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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, January 15, 2007

MLK Abolished Slavery?

Fox News

The results of a University of Connecticut's Department of Public Policy poll suggests that America's college students might need to brush up on their knowledge of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Although 81 percent of the students knew that the slain civil rights leader pursued quote, "racial justice and brotherhood," most of the remainder of the students believed that Dr. King was promoting an end to slavery. Slavery in the United States was officially abolished in 1865, some 98 years before Dr. King gave his famous "I Have a Dream," speech.

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