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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, September 24, 2007

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(Fox News) - A truck driver in Kent, England is suing the British government over its insistence that secondary school students be shown Al Gore's global warming movie, "An Inconvenient Truth."

The Daily Telegraph reports Stewart Dimmock — who is also serves as a school governor — says he is determined to prevent his children from being subjected to political spin in the classroom. And he says British law forbids, "the promotion of partisan political views in the teaching of any subject in the school." It also requires students be "offered a balanced presentation of opposing views."

The government has responded by saying it has asked teachers to offer balance to parts of the Gore movie where there is room for political debate and alternative views to claims not backed by undisputed scientific consensus.

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