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.

Media

Howard PortnoyApril 10, 2013
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Melissa Harris-Perry digs her hole deeper, invoking imperialism, slavery

MSNBC commentator Melissa Harris-Perry holds the degree of Ph.D., which in casual academic parlance stands for “piled higher and deeper.”…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyApril 10, 2013
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Would Obama’s gun control measures make it ‘harder to gun down our kids’?

In case you missed President’s Obama’s latest impassioned spiel (and trust me, you didn’t miss anything even if you didn’t…
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Education

Howard PortnoyApril 9, 2013
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CT school teaches that Americans don’t have constitutional right to bear arms

How far will the nation’s schools go in the expressed interest of shielding our children from another Newtown? How’s rewriting…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyApril 9, 2013
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Sequester alert: WH preps for 10th taxpayer-funded command performance

The “impacts of sequestration are real,” the heavily left-leaning Center for American Progress reports. Yet, in some quarters, the impacts…
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Media

Howard PortnoyApril 9, 2013
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The AP Stylebook’s ‘quiet killing’ of the term ‘homophobia’

Much was made last week of the announcement by the Associated Press that it would be purging the terms illegal…
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Unyielding

Howard PortnoyApril 8, 2013
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Self-proclaimed animal lover hanged boyfriend’s dog because it barked loudly

The story is one of depravity with an undercurrent of hypocrisy. The DesMoines Register reports that 28-year-old Sheena Ann Cornwell,…
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Education

Howard PortnoyApril 8, 2013
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FL kindergarten teacher fired after failing to notice students having sex in her classroom

A story out of Duval County, Fla., gives a whole new meaning to early childhood education. A kindergarten teacher there was…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyApril 8, 2013
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NYC councilwoman wants to make it a crime to buy fake handbags

If you’ve been to Manhattan in recent decades, you have probably seen street vendors, whose numbers are legion, selling knockoff…
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Education

Howard PortnoyApril 7, 2013
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Teacher arrested for slapping 9-year-old girl in front of 3rd-grade class

The story would be shocking outside the context of current events. But at a time when schools are doubling down…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyApril 7, 2013
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MSNBC ad advises that the state owns your kids, not you

Kahlil Gibran lives! The Lebanese-American poet so beloved of hippies for his liberating views is channeled in a new MSNBC…
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Social Issues

Howard PortnoyApril 6, 2013
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Whoops! Billboard celebrating ‘remarkable women’ has photos of men only

Fighting the war on women is proving more difficult than many combatants realized. The president discovered this after he remarked…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyApril 6, 2013
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MSNBC’s Krystal Ball exploits own 5-year-old daughter on TV to promote gay marriage

You’ve probably seen the AT&T ads that show a corporate tool in a gray suit seated in a too-small chair…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyApril 5, 2013
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First Lady flub: Calls herself a ‘busy single mother’ during CBS interview

By rough count, as president Barack Obama has committed enough “George Bushisms” to fill a poster of similar size to…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyApril 5, 2013
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UK’s online ‘class survey’ will tell if you’re nobility or a bum

In the U.S., class is a dirty word, used mostly in pejorative settings (think class warfare). In the UK, it’s a badge…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyApril 5, 2013
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‘Sexist’ Obama takes heat after calling California AG a ‘looker’

Va-va-voom! The president had what some are calling a lapse in judgment Wednesday night when he expressed his admiration for…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyApril 5, 2013
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As March report sees dismal 88K new jobs added, Obama is off campaigning

Optimists (read: the administration) will look at the March jobs report released this morning and observe that the unemployment rate…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyApril 4, 2013
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Video shows inmates at hard labor: Swilling beer, snorting coke, handling a gun … inside their cells

Prisons have come a long since the days when jailbirds in horizontal stripes were forced to break rocks in the…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyApril 4, 2013
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After stuff hits the fan, Jim Carrey wades in deeper with pathetic HuffPo rebuttal

Some people clearly just don’t know when to quit. One of them is comedic actor Jim Carrey. Believing he had…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyApril 4, 2013
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To honor memory of MLK, NYC fast food workers strike for more than double the minimum wage

In New York City on Thursday, several hundred fast-food workers will honor the memory of civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr.,…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyApril 3, 2013
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Appeals court debates taxpayer-funded sex change for convicted murderer

The Eighth Amendment of the Constitution protects against the infliction of cruel and unusual punishment. That amendment is currently being…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyApril 3, 2013
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$700 million in Katrina relief money misused by recipients

This is why the nation can’t have nice things. A new report released by the Department of Housing and Urban Development reveals…
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Media

Howard PortnoyApril 3, 2013
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Associated Press drops ‘illegal immigrant’ from stylebook

First they came for the word terrorist, persuading the news agency Reuters to substitute freedom fighter instead. Now they are…
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Education

Howard PortnoyApril 2, 2013
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LU exclusive: School disciplines 6-year-old over drawing based on book obtained at school

Call it a case of one hand not knowing what the other is doing. LU is in exclusive receipt of…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyApril 2, 2013
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Condemned OH man seeks clemency; admits he meant to rape infant but didn't mean to kill her

Attorneys for an Ohio man on death row are citing the letter if not the spirit of the law as…
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Sports and Culture

Howard PortnoyApril 1, 2013
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School bus argument turns violent leaving one mother dead, another in jail

It was another case of parents in need of parenting, but this time the outcome was deadly. Bluefield, W.Va., NBC…
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Media

Howard PortnoyApril 1, 2013
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Incendiary WaPo op-ed on white male mass murderers kills 2 birds with 1 stone

Even if you’re not familiar with white man bashing, the latest liberal diversion, you’re probably acquainted with the assault on…
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Sports and Culture

Howard PortnoyMarch 31, 2013
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Macy’s mistakenly marked down $1,500 necklace to $47

The New York-based retail giant Macy’s is famous for its one-day sales, where prices are slashed, but this is ridiculous.…
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyMarch 31, 2013
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Egyptian satirist arrested for 'insulting' President Mohamed Morsi

For those who have followed Mohamed Morsi’s brief career as president of Egypt and have been unimpressed, prepare not to…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyMarch 30, 2013
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Obama in FL touts American jobs standing in front of Chinese crane

The truth will out. Here’s hoping that is the White House’s takeaway from an act of God that occurred during…
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Media

Howard PortnoyMarch 30, 2013
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Roland Martin says CNN never gave him own show because he's black

It goes without saying that everyone at Fox News Channel (or “F*x News,” as petulant failed comedic actor Jim Carrey…
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Media

Howard PortnoyMarch 30, 2013
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Taxpayer-funded anti-bullying workshop targets ‘Big Bad Right Wing’

Bullying is evil; everyone knows that. Using taxpayer dollars to fund a workshop on how to combat bullies is positive,…
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Media

Howard PortnoyMarch 29, 2013
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German museum’s ‘Jew in the box’ exhibit stirs passions

How many Jews does it take to screw in a light bulb? How do Jews hide their horns when their…
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Media

Howard PortnoyMarch 29, 2013
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WaPo’s Eugene Robinson rejects mental health gun argument, saying you can't tell who’s crazy

Washington Post op-ed writer Eugene Robinson has a unique dilemma when it comes to controlling violence. Robinson, who within days…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMarch 29, 2013
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Planned Parenthood rep argues for killing babies born alive after failed abortion

Even as a Philadelphia abortionist stands trial for murder for having severed the spinal cords of babies born alive, a…
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Education

Howard PortnoyMarch 28, 2013
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NH school district bans dodgeball

Did you know that each year 650 children in America are killed playing dodgeball? Actually they aren’t, but that didn’t…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMarch 28, 2013
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Dozens camp out for free food at Chick-fil-A … in liberal CA

“An army marches on its stomach,” Napoleon is reported to have said. That aphorism apparently holds true not only for…
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Howard Portnoy

CT school teaches that Americans don’t have constitutional right to bear arms

Sequester alert: WH preps for 10th taxpayer-funded command performance

Self-proclaimed animal lover hanged boyfriend’s dog because it barked loudly

NYC councilwoman wants to make it a crime to buy fake handbags

MSNBC ad advises that the state owns your kids, not you

First Lady flub: Calls herself a ‘busy single mother’ during CBS interview

UK’s online ‘class survey’ will tell if you’re nobility or a bum

As March report sees dismal 88K new jobs added, Obama is off campaigning

$700 million in Katrina relief money misused by recipients

School bus argument turns violent leaving one mother dead, another in jail

Incendiary WaPo op-ed on white male mass murderers kills 2 birds with 1 stone

Macy’s mistakenly marked down $1,500 necklace to $47

Obama in FL touts American jobs standing in front of Chinese crane

NH school district bans dodgeball

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