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Color Me Happy

May 3rd, 2011

By Nancy Morgan Color me happy. For the first time in over 10 years, crowds of Americans are waving flags and singing the Star Spangled Banner, celebrating an American victory — the death of bin Laden. Who’d a thunk? Just when I felt progressives had succeeded in turning America into a self-loathing, guilt ridden, multicultural […]

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Tags: death, justice, killing, Navy Seals, Osama bin Laden, presidential, pride
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Three Words We Need to Hear More in Politics

February 10th, 2011

By Dr. Jim Taylor You didn’t hear those three words from the liberals after their off-the-mark accusations of right-wing instigation of the Tucson tragedy. You didn’t hear them from Michele Bachmann after her history-revising Tea Party response to President Obama’s State of the Union speech. These three words are almost entirely absent from the political […]

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Tags: Bachmann, failure, political culture, pride, self-esteem, Tucson, wrong
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Ski Racing and Parenting: Fear of Total Failure

November 7th, 2010

By Dr. Jim Taylor In my very first Kids & Culture Alert! e-newsletter published in April of 2005, I discussed the sad epidemic of fear of failure that I found to be rampant in America at that time. Well, over five years later, fear of failure is still the most pervasive and debilitating issue among […]

Articles written by Dr. Jim Taylor
Tags: expectations, fear of failure, pride, regret, risk, ski racing, success
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