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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.

Thursday, October 04, 2007

Back on the Calendar

(Fox News) - We have two follow-ups from recent items:

Tuesday we told you the school district in Oak Lawn, Illinois had decided to stop celebrating Halloween and Christmas in order to avoid offending Muslims. A special public meeting was held Tuesday night and a decision was made to keep observing those days and add Ramadan to the list.

The Muslim parent who started the controversy says she never intended that the other holidays be scrapped.

And officials in Oakland are reacting to the story we told you Monday about U.S. Marines coming back from Iraq being prohibited from going into the Oakland Airport terminal during a re-fueling stop. The executive director of the Port of Oakland — which runs the airport — admits mistakes were made but says no disrespect was intended. And Oakland Democratic Mayor Ron Dellums — a retired Marine — has ordered an investigation and pledged the situation will never happen again.

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