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.

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Howard PortnoyNovember 25, 2015
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Tweet of the Day: Cher on Trump’s ‘finate’ wisdom

'Now Thatcher is dead'
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyNovember 24, 2015
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HuffPo: This Turkey Day, remember that America’s pilgrims were once refugees, too

Thanksgiving
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Education

Howard PortnoyNovember 24, 2015
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Daily microaggression: University suspends yoga class due to ‘cultural appropriation’

Trigger warning
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Science and Technology

Howard PortnoyNovember 23, 2015
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‘Pee-cycling’: Your saved urine can feed starving children

pee-cycling
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Media

Howard PortnoyNovember 23, 2015
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Black teen who staged racist hoax arrested for terroristic threats

Hoax
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Politics

Howard PortnoyNovember 22, 2015
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Black rental car agent in NY refuses to rent to repeat customer … because he is Israeli? *UPDATE*

They try harded
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Education

Howard PortnoyNovember 22, 2015
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CA middle school teacher teaches students Islam ‘fight song’

Even if the lyrics didn’t border on calls for violence, the “fight song” a California social studies teacher taught her…
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Howard PortnoyNovember 21, 2015
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‘Anonymous’ claims ISIS has a surprise planned for ‘Paris and the world’ tomorrow

Anonymous speaks
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Education

Howard PortnoyNovember 21, 2015
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U. of Vermont takes students who ‘self-identify as white’ on 3-day retreat

white privilege
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Education

Howard PortnoyNovember 20, 2015
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Utah teacher creates furor by asking students to create ISIS recruitment poster

radical Islamist sympathizer
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyNovember 20, 2015
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Shadows of things to come: Honduras arrests 5 Syrians headed to U.S. with stolen passports

9/11
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyNovember 20, 2015
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Radical Islamic gunmen attack luxury hotel in Mali: 3 dead, 170 taken hostage

Terrorism
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyNovember 19, 2015
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Obama devises strategy to degrade and defeat the enemy (no, not ISIS)

“We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and…
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Education

Howard PortnoyNovember 18, 2015
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Zero tolerance watch: Blind 7-year-old banned from bringing cane to school

Hey, give the school some credit! They could have made their decision to ban a blind child’s walking cane on the basis that…
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Media

Howard PortnoyNovember 17, 2015
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Bobby Jindal announces that he is suspending his presidential campaign

Jindal is out
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyNovember 17, 2015
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Newlywed murdered wife’s purported rapist, cut off his genitals … and then did something really nuts

At some point, this story of revenge and street justice takes an extremely weird turn. It is up to readers…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyNovember 17, 2015
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Meet Mattel’s newest Barbie line … and its newest spokeschild

Barbie
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National Security

Howard PortnoyNovember 16, 2015
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Asked to name greatest threat to America at Dem debate, Bernie Sanders says this

Feeling the Bern
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Education

Howard PortnoyNovember 12, 2015
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4th-grader winds up in principal’s office for sexual harassment after doing this

Secret admirer
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Politics

Howard PortnoyNovember 10, 2015
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Tweet of the Day: Barack Obama, the nation’s first LGBT president

Fabulous
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyNovember 10, 2015
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Black American seeks asylum in Canada over fears he will be killed in U.S. by racist police

Don't let the door hit you...
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Education

Howard PortnoyNovember 10, 2015
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Parents of middle schooler lawyer up after daughter given detention for this

Zero tolerance
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Education

Howard PortnoyNovember 9, 2015
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Berkeley HS won’t identify race of suspect in alleged racist hate crime

Another hoax?
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Howard PortnoyNovember 8, 2015
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In order not to ‘offend anyone,’ mall does this to its Santa

War on Christmas
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Media

Howard PortnoyNovember 8, 2015
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How did Donald Trump fare on SNL? You’d never know by reading WaPo TV critic

Trump fever
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Howard PortnoyNovember 7, 2015
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Woman playing slots hits $8.6M jackpot, casino gives her this much instead

What's a zero or two (or five) between friends?
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Education

Howard PortnoyNovember 7, 2015
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Image of the Day: 6-year-old’s math test answer deserves an ‘F’ … for funny

Acid test
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyNovember 7, 2015
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Obama announces Obamacare contest: City that signs up most new enrollees will win … this

A visit from St. Nick
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Education

Howard PortnoyNovember 6, 2015
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U. of Wisconsin: One-stop shopping for ‘transitioning’ (to another sex) students *UPDATE*

Brave new world
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Media

Howard PortnoyNovember 5, 2015
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Tarantino’s white supremacy claim shows who the real racists are … and it’s not who he thinks

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino knows which side his bread is buttered on. His work — face it — is good; it sells at…
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Media

Howard PortnoyNovember 4, 2015
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Latino tykes with a message for Donald Trump: Hold your ears and cover your eyes

My mother always said, “If you can’t say something nice about someone, don’t say anything at all.” So let me…
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Social Issues

Howard PortnoyNovember 4, 2015
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Lawsuit by victims of deadly 4-car pileup accuses driver of DWS

It was no ordinary collision that occurred when Dino Morris, a sweeper driver for the California Transportation Department, took his eyes off…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyNovember 4, 2015
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Houston voters flush away ordinance that would allow men to use women’s bathrooms

Some good news and some bad news for liberals. First the good: A new study finds that the death rate is…
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyNovember 3, 2015
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Why did America’s new BFF, Iran, shut down its first KFC within 24 hours of opening?

This was doubtless the shortest run a branch of fast food conglomerate KFC has ever had. As a tweet by the Iranian news…
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Education

Howard PortnoyNovember 2, 2015
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Microaggression police hammer Dem effort at one-upping Trump campaign slogan

How out of touch is the Democratic party? So much so that they don’t know a potential microaggression when they see…
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Howard PortnoyNovember 2, 2015
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Gunman shot and killed in attempted robbery, but family cries foul, claiming this

The scenario has played out before. An armed robber is gunned down in the commission of a crime by a armed bystander…
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Howard Portnoy

HuffPo: This Turkey Day, remember that America’s pilgrims were once refugees, too

Daily microaggression: University suspends yoga class due to ‘cultural appropriation’

CA middle school teacher teaches students Islam ‘fight song’

‘Anonymous’ claims ISIS has a surprise planned for ‘Paris and the world’ tomorrow

Utah teacher creates furor by asking students to create ISIS recruitment poster

Shadows of things to come: Honduras arrests 5 Syrians headed to U.S. with stolen passports

Radical Islamic gunmen attack luxury hotel in Mali: 3 dead, 170 taken hostage

Obama devises strategy to degrade and defeat the enemy (no, not ISIS)

Bobby Jindal announces that he is suspending his presidential campaign

Newlywed murdered wife’s purported rapist, cut off his genitals … and then did something really nuts

Asked to name greatest threat to America at Dem debate, Bernie Sanders says this

How did Donald Trump fare on SNL? You’d never know by reading WaPo TV critic

Tarantino’s white supremacy claim shows who the real racists are … and it’s not who he thinks

Latino tykes with a message for Donald Trump: Hold your ears and cover your eyes

Why did America’s new BFF, Iran, shut down its first KFC within 24 hours of opening?

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