Mike Howard, Author at The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
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Mike Howard
Seattle native Mike Howard is a travel journalist working out of the Pacific Northwest. His articles have appeared in Hemispheres In-Flight Magazine, Caribbean Beach Magazine, Whisky Magazine, World Nomads, and Great Escapes Magazine. He has authored multiple “Custom Guides” for Trip.com (Malta, Victoria BC and Surrounds, Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula, Montenegro, and Germany), and is a destination expert for those regions.
by | Mar 14, 2024

Thursday, March 14, 2024. This morning, as America began its morning commute, the most powerful rocket ever built is poised to hurtle skyward from Elon Musk’s Boca Chica, Texas, Starbase orbital launch platform. The integrated Starship launch system, Booster 10…

by | Jun 2, 2023

I grew up in a little Norwegian fishing community that was absorbed into Seattle proper. Just about every family that wasn’t pure Norwegian liked to boast about having an Indian princess in their lineage. It was always a Cherokee princess…

by | May 26, 2023

With all the talk of lower gas prices, a full tank of gas still costs me over $100, and I use regular. Even with spring sprung, heating bills have me wearing long johns and sweaters, and the price of groceries…

by | May 19, 2023

A handful of goose feathers (the first five flight feathers work best), a really sharp pen knife (they’re called “pen” knives for a reason), a little bit of practice, and you’re in business if you can’t get to the store…

by | May 11, 2023

Gen. Bernard W. Rogers died on Oct. 27, 2008, after serving our country for over 47 years. He served honorably and valiantly through three wars and rose to become chief of staff of the Army, lead the U.S. European Command,…

by | May 7, 2023

Back in 1936, E. Alexander Powell flew to two dozen republics and colonies “fringing and dotting the Caribbean,” in “half that number of weeks,” relying heavily on Pan Am clippers, a flying boat. In his book Aerial Odyssey, he offered…

by | May 3, 2023

If you are a U.S. passport holder, you do not have dual citizenship, your U.S. passport expires in less than a year, and you’ve booked travel within the next six months, then there’s a good chance you won’t be going…

by | Apr 30, 2023

Visit pretty much any metropolitan center in the U.S. — from Boston, Newport News, and New York City to Chicago, St. Paul, Cleveland, and even all the way out west to Los Angeles and Seattle — and the chances are…

by | Apr 25, 2023

North Korea’s suicidal antics have largely dropped from the headlines, and Ukraine’s valiant struggle against Russian aggression barely achieves above-the-fold coverage. The threat of the month appears to be Red China and its almost inevitable invasion of Taiwan. But there…

by | Sep 26, 2022

It’s Monday morning at the Space Force’s Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center — and it’s official. NASA has given up all hope of launching its “mega moon rocket” anytime soon and has begun the laborious process of…

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