“From a Tiny Acorn, A Mighty Mess Shall Grow,” Ellis Henican Column, amNew York, September 18, 2009
There is no defending what the ACORN workers did.
Why even try?
Offering to help a couple of undercover filmmakers set up an underage brothel — that’s just wrong. The workers should be fired, as they have been — perhaps even [...]
“Who’s in Rudy’s Mirror?” Ellis Henican column, am/New York, p. 4,July 31, 2009
Pretty soon, Rudy Giuliani will have to look in mirror and decide who’s looking back.
Is it a used-to-be mayor of New York with a lucrative consulting business?
Or is it a pumped-up Republican leader for today, beginning another run for public office?
It’s Rudy’s choice [...]
“Just Don’t Get Sick,” Ellis Henican Column, am/New York, July 17, 2009
There’s a perfect solution to America’s crisis in health care. It’s as apt for today’s insurance-choked system as it will be if Obama-care ever becomes law.
Don’t get sick.
I promise: If you never get sick, you’ll be all right.
As for the rest of us? Well, [...]
“140-Character World Changers,” Ellis Henican Column, am/New York, June 19, 2009, page 4
Why should Iranian election protesters have all the Twitter fun? Can’t other world events be hijacked, one 140-character outburst at a time?
Sure, they can. And soon they will be. Every day, it gets a little bit harder to tell the
social-networking Twittersphere from so-called [...]
“America’s Funniest Statehouse,” Ellis Henican Column, amNew York, June 12, 2009
“These Albany people,” I was marveling Thursday, “they come straight from Central Casting.”
Randy Credico, who’s been working for years in the capital on drug-law reform, begged to differ.
“A couple of them,” he said, “come straight from Central Booking.”
But this being Albany, there’s a third opinion [...]
“Swine Flu Comes Back with a Harden Punch,” Ellis Henican Sunday Column, Newsday, 5-17-09
Wait, wasn’t the swine flu supposed to be finished?
For two solid weeks there, we’d breathed a nice sigh of relief. This pandemic wasn’t the pandemic. H1N1 was half a virus of hype. And we were turning our limited attention, as we always [...]