“The Coming Refugee Debate,” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, January 14, 2010 Get ready, Eastern Parkway. You too, Cambria Heights. Fire up the griot pot. The Haitians are coming to New York. As sure as Port-au-Prince is now in shambles, a huge new wave of Haitian refugees will soon be heading north. And controversy almost certainly…
Details“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. Plus all the…
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Suozzi’s Farewell,” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, December 30, 2009 He was “completely shocked” he lost. He’s unlikely to run for local or county office again, though maybe for something on the state or federal level. He’s proud to have turned “the worst-run county in America” into a government that is “much more professional and better…
Details“”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…
Details“He’s Outta Here: Rudy Runs for the Money,” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, December 23, 2009 In with a bang, out with a whimper. It was an anticlimactic end to Rudy Giuliani’s political career. The steel-jawed hero of 9/11. The exhausted second-term mayor, revived by the terror attacks. The perfect politician for the Anxiety Age. So…
Details“You Might Have Noticed: It’s Cold,” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, December 19, 2009 It’s a simple fact of our complex lives: Nobody cares about everything. Some people are “American Idol” addicts or crazy sports fans. Others are obsessed with taxes or schools. A relative few are glued to politics, the economy or foreign affairs. The…
Details“All God’s Children,” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, December 18, 2009 Where America is going, New York already is. With the whites outnumbered! And if the people in America will just ask nicely, we’d be happy to explain to them what their future holds. Think Elmhurst! The U.S. Census Bureau caused quite a stir this week,…
Details“A Hot and Heavy Christmas,” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, December Hormones are raging this holiday season. As temperatures fall, passions are heating up. Hot lesbian teacher sex in Brooklyn. Crazy billionaire golfer sex everywhere. A major study at the University of Minnesota has just concluded that young adults who have casual sex are no worse…
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