Category: Joan Swirsky
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BLAME?
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (Sep. 3, 2026) — Quite a few years ago, I co-wrote a book about the serial murderer on Long Island, Joel Rifkin, who savagely murdered 17 young women without an ounce of remorse––earning him the grim distinction of being the most prolific serial killer in New York’s history. At his lengthy…
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What Happened to Safety First?
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (Aug. 31, 2026) — When I was studying to become a nurse in the late 1960s, I learned that the most important value in patient care, for both nurses and doctors, was safety. Not curing, which is hoped for but often impossible, and not even empathy, although a high priority. That…
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VP Vance is Actually a Dangerous Choice for POTUS
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (Aug. 15, 2026) — How do we judge people? And please don’t say you’re not judgmental. From the underwear you pick out in the morning to the foods you choose to eat to the people you interact with all day long, even to the guy you buy potato salad from in…
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Is VP Vance the Front Man in a Coup D’état?
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (Jul. 19, 2026) — Once upon a time––in 2017, according to VP JD Vance––a state senator from Ohio met an already-arrived conservative commentator and they had what is commonly known as chemistry. They connected. They liked each other. They agreed about major issues, except for one. The state senator––that would be…
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Critics of the Iran Deal are Dead Wrong––All of Them!
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (Jun. 22, 2026) — Many years ago, my daughter Karen saw the movie “Grease” 20 times! By the fifth time, she could recite every line, even every lyric from every song. So, I ask myself, what is both wrong and wrong-headed with all the… · seasoned foreign correspondents, · journalists worldwide, · military experts,…
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Ask Yourself This: What’s Inside?
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (May 26, 2026) — Decades ago, I remember reading an article in Newsday, a newspaper based on Long Island and at that time the eighth largest daily in the country. It was a first-person admission of the writer’s irresistible attraction to morbidly obese women. After several family members and friends encouraged…
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The Jew-Hatred Pandemic No Longer a Mystery
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (May 12, 2026) — No matter how bizarre or puzzling or impossibly complex crime scenes seemed to be, the detective Sherlock Holmes, accompanied by his friend Dr. John Watson — both fictional characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the late 1800s — never failed to solve them. Using keen…
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Ingredients
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (Apr. 30, 2026) — My daughter Karen became enthralled with the Food Network decades ago, but it took me until the past few years to be equally hooked! While I usually don’t like competitions because most competitors on Iron Chef America or Guy Fieri’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives or Beat Bobby Flay, et al, are so…
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Still the Smartest Guy in the Room––Except…
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (Apr. 16, 2026) — Back in 2011, many years before June 16, 2015, when Donald J. Trump took that infamous escalator ride to announce his intention to run as a Republican for President of the United States, I wrote an article entitled Trump Is Already Running the Country. This was because,…
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Among the Jew-Haters’ Odious Traits is Ingratitude!
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (Mar. 13, 2026) — In the 1960s, the Russian KGB and Yasir Arafat literally invented the entire concept––or should I say fiction––of a “Palestinian people,” you know, those perpetual “victims” who have received billions —more likely trillions — in “aid” from the world’s bleeding hearts, but after over 50 years, have…
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What Obituaries Can Teach Us
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (Mar. 8, 2026) — When I was growing up in New Haven, CT., my parents subscribed not only to our local newspaper––The New Haven Register, still extant––but also to The New York Times and the now defunct (since 1966) The New York Herald Tribune. I think I was about eight or…
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Why All the Jew Hatred?
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (Mar. 1, 2026) — Did you ever go to Yankee Stadium? I’ve been there dozens of times and always felt thrilled and celebratory when they won, especially in the years when Mariano Rivera was closing and Jorge Posada was catching. I even wore my Posada jersey when I knew he would…
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A Leftist Anti-ICE Fantasy
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (Feb. 9, 2026) — In my meandering imagination, I was a liberal, yearning to join the anti-ICE peaceful protest in Minneapolis and trying to figure out how I would let our government know how strenuously I object to their policy of deporting illegal aliens. I summoned up an article I had read by the…
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Dear Ms. Anarchist…When Did Safety Go Out of Style?
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (Jan. 27, 2026) — Here’s a challenge. Ask your neighbor, ask your best friend, ask the guy standing next to you at the deli counter, ask as many relatives as possible, ask any real-estate agent in the world this question: What is the Number One thing all people in the world…
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The Duke and the Dork
by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (Jan. 21, 2026) — Once upon a time, there was a good-looking, articulate, young boy named David Duke who attended a conservative elementary school in New Orleans. In Junior High, as an eighth-grade project, he was irresistibly attracted to the subject of segregation. He then attended a military school in Georgia…
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VP Vance’s Splinter Problem
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Jan. 3, 2026) — At one time in my life, I was an operating-room nurse, both participating in and witnessing the things that just about every person on earth can’t stand to think about. So, I can say with some authority that splinters in particularly sensitive areas of the body––often the…
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Yoo Hoo, VP Vance––Your Character is Showing!
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Dec. 11, 2025) — “Maybe he had a stroke,” a nurse friend told me as she theorized about Tucker Carlson’s seemingly bizarre transformation from a rock-ribbed conservative commentator to a flaming anti-Semite whose hatred of both Jews and Israel found him interviewing––and nodding in delirious agreement with––fervid Hitler and Stalin admirer…
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Why I Also Left the Left
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Dec. 3, 2025) — A long time ago, in 2006, my son Seth wrote an article ––Why I left the Left–– for RealClearPolitics.com. When President George W. Bush’s “brain” Karl Rove read it, OMG he invited Seth to lunch at the White House! That was many years after I personally left…
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Guess What? You’re Jewish!
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Nov. 19, 2025) — Several years ago, my husband Steve and I were watching TV as an American politician of Hispanic descent responded to a challenging question from an antagonistic reporter. The politician gave such an eloquent and informed answer, sprinkling his response with historical facts, literary allusions, and even dashes…
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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Mamdani Wolf? Not me!
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Nov. 14, 2025) — I stopped counting the massive numbers of articles––both before and after the election of November 4, 2025––that predicted the complete devolution/collapse/implosion of New York City, a huge exodus of both Jews and Christians, as well as businesses and the Wall Street financial district to friendlier climes in…