Patrick Howley
Amanda Knox returned home to Seattle Tuesday to the kind of reception normally reserved for championship sports teams. A cheering chorus of billboard-waving supporters greeted her at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport shortly after 5 pm Pacific. Local schoolchildren cheered in their…
I think Garry Trudeau should retire and ride off into the sunset, because there’s nothing for him to make fun of anymore. The self-involved prep school Baby Boomers who compose his cultural milieu are past the point of ridicule now….
Republican Missouri lieutenant governor Peter Kinder wants you to know a few things about his opponent, incumbent Democrat Jay Nixon. “We have never seen pay for play like it’s going on now in Missouri,” Kinder tells The American Spectator. And…
David Norris made late-night television history Friday, appearing on the RTÉ network’s Late Late Show to address the personal allegations that have derailed his Irish presidential campaign. The Irish presidency is a largely ceremonial position, a national spokesman job really,…
In the sublime Paul Auster-scripted 1995 art film Blue in the Face, rock legend Lou Reed sighs, “I’ve been thinking about leaving New York for 35 years now. I’m almost ready.” Rudy Giuliani can sympathize. His two major escape attempts…
For the past few weeks, Al Jazeera English correspondent Gabriel Elizondo has been on a very special road trip across America, talking to regular everyday folks about the legacy of 9/11. Last Friday, he went to a high school football…
From the perspective of the media tent, there emerged a true star out of this summer’s debt-deal crisis. And no, it wasn’t Paul Ryan. For us, rather, it was craggy-faced old Don Imus, who gave Neil Cavuto the perfect interview…
A rumor advanced by bored, pencil-flipping magazine writers and prolonged by the Internet media “pile-on” effect now comes to an end here. Kelsey Grammer is not running for mayor of New York City. Over the last few weeks, everyone from…
In the media business, the pressure for commentators to gain attention is both immense and fundamentally unfair. Working in an atmosphere where web traffic rules supreme and byline-building is a contact sport, commentators are routinely pushed to make the boldest…
Four major U.S. tobacco companies filed suit last week against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over a new federal mandate scheduled to go into effect on October 22, 2012. The rule, as part of Obama’s 2009 Tobacco Control Act,…
