Cherie Zaslawsky column
Cherie Zaslawsky is a writer, editor, educator and English tutor who lives in California.
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February 23, 2021
When I watch videos online, I often read the posted comments—and on a recent occasion, I was overwhelmed by what I read.
That video, uploaded January 10 by a . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
February 14, 2021
Americans have long felt that “something is wrong” in our country. You may remember the iconic movie Network, wherein a mysterious figure explains that . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
January 22, 2021
We’re now learning why our Founders placed freedom of the press and freedom of speech—among other key rights—in the First Amendment in our Bill of Rights. For . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
January 8, 2021
Those with the stomach to watch the proceedings in Congress on January 6th witnessed a shameful display of cowardice, deceit, ignorance, and treasonous . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
January 4, 2021
How did you like life in 2020 America? That’s an important question, because if the Dems’ blatant theft of our election is not overturned and Biden manages to . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
December 31, 2020
Let’s be honest about this: We’ve already lost the Republic. You can see this for yourself each time you put on a face mask to leave your home and stand in line . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
December 9, 2020
While the hawkish NeverTrump NeoCons bemoan the fact that President Trump has not only refused to start any new wars, he’s also been steadily bringing our . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
December 3, 2020
Trump voters will never forget the shock of going to bed on November 3rd secure in the knowledge that the President had won a second term, only to awaken on . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
December 2, 2020
While there’s proof aplenty that this election was stolen from President Trump through rampant, egregious fraud, plain common sense might lead us to the same . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
November 8, 2020
Many people apparently believe this election is like any other, when it is as unprecedented as the response to this year’s flu has been. Those who get all their . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
October 30, 2020
Many Americans believe that what we’re witnessing today is simply a more intense form of politics as usual: Democrats vs. Republicans. If only that were so.
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Cherie Zaslawsky
October 16, 2020
Curiouser and curiouser. Out of the blue, just weeks before the most consequential election in American history, our indefatigable President gets sick, and a . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
October 6, 2020
Much has been said about the first presidential debate—which was anything but presidential. Here’s my two cents.
This was not the debate people were hoping . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
May 18, 2020
Shortly after World War II ended, Americans were in shock as the horrors of the Holocaust were revealed. But they also took comfort from the fact that nothing . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
April 30, 2020
President Trump is right that we’re at war with an invisible enemy. But that enemy is most emphatically not a virus. He has been lured into fighting the wrong . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
April 22, 2020
On March 16th of this year, I went to bed in America as usual, but woke up in Venezuela. I didn’t know it over breakfast, however. It didn’t dawn on me . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
April 15, 2020
An unintended consequence of my years of reading Agatha Christie mysteries is that I learned how to separate the red herrings from the salient facts hiding . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
April 10, 2020
Thank goodness we have some medical giants in this country – I refer not to the limelight-loving Dr. Anthony Fauci – who have been working around . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
April 3, 2020
One of my favorite rituals takes place on Sunday mornings in my tranquil little suburb of Menlo Park here in California. We have a lovely once-a-week outdoor . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
March 29, 2020
It is a sad commentary on American journalism that virtually no one in the media is talking about the unconstitutional violations of our rights in states like . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
December 17, 2019
The Democrats' attempt to derail Donald Trump's candidacy, followed by their ongoing Herculean effort to oust him from the White House, has become a national . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
December 1, 2019
Lest we forget, a number of the 2016 candidates who ran for the presidency did not meet the requirement of natural born citizenship. The Founders created this . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
November 17, 2019
If I ask my students to write about aphorisms like "crime doesn't pay" or "cheaters never prosper," they find it difficult, since they know from their own . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
October 24, 2019
Listen to Fox News, and you'll hear phrases such as "Trump derangement syndrome" and "liberal heads are exploding" on a daily basis.
Conservative newscasts . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
March 5, 2019
It's difficult to keep up with the Left's crusades against new, presumably intolerable "offenses," giving rise to the witch hunt du jour – but one of the . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
February 27, 2019
Kudos to the Chicago police force. Call it poetic justice, or karma, or old-fashioned honest-to-goodness justice – Jussie got it between the eyes.
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Cherie Zaslawsky
February 9, 2019
I'm almost sorry for the Democrats.
I said "almost."
President Trump delivered a such a powerful and inspirational State of the Union address that the . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
January 27, 2019
After watching as much as I could stomach of the CNN video of Pelosi and Schumer trying to convince the public that President Trump had delivered a terrible, . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
October 19, 2018
On Thursday, October 4th, Chuck Schumer repeated his claim that Christine Blasey Ford's uncorroborated testimony was credible, and added that she "came forward . . .
Cherie Zaslawsky
November 26, 2017
It is perhaps no surprise that a coterie of NeverTrumpers has been quick to jump on the NeverMoore bandwagon. After all, Roy Moore shares the President's agenda . . .
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