“I think it’s going to take more than one speech remembering Mom fondly.” – Ellis Henican The Republican National Convention wrapped up with an acceptance speech from Mitt Romney. How did the GOP’s candidate do? Did he manage to appear more accessible? In two words, he was good enough…but, the bar was pretty low. The [...]
“Bloomberg’s persistent call for gun control”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, August 26, 2012 “Once again, there’s an awful lot of guns out there.” Michael Bloomberg, one of the few politicians in America willing to speak frankly about gun violence, was raising the topic again. How could he not? A seething middle-aged man, fighting demons real [...]
“Can home explosion be wake-up call?”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, August 19, 2012 Ron Fried said it best. “Plumbers need to be licensed — and as far as I know, water doesn’t explode.” Fried, a novelist and television producer with a new house in Greenport, was reacting to the news of a propane explosion that [...]
“This election, groups PAC a dirty punch”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, August 12, 2012 We should all have our own super PACs, pseudo-independent hit men doing our dirty work while pretending to operate entirely on their own. “Really?” we could ask, feigning extravagant surprise. “Someone just berated my noisy neighbors? Someone just disciplined my unruly [...]
Here’s a questions for all you budding politicians: What’s worse than not releasing your tax returns? Maybe the answer is releasing your tax returns. Harry Reid has been relentless in his attacks and taunts — successfully putting the GOP on the defense — asking why a presidential candidate wouldn’t voluntarilly release his federal tax returns. [...]
“The dumb way to fake your death”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, August 5, 2012 No one feels sorry for a dead guy hanging out at a Florida resort. Even in July. That might call into question his sanity. Or maybe the drowned speed racer from Long Island wanted to get caught. No sane person is as [...]
ELLIS HENICAN is a columnist at Newsday and a political analyst on the Fox News Channel. He also hosts a nationally syndicated weekend show on Talk Radio Network, is author of a New York Times Bestseller, and is the voice of “Stormy” on the hit Cartoon Network series “Sealab 2021.”
