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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.

Friday, November 09, 2007

Politics of Warming

(Fox News) - Global warming may be the enemy in the eyes of delegates to the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference — but the warm weather of a tropical resort apparently doesn't sound so bad.

U.N. staffers and others will fly the 10,000 miles from U.N. headquarters in chilly New York to Bali, Indonesia in December — at what is billed as the island's, "most luxurious hotel and resort" — which features amenities such as sailing, snorkeling and kayaking.

U.N. policy permits staffers to travel in high-priced business class for long haul flights — tickets to Bali go for between $4,700 and more than $10,000 — on planes that emit tons of carbon dioxide… on their way to the resort — for the conference that is scheduled to last almost two weeks.

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