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Ellis Henican is frequently a member of the ‘Fox News Watch’ panel of media analysts who cover the coverage of the week’s biggest stories. (Saturday 2:30 and 11:30 PM on the Fox News Channel) On the May 29, 2010 edition of Fox News Watch, the panel debated the media’s coverage of the Joe Sestak [...]
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”LI’s Bright Spots Shine Despite Bleak Times,” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, May 30, 2010 The jobs are slow in returning. The Long Island economy’s still bleak. The weather people are predicting a treacherous riptide season off the beaches here. Is there anything to be cheery about as summer unofficially begins? I mean besides the fact that [...]
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”LeBron, Make it Here” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, May 27, 2010 Hey, LeBron: Are you really thinking of playing someplace besides New York? Go look up the name “Dom DiMaggio.” That’ll turn you immediately into a proud New York Knick. The baby brother of Yankees great Joe DiMaggio spent his baseball career in Boston. One [...]
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”Political Blame Game Sees the Boomerang Effect,” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, May 23, 2010 Nobody’s happy. And all the options stink. That, right there, pretty much sums up the public mood around here when it comes to politics and government. Taxes are too high. Opportunities are too few. Everything’s too expensive. And nothing is likely to [...]
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Big news today from Amazon.com Home Team by Sean Payton and Ellis Henican is Amazon.com’s #1 best selling book in not one, not two…but three huge categories! Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1 in Sports > Coaching > Football (American) #1 in Books > Hurricanes #1 in Books > Sports > Football (American) > Professional [...]
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”Heroes Lose Halos One By One” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, May 21, 2010 Say it ain’t so, Lance! And you, Miss USA, pas-dedeuxing with a pole. And you, libidinous Lawrence Taylor and bad-news Ben Roethlisberger! Suddenly, all our heroes are exheroes. Heroes these days aren’t just hard to find, they’re becoming as rare as honest [...]
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“Thanks For Nothing, Faisal,” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, May 16, 2010 Gee, thanks, Faisal! Have you really dragged Long Island into the failed Times Square bombing plot? Federal investigators seem to think so, at least to the extent of helping to fuel the alleged plot with operational cash—and maybe something even sweeter. Car bombs and crullers, [...]
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Ellis Henican is frequently a member of the ‘Fox News Watch’ panel of media analysts who cover the coverage of the week’s biggest stories. (Saturday 2:30 and 11:30 PM on the Fox News Channel) On the May 15, 2010 edition of Fox News Watch, the panel debated the story of the Northern California students who were [...]
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“Your Medical Fate Found on the Shelves of the Drugstore? Not So Fast” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, May 14, 2010 A trip to the drugstore was about to change forever. “Let’s see, aspirin … Q-tips … throat lozenges… wonder if I’ll be getting prostate cancer any time soon … ?” But hold on a second, the [...]
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”A Near Miss Indeed, But it Has Left a Mark,” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, May 9, 2010 We’re still in the jitter phase. It happens every time terrorism comes close again, the way it did last weekend with that explosive SUV in Times Square. Thankfully, the alleged bomber was incompetent. Thankfully, nobody was harmed. But the [...]
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