Howard Portnoy

Howard Portnoy has written for The Blaze, HotAir, NewsBusters, Weasel Zippers, Conservative Firing Line, RedCounty, and New York’s Daily News. He has one published novel, Hot Rain, (G. P. Putnam’s Sons), and has been a guest on Radio Vice Online with Jim Vicevich, The Alana Burke Show, Smart Life with Dr. Gina, and The George Espenlaub Show.

Law and Government

Howard PortnoyJune 25, 2013
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TSA’s answer to mom reluctant to open baby food jars? Give her a pat-down

There’s an app for that. For the Transportation Security Administration, whenever its officers are confronted with a situation not covered…
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Media

Howard PortnoyJune 25, 2013
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Supreme Court Voting Rights Act ruling underscores unbridgeable media divide

Truth, like beauty, is evidently in the eye of the beholder. This is clear not from the decision by the…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyJune 19, 2013
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Nutcase who lost custody of son he named Adolf Hitler to name daughter Eva Braun

If nothing else, you have to admire Heath Campbell’s perseverance. In 2009, he and his then-wife Deborah lost custody of…
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National Security

Howard PortnoyJune 19, 2013
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Bill Ayers: I wrote ‘Dreams from My Father’

In case you missed the latest political analysis from unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers (aka, some guy in Obama’s old Chicago…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyJune 19, 2013
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Government waste through fraud: Federal employees file phony disability claims

How would you define chutzpah? Here are three anecdotes, any of which could appear in a dictionary definition as an illustrative…
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Religion

Howard PortnoyJune 18, 2013
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Quakers to hold anti-Israel 'thought camp' in New York State

It’s bad enough that the event, which teaches hatred, is sponsored by a religious order that calls itself “Friends.” But…
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Media

Howard PortnoyJune 18, 2013
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Obama chides PBS's Charlie Rose: American people ‘can’t fathom complexities of Syria policy’

Being president of the United States isn’t easy. Being Barack Obama being president is evidently tougher still. Despite then-candidate Obama’s chest…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyJune 18, 2013
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Poll: Nearly half the country now believes the White House ordered IRS targeting of conservative groups

Fool them once…. If President Obama thought last week was the worst of his presidency, he is in for a…
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Media

Howard PortnoyJune 17, 2013
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CBS News’s Scott Pelley ludicrously asserts Fox News has 200K to 300K viewers

Maybe it was wishful thinking on his part when CBS Evening News host Scott Pelley informed Deadline Hollywood in an interview on Saturday that…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyJune 17, 2013
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Outrage: Killer of 3 to be set free because crimes occurred on Indian reservation

An Oklahoman sentenced to death for brutally killing three people in cold blood is about to be a free man.…
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Media

Howard PortnoyJune 16, 2013
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WH tweets Father’s Day pic of Obama and daughter playing with toy guns

Does Barack Obama ever think about his words and actions and how they might be received coming not from the…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyJune 16, 2013
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Did Secret Service visit critic of Obama based on Twitter messages?

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. So we were told repeatedly by the upstanding, nonviolent citizens who took to…
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National Security

Howard PortnoyJune 16, 2013
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NY-bound flight diverted after threatening note found in lavatory

Apparently not everyone was paying attention when President Obama announced in a speech last month that “this war [on terror], like…
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Media

Howard PortnoyJune 15, 2013
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Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher: NSA scandal a ‘white people problem’

The view that NSA “whistle blower”-in-exile Edward Snowden is a hero has gained less traction to date than the view…
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National Security

Howard PortnoyJune 15, 2013
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Muslim Lawyers Association wants Obama arrested when he visits S. Africa this month

When the nation’s first black president and his family visit Africa later this month, they can probably look forward to a…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyJune 14, 2013
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Mom, daughter try to smuggle large sums of cash across border in bras

Border agents just never know what they’re going to find crammed into people’s undergarments and orifices these days. In January, Customs…
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Education

Howard PortnoyJune 14, 2013
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NYC school teacher assigns students to write suicide note

Be prepared: That’s the Boy Scouts’ motto. Not to be undone in equipping her students for all ups and (especially)…
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Social Issues

Howard PortnoyJune 13, 2013
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In new video, abortion doctor equates fatal fetal injection to 'flu shot'

Let’s get our euphemisms straight. When a fetus is aborted, it is not killed; it is “terminated.” The injection administered…
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National Security

Howard PortnoyJune 13, 2013
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Paris art exhibit glorifies Palestinian suicide bombers

Once again, the proposition that one man’s art is another’s atrocity is being tested by a controversial new exhibit. This…
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Media

Howard PortnoyJune 12, 2013
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Obama’s MSM dominoes continue to topple over revelations of NSA spying

For the last four years, conservative columnists have been scratching their heads, wondering what it would take to get the…
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Religion

Howard PortnoyJune 12, 2013
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U. of Chicago removes 88-year-old chapel pews to accommodate Islamic prayers

One man’s religious freedom is another’s persecution. Exhibit A is Bond Chapel at the University of Chicago where administrators permanently…
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Education

Howard PortnoyJune 12, 2013
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Brazil creates larger-than-life testicle mascot to promote cancer awareness

Toward the end of the 1974 low-budget, offbeat comedy “The Groove Tube” is a scene in which a cartoony, bulbous-headed creature named…
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Social Issues

Howard PortnoyJune 11, 2013
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New campaign joyously proclaims to expectant parents 'Congratulations, you're having a lesbian'

Suppose for a moment that the claim that children are “born gay” were totally accurate, rather than an oversimplification of…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyJune 11, 2013
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Obama's data mining a bridge too far for NYT

In its halcyon days (read: when it was genuinely funny), MAD magazine had a recurring feature titled “Scenes We’d Like…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyJune 10, 2013
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A modest proposal for limiting terrorism on airline flights

For past nine days, my family and I were immersed in the sights, sounds, and flavors of Rome and the…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMay 29, 2013
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Far-left media whine that conservative groups targeted by IRS had it coming

On May 10, shortly after it was reported that the Internal Revenue Service had flagged conservative political groups for extra…
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Sports and Culture

Howard PortnoyMay 29, 2013
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Tea kettle billboard that reminded people of Hitler removed

Now you see it, now you don’t. A billboard along U.S. 405 in southern California that was intended to sell…
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Media

Howard PortnoyMay 28, 2013
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A tale of two Trayvons: New pix and texts may shape trial of teen's killer

George Zimmerman, the man who shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., in February of 2012, will soon have his…
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Media

Howard PortnoyMay 28, 2013
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Obama waves his magic wand and ends the war on terror

Barack Obama has been president now for four-plus years. Before that, he was briefly a U.S. senator. Yet, despite all…
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Education

Howard PortnoyMay 27, 2013
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Racism comes full circle for liberals

What goes around, it is said, comes around. And liberals, their ears ever pricked for that elusive dog whistle, have…
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National Security

Howard PortnoyMay 27, 2013
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War hero’s last request granted: Diary read by his sweetheart

There could not be a more fitting Memorial Day tale than that of Cpl. Thomas “Cotton” Jones and the woman…
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Education

Howard PortnoyMay 25, 2013
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First Lady salutes textbook publishers for 'new' (actually decades-old) 'no junk food' policy

The idea — to replace cupcakes with oranges in math problems — is not a bad one. It’s not a…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMay 25, 2013
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What could go wrong? Obama orders Holder to investigate self

In a move that is way beyond asking the fox to guard the hen house, President Obama has ordered Attorney…
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyMay 24, 2013
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What radical heckler at Obama ‘war-on-terror’ speech reveals about his message

There is nothing quite so pathetic as a performer who doesn’t know when the curtain is falling. He might be…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyMay 23, 2013
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Woman busted for smuggling drugs in vagina cops plea

When it comes to ingenuity, drug smugglers are second to none. Even though they were nabbed by the federales last…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMay 23, 2013
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Taxi magnate sues Bloomberg following nanny mayor’s profanity-laced rant

A taxi fleet boss who received a profane tongue lashing from NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg replete with two f-bombs announced…
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Howard Portnoy

TSA’s answer to mom reluctant to open baby food jars? Give her a pat-down

Bill Ayers: I wrote ‘Dreams from My Father’

Government waste through fraud: Federal employees file phony disability claims

Obama chides PBS's Charlie Rose: American people ‘can’t fathom complexities of Syria policy’

Poll: Nearly half the country now believes the White House ordered IRS targeting of conservative groups

CBS News’s Scott Pelley ludicrously asserts Fox News has 200K to 300K viewers

Outrage: Killer of 3 to be set free because crimes occurred on Indian reservation

NY-bound flight diverted after threatening note found in lavatory

Muslim Lawyers Association wants Obama arrested when he visits S. Africa this month

Mom, daughter try to smuggle large sums of cash across border in bras

NYC school teacher assigns students to write suicide note

Paris art exhibit glorifies Palestinian suicide bombers

Obama’s MSM dominoes continue to topple over revelations of NSA spying

U. of Chicago removes 88-year-old chapel pews to accommodate Islamic prayers

Obama's data mining a bridge too far for NYT

A modest proposal for limiting terrorism on airline flights

Far-left media whine that conservative groups targeted by IRS had it coming

Tea kettle billboard that reminded people of Hitler removed

Obama waves his magic wand and ends the war on terror

War hero’s last request granted: Diary read by his sweetheart

What could go wrong? Obama orders Holder to investigate self

Taxi magnate sues Bloomberg following nanny mayor’s profanity-laced rant

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