“What’s next for the U.S. of AA+”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, August 14, 2011 The free market’s in free fall! Wait, it’s zooming up again! Hold on a second, the stocks are tumbling now! But not for long they aren’t! Here comes another U-turn! You enjoying AA+? Since Standard & Poor’s took America’s AAA away, [...]
“No. 1 job complaint? I don’t have one!”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, August 7, 2011 The economic news last week had practical effects on real people’s lives. Personally, I was hoping to retire at 111. Now, according to my closing-bell calculations at the end of the week, that’s been pushed back at least to 129. [...]
FOX NEWS OPINION: Ellis Henican August 4, 2011 www.foxnews.com Just in time for back-to-school, here comes the Bazooka Boost. According to a new study in the brainy Journal of Adolescence, eighth-graders who chew gum during math class and homework time score higher on standardized tests than their empty-mouthed classmates. Take that, Assistant Principal Lockjaw! How [...]
“Just dithering on the debt ceiling”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, July 30, 2011 If it’s this hard to raise the debt ceiling, how can Washington even think of solving real problems? That’s the next question we’ll get to face, once this debt-limit fiasco is finally behind us — and not a minute too soon. What [...]
“Too hot to care about anything except A/C”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, July 24, 2011 It’s been said that people actually lived around here in the days before air conditioning. That could well be true. But here’s the question that no one’s been able to answer: Why on Earth would they want to? Have you [...]
“Oficials’ procrastination reflects ours”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, July 17, 2011 Life, liberty — the pursuit of procrastination: Doesn’t anyone do anything without a deadline anymore? Not so you’d notice in Washington, not this weekend anyway. Not as President Obama and the supposed grown-ups in the House and Senate tussle endlessly over lifting the debt [...]
“Suburban focus now jobs, not real-estate”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, July 10, 2011 All stories in the suburbs, it’s been said, are eventually real-estate stories. People moving from the city. Houses, roads, schools and malls. Neighbors turning up at public meetings to declare: “Not in my backyard!” This has been especially true on Long Island, [...]
“DSK rape case now in doubt”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, July 3, 2011 What if the accuser isn’t telling the truth? That troubling possibility has now elbowed its way into the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case. He, of course, is the IMF chief and almost-candidate for president of France who’s been charged with sexually assaulting a housekeeper [...]
“Reeling from a senseless act of violence”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, June 16, 2011 He did it for love and addiction. That’s what investigators seem to be saying now. They’re saying that David Laffer robbed Haven Drugs in Medford, stuffing 10,000 hydrocodone pills in his knapsack and taking four innocent lives, to feed his [...]
“Change coming on gay marriage in NY”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, June 19, 2011 Clearly, the moment has arrived in New York. — One by one, Republican senators are coming around on gay marriage. And it isn’t the rhetoric of equality or any constitutional argument that has swayed most of them. It’s politics – and [...]
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.”
