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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.

Friday, July 22, 2005

British Police Shoot Man in Tube Station

From CNSNews.com:

British police shot and killed a suspected suicide bomber at a subway station in south London Friday morning. One passenger told the BBC, "We were on the Tube and then we suddenly heard someone say, 'Get out, get out,' and then we heard gunshots." Press reports said the shooting - a rare event in London -- happened at the Stockwell station; police were following the man and reportedly shot him after he jumped over a ticket turnstile, refused orders to stop, and leaped onto a waiting subway train. Police are hunting for four would-be bombers who fled after Thursday's failed bomb attacks on three subway trains and a bus, and the man killed this morning is believed to be one of them. Witnesses said he was wearing a bulky, padded jacket. In other news from London, a mosque on Whitechapel Road was briefly evacuated, following a reported bomb threat.

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