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    Why Won't Obama Use His Magic Wand?

    MARCH 14, 2012 8:06AM

    By Frank Michels


    Topics: magical thinking, oil producers, economy, gas prices

    • 24 Ratings
    • 719 Views
    • 34 Comments
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    The Secret: Magical Thinking in the Age of Bad Parenting

    OCTOBER 30, 2011 5:33PM

    By Oryoki Bowl


    Topics: open call, fairy tales, children's stories, ows, occupy americathe secret, laws of attraction, magical thinking, economy, debt, jobs, family values, freedom, independence, desire, wishful thinking, belief/religion, books, fiction

    • 17 Ratings
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    • 30 Comments
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    What’s Your Story?

    AUGUST 11, 2011 8:28AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: collective narrative, political process, tea party, analysis of conservative view of government, simple stories win, the power of facts in discourse, bootstraps, metaphors, guns & ammo, regulated capitalism, michele bachmann, alan milner, the power of story, new york times, drew westin, frank rich, robert reich, frank bruni, story trumps fact, facts, narrative, stories, libertarianism, magical thinking, economic meltdown, economy, politics

    • 5 Ratings
    • 403 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Magical Thinking

    JULY 18, 2011 10:18AM

    By Lyn LeJeune


    Topics: fiction, family, books, belief/religion, ingroup press, discovery of heaven press, the beatitudes, genetics 101, amy in full flush, elijah rising, lyn lejeune, neil gaiman, augustin burroughs, running with scissors, one hundred years of solitude, cein anos de soledad, gabriel garcia marquez, sigmund freud, dream, critique of pure reason, college, categorical imperative, dreams, magical thinking, immanuel kant

    • 4 Ratings
    • 741 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    I See Your Fear and Raise You a Shopping Spree

    APRIL 7, 2011 3:57AM

    By Ann Bancroft


    Topics: humor, cancer, fear, scans, magical thinking

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    • 30 Ratings
    • 5686 Views
    • 55 Comments
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    Secessionist Fantasies in Bloom

    APRIL 15, 2010 8:30AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: michael c. dorf, fred morrison professor of law, secession, virginia governor bob mcdonnell, minnesota politicscelebration of the confederacy, sovereignty of states, states rights, article vii, article iv, party of lincoln flirts with a house-divided resolution, lori sturdevant, minneapolis star tribune, dallas morning news, minnesota republican party, resolution of secession, emily conley, governor rick perry, texas v. white, articles of confederation, south carolina monument to the ordinance of secession, slavery, civil war, tea party, mayor keith summey, magical thinking, politics, belief/religion

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