THE NEWS IN SONG: Down to the wire music to campaign by… and they’re all singing the same tune. University of Iowa Bassoon Quartet “Iowa Fight Song” http://tinyurl.com/iowafight Sing along if you care to: “Fight! Fight! Fight! for IOWA. Let every loyal Iowan sing. The word is “Fight! Fight! Fight! for IOWA. Until the walls…
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“Republicans want the most conservative, but the most conservative who can win.” – Joe Luchi on the Ellis Henican Radio Show With the first in the nation Iowa Republican Caucus just hours away, Mitt Romney is leading in most polls – having positioned himself as possibly the best “anti-Obama” candidate. Republican Political Activist Joe Luchi gives…
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“In Iowa, it’s still any Republican’s game”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, January 1, 2012 No one can tell you now who will win the Iowa caucuses Tuesday. The polls can’t. The pundits can’t. I certainly can’t. But even I know this much: The first official test of the Republican candidates for president has been one head-spinning,…
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“Let’s be clear about one thing – it’s Obama-Clinton not Clinton-Obama.” – Ellis Henican The rumors have started – Hillary Clinton replacing Vice-President Joe Biden on the Obama ticket for 2012. Advancing the idea as “a natural” this time around is former Labor Secretary with the Bill Clinton administration, Robert Reich. “Obama needs to stir the passions and enthusiasms of…
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“No more World War II analogies. Real candidates – people with poll numbers, money and real campaigns can’t get on the ballot. There is something anti-democratic going on.” – Ellis Henican Remember when Hank Williams, jr. compared Barack Obama’s golf outing with John Boehner to an imagined game between Adolph Hitler and Benjamin Netanyahu? Now, Newt Gingrich’s…
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“There was no one, not Lech Walesa – not even Ronald Reagan, who inspired so many from beneath the boot of Soviet domination as did the brave Václav Havel.” – Ellis Henican Václav Havel – playwright, essayist, poet, dissident, human rights activist, politician, former president of the Czech Republic. He changed the world – shining a beacon…
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This Week’s News In Song Only the best Christmas song ever by the best Christmas singer ever. PLEASE COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS by Aaron Neville tinyurl.com/merryaaron Friends and relations send salutations Sure as the stars shine above This is Christmas, yes, Christmas, my dear The time of year to be with the one you love…
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“LI’s economic recovery is in our hands”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, December 24, 2011 Fuel oil is south of $4 a gallon. The average 30-year mortgage is well below 4 percent. New unemployment applications fell last week to their lowest level in more than three years. But everybody’s still feeling squeezed. That’s the thing…
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“These guys were reckless, they came running for our money and, I’m sorry, our money comes with string attached.” – Ellis Henican A Federal Reserve proposal by the chief U.S. banking regulator says the largest U.S. banks and financial companies should hold extra cash on their balance sheets to cushion themselves against financial crises and…
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