“In Death, Jacko’s Flaws ‘Beat It,’” Ellis Henican Sunday Column, Newsday, June 28, 2009, p. 2 Never speak ill of the freshly dead. So deeply embedded is that dictum, people attend funerals of relatives they hated and priests deliver eulogies for mobsters and hoods. Well, watch as the dictum is tested now. Michael Jackson was [...]
“The Curse of 2012,” Ellis Henican Column, am/New York, June 26, 2009 Mark Sanford got caught with an Argentine mistress. Bobby Jindal opened his mouth. John Ensign two-timed with a one-time staffer. By this point, Sarah Palin’s personal calamties are almost too numerous to name. It’s the Republican Curse of 2012. Who else dares to [...]
“Etiquette Enforcement,” Ellis Henican Blog, “The Huffington Post,” June 24, 2009 The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has officially decided we’re not polite enough. They should know, right? These are the people who have done so much to coarsen the local language with expressions like “The train will be moving shortly” (yeah, right!) and “I have no [...]
“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, [...]
“Supreme Predicament for the G.O.P.,” Ellis Henican Column, amNew York, May 29, 2009 Oh, this could be great for Obama and the Democrats. If Republicans will just keep pulverizing Sonia Sotomayor, they might well achieve a rare double fiasco for the Once-Grand Party – pursuing a doomed campaign against a highly qualified Supreme Court nominee [...]
“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 [...]
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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.”
