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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

State may rue rush to pass lottery bill

From Paul O'Connor, a Winston-Salem Journal columnist:

Mother told us, "Haste makes waste." At the General Assembly, as I reported last week, legislators waste a lot of time on silly bills while rushing through important ones. Last week, evidence supporting that observation became even clearer as the Senate sat down to take a good look at the House-passed lottery bill.

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