Cal Thomas - “Before government hijacked charity in the form of the New Deal and Great Society, compassion and charity began at home. People were to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit prisoners, care for widows and orphans and love their enemies. Those were biblical commands to individuals, not government. Democrat politicians see things differently. Apparently believing there aren’t enough caring people, they want compassion to originate in Washington, depriving it of its true meaning. They define compassion as big and ever-growing government and a guaranteed check forever with no expectation—or requirement—the recipient will ever better his or her circumstances.”

Mass. chaos over healthcare In a continuing ode to budgetary ineptitude, Massachusetts’ promises of controlled program costs for its mandatory healthcare plan have flat-lined. This misguided scheme has managed to cover only about half of the uninsured persons for whom it was intended, and it is costing far more per year than predicted. Instead of trying to rein in the runaway costs of the program by cutting overly generous benefits, the governor, in typical Democrat fashion, instead is proposing to impose additional taxes to make up for cost overruns. Governor Duval Patrick’s proposal to raise $100 million would confiscate about a third of that amount by requiring employers with more than 10 employees to pay at least a third of employee premiums within 90 days of hiring. Additionally, he would demand that at least a quarter of the employees be enrolled in an employer-sponsored insurance plan. As with previous attempts to impose arbitrary taxation schemes to fund a government-conceived universal health plan, the Massachusetts legislature will discover these tax ideas are forbidden by the federal government’s Employee Retirement Income Security Act. It’s time politicians start looking to balance budgets by cutting costs and correcting their mistakes, rather than passing them on to taxpayers.

D.C. Disses Supremes on Gun Law It shouldn’t have come as any surprise that the District of Columbia decided that it can and will continue to all but completely disarm its law-abiding citizens -- not even when it’s less than three weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled otherwise. After all, this is the same D.C. that was home to the most restrictive firearms laws in the country -- until the Court struck them down. The same D.C. that banned its law-abiding citizens from possessing any handgun. The same D.C. that forced its law-abiding citizens to keep the few firearms they could possess both unloaded and disassembled or locked at all times. In other words, the same D.C. that has disarmed its law-abiding citizens for decades despite achieving the title of “murder capital of the United States” and other dangerously dubious distinctions.

The Two Reasons We Must Stop Clinton And Obama Gun rights advocates considering skipping this November's presidential election should keep two things in mind--the Supreme Court and the United Nations.

Sen. Harry Reid Claims Judges Don’t Matter to Americans by Devon Williams, associate editor - Senate majority leader says nominees are 'not a big issue.' On the Senate floor today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., claimed the issue of judicial nominees doesn’t matter to Americans. “I’m telling you, Madam President, I can't ever remember going home and somebody saying, ‘Could you guys (confirm) some more judges? We need to take care of this judges problem.’ ” Reid said. “Frankly, judge(s) is not a big issue (compared) to all of the other problems we're facing in America.”

Iranian Women Declare War Against the Mullahs (Family Security Matters) - ...Iranian women had total equal rights and had fought a valiant battle to once again become partners of their men ... But it did not last long. By 1971, Iranian women had total equal rights and had fought a valiant battle to once again become partners of their men in running the affairs of the country. But it did not last long. Although Khomeini had, in an interview, announced to the Guardian and other media that women's rights will not change under his Islamic government, one of his first acts was repealing the laws that guaranteed the women's rights, re-imposing the Sharia laws. ...Since the establishment of the Islamic government in Iran in 1979, women have counted as one-half of a man. They do not get the custody of their children. They do not have the choice in their clothing, residence, leaving the house, working, education or traveling without the permission of their husband. The age at which girls are allowed to marry is nine. Men can divorce the women at any time they wish and can marry several wives in addition to them. Girls inherit one-half of that which boys do and so on. State-owned press reports that in Tehran, 120 women have been hung in public in the first five months of the Iranian year; that suicide among the women of Iran has been the highest in world history. ...A group of women attempted to establish a political party. They have been in the 209 - solitary - section of the dreaded Evin prison for the last nine months. Last year another group of women attempted to collect one million signatures against the unjust Mullah laws. Hundreds of women joined them nationwide in less than 48 hours to collect signatures, but they were all arrested, beaten and imprisoned. One year later on June 12th, 2008, nine more women were arrested from the crowd that had gathered in the town square commemorating the last year's arrests.