Joan Swirsky column
Joan Swirsky (www.joanswirsky.com) is a New York-based journalist and author who can be reached at joanswirsky@gmail.com.
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January 14, 2013
When Sandy hit, my husband Steve and daughter Karen and I spent day after day after day freezing in our ordinarily-cozy home, unable even to leave the premises, . . .
Joan Swirsky
September 30, 2012
In the 1940s, when the Jews in America woke up to the unspeakable horror that their very own relatives or fellow-Jews in Germany, Poland, Vichy France, and all . . .
Joan Swirsky
August 12, 2012
The other day on the Drudge Report I saw a picture of the actor Daniel Day-Lewis in full Abraham Lincoln mode for his upcoming movie about America's 16th . . .
Joan Swirsky
May 13, 2012
In 1960, as a young wife living with my husband on his Ivy League campus, I had a front-row seat when the Feminist Movement made its debut. I was doing nothing, . . .
Joan Swirsky
September 13, 2011
Over the past almost-three years, I've had to laugh — in contempt — when the so-called intelligentsia have shaken their collective heads in . . .
Joan Swirsky
May 25, 2011
Jew hatred comes in many forms — all of them irrational and unsupported by empirical fact, but all of them powerful and largely effective in deflecting . . .
Joan Swirsky
May 10, 2011
The cartoonist Fuller depicts the billionaire builder Donald Trump dressed in a circus-master's outfit and holding in one hand a red, white, and blue megaphone . . .
Joan Swirsky
March 12, 2011
It's a funny thing about itches...the more you scratch, the more you itch. This is because scratching floods your system with histamine, which causes — . . .
Joan Swirsky
March 1, 2011
If you visit any online or neighborhood bookstore, you will see dozens of books about leadership, all of them — except Rudy Giuliani's Leadership — . . .
Joan Swirsky
January 22, 2011
Our entire country, indeed the world, mourns the victims of the savage attack in Tucson that left six dead, including an esteemed federal judge and beautiful . . .
Joan Swirsky
December 16, 2010
The fanatical hard Left — those communists, socialists, and radicals currently in power — view anything that is bad for our country — massive . . .
Joan Swirsky
November 20, 2010
The drivel the media are blathering about Obama's 2012 race for reelection is absolute baloney! All those talking heads and print (so-called) journalists should . . .
Joan Swirsky
November 6, 2010
I say redux, brought back, because two years ago, on November 7, 2008, after the barely one-term Democrat Illinois Senator Barack Obama had, ahem, "won" the . . .
Joan Swirsky
September 13, 2010
When it comes to celebrating the anticipated shellacking that Democrats will take in the midterms — with Republicans possibly even capturing both the House and . . .
Joan Swirsky
June 23, 2010
Is it only me, or do the multiple disasters that have struck both well before and ever since the disastrous election of Barack Obama seem fishy to you?
I won . . .
Joan Swirsky
March 28, 2010
Now that the regime currently occupying the White House has bribed, threatened, intimidated, bullied, manipulated, and cut unconstitutional and illegal deals . . .
Joan Swirsky
January 22, 2010
That's right, and it wasn't only Katie Couric. For the past two years, when Obama was in campaign mode and after his Acorn- and foreign-money-fueled election, . . .
Joan Swirsky
January 18, 2010
When Scott Brown gallops to victory tomorrow, capturing the Massachusetts senate seat made absent by Sen. Ted Kennedy's death, it will signal a definitive . . .
Joan Swirsky
August 26, 2009
Back in October of 2008, when the subject of Obama's constitutional eligibility to be president of the United States was just a blip on the radar screen of . . .
Joan Swirsky
July 25, 2009
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." — Winston . . .
Joan Swirsky
July 1, 2009
On April 15, over a million people — who had already smelled the contaminated coffee of the Obama regime's galloping socialism-cum communism-cum totalitarianism . . .
Joan Swirsky
May 26, 2009
Imagine that you've learned in your local newspaper and on TV that a serial murderer is stalking and killing people in your community. Anxious and concerned for . . .
Joan Swirsky
May 18, 2009
In times past, coalminers working in the depths of the earth took along caged canaries. As long as the canaries warbled, the miners knew they were safe from . . .
Joan Swirsky
May 3, 2009
In the last century, the impassioned words and actions of patriots like Winston Churchill — along with America's heroic help and sacrifice — saved Europe. The . . .
Joan Swirsky
April 21, 2009
An amazing thing happened on Wednesday, April 15th, Tax Day, when nearly a million people took hours off from their workdays — many sacrificing pay cuts and . . .
Joan Swirsky
April 13, 2009
In the panoply of human ailments, few compare to chronic nausea, the overwhelmingly sickening feeling that you're going to throw up at any minute. So revolting . . .
Joan Swirsky
March 27, 2009
After only two months of the Obama presidency, Americans are horrified, angry, depressed, and on the verge of full-scale revolt against the president and his . . .
