How Much Unreported Income?

Ya know, I wasn’t going to address this SCHIP hysteria for a while. I really wasn’t. But in reading Michelle’s excellent piece just now, a thought occurrs that I think should be captured. The trigger:

What if I told you

Last July, Bitsblog re-posted a prayer appeal for Matthew Rager, who was afflicted with brain cancer.  We managed to get an update of that situation last night:

We are loading our car and hoping to leave in about an

Rick Moran, of the Right Wing Nut House, whom I have been taking to the woodshed with some degree of regularity of late :

I didn’t want to write about the SCHIP imbroglio again today but frankly, I find

If this isn’t yet another example of what health care would be like is run by the government…

 WASHINGTON —(AP)  Who cares if they’re free? Residents in the nation’s capital say the condoms being handed out have a serious problem.

The low down on HillaryCareII, it is not constitutional.  Mrs. Clinton analogies her plan to the several states requiring drivers to carry auto insurance.

Fine, states have such authority.  The federal government does not.  I am not interstate commerce, and

Mitt Romeny calls Mrs. Clinton, what she is, a Marxist (video).   Some leftards, T.W. Furman, TPM Cate for one, are none too happy about it..  Furman thinks this Mrs. Clinton quote refutes Romney:

Now, there is no greater force

Bash a couple stories together and you come up with interesting results.
Captain Ed, this morning says

What are the causes of terrorism? Many would have them as poverty, a lack of education, and little exposure to Western values.

I’m not noted for agreeing with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals(PETA), but when you’re riight, you’re right.  PETA is right:

there’s an elephant in the room, and it is you. With all due respect, no one can help

I mean if we are going to have Mommy Dearest tell us “we are going to have to take better care ourselves” then let’s ban homosexual activity. Male homosexual activity. That is still, 25 years later, the way AIDS is

A number of thoughts occur, with regards to the fiasco at Walter Reed.

The Democrats would be wise not to hit this one too hard. First, because this stuff has been going on since the last time they were on

What do watermelons hate above all else? Modern sanitation. So this story goes long way to explain the eviromental wakco’s hatred of us. We wipe.

Every Briton flushes 17.6 kilos (39lb) of toilet paper down the lavatory every year,

Cuba is neither a free nor open society.   Yet Cuba is home to the left’s most adored healthcare system.   A healthcare system which seems to killing its revered leader.   If Fidel Castro is actually still alive, and dies, I

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8 —New York Times-  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday proposed extending health care coverage to all of California’s 36 million residents as part of a sweeping package of changes to the state’s huge, troubled health care system.

Paul Elias offers an interesting article on embryonic stem cells.   It may be possible to havest them from the amniotic fluid in the womb to obtain cells without killing a living human being.   Now amniotic fluid stem cells would have

Author unknown:

There’s a sucker born every minute

New York State governor Eliot “Phineas Taylor” Spitzer must believe there are 19,254,630 of them.

P.T. gave his first address to the New York State legislature, giving with one hand while taking