“Drug overdoses fueling midlife suicide rate”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, May 5 2013 Is middle age really so awful? For a growing number of baby boomers, the answer seems to be yes. The midlife suicide rate is skyrocketing — up 30 percent in a decade, now surpassing even the numbers killed in car wrecks. According to the CDC, [...]
“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 [...]
“Sequester cuts really D.C.’s self-made pit”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, March 3, 2013 Jedi mind trick, Vulcan mind meld: An exasperated Barack Obama was obviously smushing his “Star Wars” and his “Star Trek” together when he complained that no “Jedi mind meld” could persuade congressional Republicans to end the budget sequester. Still, the president’s point [...]
“Oscars can’t compete with real-life dramas”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, February 24, 2012 And the winner is . . . hmmm. Maybe there isn’t a winner this time. New York is celebrating its third straight snow-watch weekend. Hollywood is celebrating itself. And Washington has nothing to celebrate at all. How much fun is that? If [...]
“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? [...]
“It’d be silly, selfish not to get flu shot”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, January 13, 2012 Sorry if you have the flu. I got slammed a few New Year’s Eves ago. Chills. Fever. A horrible aching feeling. The rot lingered into the second week of January. I thought I would die. Then, I wished I [...]
“GOP hardly rushing to Sandy victims’ aid”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, January 6, 2012 A measly $9.7 billion. After two months of delay. Why no super response to superstorm Sandy?At least 130 people were killed. In New York alone, 305,000 houses and apartments were either damaged or destroyed, along with 265,000 businesses. More than 140,000 [...]
“Huge lottery wins come with a side of envy”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, December 2, 2012 Don’t you hate those people in Missouri and Arizona? Every time someone else wins a giant lottery, a certain resentment wells up in the rest of us. This is easy since there are so few of them and so [...]
“Obama, GOP hope for post-election compromise”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, November 11, 2012 In any normal year, this should be the lull time, the predictable rest between election night and when the governing begins. Who said this year is normal? Instead of basking in his victory, Barack Obama is staring over the edge of a [...]
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.”
