15Jan
“The Coming Refugee Debate,” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, January 14, 2010 Get ready, Eastern Parkway. You too, Cambria Heights. Fire up the griot pot. The Haitians are coming to New York. As sure as Port-au-Prince is now in shambles, a huge new wave of Haitian refugees will soon be heading north. And controversy almost certainly will greet them. This has [...]
03Jan
“No Rest fo Weary News,” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, January 3, 2010 The news must be getting awfully tired. It never goes to sleep anymore. The endless drama over health care. The botched terror attack over Michigan. The daily life-or-death tug-of-war over Barack Obama. Party change in Nassau. Agent slaughter in Afghanistan. [...]
30Dec
Suozzi’s Farewell,” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, December 30, 2009 He was “completely shocked” he lost. He’s unlikely to run for local or county office again, though maybe for something on the state or federal level. He’s proud to have turned “the worst-run county in America” into a government that is “much more professional and better run and [...]
29Dec
“”Plane Nutty,” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, December 29, 2009 Some of that PETN must have seeped into the atmosphere. There’s so much cloudy thinking floating around! It started with Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano declaring giddily: “the system worked.” Before she backtracked. It continued as the Transportation Security Adminstration threw its full bureaucratic gravitas behind a stricter no-peeing and [...]
23Dec
“He’s Outta Here: Rudy Runs for the Money,” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, December 23, 2009 In with a bang, out with a whimper. It was an anticlimactic end to Rudy Giuliani’s political career. The steel-jawed hero of 9/11. The exhausted second-term mayor, revived by the terror attacks. The perfect politician for the Anxiety Age. So what became of [...]
19Dec
“You Might Have Noticed: It’s Cold,” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, December 19, 2009 It’s a simple fact of our complex lives: Nobody cares about everything. Some people are “American Idol” addicts or crazy sports fans. Others are obsessed with taxes or schools. A relative few are glued to politics, the economy or foreign affairs. The niches [...]
Ellis Henican a columnist for Newsday, a political analyst at the Fox News Channel and the host of a nationally syndicated weekend show on the Talk Radio Network. He is also a stand-up comedian and the voice of “Stormy” on the hit Cartoon Network series, “Sealab 2021.”
