Category: Joan Swirsky
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The Crashing Failure of the Feminist Movement
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Oct. 27, 2025) — Going back 250 years, the enemies of America thought long and hard about how to destroy the fledgling experiment of a Democratic Republic that our Founding Fathers envisioned. It was and continues to be clear to them that America’s strength is a function of three phenomena: If…
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Tylenol and Autism: More to the Story
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Oct. 13, 2025) — In 2020, the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that one in 36 children (approximately four percent of boys and one percent of girls) was estimated to have autism-spectrum disorder, estimates that were significantly higher than those in all previous years. But just…
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A Fitting Psychiatric Diagnosis
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Sep. 6, 2025) — Since the very microsecond in 2015 when billionaire builder and TV star Donald Trump descended the escalator in NY City’s splendiferous Trump Tower with his gorgeous wife Melania by his side and pronounced his candidacy as a Republican for the presidency of the United States of America,…
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It’s Only Words…but…
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Aug. 30, 2025) — Before I make my case, can we all agree that Jews are smart? Yes, we have our share of dumb, dense dolts, but when it comes to objective, empirical, irrefutable evidence of intellectual accomplishments, there is really no arguing with the smart — and often brilliant — label. Jews…
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Explaining the Geyser of Jew Hate
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Aug. 10, 2025) — Since the day that Israeli Jews––men, women, children, infants, the aged––were attacked, tortured, murdered, raped and burned to death on October 7, 2023, the entire world––save for a tiny minority of people who still know right from wrong, good from bad, moral from immoral––have vilified, excoriated, and…
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Inside the Swamp––Or is it Inside Murder Inc.?
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Jul. 29, 2025) — Once upon a time, there was a rock-ribbed Conservative U.S. Senator who tried mightily to get an über-conservative law passed but was met with great resistance by his liberal colleagues. This went on not for months, but for almost two years. But he was so persistent and…
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Yeah…Let’s Talk about “Proportionality.”
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Jul. 2, 2025) — Not long ago, I ran into a long-lost acquaintance who always assumed––always incorrectly––that I was simpatico with her leftist leanings. Maybe it was my long hair or dangling earrings or that I liked to listen to Joe Cocker. I remembered that she always appeared distressed, not because…
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What Lies Beneath
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Jun. 5, 2025) — When I was a nursing student decades ago, a doctor friend told me about an interesting case in which he performed a routine yearly checkup on a 12-year-old boy, including blood and urine tests, and to his surprise this healthy-looking preteen had blood in his urine. The…
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DOGE Is Doing the Clean-Up Leftists Can’t Stand
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (May 8, 2025) — In this allegorical scenario, Honey and Hank moved into a cozy home in a small community in New England 30 years ago. The next day, their neighbor, Irene, brings over a hot, homemade casserole to welcome them to the neighborhood. Within minutes, Honey and Irene “connect” in a…
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Hear O Israel––How Do I Hate Thee?
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Apr. 5, 2025) — 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 has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. In his prescience, King Solomon…
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What If?
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Feb. 1, 2025) — Just a few days ago, I took issue with the Doomsday Squad of prominent pearl-clutchers and naysayers––including Harvard Law professor emeritus, Alan Dershowitz; Director of Jihad Watch and prolific author, Robert Spencer; President of the Middle East Forum, Daniel Pipes; prolific British writer Melanie Phillips; and the formidable…
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Once Again, Having No Faith in the Smartest Guy in the Room
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Jan. 18, 2025) — Oy vey! The glass is not half empty—it’s completely empty! Oy gevalt! The sky really is falling! That’s what our purportedly most astute and seasoned political commentators would have you believe about the ceasefire agreement that was reached just a day or so ago between Hamas and…
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Prison, Anyone?
“LIES. ALL LIES.” by Joan Swirsky, ©2019 (Apr. 22, 2019) — Just a few months ago, in an article entitled “Still the Smartest Guy in the Room,” I wrote the following about President Trump: Well, whaddaya know? In the midterm elections of November 6, 2018, the American people rewarded the president—for only the third time…