination method is the same deceit of leftist socialist communists: suggestive statements crafted from unnamed presuppositions without presentation of differing views that might reveal its debase nature such that the listener is left with a receptive and weak mind.

Though we all get emotional about what we believe, it is our responsibility as intellectual beings to assess our emotions through reason as we are challenged by others. So I’m going to challenge some widely ASSUMED evolutionary truths. First, Evolution has as its fundamental presupposition that there is no God. This forces a specific solution to the “problem” of where everything came from. And chance is the solution for this particular theory, random chance. Second, evolution presupposes that disorder can result in order, though the world around us indicates precisely the opposite (entropy) – especially for the formation of chemical which is the first incremental development of Evolution. Immediately we have difficulties with evolutionary theory because it’s fundamental assumptions are not provable and are not, in fact, a reflection of the reality that we live in. At this point, you may be tempted to counter with “well you can’t prove there is a God” but let’s remember that we are looking now at Evolution without our defensive emotions that would attempt to cause us to look at the right hand while the left is robbing us blind. If we “follow the facts wherever they lead” (as Carl Sagan deceitfully said Atheists and Evolutionists would do in “COSMOS”), then we should have no need to answer your question because Evolution will be a self-validating theory – though we have already seen errors in the presupposition that will eventually lead us to conclude that something else must be more accurate than this present theory. If Evolution fails in just one area, by scientific principles, it fails completely and must be rejected, amended, or accepted on faith.

So maintaining a focus on evolution, we look objectively at the evidence proceeding from the significant presuppositions that Evolution creates (though we should in fact abandon or modify it on those false assumptions alone if we follow scientific principle). We find that it drives the researcher to certain conclusions. Mathmeticians have become opponents of Evolution because of probabilities and mathematical order that render it completely unreasonable. And math as the foundation of science cannot be ignored without resigning to faith as the ultimate foundation of Evolution. Molecular biology has also revealed numerous examples that invalidate Evolution. The solution for evolutionists is to use the magic wand of time to keep the theory viable. It used to be hundreds of thousands of years. Then it was millions of years. Now the time required is hundreds of millions of years. Still, Evolution theorists have failed to discover missing links that prove the kind of incremental steps of one species becoming another species occurred. And looking critically at carbon dating, the “science” of carbon dating was developed by using the fossil record to provide the approximate time for the reduction of C-14 which is in turn used to date the fossils. This type of circular reasoning can never hold up in a court of science or reason.

So you will certainly say that my bias prevents me from seeing, but I say it is the bias of Evolution that caused me to see the root error of Evolution so clearly that each occurrence is like a neon warning sign. How can any portion of a flagellum motor function (http://www.annualreviews.org/eprint/cDJrS190m62mDRwHrlp9/full/10.1146/annurev.biochem.72.121801.161737)? It must be assembled inside-out in the precise order necessary for it to function. How long might it take for a DNA to develop that could produce just one of the numerous proteins necessary to construct the motor? And until we have all of those proteins, how many immobile flagellum bacteria would have to exist as “weaker” organisms until the motor could even be conceptualized? (But no one is conceptualizing the motor because there is no creative force in Evolution except chance so we have to trust that by chance all of those proteins develop (through DNA) and that all of the components form in the right sequence and all of them stop forming, by chance, at the right time so the motor is a motor and the propeller is an impeller.) How long did it take DNA to form in the appropriate sequences for life? And how long did it take for all of the molecular machines to develop to get DNA through RNA through construction of a protein at the right time and then delivered to the right place in a cell to sustain the life of the cell? (Which begs the RECENT question that confuses so many: which came first, the chicken or the egg? I know the answer…the chicken! – Genesis 1:22) How many wrong strands of DNA would be required to stumble on the right sequence of the motor being functional before the bacteria ceased to exist (its life span is )? That implies that each of those wrong strands exist in sufficient quantity to attempt those millions of iterations. And for each enzyme to have formed would take so many more than hundreds of millions of years that we can more easily imagine and infinite God. Perhaps that is the answer: it would take INFINITY to have evolution to a simple enzyme. As we exist within infinity, it is impossible then that the complexity of the world around us could have evolved by this point, unless we are literally on the verge of the end of infinity, but then it would not be infinity would it because it ended, but would instead have a prescribed end such that we might expect something exists outside the continuum that we call "time". Or do we accept that we just all cease to exist and there is nothing else and this great herculean incrementalism of evolution was for no one and nothing, which is itself unreasonable to the reasoning mind and an act of faith alone.

Another example of the failure of Evolution to explain life is the bombardier beetle. You may say: “but all of the components exist in other beetle species?” True, but how is this species so unique as to combine the components into a weapon? How could it have evolved different and not be SO superior that the other beetles no longer exist as “weaker” victims of evolutionary progress. This amazing creature must internally develop chemicals in the right quantities and at the right time and have all of the plumbing in place to disperse these chemicals that burst in an explosion once combined to thwart its enemies. How many beetles must have incrementally and accidentally allowed the chemicals to mix inside it such that it exploded before the plumbing evolved in just the right way? And when the first one exploded, do you think that was self-critiquing and the strong ones that did not try something so stupid became the survivors? Why would these insane variations continue to try and evolve? The whole species would be extinct long before the proper production system was discovered by chance unless another millions of years saw the evolution of another bombardier beetle through the same extraordinary sequence of chance that the first experienced – and what are the astronomical odds of that occurring? INFINITY. And remember, the beetle has no concept of this defense mechanism. This must be evolved by chance (likely due to some predator that cause the evolutionary process to be trigger).

(This is not yet my full treatment as I am clearly approaching the subject from my bias as you have made clear your bias.)

How is it that we have so many species in the first place? Evolution is based on the principle of natural selection: that something in a genetic deviation is better than a previous iteration such that "the strong survive". So if one newly developed alteration is better, why do we have any residual species? Most would classify humans as the most advanced form of reasoning life. By the evolutionary theory, that resulted from the best incremental modifications where the strongest survived. So why are humans not the only form of life? And how did one organic life form that resulted in a tree - a less advance form of life than humans - also result in the higher form of life a human? And why don't we have a photosynthesis capability? That seems like a much more refined system of nutrition (and almost endless with the presence of the sun) than this silly thing we call “work” that we must do to eat...and then produce waste which produces more work to dispose of the waste?

And why do Evolutionists not live out their creed? STOP THIS CHARITY STUFF? Evolution requires that we murder the weak and infirmed so that the strong can survive! Oh wait, that’s what Planned Parenthood is for!!! Evolutionists cannot even live out their own faith without contradiction because it is even abhorrent to most of them to acknowledge the true implications of their beliefs!

Certainly you will not be satisfied with my treatment thus far. The contradictions and deceit is clear to those whom God has revealed them. The fact that you have not accepted the truth to this point does not mean God won’t be gracious to you one day. His Truth is clearly presented in His Scripture and whereas this self-validating True Faith (Intelligent Designer/Creator) is more reasonable and easier to recognize than the self-destroying Evolutionary theory, I look forward to continuing this discussion with you in hopes that light will shine through the darkness that others have created. Some will see the plain truth and some will dim their eyes and harden their hearts to the truth that nature reveals. Who can explain this? Only God!

Provocative yet shallow and one sided as usual Mr. Alexander. But good propaganda material full of (raw meat) for your Republican readers. The anti evolutionists, Racist, militant religious, Republican base really loves your Anti Obama ( not as you state unbiased) commentaries. I'm sure we al long for the glorious Republican Leadership that got us in to this mess.

Liberal/leftist/socialist/communists are like the Pharisees. Instead of recognizing their own error and engaging in meaningful conversation, when confronted with the truth they resort to ridicule. (Luke 16:13-14)

Thanks chris

Dear mr. Robert Risko,

As an atheist i try to be as open to every point of view as i can. Obviously my world perspective is different than yours. But was'nt it Christ who spread the first socialist, leftist,communist gospel such as feed the poor, cloth the naked, and more of that welfare state rhetoric, or am i wrong again?

In this case, you are wrong in "socialist, leftist, communist" because it relates to government which does not have authority in governing the heart but only in restraining behavior. Christ was not speaking to the state, but to individuals – His elect. But you have spoken a truth, without knowing it, in citing examples of charity that are required of the individual and of Christ's Church.

Of course, God’s Word also says “repent and believe” in Jesus Christ and "If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat" and "with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you" and "They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands." This is not socialist, leftist or communist in the manner that you imply where it is also written "You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another" and again "you shall not steal" and "If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep."

In none of these cases does this duty fall to government control and requirements but is a moral requirement that is based on the inward heart and is in the authority of God alone to command. To take one command and apply it correctly requires the understanding and context of ALL of God’s Word. Socialism, leftist, and communism (as state systems) seek to violate the very first Law of God “You shall have no other gods before me” by setting themselves up as gods to determine the role of commanding and restricting liberties and stealing the work of one persons hands to give to another. But this is decidedly not the Christian interpretation of the commands of God that Christianity and our Founders patterned our representative and restricted government from.

Though I am to follow God’s Law (as is all of mankind for “they are without excuse”), by not ascribing to Christianity yourself you have abandoned any foundation by which to speak with authority on these matters. God will perform that function which is His as will my Christian brothers and sisters who are His because, even though you do not have authority as an atheist, I still have an obligation as a Christian and appreciate reminders to be charitable for I am not perfect. Only One forever IS.

If you would acknowledge this command of Christ to charity, then let yourself also acknowledge them ALL and give yourself over to them for otherwise you have a log in your own eye that you do not perceive and relinquish all authority to expect me to live by a Law that you reject. You cannot have it both ways, sir.

Rob Risko,

I appreciate the time you spent on your responses about evolution. However, being blunt, you have simply presented standard talking points which generally misrepresent, and show misunderstanding of, evolutionary theory. The points you have presented have been soundly rebutted by science. Realize that science is not a religion, as some try to portray it. It does not have an agenda to save souls. It is a method of applying logic, reason, and experimentation in an effort to understand and explain our world and our universe. It is true that scientific theories change and are refined as better evidence comes to light. However, with the discussion of evolution, religious folks do not provide better evidence, but rather, create thought experiments which attempt to convince the less-than-skeptical of how god and the bible provide the true answers. I assure you, if experimentally-verifiable evidence was discovered that proved with statistical significance the existence of the supernatural or a god, it would be the greatest scientific discovery of all time. That evidence has not been provided to-date. If you are truly interested in responses to your points, I again refer you to the podcast Evolution 101. And, while I suspect you wont enjoy the read because it will hit too close to home for you, Atheist Universe by David Mills treats the subject quite well.

Regarding your last paragraphs, a few points. First, you use the label "evolutionist", I'm assuming, to refer to everyone who accepts evolution. Do you refer to those who accept gravity as gravitists or gravitationalists? Or those who accept that the earth is a sphere as spherists or, perhaps more accurately, as oblate spheroidalists? The assigning of a moniker to those who who accept evolution (about 97% of the scientific community) is part of a strategy to create a genre to which attributes can be attached, such as "godless", "leftist", "close-minded", etc. Generally, the left plays these games more effectively than the right (such as labeling abortion a "choice", and those who oppose abortion, as "anti-choice"). But they are games, nonetheless, and, when I see such, I always look further to find the hidden agenda. So, you then raise the question of why evolutionists do not live out their creed. What "creed" is this? I am not aware of a "creed" to which "evolutionists" subscribe, particularly an uncharitable creed that you question. Consistent with my previous comments, you are trying to create a genre, called "evolutionist", to which you are assigning generalized attributes. But, let me assure you, that the ranks of those who accept evolutionary theory, as those who accept gravitational theory, are populated by humanists, Christians, atheists, Jews, liberals, conservatives, whites, blacks, Muslims, Asians, straights, homosexuals, libertarians, blondes, brunettes, and redheads. I, myself, am a white, right-of-center libertarian, straight, atheist, and pro-life. Am I a standard evolutionist?

Also, and you were not too offensive in this regard, unlike Ruth Ann in other discussions we have had, but, I need to point out how our differences in perspective lead us to approach these discussions. You have a belief in a god and an afterlife. I do not. As such, it makes no difference to me if I convert you to my beliefs other than that I believe that you would come closer to the truth. However, you/religious folks have a different perspective (I don't want to put words in your mouth so I am presenting my perspective of your perspective). Not only do you disagree with atheists, but you believe that we are evil and damned, and that we are dangerous and represent a threat. This gives you a perspective of a moral high ground. You have a mission to change or save us, or to eradicate the evil. Theistic religions necessarily lead to this mindset, and that leads to young men flying planes into buildings in the name of allah, to the inquisition, to missionary work, etc. Unlike non-religious debates where one hopes to convince the other of the truth of one's position, religious folks have a higher calling or mission. You must save me or destroy me, and any and all means are acceptable because you are doing this because god told you to. And this is the precisely the reason I comment here on The Patriot Post. The content of this website is mostly logical and well-presented, and advocates constitutional principles. When it is, and does, I find I am in agreement. However, due to the aforementioned religious mission, when it comes to issues of religion, The Patriot Post slightly alters its perspective from a true respecting of the constitution to an advocacy for Christianity. It becomes acceptable to violate the first amendment because we are a majority Christian nation. Its considered OK to have a statement about god on our currency because most Americans believe in god. This clearly ignores the fact that, as has been recognized on this website, we are NOT a democracy, which is majority/mob rule. The first amendment protections are there to protect the minority from the majority.

So (again my perspective on yours), you feel you have a mission to shine the light on my darkness in the hopes that someday I may be saved. Most Christians with whom I have engaged on these pages typically end with a wish or prayer that I "see the light" or have an "ah ha moment", showing complete disrespect and disdain for my beliefs. And the fact is, you do disrespect my beliefs, and I'm OK with that. But the difference is, I stick to my efforts to discuss the involvement (or non-involvement) of government in religion. While I do not hide my beliefs, I do not try to convert other readers to atheism. I do not end my comments with disrespectful statements such as "I wish that one day you will see the evil of Christianity and change from the error of your ways." I do not advocate that we print "God Is A Myth" on our currency. In the grander sense, I attempt to ensure that the majority does not advocate trampling on the rights of all Americans. On the pages of The Patriot Post, I simply attempt to point out when the message of American patriotism strays to Christian preaching.

Marc,

From your second paragraph, by evolutionist I mean those who ascribe to one of the theories of evolution that life incrementally, by chance and survival of the fittest, developed and morphed so that one species became another species until we arrived at the variety of genetic composition such that humans are the only reasoning species and no distinct species can procreate with another distinct species. I am not speaking of the very limited case of “evolution” which is more appropriately called “adaptation”. Darwin attempted to apply “adaptation” in the broader sense of evolution that is taught in government educational institutions today. Variations in the species he observed have not been found to result in a complete and different species. The links between those two genetically incompatible species have not been found by the thousands as Darwin said would be required to definitively prove his theory. “Survival of the fittest” is the basic doctrine of Darwinian evolution. The strong survive and if evolution is to continue, the strong must survive at the expense of the weak. This is UNcharitable whereas charity requires the strong to defend the weak.

Where you say “you believe that we are evil and damned, and that we are dangerous and represent a threat. This gives you a perspective of a moral high ground. You have a mission to change or save us, or to eradicate the evil” the Christian perspective has a specific foundation on which even your statement is built. It is true that God provides the moral ground on which a Christian is to base their life. It is true that anyone who rejects God is damned, not because I say so but because God says so. BUT it is NOT true that Christians believe themselves capable of saving anyone! Only God can rescue a sinner and He chooses that it is through the speaking of the truth to those that need rescuing. I need rescuing daily, not that I am daily “buying credit with God” but that I am incrementally seeing wrong thoughts and actions in my life (revealed by God) that I must wrestle with and abandon. Additionally, you have wrongly applied the position of Islam to Christianity. True Christians do NOT have their mission as eradicating evil through the slaughter of unbelievers BUT through the speaking of the truth so that they might INSTEAD become friends of God. The longer an unbeliever lives, the better for a Christian because it is more opportunity that they should hear and believe. If it comes to a survival situation between a Christian and an unbeliever, it should be the clear purpose of the Christian to sacrifice himself that the unbeliever might live long enough to hear the truth of God and be made a friend of God before that final Day of Judgment. That is the TRUE nature of Christianity. Islam is a different thing altogether and NOT akin to Christianity in any way. The god of Islam is NOT the God of reality!

I appreciate the civil discussion. I think your first paragraph is best summed up in your third paragraph statement where you “point out how our differences in perspective lead us to approach these discussions.” And that is the truth behind science. There is NOTHING we do that is not motivated by our faith, whether faith in God or faith in no god(s). If we study the world as Christians who believe that “it is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of king is to search a matter out” (P), then we approach the very nature of science with an understanding that the world can be definitively understood. If we approach the world as if there is no logical and reasoned plan from which that world was created and all is chance, then chance produces randomness that has only surface order and all is, in reality, disorder miraculously arranged in an orderly way. For your benefit, I do not use “miraculous” to inject God into randomness but to highlight the astronomically impossible odds that randomness could result in any state of orderliness and complexity that is exhibited in creation. But again, we are back to our foundational beliefs.

It was from the foundation that we could discover the way things work within science that we have the amazing inventions of modern society. There are exceptions where non-Christians discovered applications for the world around them, but even they (to a point) began from the United States cultural understanding that there is a Supreme Being (we call God) that has ordered the world in a way that discoveries could be made, that we have a Divine privilege and responsibility for stewardship. In that, we find the positive (instead of the current cultures worldly “guilt”) for “being green” and “advancing knowledge” and “seeking peace”. But also in that framework, the Christian finds the reasons for “Just War” and “limited government” and “individual liberty” (including “freedom of religion”) because not everyone begins from the foundation of “God” and God does not reveal His Special Revelation to every heart. Yet, from the Biblical point of view, we also know that what is plain in creation (most would say nature) is that there is order and design and complexity that cannot be explained except by suppressing the truth of a Designer/Creator. And in this, no one is without excuse in that final day when eternity begins in judgment.

This is the reason Christians attempt to discuss these matters with everyone! It is not to be difficult but is, for the true Christian, because what God has revealed in the Bible and individually to the inward heart of the Christian they recognize the extreme danger of unbelief...the eternal danger. It is, for the true Christian, a labor of LOVE to bear with unbelievers and talk plainly and clearly about what they know to be true in the hopes that others would be won by God through the speaking of true things, wishing that not any should perish.

I am not concerned about reviewing the resources you cite. If my faith is so shallow that it cannot answer the charges presented, then I would of course need to rethink my faith. I would ask you to try something for a week that doesn’t involve reading or watching anything. Having been stationed in Germany for the past six years, I found the radio programming lacking so I would occasionally drive the 20 minutes to/from work without “noise”. Try to give yourself just one week of quiet as you drive to work, 5 minutes of 45 minutes...just try to live without noise for that period for one week. This is not some wacky meditation technique or jedi mind trick. Just enjoy the quiet, the lack of constant input and distraction to just have peace. I don’t know that you will enjoy it or end thinking that it was a waste of time, but the impact of culture through the “noise” is real. Let me know how it goes (rob@riskofamily.com).

You might say I’m insane (and Christians would give me a stern warning and definitely say I’m insane), but I felt I was alone two nights ago. I felt God had abandoned me. So I told Him I would focus on the one person and treat her as “god” since He had left me and that I wouldn’t pay Him any mind. I LITERALLY lost my breath. I could not breath...I spent the next hour explaining to Him why He didn’t exist and why I should just rely on my wife as the only one to stick with me through my sinfulness and selfishness and that I would just live as if He had never spoken to me. It was the worst night of sleep I have gotten since before He revealed Himself to me. I spent all night in a struggle with Him and the next day was more lonely than I have known for years even though I was surrounded by people. I realized and confessed my sin to Him because He was with me all along and I was only alone when I tried to deny Him.

And I insane to argue with someone who isn’t there? Is it fake that I LITERALLY couldn’t breathe? God has made His presence with me COMPLETELY CLEAR and TRUE! Is that pride and selfish to say that? Not at all. I don’t wish for anyone to live without that realization and presence. I know the truth of it and am humbled that I had to be so insane to realize the sanity of God. In the end, you and I will always come back to our fundamental beliefs as they have been revealed to us. Those beliefs will always guide our thoughts on life, interaction with others, interpretation of science, art, literature, religion, government and any other area of study. Am I selfish in desiring that God would gain the glory in receiving an atheist to Himself? It accomplishes nothing for me and everything for God! But even if He were to leave you to yourself, His justice is glorified in that we have had this discussion and you have been heard and have heard.

PatriotPost discussions are the proper place for this type of exchange. It is my faith that reveals the foundation of what is spoken here. The U.S. Constitution is just empty words without the Declaration of Independence. And the Declaration of Independence is just empty words without “Nature’s God”. There is an ultimate source of truth that is the foundation for all that is which springs from the foundation of faith – it is either a wholly trustworthy God or Man.