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.

Economy

Howard PortnoyMay 23, 2013
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Lois Lerner could have avoided current mess by having her attorney read her opening statement

A day has passed since Lois Lerner, director of Exempt Organizations at the IRS, appeared before the House Oversight and Government…
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyMay 22, 2013
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Report: Palestinian organizations use U.S. funding to demonize Israel

In March of this year, during his Mideast charm offensive, Barack Obama declared that Israel has “no greater friend” than…
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Unyielding

Howard PortnoyMay 21, 2013
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PETA: Cockroaches are people, too

It is no longer open season on those disgusting creatures that are the scourge of life in the Big Apple,…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyMay 21, 2013
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Boxer: Okla. tornado proof of climate change, need for carbon tax

With apologies to Winston Churchill, it might be said of Sen. Barbara Boxer that “those that fail to learn from…
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Education

Howard PortnoyMay 21, 2013
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University holds workshop on sculpting genitals from Play-doh

If there is anything positive that can be said about a workshop held at the University of Central Florida last…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMay 21, 2013
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Obama administration targeting of reporter finally hits a nerve: MSM reacts

German theologian Martin Niemöller is enjoying a mini-renaissance. In the last 24 hours, his famous exhortation to rise up against tyranny…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyMay 19, 2013
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Prison poetry website awarded $75,000 NEA grant

Thanks to sequestration, there is not enough money in the government coffers to keep “the people’s house” (aka the White…
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyMay 19, 2013
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Obama aide: Benghazi was ‘tragedy,’ 'irrelevant’ where president was during raid

A new meme is subtly snaking its way into the administration’s feeble attempts to promote the notion that the deaths…
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Social Issues

Howard PortnoyMay 18, 2013
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Women protest giant Barbie dollhouse that 'objectifies women' … by stripping

The most optimistic reading one can lend the story is that these women are fighting fire with fire. Yahoo! News…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMay 18, 2013
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Peeping Tom art exhibit has unwitting subjects up in arms

There are no ifs or ands to the photos taken by New York City artist Arne Svenson but there’s at least…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyMay 18, 2013
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Car thieves ‘pocket dial’ 911 in midst of heist

For most cell phone users, “pocket dialing” — activating one of the phone’s pre-programmed hot keys with your gluteus maximus…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMay 17, 2013
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Waking up to discover 'tyranny has been lurking just around the corner'

Those old enough to remember Watergate will recall that once major scandals within a presidential administration get rolling, they snowball.…
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Social Issues

Howard PortnoyMay 17, 2013
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Woman denied sex retaliates by biting boyfriend’s man part

Another woman scorned, another near-castration. The Smoking Gun reports that a 19-year-old Florida woman “lost it” after her live-in boyfriend…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMay 17, 2013
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Why is it hard to believe Obama ordered the IRS to target his enemies?

Several columns this morning probe the question of the president’s involvement in the burgeoning IRS scandal. Jonah Goldberg at Townhall…
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Education

Howard PortnoyMay 16, 2013
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Columbia University seeks to change ‘white only’ requirement for fellowship

“Desegregation may finally be coming to Columbia University.” That bit of misleading hyperbole from the joint pen of Daily News…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMay 16, 2013
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PC police in D.C. outlaw ‘mutt’ to describe mixed breed in favor of Xoloitzcuintli

Paging Mister Mxyzptlk: We have your dog. From the “you just can’t make these things up” department. Who but government could…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMay 16, 2013
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Media libs in denial: Claim Obama down but not out

“Obama’s presidency was declared dead by the press on Tuesday.” So writes Elspeth Reeve of the Atlantic Wire, providing as…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMay 15, 2013
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Man arrested for 'soliciting prostitute' … on honeymoon

You’ve heard the expression “the honeymoon is over.” For recent newlywed Mohammed Ahmed, the honeymoon was over before it started.…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyMay 15, 2013
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Dem Senators’ Hail Mary pass in re Benghazi scandal

Now that the mainstream media are writing articles with the words scandals (plural), cover-up, lies, and president in their titles,…
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Media

Howard PortnoyMay 14, 2013
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Obama Benghazi statements rated as 'whoppers' by friendly media

In his statements to the press yesterday about the alleged Benghazi scandal, President Obama did something he has done before…
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Media

Howard PortnoyMay 13, 2013
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Guilty! Gosnell found guilty on 3 of 4 counts of first-degree murder

Despite intimations earlier today of a hung jury in the trail of former Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, jurors minutes…
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyMay 13, 2013
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Did fear of tough questions from the press about Benghazi makes Obama cry?

Is that a tear coursing down the face of President Barack Obama? Did no one tell the macho man president…
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Education

Howard PortnoyMay 13, 2013
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Schools stage gun attack drills using assault weapons, fake blood

OK, let’s summarize where we are five months out from the Newtown shootings. If a student so much as mentions…
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Media

Howard PortnoyMay 13, 2013
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CBS anchor admits ‘media getting big stories wrong over and over’

“Our house is on fire,” CBS anchor Scott Pelley said in a speech last week at Quinnipiac University in which…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMay 12, 2013
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Flashback: City of Richmond orders tax audit of tea party following protest

Unfair and unequal treatment of tea partiers by the taxman is insidious, but it is nothing new. As noted in…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyMay 12, 2013
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All the president’s friends: AP is latest defector with whistle-blowing report on IRS

What a difference damning testimony from high-level members of the diplomatic corps makes! Just three days have passed since three…
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Media

Howard PortnoyMay 11, 2013
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Ken Layne: Why wouldn’t Tea Party expect that IRS would investigate them?

It is still unclear whether the Internal Revenue Service’s flagging of conservative political groups for additional reviews to determine whether they…
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Sports and Culture

Howard PortnoyMay 11, 2013
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To help her ‘kick the habit,’ woman assaults cop so she will be taken to jail

What would you do if you had a burning urge (pun intended) to quit smoking? Although it’s pretty far down…
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyMay 11, 2013
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Despite MSM’s bid for redemption, some lefty ‘journalists’ plan to go down with ship

There is no escaping the fact that, where Benghazi is concerned, there is blood in the water and the mainstream…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMay 10, 2013
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Hispanic worker hurt, sues employer because signs at work are in English only

Hispanic custodians at a community college in Denver have filed a grievance against the school on the grounds that they…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMay 10, 2013
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Passenger who stripped naked when TSA screened him fined by agency

The TSA should make its mind. First its agents get all wee-weed up when a passenger refuses to cooperate. Then…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyMay 10, 2013
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Obama: ‘Unless you’re a Native American, you came from someplace else’

In his four-plus years in office, Barack Obama has committed a number of gaffes (aka, Bushisms), but on Wednesday The…
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyMay 10, 2013
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Families of SEAL Team 6 killed in Afghanistan in 2011 blame Obama, demand probe

At a time when the White House finds itself having to do some fancy footwork over its doctoring of official…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMay 9, 2013
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Man arrested for playing with toy gun with kids in NYC park

One New York politician is calling it a teachable moment. The family of the man who committed the “indiscretion” is…
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Media

Howard PortnoyMay 9, 2013
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Hispanic Caucus dismisses high economic cost of amnesty on grounds of racism

Let us stipulate, for starters, as Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-Texas), chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, did, that claiming differences…
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Unyielding

Howard PortnoyMay 9, 2013
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Carnival Cruises reports 2 passengers missing overboard

Carnival Cruise Lines just can’t cut a break. The beleaguered luxury-cruise line — which was struck not once, not twice,…
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Howard Portnoy

Lois Lerner could have avoided current mess by having her attorney read her opening statement

PETA: Cockroaches are people, too

Obama administration targeting of reporter finally hits a nerve: MSM reacts

Prison poetry website awarded $75,000 NEA grant

Obama aide: Benghazi was ‘tragedy,’ 'irrelevant’ where president was during raid

Waking up to discover 'tyranny has been lurking just around the corner'

Why is it hard to believe Obama ordered the IRS to target his enemies?

PC police in D.C. outlaw ‘mutt’ to describe mixed breed in favor of Xoloitzcuintli

Media libs in denial: Claim Obama down but not out

Dem Senators’ Hail Mary pass in re Benghazi scandal

Did fear of tough questions from the press about Benghazi makes Obama cry?

CBS anchor admits ‘media getting big stories wrong over and over’

All the president’s friends: AP is latest defector with whistle-blowing report on IRS

Ken Layne: Why wouldn’t Tea Party expect that IRS would investigate them?

To help her ‘kick the habit,’ woman assaults cop so she will be taken to jail

Despite MSM’s bid for redemption, some lefty ‘journalists’ plan to go down with ship

Passenger who stripped naked when TSA screened him fined by agency

Families of SEAL Team 6 killed in Afghanistan in 2011 blame Obama, demand probe

Carnival Cruises reports 2 passengers missing overboard

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