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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.

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Preachers of Perpetual Poverty

From Mark Tooley, United Methodist director at the Institute on Religion and Democracy in Washington, D.C.:

Claiming to represent 62 million Americans, U.S. religious officials at a Washington, D.C. press conference demanded more U.S. cash for impoverished Third World nations before they left for the first Transatlantic Forum on Global Poverty, over which the Archbishop of Canterbury presided.

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