“Quite a week for Obama and his opponents”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, May 19 2013 If bad news travels in threes, Barack Obama ought to be issuing a heartfelt sigh of relief today. He’s met his quota, one-two-three, just like that. Benghazi, a subpoena-happy Justice Department, a politicized IRS — the second-term president was suddenly [...]
“A day fraught with emotion after kidnappings”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, May 12 2013 Ariel Castro, the accused monster of Seymour Avenue, has a mother, just like all of us do or did. Her name is Lillian Rodriguez, and what a Mother’s Day she must be enduring now. It’s nothing compared with the pounding grief visited so [...]
“Like NY, Boston won’t cower to terrorism”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, April 21 2013 Boston is learning nicely. But we’re the ones who wrote the rules on responding to one of these attacks. Taking the terror out of terrorism. Refusing to give the killers what they’re desperate for. Holding on to the values, the justice and the decency [...]
“Two thumbs up for unequivocal Roger Ebert”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, April 7 2013 Thumbs up. Thumbs down. Doesn’t that cover everything? Of course, it doesn’t. Even Roger Ebert knew that. On TV, the famously unequivocal movie critic delivered his reviews with take-a-stand adamance. But he lived out the final years of his life on a [...]
“Why don’t we join together for a proper single payer system?” – Ellis Henican A report by the Society of Actuaries had some bad news. The report says that in some states insurance companies will have to pay out an average of 32 percent more for medical claims on individual health policies under Obamacare. Not all states. Some — [...]
“Suffolk is serious about its bans”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, March 24, 2013 What hasn’t Suffolk County banned or restricted yet? Wouldn’t that be a much shorter list? The roster of the officially verboten is getting awfully lengthy. Drop-side baby cribs. Toxic detergents. Steel-jaw leg traps for small animals. Infant bottles containing BPA. Electronic cigarettes in [...]
“Perceived labels that no longer fit reality”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, March 17, 2013 It’s all in the labeling sometimes. Is St. Patrick’s Day a “drunkfest” or a “sober family holiday”? As always, that depends on who’s being asked. Police across Long Island certainly have a view. They’ve set up breathalyzer checkpoints at many of [...]
“Reports of economic growth don’t feel real”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, March 10, 2013 Feeling rich yet? The Dow hit another all-time high on Friday. The whole stock market has been soaring like an eagle out of Lance Armstrong’s medicine chest. The Labor Department’s latest jobs report was “brisk” (Wall Street Journal), “great news” (Washington [...]
“Popes, meteors and what we thought we knew”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, February 17, 2012 I knew nothing, and so did you. I knew popes don’t quit. I knew meteors stay in the sky. I knew cruise ships are so gargantuan and stable, nothing can possibly go wrong. There was evidence, solid evidence, for all [...]
“Superstorm, snowstorm … stop it, storms!”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, February 10, 2012 If Sandy was a superstorm and Nemo was a double-whammy, what diabolical plans do God and nature have for Long Island next? If these weather calamities keep slamming us this way, what will it take to cause a stir next year? Locusts? [...]
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.”
