Public Employees Comment by Congressman John Campbell

For decades, the assumption has been that government employees were paid less than their private sector counterparts. But the tradeoff was that the public sector jobs were more secure and  often times, you can't be fired without gross malfeasance. That has since changed. Big time. The American Enterprise Institute, just completed a study which showed that the average government employee now makes significantly more than their private sector counterparts when pensions, generous vacations, and other benefits are taken into account. Equivalent workers in the private sector only make half that much! This is on the heels of another study which showed that government employees now earn about 25% more than private sector workers in straight salary without taking benefits into account. And of course, the whole issue of it being harder to get fired in government is still true. So, if you work in the private sector and run into a friend who works for the government, ask them why you need to pay more taxes and sacrifice so that they can get paid double what you make?

Obama and Golf comment by Congressman John Campbell

I like golf, although I'm not very good at it. But I haven't played in almost 3 years because I just don't have the time. The first President Bush was widely criticized by the press for playing golf while soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines were fighting in the Gulf War. Accordingly, George W. Bush stopped playing golf after 9/11. President Obama has no such compunction. According to London's Daily Telegraph, Obama played 32 rounds of golf in his first 15 months in office, about the same as Bush 43 played in his entire 8 years in office. American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines are still fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Where is the press outrage?

Barbarians hang 7 year old "spy" _ Brought to you by the religion of peace…

Just in case you didn't grasp the sheer barbarity of the swine we face in Afghanistan, this ought to do the trick.

Taliban militants have executed a seven-year-old boy they accused of being a spy, it emerged today.

The child was abducted from his home and taken to a neighboring village where he was put on trial.
His captors found him guilty of working for the government.

The child was then hanged in public in the village of Heratiyan, in the southern Sangin district of Helmand province.

Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai condemned the act as a 'crime against humanity' if proved and said officials were investigating.

They also managed to kill 40 wedding guests with a suicide bomb. It is hard for believe that there is so little regard for human life among them, but they continually prove it and remind us what we are up against. You would think this would eventually cause the same kind of revulsion that led to the Anbar Awakening. Let's hope so.