“Seeing is believing, as shown in Eric Garner case”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, August 24, 2014 Seeing is believing—or so we’ve always been told. But that moldy old canard has never been half as true than it is right now. Thousands took to the streets of Staten Island yesterday to protest the death of Eric…
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“Fury in Ferguson built on missing information”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, August 17, 2014 Darren Wilson. Now that wasn’t so hard, was it? Police in Ferguson, Missouri, could have saved their community six long nights of grief if they’d only come out early and explained what they knew about the fatal shooting of unarmed teen…
Details“You can do it,” Rorke Denver said to me, and I swear I wanted to believe him.
We were standing on the sand in Coronado, California, the pasty-faced writer from New York City and the former head of training for the U.S. Navy SEALs.
“U.S. attempts diplomacy in Israel-Palestine conflict”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, July 27, 2014 ‘A brief seven days of peace.” John Kerry was talking about a tiny cease-fire, the blink of an eye in the endless and gruesome conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, just long enough to pull out the wounded, send in fresh supplies, say…
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President Barack Obama can’t do anything right. So say his critics. But with crises erupting around the world – with Israel, Hamas, Putin, Ukraine, Russia, Libya, Syria, Isis and Iraq to name just SOME of the problems overseas – is it fair to attack him when he simultaneously multi-tasks, dealing with U.S. domestic issues, foreign issues…
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“Vladimir Putin’s empire-hungry push not looking so great”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, July 20, 2014 Suddenly, the Russian president is looking like Vladimir-the-Not-So-Great. Vladimir Putin has made no secret of his ambitions of empire, hoping to reverse the many humiliations his homeland has suffered since the collapse of the Soviet Union a quarter century ago.…
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“Paralysis on immigration crisis involving unaccompanied minors”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, July 13, 2014 Immigration reform is going nowhere in a hurry. The business incentive tax credit, the Export-Import Bank, what to do in Iraq, Ukraine, Syria, Gaza, pick an international hot spot — if it’s an issue in Washington, you can bet the grid…
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“Coulter fouls World Cup fandom with politics”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, June 29, 2014 Does everything have to become instantly partisan — everything? Forgive my naivete. I just hadn’t realized I was undermining American values by rooting for scrappy Team USA as it powered and lucked its way through the Group of Death and into the…
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Henican and Astorino on Newsmax TV Friday, 27 Jun 2014 05:53 PM By Bill Hoffman President Barack Obama’s poll numbers are down, but the commander in chief is still more popular than a lot of lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Newsday columnist Ellis Henican says. “We’re halfway through a second term and presidents tend to sag,”…
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