“Mike’s Gutsy Defense of Mosque” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, August 6, 2010
The predictable bashing has begun. Mike Bloomberg, defender of religious freedom, is getting plenty of grief for his principled support of what is incorrectly known as the “Ground Zero mosque.”
Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, the Wall Street Journal editorial board – their throaty outrage hasn’t [...]
“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 [...]
