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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, September 18, 2008

Teach Your Children — What?

By John Hood
Carolina Journal Online

RALEIGH –
Among the defects of putting North Carolina’s state government into the gambling business was it turned state officials into the fiscal equivalent of vultures. For the state lottery to produce more revenue, its operators must persuade more North Carolinians to become losers and suffer the consequences.

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