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William J. Bennett served as Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President George H. W. Bush and as Secretary of Education and Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under President Reagan. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from Williams College, a doctorate in political philosophy from the University of Texas, and a law degree from Harvard. He is the author of such bestselling books as The Educated Child, The Death of Outrage, The Book of Virtues, and the two-volume series America: The Last Best Hope. Dr. Bennett is the host of the nationally syndicated radio show Bill Bennett's Morning in America. He is also the... Read full bio

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Nuture Thankfulness in Your Child
The Dollar Stretcher, November 6, 2009
...my children learn to be thankful by the way I live my life before them. After all, as William Bennett said in his book, The Moral Compass: Stories for a Life's Journey , 'Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.' As a...
Jim Rogers' new book: a gift for investors parents
CommodityOnline, October 6, 2009
...Rogers' A Gift to My Children should take pride of place among such staples of family reading as William Bennett's The Book of Virtues, Conn Iggulden's Dangerous Book for Boys, and parents' personally cherished books of inspiration and wisdom. A Gift to...
William Bennett at the Values Voter Summit
Dakota Voice, September 21, 2009
...Author and radio host Bill Bennett said there have been some interesting developments over the past year: in January they (meaning liberals) had us surrounded, but now we have them on the run. Bennett is a former Secretary of Education and wrote the...
Irving Kristol, godfather of neoconservatism, dies
Journal-News, September 19, 2009
...turn to the right joined by countless others, including such future GOP Cabinet officials as Jeane Kirkpatrick and William Bennett and another neoconservative founder, Norman Podhoretz. "The influence of Irving Kristol's ideas has been one of the most...
Conservative Writer Irving Kristol Dies at 89
NewsMax.com, September 18, 2009
...turn to the right joined by countless others, including such future GOP Cabinet officials as Jeane Kirkpatrick and William Bennett and another neoconservative founder, Norman Podhoretz. 'The influence of Irving Kristol's ideas has been one of the most...
Irving Kristol, known as godfather of American neo-conservatism, dead at 89
Metronews, September 18, 2009
...turn to the right joined by countless others, including such future Republican Cabinet officials as Jeane Kirkpatrick and William Bennett and another neoconservative founder, Norman Podhoretz. "The influence of Irving Kristol's ideas has been one of the...
Irving Kristol, 'Godfather' of Neo-Conservatism, Dies at 89
FOXNews.com, September 18, 2009
...turn to the right joined by countless others, including such future GOP Cabinet officials as Jeane Kirkpatrick and William Bennett and another neo-conservative founder, Norman Podhoretz. He was a flagship in the network of think tanks, media outlets and...
Irving Kristol, known as godfather of neo-conservatism, dead at 89
Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 18, 2009
...turn to the right joined by countless others, including such future GOP Cabinet officials as Jeane Kirkpatrick and William Bennett and another neo-conservative founder, Norman Podhoretz. He was a flagship in the network of think tanks, media outlets and...
Political writer Irving Kristol dead at 89
Myrtle Beach Sun News, September 18, 2009
...turn to the right joined by countless others, including such future GOP Cabinet officials as Jeane Kirkpatrick and William Bennett and another neo-conservative founder, Norman Podhoretz. He was a flagship in the network of think tanks, media outlets and...
International Investor Jim Rogers New Book is a Great Pick for Parents
Street Insider, September 10, 2009
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Death of Mehsud
The Nation, August 10, 2009
...poll funded by Americans for Victory Over Terrorism (a project by Empower.org) and former Secretary of Education William Bennett. Considered by Empower America to be 'the single most extensive survey of college students' attitudes about terrorism, the...
Woe is them: Debauched revels of a dying American civilization
Toronto Star Online, August 2, 2009
...the outrage business. The modern outrage business the profitable publication of jeremiads actually goes back at least to William Bennett's foxily titled 1998 book, The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals. But judging by the...
Bad Moon Rising - Book Review by Jimmy Montague
Atlantic Free Press, July 22, 2009
...favors to people such as Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Jesse Helms, Jack Kemp, William Bennett, Ralph Reed, Jerry Falwell, Karl Rove, organizations such as Empower America, The Heritage Foundation, and a host of other big-league...
The Girl From Ipanema
Scoop, June 28, 2009
...hypocrisy,' explained Times writer S.A. Miller on Thursday. 'It happened when conservative pundit and former drug czar William Bennett was discovered in 2003 to be a gambler. In the late 1990s, during and after their pursuit of President Clinton on...
Why Is the Religious Right Obsessed With Other People's Sex Lives?
AlterNet.org, March 4, 2009
...the Best Friends Foundation, a character and abstinence education program founded in 1987 by Elayne Bennett, wife of William Bennett, who was Secretary of Education at the time. Ms. Bennetts success in fundraising in both the private and public domains...
U.S. Media Pollution Killing Civil Society
Atlantic Free Press, March 4, 2009
...The first time I heard Rush Limbaugh on the radio a decade or so ago I thought he was a brilliant satirist. Then I found out he wasn?t kidding. Or is he? Either Limbaugh, Hannity, O?Reilly and the other media flamers talk their trash merely to create...
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The Independent, December 30, 2008
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Czar Wars
Slate, December 29, 2008
...those initiatives through. Nixon succumbed to czarmania, appointing the first 'drug czar,' Jerome Jaffe, in 1971 (long before William Bennett took the mantle in 1988). But it was the title of 'energy czar' that got the most attention during those days of...
Rowling's 'Beedle' creates more magic
Pittsburgh Tribune Review, December 14, 2008
...the value of being a good neighbor. For a brief, horrifying second, you wonder: Why is Rowling channeling William Bennett's moralistic 'Children's Book of Virtues?' Dumbledore to the rescue. Of the first story, he notes, 'A simple and heartwarming fable,...
Once again, Rowling puts readers under her spell
Clarion-Ledger, December 8, 2008
...the value of being a good neighbor. For a brief, horrifying second, you wonder: Why is Rowling channeling William Bennett's moralistic Children's Book of Virtues? Dumbledore to the rescue. Of the first story, he notes, 'A simple and heartwarming fable,...
'Harry Potter' Fans Find New Fix in 'Bard'
WJRT TV, December 7, 2008
...the value of being a good neighbor. For a brief, horrifying second, you wonder: Why is Rowling channeling William Bennett's moralistic Children's Book of Virtues? Dumbledore to the rescue. Of the first story, he notes, 'A simple and heartwarming fable,...
Rowling creates yet more magic in 'Bard'
USA Today, December 4, 2008
...the value of being a good neighbor. For a brief, horrifying second, you wonder: Why is Rowling channeling William Bennett's moralistic Children's Book of Virtues? Dumbledore to the rescue. Of the first story, he notes, 'A simple and heartwarming fable,...
Intellectual bankruptcy
Political Animal, October 4, 2009
...believes Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism" is an intellectual text, and he believes Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved, and William Bennett are "brainiacs" with "popular" talk shows. Hayward is also impressed with Glenn Beck's reading habits and choice of...
Why Kristol Mattered to World Affairs Watchers
Globo Diplo, September 18, 2009
...turn to the right joined by countless others, including such future GOP Cabinet officials as Jeane Kirkpatrick and William Bennett and another neoconservative founder, Norman Podhoretz. via The Associated Press: Political writer Irving Kristol dead at...
You Can Judge a Book By Its Title
James Wolcott's Blog, August 7, 2009
...the nation, No Apology: The Case for American Greatness . How stale. It sounds so 90's, like something William Bennett would have crapped out between Vegas jaunts . The sort of book--no, I think the word I want is "tome"--that inevitably quotes with...
Barack Obama’s Book of Virtues
The Immanent Frame, May 27, 2009
...to Sasha and Malia. Though there is no evidence that he ever did, there are striking parallels between William Bennett’s book and Obama’s speech. Six out of the ten virtues listed in Bennett’s table of contents were mentioned in the Inaugural...
Palin’s deal crafted by book agent to the political stars
Anderson Cooper 360, May 13, 2009
...Obama, Oliver North, Bill Clinton, Lynne Cheney Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bob Woodward, Tim Russert, George Will, Art Buchwald, William Bennett, Tony Blair and Queen Noor of Jordan. Barnett is a partner at Williams and Connolly, the Washington firm that...
Gingrich Either Ignorant Or A Chinese Ally: Dem Rep
The Almost Daily Binx, May 13, 2009
...Newt Gingrich, along with William Bennett, Tom Delay, G. Gordon Liddy and host of other disgraced and/or criminally charged and/or convicted felons – have been fronting for neo-con benefactors for years. These are Right Wing...
The Sexual Politics of Meat? Identificatory community, becoming animal, electronic music
Acheron LV-426, April 28, 2009
...sense I get whenever I listen to a power electronics album, such as Whitehouse's Great White Death . William Bennett & co. continually draw on transgressive, misogynistic tropes, all wrapped in a shattering wall of noise . I've read enough interviews...
Identificatory community, becoming animal, electronic music
Acheron LV-426, April 28, 2009
...sense I get whenever I listen to a power electronics album, such as Whitehouse's Great White Death . William Bennett & co. continually draw on transgressive, misogynistic tropes, all wrapped in a shattering wall of noise . I've read enough interviews...
Wendell Berry, conservative hero
bazzfazz, March 6, 2009
...in more interesting directions than their predecessors, certainly in the case of people my own age, who think William Bennett is conservative. My own thinking here is a bit muddled, I admit, since I have certainly felt no need to call myself conservative...
It's A Relief, Being A Dullard Hack [Ten Humans]
Deadspin, March 3, 2009
...that makes it totally OK! I personally would love the Cabinet office of Line Setting. May I nominate William Bennett for Secretary? (UPDATE: Sorry, Rep. Polis! ) Rex Grossman . Obviously, it's impossible to blame the Bears or their fans for doing...
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MoneyBlogNetwork (powered by pfblogs.org), February 14, 2009
...connected with the foundation of the United States of America.  I’ve heard and read things by William Bennett before and I enjoy his perspective on our national heritage.  So I was intrigued to investigate this newest book. I like the cover and the...
Maya Angelou is a Colossal Blowhard
abdpbt, January 28, 2009
...just as easily be talking about Gloria Alred. Or Tyra Banks. Or Quentin Tarantino. Or Tom Cruise. Or William Bennett. Or Chrysse Hynde. Or Susan Sarandon. Or Tim Robbins. Or Sean Penn. Hmm. Maybe I should do a list? EDIT: Check out this David Allen Grier...
Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe Coming February 2 as Ubben Lecturer
DePauw University News, January 10, 2009
...Lecturers have included: Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Elie Wiesel, Mikhail Gorbachev, Benazir Bhutto, Gen. Colin Powell, Shimon Peres, William Bennett, John Major, Andrew Young, Paul Volcker, Naomi Wolf, General Wesley Clark, ice cream entrepreneurs...
‘The American Patriot’s Almanac’ by William Bennett
Mark Levin Fan, December 2, 2008
...Mark Levin interviewed William Bennett about ‘ The American Patriot’s Almanac : Daily Readings on America’ (Hardcover), his latest book...
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