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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.

Monday, July 17, 2006

Gingrich Says World War III Has Begun

World War III has begun, and the nation's leadership is failing to deal with this reality, former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich concludes.

Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press with Tim Russert Sunday, Gingrich explained that "today is not the fifth day of the war, it's the 58th year of the effort by those who want to destroy Israel. As Ahmadinejad, the head of Iran, says, he wants to defeat the Americans and eliminate Israel from the face of the earth. So we should not see this event in isolation. There is an ... Iran/Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas alliance trying to destroy Israel."


Truth, rhetoric, or both? Is this the second wave of the Islamic migration and occupation begun by the Ottoman Turks in the middle ages? Some say yes, and some say we are as ill-prepared to stave it off as were the Europeans of that time. Anyone reading histories of Rome and Byzantium would find alarming similarities. Will we be witness to whole sections of Europe and the Americas occupied and living under Islamic laws and customs?

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