“Tiki Barber Wants to Return to the NFL, But Is This Just Another Fumble for the Ex-Running Back?”, Ellis Henican Opinion, FOX NEWS. COM, March 11, 2011 Tiki, Tiki, Tiki! What do you mean “playing the field” again? Tiki Barber, the charming New York Giants running back who retired in 2006 to work full-time on…
DetailsEllis Henican Column, Newsday, March 13, 2011 The damage that could be seen was bad enough. The many crumbling buildings, the massive walls of water, the terrible loss of life. But the real doomsday scenario in the Japanese earthquake, the spectre of an unthinkable catastrophe, was largely invisible: The threat to Japan’s network of nuclear power…
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How much is too much? Ellis Henican appeared on Fox Business Channel’s “Freedom Watch” (03/10/11) with Judge Napolitano to talk about whether the federal government should be regulating debit card swipe fees.
The panel (Henican, Tracy Byrnes, Matt Welch) also discussed why some Democrats defected and defeated their own spending package.
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“LI may take gas prices in stride again”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, March 6, 2011 Long Island gas prices shot up another 14 cents last week, sending the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded to $3.68. You do the crazy math: If prices keep rising like this, your gas costs could easily top your…
DetailsEllis Henican Column, Newsday, March 6, 2011 A sitcom character from the South once said: “We’re proud of our crazy people. We don’t hide them up in the attic. We bring ’em right down to the living room and show ’em off. No one in the South ever asked if you have crazy people in your…
DetailsEllis Henican Column, Newsday, February 27, 2011 All eyes are on Wisconsin this weekend. Will the nation’s gaze turn to Nassau County next? Whatever sweet deals unionized teachers have been receiving in Milwaukee and Madison, you can bet they get nothing half as sweet as this: A $338,000 handshake on the way out the door, like…
Detailshttp://www.newsday.com/columnists/ellis-henican/quest-for-freedom-meets-violent-match-1.2699418 The spark of freedom, once struck, is not easily extinguished. Isn’t that the lesson of the American Revolution, the French Revolution and about a hundred other revolutions since? Well, that spark has clearly been struck in Tahrir Square as Facebook social networkers and English-speaking college students quickly toppled Egypt’s autocratic Mubarak regime. So Bahrain…
Details“Hard part is sorting Nassau lab errors” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, February 13, 2011 Well, it’s about time. After years of rumors, months of mounting evidence and weeks of irrefutable proof, Nassau County officials finally shut down what had become the most notoriously inept drug lab in America. But that’s the easy part. Now, prosecutors, defense…
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