[snip] Losing ground. From the Illinois Poverty Summit’s 2006 report: in 2000 about one in six Chicagoans was poor; in 2004, when the poverty level was around $19,000 for a family of four, the figure was about one in five.
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[snip] The L word. Prolific writer and blogger Andrew Sullivan supports Bush’s tax cuts and privatizing social security and opposes affirmative action and hate-crime laws. But because he opposes torture and incompetent war making, he’s being called a liberal by Bush backers. So are John McCain, Chuck Hagel, Bob Barr, and other card-carrying Republicans. Writing at glenngreenwald.blogspot.com, Glenn Greenwald reflects that these days the only criterion for labeling someone a liberal is “a failure to pledge blind loyalty to George W. Bush.”
[snip] Religion and morality don’t mix. The National Catholic Reporter reports on a national Pew Research Center survey taken in October. Asked when it’s OK to torture suspected terrorists, 42 percent of Catholics said “rarely” or “never,” as did 47 percent of white Protestants–and 57 percent of secularists.
