“Cozy, Cozy. It’s corrupt in the worst kind of way.” – Ellis Henican Food and Drug Administration advisers said the benefits of four popular Bayer AG birth-control pills outweigh the blood-clot risk. What the FDA didn’t disclose is that four of the advisers have had ties to Bayer – who’s own studies show no excess…
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“Isn’t there something contradictory about saying: government get out of my pocket, government get out of my morality, government get out of my life but please pass a bunch of laws telling people what they can look at on the internet.” – Ellis Henican It’s been called the year of the Constitutionalist. The Republican field…
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“Michael Kinsley said that a political gaffe is just another name for a politician telling you the truth.” – Ellis Henican Listen to Ellis Henican, hosting the Alan Colmes show (1/9/12), draw a parallel between Mitt Romney’s “I like being able to fire people” comment and Gordon “Greed” Gecko. E-mail ellis@henican.com Follow him at twitter.com/henican…
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“The stream of deportations under the Obama administration is considerably higher than in the Bush years – and that makes no sense at all.” – Ellis Henican The case of Jakadrien Turner – a fourteen year old Texas teenage runaway deported to Colombia in May of last year after giving a false name to Dallas police –…
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“Time to settle Syosset mall debate”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, January 8, 2012 It’s been 17 years. Shouldn’t that be long enough? Long enough to decide whether developer Bill Taubman can build his upscale Mall at Oyster Bay in Syosset. Long enough to decide whether a small but fierce knot of neighborhood opponents will succeed…
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“I don’t think Newt handled this right. When you announce you’re gonna slime the other guy and then you go ahead and slime the other guy -he’s ready for it.” – Ellis Henican Newt Gingrich has been telling anyone and everyone that he’s out for revenge and plans to begin negative attacks against Mitt Romney. Gingrich blames Romney…
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“We’ve had months and years of struggling…this is good. Let’s just keep doing more of what we’re doing—stimulating the economy, get people back to work. Do what we know works and let’s congratulate ourselves.” – Ellis Henican The December jobs report said we gained 200,000 jobs and reduced the unemployment rate to 8.5% – but there…
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They were the stories we obsessed about: politicians playing chicken at the edge of the Fiscal Cliff, a puppeteer making us cringe at the words “tickle me”, a pregnant Dutchess of Cambridge reminding us why we love the Royals, and some very old rockers headlined the Garden on 12/12/12. “You gotta figure that the audience willing to pay two or three…
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“It’s dumb, politically, that Republicans have not been able to rally around a single candidate. 75% of the vote chopped up 5 different ways is never going to be a very big number.” – Ellis Henican There’s a Mitt and Anti-Mitt campaign going on – it’s time the Republicans think about consolidating. Listen to Ellis…
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