Joan Swirsky column
Joan Swirsky (www.joanswirsky.com) is a New York-based journalist and author who wrote for the NY Times for over 20 years. She has been writing columns on conservative issues for various internet sites for the past 30 years. She can be reached at joanswirsky@gmail.com.
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November 19, 2024
On November 5, 2024, a gigantic red wave engulfed America, elevating everything politically red to great heights and largely obliterating everything politically . . .
Joan Swirsky
November 8, 2024
It was exactly 1:38 a.m. on November 6, 2024, that Bret Baier on Fox News said that it was clear “that the next president of the United States of America . . .
Joan Swirsky
October 19, 2024
No, it’s not “the economy, stupid,” in spite of the schizophrenic stock market since our remarkably resilient capitalistic economy ran head-on into the . . .
Joan Swirsky
October 10, 2024
“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. . . .
Joan Swirsky
September 26, 2024
When individuals kill themselves, we look for answers in their DNA, their environments, and their personal reactions to feelings of impotent rage, rejection, . . .
Joan Swirsky
August 19, 2024
When my twin brother and I were children, we had a magical machine called a Victrola. We were able to put "33" and "45" and "78" records––I never learned . . .
Joan Swirsky
August 8, 2024
There’s a good reason I wrote about the media’s prostitutes a few years ago, actually, seven years ago, with a preface that apologized to legitimate . . .
Joan Swirsky
July 8, 2024
For generations, women whose husbands were sick have plied them with tea and honey and chicken soup (aka Jewish penicillin), bought over-the-counter bromides . . .
Joan Swirsky
December 24, 2023
(First published May 13, 2021)
From the inception of psychology about 140 years ago, medical conditions such as autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, . . .
Joan Swirsky
November 23, 2023
First published July 17, 2021. Updated November 23, 2023
In 1949, the trailblazing anti-racist musical “South Pacific”––created by composer Richard . . .
Joan Swirsky
November 20, 2023
First published November 3, 2020. Updated November 20, 2023, in light of recent developments in Israel, Gaza, and elsewhere.
A week after Hamas terrorists in . . .
Joan Swirsky
May 10, 2023
In 2021, the satire site Babylon Bee released a short video about a motorcyclist who identifies as a bicyclist and proceeds to set a world cycling record. The . . .
Joan Swirsky
April 21, 2023
According to the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest statistics, in 2020 one in 36 children (approximately four percent of . . .
Joan Swirsky
December 9, 2022
When I watch TV with my husband Steve, a former athlete, I see superb ballplayers in basketball, baseball, and football exhibiting what immense discipline went . . .
Joan Swirsky
October 14, 2022
In 1959, I was 18, newly married to my former boyfriend of four years, and thrilled to be starting my “grown-up” life with the man of my dreams. . . .
Joan Swirsky
September 30, 2022
A friend recently reminded me of an article I had written on October 5, 2020, just before the presidential election, that found all TV networks . . .
Joan Swirsky
June 13, 2022
King Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9).
The sun rises, and the sun goes down… all streams run to the sea… what . . .
Joan Swirsky
March 31, 2022
For decades, neuroscientists have recognized that the brain has three distinct systems. One is similar to that of primitive reptiles that were adept at survival . . .
Joan Swirsky
March 27, 2022
Let’s dispense with the Mt. Everest of words that have been written to rationalize Joe Biden & Company’s passion––indeed, lust––to put nuclear . . .
Joan Swirsky
February 27, 2022
For thousands of years, going back to the Bible, women have wept and grieved and pleaded to God over their miscarriages. Indeed, it took all these millennia for . . .
Joan Swirsky
November 1, 2021
Yes, Shakespeare said that of “a woman scorned.” But even the English bard could never have imagined the red-hot rage of multimillions of women who learned . . .
Joan Swirsky
October 8, 2021
“Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country.” Bill Ayers, Weather Underground founder
“The main obstacle to a stable and just world . . .
Joan Swirsky
August 30, 2021
Maybe I don’t frequent the right journals, Internet sites, TV shows, or radio stations, because all I’ve seen and read and heard since the 1960s is . . .
Joan Swirsky
July 19, 2021
In 1949, the trailblazing anti-racist musical “South Pacific”––created by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II––debuted on . . .
Joan Swirsky
June 14, 2021
"If we don’t step up to end the imperialist project that’s called Israel, we’re doomed," proclaimed one of three co-founders of Black Lives Matter . . .
Joan Swirsky
May 31, 2021
In February, not two weeks into the, ahem, presidency of Joe Biden, I described in my article “Joe’s Jews” the appointments he made of 11 longtime . . .
Joan Swirsky
May 13, 2021
From the inception of psychology about 140 years ago, medical conditions such as autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, . . .
Joan Swirsky
April 16, 2021
Democrat Jimmy Carter became U.S. president in 1977, only 32 years after six million Jewish men, women, children, and infants were savagely starved, . . .
Joan Swirsky
March 21, 2021
If this title rings a bell, it’s because it’s so similar to the title of an article I wrote exactly a year ago this month, when presidential candidate Joe . . .
Joan Swirsky
February 2, 2021
Quick question: What is most fanatical terrorist state in the world?
Quick answer: According to a 2017 report––the world’s leading state sponsor of . . .
Joan Swirsky
January 12, 2021
Time to get out the ledger.
On the left––literally––we have had nearly eight months of rampaging criminality and violence in the many Democrat . . .
Joan Swirsky
November 26, 2020
What is it about good-looking, brainy, articulate, even charismatic people––particularly if they’re in the public eye––that makes them so vulnerable . . .
Joan Swirsky
November 10, 2020
“The ‘journalists’ of the news media have begun the relentless drumbeat of proclaiming ‘President-elect Biden.’ This is make-believe.” Writer Chris . . .
Joan Swirsky
October 27, 2020
“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. . . .
Joan Swirsky
October 23, 2020
After the 2016 presidential election, Democrats were consumed with anger, indignation, and a burning unquenchable fury. They had basked in smug satisfaction . . .
Joan Swirsky
October 13, 2020
Last March brought us the results of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary contest. Out of a U.S. population of about 330 million––some stats include 40 . . .
Joan Swirsky
October 6, 2020
No, it’s not “the economy, stupid.” In spite of the bipolar stock market since the China virus hit the world last March, our remarkably resilient economy . . .
Joan Swirsky
September 14, 2020
For the past 50 or more years, the Democrat Party––always left-wing but today viciously anti-American and virulently anti-Semitic––has worked . . .
Joan Swirsky
September 8, 2020
Every night for over 100 days, the entire American (and international) public has seen the criminals of Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa getting away not . . .
Joan Swirsky
September 3, 2020
It’s not a recent observation on my part; it goes back decades, so I’ve had a long time to figure out the meaning of this peculiar phenomenon. Specifically, . . .
Joan Swirsky
August 24, 2020
At the virtual Democrat National Convention last week––where at least two caucus meetings began with recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance without the . . .
Joan Swirsky
August 21, 2020
Calamity Jane was a frontier heroine in the mid-19th century who during an uprising in 1872, saved a Captain Egan from certain death, whereupon he told her: "I . . .
Joan Swirsky
August 10, 2020
In 1984, David S. Wyman, a professor of history at Amherst College, published The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941–1945, in which he . . .
Joan Swirsky
July 30, 2020
Recently, New York-based journalist Joan Swirsky interviewed author Linda Goudsmit about her book The Book of Humanitarian Hoaxes: Killing America with . . .
Joan Swirsky
July 21, 2020
“Trump Spares Stone from Imprisonment, Sparking Howls of Amnesiac Democrats” was the colorful headline of a recent Wall St. Journal article by journalist, . . .
Joan Swirsky
July 13, 2020
Montana has about 1,400 Jews, Mississippi about 1,500, South Dakota 250. If I lived in any one of those beautiful states, I would not be writing this article. . . .
Joan Swirsky
July 4, 2020
Here’s an old, irrefutable chestnut: If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging!
But Regressives refuse to learn that lesson and are yet again falling . . .
Joan Swirsky
June 29, 2020
If the upcoming presidential election on November 3, 2020, were not so serious, it would be downright hilarious just watching the Democrats twist themselves . . .
Joan Swirsky
June 25, 2020
They say that out of every bad thing comes a good thing. Ask any mother who has been through a 20-hour labor!
The same can be said of the criminal behavior . . .
Joan Swirsky
June 4, 2020
On Christmas Eve in 2009, 60 Senate Democrats cast their final votes to approve Obamacare, which was finally voted on again by the House and enacted into law on . . .
Joan Swirsky
May 18, 2020
While the Corleone family of Godfather fame was the embodiment of mob life and the acquisition of money, power, and prestige through criminal activity, the . . .
Joan Swirsky
April 28, 2020
After the 2016 presidential election of President Donald J. Trump, I stopped counting the number of Republicans and Conservatives who told me how unpleasantly . . .
Joan Swirsky
April 20, 2020
Among the TV shows I gravitate to with my husband Steve, a former athlete, are live baseball, basketball, and football games, historical documentaries, and both . . .
Joan Swirsky
April 12, 2020
Test time, boys and girls. Hint...there is only one right answer – if you don't get it right, you flunk! And so does America!
I. Which person, foreign or . . .
Joan Swirsky
March 30, 2020
Several months ago, my husband Steve had a bad cold. I plied him with tea and honey and chicken soup (aka Jewish penicillin), bought over-the-counter bromides . . .
Joan Swirsky
March 23, 2020
Now that we're in a de facto martial law mode – a shutdown of entire industries and small businesses, nighttime curfews, social isolation, a run on goods, . . .
Joan Swirsky
March 10, 2020
"Though marked by levity, Purim is deadly serious: We are reminded that Haman exists in every generation and that we Jews dare not ignore our own identity." . . .
Joan Swirsky
March 6, 2020
The word politicide was first coined by Abba Eban – Israel's foreign minister in 1967 – to describe the attempted murder of the sovereign, . . .
Joan Swirsky
December 17, 2019
There is nothing new about the fanatical hatred of Jews that we see playing out in today's world – literally a pandemic of anti-Semitism which echoes the . . .
Joan Swirsky
October 21, 2019
Writer's note: I wrote the following article last year, but it now appears that Hillary's mental condition and pathological desperation have devolved. Just this . . .
Joan Swirsky
September 23, 2019
Not long ago, I received a lengthy e-mail – "Why We Must Renew Our Commitment to the Civil Rights Movement" – from a woman named Melanie Roth . . .
Joan Swirsky
September 9, 2019
Updated from an April 2014 article on this issue
by Joan Swirsky
According to 2018 statistics from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), about one in 59 . . .
Joan Swirsky
August 22, 2019
"Thou shalt not kill" (Exodus 20:13).
"...I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live . . .
Joan Swirsky
July 29, 2019
Since 9/11, writes Tabitha Korol in her riveting book, "Confronting The Deception: Inflamed by 9/11, fired up by eight bad years," the United States, Israel, . . .
Joan Swirsky
June 10, 2019
Throughout the ages, Jews have been the targets of genocidal forces both large and small, educated and ignorant, liberal and conservative, pagan and religious.
. . .
Joan Swirsky
April 23, 2019
Just a few months ago, in an article entitled "Still the Smartest Guy in the Room," I wrote the following about President Trump:
. . .
Joan Swirsky
March 14, 2019
"[T]he Democrats have become an anti-Israel party. They've become an anti-Jewish party." (President Donald J. Trump)
"[T]he chickens of the . . .
Joan Swirsky
February 7, 2019
When individuals kill themselves, we look for answers in their DNA, their environments, their personal reactions to feelings of impotent rage, rejection, . . .
Joan Swirsky
November 8, 2018
Well, whaddaya know? In the midterm elections of November 6, 2018, the American people rewarded the president – for only the third time in almost a . . .
Joan Swirsky
October 30, 2018
This past Saturday morning, 11 Jews were shot to death in a Pittsburgh synagogue by one of the millions of Jew haters who contaminate our world.
To Jews . . .
Joan Swirsky
September 30, 2018
The Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus that I attended in my youth showcased acts like the freak show in which people with all sorts of bizarre . . .
Joan Swirsky
September 17, 2018
Judge Brett Kavanaugh has always been in the crosshairs of the left, ever since he played a major role in urging the impeachment of their icon of moral . . .
Joan Swirsky
June 29, 2018
In Hillary's cringe-producing appearances over the past year and a half – since she lost the U.S. presidency in 2016 to Donald J. Trump – she has . . .
Joan Swirsky
June 18, 2018
I remember as a young teenager going by myself to see "On the Waterfront" at the Whalley Theater in New Haven. I was so mesmerized by the performance of Marlon . . .
Joan Swirsky
April 18, 2018
(Author's note: In August 2016, I wrote an article entitled "James Comey and the Stinking Fish Factor," warning readers that the Comey fish was already rotting . . .
Joan Swirsky
March 12, 2018
The word politicide was first coined by Abba Eban – Israel's foreign minister in 1967 – to describe the attempted murder of the sovereign, . . .
Joan Swirsky
February 27, 2018
Imagine a guy in his mid-thirties walking on a beach in Hawaii and seeing an object that actually looked like the genie lamp he read about in his childhood . . .
Joan Swirsky
February 6, 2018
Once upon a time, a seasoned political operative ran for President of the United States against a candidate who had virtually no political experience.
She . . .
Joan Swirsky
January 15, 2018
I started watching Miss America and Miss Universe competitions when I was a little girl, mostly because I loved the gowns. To this day, I still tune in, . . .
Joan Swirsky
January 9, 2018
When my husband Steve was almost 13, his grandfather died. Just a few months before, the old man he loved and respected had tutored him for his Bar Mitzvah. To . . .
Joan Swirsky
January 1, 2018
We're still weeks away from the day in January last year when Donald J. Trump ascended to the presidency and took his oath of office as the 45th President of . . .
Joan Swirsky
December 12, 2017
It's become de rigeur for public figures and media personalities to repeat the tired mantra: Always believe the women. This refers, of course, to any accusation . . .
Joan Swirsky
November 20, 2017
I have a vivid memory of putting on
my mother's high heels and covering my head with the veiled hat she wore on special occasions. All decked out, I made my . . .
Joan Swirsky
November 7, 2017
"...The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." Joseph Stalin, 1923
On Tuesday, American voters will . . .
Joan Swirsky
October 9, 2017
From the founding of America 241 years ago, those opposed to the Founding Fathers' noble aspirations of freedom for all, and a government in which citizens . . .
Joan Swirsky
September 4, 2017
All apologies to the hard-working street-walkers and penthouse prostitutes who, unlike the modern-media harlots and rent-boys, have no illusions and offer no . . .
Joan Swirsky
August 14, 2017
Hard to know which body is held in lower esteem, Congress or the media. But for a long time, the media thought they were invincible, based largely on their
. . .
Joan Swirsky
May 31, 2017
It was a good plan. After their thunderous loss in the presidential election, our country's premier Olympian liars – Democrats all – put their . . .
Joan Swirsky
May 12, 2017
Author's note: In August 2016, I wrote an article entitled "James Comey and the Stinking Fish Factor," warning readers that the Comey fish was already rotting . . .
Joan Swirsky
March 28, 2017
It's easy to deride the aberrant behavior of the leftists we've been unhappily witness to, both over the course of the presidential campaign and . . .
Joan Swirsky
February 21, 2017
The original story of Saint George and the Dragon dates back to the 7th century, the narrative maintaining that in a fictitious
town in Libya, there lived a . . .
Joan Swirsky
February 2, 2017
A day or two before the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump on January 20, 2017, I watched a reporter interviewing five attractive, intelligent, . . .
Joan Swirsky
January 16, 2017
In 2009, America experienced a genuine coup d'état, exquisitely formulated and flawlessly executed after decades of planning by the socialists, communists, and . . .
Joan Swirsky
January 12, 2017
Nothing could have surprised the national and international public more than learning through a Boston Globe article by Jennifer Anne Perez on February 2, 2003, . . .
Joan Swirsky
December 30, 2016
After watching all the pomp and circumstance of the presidential inauguration of January 20, 2009, I remember turning to my husband Steve and saying: "The sole . . .
Joan Swirsky
November 10, 2016
What have we learned over the past 16 months in the presidential campaign that pitted billionaire business mogul Donald J. Trump against career-grifter Hillary . . .
Joan Swirsky
October 20, 2016
President Truman holding the infamous issue of the Chicago Daily Tribune, telling the press, "That ain't the way I heard it!"
As everyone knows, . . .
Joan Swirsky
October 9, 2016
The Trump campaign should be throwing thank-you bouquets at Hillary's minions for unearthing an 11-year-old video of the businessman speaking raunchily about . . .
Joan Swirsky
September 1, 2016
We're a little more than two months from the November 8th election and everyone knows that all Democrats, a good number of Republicans and conservatives, and . . .
Joan Swirsky
August 4, 2016
I always thought that James Comey was a company man. As it happens, the company he heads is among the most influential, powerful and scary companies in the . . .
Joan Swirsky
July 22, 2016
Like the millions who tuned in this week on the first night of the Republican convention in Cleveland to see Melania Trump's speech, I was dazzled by her beauty . . .
Joan Swirsky
May 31, 2016
When I think about the slow and inexorable – but, of course, inevitable – political demise of Hillary Clinton, I am reminded of T.S. Eliot's poem, . . .
Joan Swirsky
May 18, 2016
WHAT TRUMP "GETS"
Of the 16 "establishment" candidates the non-politician businessman Mr. Trump defeated to become the presumptive Republican presidential . . .
Joan Swirsky
April 19, 2016
At the beginning of January 2016, an organization called NORPAC – a lobby whose mission is to support candidates and sitting members of Congress "who . . .
Joan Swirsky
March 14, 2016
Who can forget the clueless thugs protesting last May in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, holding up their brand new shiny placards – mmmm, where did . . .
Joan Swirsky
March 5, 2016
Sure enough, presidential candidate Donald J. Trump racked up impressive statistics in his Fox News debate tonight, effectively trouncing the competition that . . .
Joan Swirsky
February 20, 2016
I'm watching the fierce South Carolina primary contest among the six remaining candidates for POTUS and a few things strike me as astounding.
The first is . . .
Joan Swirsky
February 8, 2016
So many issues, so little time, which is why I am studiously avoiding any issues about Hillary other than that voice!
I am definitely not going into the . . .
Joan Swirsky
August 28, 2015
Most people, including me, know that Megyn Kelly is not only gorgeous, but also smart, sassy, incisive in her interviews, and genuinely funny. But the interview . . .
Joan Swirsky
August 25, 2015
Certainly you read about the six-year-old from Colorado Springs who got suspended from school for sexual harassment, specifically for kissing his little . . .
Joan Swirsky
July 27, 2015
"Schumer is not a Shomer" were the words emblazoned on dozens of placards that were held by some of the 12,000 people who flooded Times Square last week to . . .
Joan Swirsky
June 21, 2015
A sure-fire way of assessing the threat that leftists feel toward any challenge to their nonsensical narratives and preposterous policies is to measure the long . . .
Joan Swirsky
May 21, 2015
[Editor's note: The following is a guest editorial by RenewAmerica analyst Joan Swirsky originally published Dec. 3, 2005, in the Canada Free Press. Joan . . .
Joan Swirsky
May 11, 2015
When Adolf Hitler published "Mein Kampf" in 1926, he spelled out his vision for Germany's domination of the world and annihilation of the Jews. Germany would . . .
Joan Swirsky
April 27, 2015
It took the socialists and communists – today known as progressives – nearly one hundred years to implant one of their own in the Oval Office. One . . .
Joan Swirsky
May 12, 2014
To: Chairman Trey Gowdy and the Select Committee on Benghazi
Your investigation is a huge relief to millions of Americans like me who have wondered and . . .
Joan Swirsky
April 3, 2014
Just last week, on March 24, 2014, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta (CDC) released its latest data on autism. After surveying . . .
Joan Swirsky
September 19, 2013
In July, the state of New York announced the results of its first tests based on the Common Core: The region hasn't been this battered since Superstorm Sandy. . . .
Joan Swirsky
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 . . .
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 . . .
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. . . .
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 . . .
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