“Let’s go jail a few of them.” – Ellis Henican The Stock Act – legislation to bar members of Congress from Insider Trading – passed the Senate in a 96 to 3 vote. It still needs to pass the House. But, aren’t members of Congress already subject to insider trading laws? Ellis Henican with [...]
“This is fake outrage. Are you shocked that people with alot of money try to influence government? Washington is not broken – it is bought.” – Ellis Henican Obama’s re-election campaign identified its top fundraisers including former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine and two fundraisers linked to Solyndra LLC, the California solar company that received [...]
“I wouldn’t say Obama himself is such a polarizing figure. He’s more of a conciliator type personality. A lot of people on the left say that he gives in too much.” – Ellis Henican A Gallup poll shows that President Obama is one of the most polarizing presidents in history with 80% of democrats approving [...]
“I’ve enjoyed being on the high road. With people talking about candidate’s divorces and ex-boyfriends – I’m concerned about foreign policy and trade deficits and those sort of things.” – Ellis Henican The candidate attacks are taking their toll on the Republican race—Mitt Romney’s money in the Cayman Islands, Newt Gingrich’s ex-wife talking to [...]
“Do you think it’s a total coincidence that the one percenters are taxed at such a low rate?” – Ellis Henican Mitt Romney, whose networth is about a quarter of a billion dollars, revealed that his tax rate is around 15 percent—highlighting the tax advantages enjoyed by wealthy Americans who make most of their money from [...]
“Conservatives used to be good at politics. But, this year, they’ve been completely skunked by this moderate guy from Massachusetts that, frankly, most of them don’t like or trust very much.” – Ellis Henican Rick Santorum, trailing Mitt Romney in the polls, got an endorsement he terms “a very big deal.” With the South [...]
“We’ve had months and years of struggling…this is good. Let’s just keep doing more of what we’re doing—stimulating the economy, get people back to work. Do what we know works and let’s congratulate ourselves.” – Ellis Henican The December jobs report said we gained 200,000 jobs and reduced the unemployment rate to 8.5% – but there [...]
“No more World War II analogies. Real candidates – people with poll numbers, money and real campaigns can’t get on the ballot. There is something anti-democratic going on.” – Ellis Henican Remember when Hank Williams, jr. compared Barack Obama’s golf outing with John Boehner to an imagined game between Adolph Hitler and Benjamin Netanyahu? Now, Newt Gingrich’s [...]
“These guys were reckless, they came running for our money and, I’m sorry, our money comes with string attached.” – Ellis Henican A Federal Reserve proposal by the chief U.S. banking regulator says the largest U.S. banks and financial companies should hold extra cash on their balance sheets to cushion themselves against financial crises 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.”
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FDA’S DECISION SOUNDS CURRUPT – BUT IT’S ALL WE’VE GOT
“Cozy, Cozy. It’s corrupt in the worst kind of way.” – Ellis Henican Food and Drug Administration advisers said the benefits of four popular Bayer AG birth-control pills outweigh the blood-clot risk. What the FDA didn’t disclose is that four of the advisers have had ties to Bayer – who’s own studies show no excess [...]
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