Patrick Howley

National security mascot Rudy Giuliani is back in the headlines this week for his latest project with private consulting firm Giuliani Partners. America’s mayor is considering taking a spokesman job with the Entergy Corporation, which operates two reactors at the…

Those expecting the Irish presidential race to fade from the global headlines now that scandal-ridden public intellectual David Norris has dropped out (and fled the country) are dead wrong. This week, reports from Ireland suggest that apolitical 77-year old talk…

For the past few months, openly-gay public intellectual David Norris has been barnstorming across the Republic of Ireland to bolster his candidacy for the Irish presidency (a largely ceremonial “national spokesman” job). With few if any worthy challengers in the…

Disgraced former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick carries himself a bit like a cool teacher, and for a time in the 1990s he was just that. He reveals in his new memoir Surrendered!: The Rise, Fall, and Revelation of Kwame Kilpatrick…

Cenk Uygur’s hiring at MSNBC in October 2010 felt like a populist event. When he took over the network’s six p.m. MSNBC Live time slot three months later — for a six-month trial run — underpaid media aspirants everywhere were…

Had Rupert Murdoch’s wife Wendi Deng not leapt to her feet yesterday at a parliamentary hearing and fought off pie-throwing assailant Jonathan May-Bowles, then her husband would have become the latest luminary to fall victim to “pieing.” It’s a forty-year…

Ever since February, when Judge Reggie Walton and his old friend Ken Griffey Sr. had a controversial, off-the-record discussion about what a “good guy” Roger Clemens really is, insiders have been speculating as to when and how Walton will end…

In Ireland, where the race for the Irish presidency (a largely-ceremonial, national spokesman job…you know, like ours) picks up steam heading into the October election, conservatives in the majority Fine Gael party suffered a major setback this week. Prime minister…

Debbie Clemens looks tense. She’s out of her element in Courtroom 16, watching her husband stand trial in U.S. District Court on federal perjury charges. Though she knows, like all baseball wives, how hard it is to simply watch someone…

Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy’s ineptitude in handling his state’s budget crisis (“A National Virus“) is not going unnoticed — especially by those who previously held his job. In a phone conversation yesterday, former Connecticut governor John G. Rowland (1995-2004) argued…