.comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}

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.

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Reason TV’s Nanny of the Month is …

(By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air) - Reason TV had another round of tough choices for its Nanny of the Month in January 2011. I admit I hadn’t heard about the push to ban “beer pong” at bars in my former home city of Huntington Beach, California, but I did write about the creepy efforts to start random drug tests for middle-school children in a New Jersey district.  But instead of beer pong and adolescent urinalyses, Reason chose Carl Kruger of New York’s state senate, who wants to criminalize … distracted walking?

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home