“Yes, Republicans gave up some ground during the cliff discussions, but that was so last week.” – Ellis Henican With just a couple of days and hours left on the clock before we come up against the sequester deadline, dire warnings of armegeddon-like consequences are flying everywhere. Let’s concede now that the rhetoric is overblown — from all directions. The world [...]
“Capitalism unfettered is not the answer – we need sensible regulations.” – Ellis Henican Vernon Hill, founder of Commerce Bank, has opened a bank in Great Britain – claiming that the U.S. government is over regulating and forcing business to go elsewhere. He tells John Stossel that the regulatory environment here is over whelming, micromanaged [...]
“Today’s ‘large’ is, well, why we’re large”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, June 3, 2012 From all the bellyaching over Mike Bloomberg’s proposed ban on large servings of sugary drinks, you’d think the New York mayor was threatening something truly onerous this time. Like canceling Nathan’s Famous July Fourth Coney Island Hot-Dog Eating Competition. Or saying [...]
BGR is pleased to announce that Ellis Henican will be the guest speaker for the 2011 Bureau of Governmental Research Annual Luncheon. Bureau of Governmental Research is a private, non-profit, independent research organization dedicated to informed public policy making and the effective use of public resources for the improvement of government in the New Orleans metropolitan area. [...]
“Hey, Tea Partiers, Go Join Occupy Wall Street”, Ellis Henican, Fox News Opinion, October 13, 2011 What’s the hold-up? Tea Party supporters should add their passionate voices to the growing protests on Wall Street. Get down there immediately! A movement is being born! Why should the granola crowd get all the credit and have all the [...]
“The fundamental issues about how we’re going to pay for government moving forward have completely not been resolved and the two parties are, if anything, further apart than ever.” – Ellis Henican The Senate approved a last minute budget deal to temporarily avert shutting down the government, but partisan politics could keep the two sides from [...]
“Screeching to the Government Shutdown Line—Here We Go Again”, Ellis Henican, Fox News Opinion, September 26, 2011 Pass the budget cuts we’re demanding, House Republicans are saying now – or the victims of floods, tornados and hurricanes can kiss their FEMA help goodbye. It’s like that old National Lampoon cover from the 1970s with a worried-looking [...]
“Which of these things do you want to deny people? You want to tell kids they don’t get healthcare? You want to tell hungry people they can’t have food?” – Ellis Henican Is the American welfare state a bust or is it society’s responsibility to help? Ellis Henican with Charles Payne on the Fox [...]
” The problem isn’t always big government. Sometimes it’s business and their decisions.” – Ellis Henican Are we headed toward another recession? Fox News LIVE.com (8/5/11) with Jonathan Hunt, Jim Pinkerton and Ellis Henican E-mail ellis@henican.com. Follow him at twitter.com/henican
“Ready for government’s next budget battle?”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday,April 10, 2011 Now comes the hard part. What just happened in Washington might have seemed tough, Friday night’s screech-to-the-edge agreement to whack $38.5 billion from this year’s federal budget. But that number—even if it is “the biggest budget cut in history,” as self-congratulatory politicians on [...]
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.”
