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Joan  Swirsky

Joan Swirsky

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BIOGRAPHY

Joan is the recipient of seven Long Island Press Awards, wrote health, science and feature articles for The New York Times Long Island section for over 20 years, as well as for numerous regional and national publications. A clinical nurse specialist, Joan is a former obstetrical nurse, Lamaze teacher, and psychotherapist. She is also the book and lyric writer of four musicals, one of which was produced in New York City in 1983.

For the past several years, she has written a monthly column for Newsday’s Parents & Children magazine, and has been a regular contributor to Newsmax Magazine. She also writes political commentary for several Internet news journals. She has her own website at www.joanswirsky.com. Joan and her husband Steve, a businessman, have three children and three grandchildren.

COMMENTARIES

 
Who Is Behind Quashing the Birth Certificate Issue?

By Joan Swirsky | 08/26/09

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 public awareness, I wrote an article about how easy it was to find my then -92-year-old mother’s birth certificate. Frankly, I didn’t think finding my mother’s birth certificate was possible, given the fact that she had been born in a farmhouse in Storrs,... read more »


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Obama Lied – The Economy Died

By Joan Swirsky | 07/25/09

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.” Winston Churchill. As President Clinton’s campaign mouthpiece James Carville put it so succinctly in the 1990s, “It’s the economy, stupid!” It was true then, it is true now. People may be temporarily seduced by intriguing figures and rosy promises but, bottom line, they... read more »


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Something Terrible Has Happened To Michael

By Joan Swirsky | 05/25/09

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 the safety of your family, you buy a gun. Then your worst nightmare happens. Lying in bed and drifting off to sleep, you hear a loud sound downstairs – the unmistakable explosion of your front door being battered down and the menacing footsteps of an intruder climbing... read more »


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Obama’s Jewish Problem

By Joan Swirsky | 05/18/09

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 the methane and carbon monoxide that would kill them in minutes. But when the tiny songbirds stopped singing, the miners knew to run for their lives. Jews have always been the canaries in the coal mines of civilization, serving as a warning of impending doom to those who... read more »


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The President Who Hates His Country

By Joan Swirsky | 05/03/09

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 eloquence and actions of “I’ve been to the mountaintop” Martin Luther King Jr. brought America to an unprecedented level of social justice. The peerless oratory and tireless diplomacy of the man who would become Israel’s Foreign Minister, Abba Eban... read more »


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Obama Didn’t Know Nuthin’ Of The Tea Parties – But The Rest Of The World Did!

By Joan Swirsky | 04/21/09

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 even the threat of being fired – to attend thousands of Tea Parties across America. What motivated this huge number of Republicans, Conservatives, Democrats, Independents, Libertarians, and even apolitical people to come out in mid-week with placards aplenty and passion... read more »


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Obama’s Incurable Nausea

By Joan Swirsky | 04/12/09

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 is this gagging-in-the-throat feeling that anything associated with it – a hamburger, a chicken dish, or even yogurt that made you sick – is enough for anyone to forswear this-or-that food forever. Memories of the hot sweats, the bile in the esophagus, the retching into... read more »


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Obama’s Poison Ivy

By Joan Swirsky | 03/26/09

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 toadying Socialist acolytes for doing their best to destroy our once-vibrant economy, inflict decades of debt on our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and usher in what historians will surely record as The Age of The Hubristic and Incompetent Presidency. This... read more »


 
Bristol Bashing Reflects The Left’s Ongoing Fear of Her Mother

By Joan Swirsky | 03/20/09

The Left's tolerance knows no bounds.  Practiced in the art of understanding and forgiving human foibles, and averse to the "judgment" they find so intolerable in those who think there are actually values such as right and wrong, good and bad, virtue and evil, liberals demonstrate every day how morally evolved they are. No matter how egregious or even illegal the behavior, they say it's either a "private matter" or... read more »


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Obama's Toxic Brew

By Joan Swirsky | 03/09/09

Double, double, toil and trouble;Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Macbeth, Act 4: The incantation of three demonic witches over their cauldron, which heralds the downfall of King Macbeth.It's not witches, but the three warlocks of the new administration - President Obama, his chief Chicago-Machine-henchman Rahm Emanuel, and his tax-cheating Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner - who are boiling the American people in a cauldron of their own, not... read more »


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