Holiday News Lull? What News Lull?
“No Rest fo Weary News,” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, January 3, 2010 The news must be getting awfully tired. It never goes to sleep anymore. The endless drama over health care. The botched terror attack over Michigan. The daily life-or-death tug-of-war over Barack Obama. Party change in Nassau. Agent slaughter in Afghanistan. [...]
Underpants Bomber– Or Just Glad to See Us?
“”Plane Nutty,” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, December 29, 2009
Some of that PETN must have seeped into the atmosphere. There’s so much cloudy thinking floating around!
It started with Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano declaring giddily: “the system worked.”
Before she backtracked.
It continued as the Transportation Security Adminstration threw its full bureaucratic gravitas behind a stricter no-peeing and [...]