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.

Education

Howard PortnoyApril 17, 2015
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Why are so many black college students fat and sick? One-word answer: Racism

In the very memorable Mexican stand-off scene at the end of “Pulp Fiction,” a rank-amateur stick-up duo (played by Tim…
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Media

Howard PortnoyApril 17, 2015
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Tweet of the Day: Hillary Clinton flies home coach, carries own luggage

Get ready to take back all the mean things you said about her — about how she lied about being dead…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyApril 16, 2015
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Tweet of the Day: Hillary’s van parks in ‘handicapped’ space (Video)

“Somewhere in the Midwest,” Weasel Zippers quips, “a handicapped ‘everyday American’ is shut out of a parking space.” The “everyday…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyApril 16, 2015
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Business as usual on the foreign donation front for Clinton Foundation: Conflict of interest?

For her next trick, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will purge politics of ‘unaccountable money” while continuing to rake in $2 billion from…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyApril 16, 2015
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An exercise of religious freedom that even liberals can get behind (Video)

This story has all the elements of your present-day left-right tug of war over religious freedom. It involves a member…
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Howard PortnoyApril 15, 2015
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Ga. mom busted after hosting teen party that included sex, booze, and drugs

If you aren’t already convinced that Rachel Lehnardt of Evans, Ga., is the coolest mom ever for hosting a party for teenagers…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyApril 15, 2015
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MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski: Hillary would ‘eat Putin for lunch,’ Rubio just ‘little boy’ (Video)

“I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyApril 14, 2015
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Vet at wits’ end called veterans’ suicide hotline … and was put on hold

It sounds like a cruel joke, but it really happened. Ted Koran, a U.S. Air Force veteran, was deeply depressed late Saturday night.…
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Sports and Culture

Howard PortnoyApril 14, 2015
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Judge lashes out at white family robbed at gunpoint because their toddler now ‘fears blacks’

Kudos to Assistant Kentucky Attorney Richard Elder for speaking truth to power in a hearing before Jefferson (Ky.) Circuit Court Judge Olu Stevens…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyApril 14, 2015
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TSA screeners manipulated system to allow male agent to grope men’s genitals

The Transportation Security Administration may have done away with its so-called “nude body” scanners but it hasn’t done away with creeps who get their…
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Education

Howard PortnoyApril 14, 2015
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School gives 12-year-old girl contraceptive implant without parental consent

It’s interesting to reflect on which issues schools consider worthy of a note home to parents and which they don’t. In…
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyApril 13, 2015
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Islamic State makes it personal: Releases video of Obama being beheaded (Video)

“People behead for all sorts of reasons,” CNN’s Marc Lamont Hill famously observed last October after an Oklahoma convert to Islam…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyApril 13, 2015
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Woman physically attacked after shushing noisy teens in movie theater (Video)

The request is one made often. It’s one you may have made yourself. You are sitting in a movie theater,…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyApril 13, 2015
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Tweet of the Day: Hillary campaign gets off to not very good, in fact awful, start

Hillary Clinton has fought children and families all her career. But don’t take my word for it. That information comes straight…
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Howard PortnoyApril 12, 2015
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This video by a black man stopped by the police has gone viral; find out why (Video)

Not every traffic stop involving a black driver needs to end up on the front page of newspapers around the…
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Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyApril 12, 2015
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$1,425 for a pair of sweats? Yes, but they’re ‘in’ in the workplace

If the males in your office come to work wearing (harumph!) dress pants, then apparently you don’t work in one…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyApril 12, 2015
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Rutgers U. professor: Christian conservatives worship ‘a**hole’ God and ‘white supremacist Jesus’

So, Prof. Cooper, tell us how you really feel. That’s Prof. Brittney Cooper, of Rutgers University, who sounded off at Salon earlier this…
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Howard PortnoyApril 12, 2015
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Hundreds watch as four men take turns raping unconscious teenage female (Video)

It’s hard to know which is more revolting — that four men brutally gang-raped a 19-year-old woman in broad daylight or…
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyApril 11, 2015
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‘We’re hiring’: Islamic State posts help wanted ads for media reps, teachers, bomb makers

It appears that Marie Harf’s theory that the Islamic State was in need of jobs was wrong by exactly 180…
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Science and Technology

Howard PortnoyApril 11, 2015
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Clorox becomes latest victim of bogus PC racism accusations for innocuous emoji tweet

Clorox has apologized. I urge readers to boycott the bleach maker until it rescinds its apology, which was a wrongheaded kneejerk…
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Howard PortnoyApril 11, 2015
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Tweet of the Day: White House defends mocking Netanyahu on Twitter

“Stop just hatin’ all the time,” President Obama urged his Republican opponents in July 2014. But as he has proved again…
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Education

Howard PortnoyApril 10, 2015
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Third-graders instructed to write ‘get-well’ cards to cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal *UPDATE*

Daniel Faulkner could not be reached for comment. Faulker, should the name be unfamiliar, was the Philadelphia police officer that former Black…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyApril 10, 2015
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La. mom drove 6 juveniles to fight that left one of them wounded by gunfire

It’s the little things parents do for their children that count so much. When a child has a soccer match…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyApril 9, 2015
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Obama calls for end to efforts to ‘straighten out’ gay, transgender children

Consider it the latest in Barack Obama’s “evolution” from a politician who opposed same-sex marriage and the military’s don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyApril 9, 2015
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Poll: Obama twice as popular in Cuba as he is in U.S.

Barack Obama is a pretty popular fellow these days. His approval rating is hovering near the 80% mark, according to a…
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Sports and Culture

Howard PortnoyApril 9, 2015
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New stamp honoring Maya Angelou features quote she lifted from another poet’s work

The United States Postal Service, the exemplar of all that can go wrong when government is permitted to grow big, has blundered…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyApril 8, 2015
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BREAKING: Jury returns guilty verdict in Boston Marathon bombing trial

It took 11 hours spread over two days for the federal jury in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, but…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyApril 8, 2015
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States flout post-9/11 law, hand out IDs to illegals that look like driver’s licenses (Video)

Remember Sept. 11, 2001? That was the date when 19 radical Islamists hijacked jetliners full of fuel and passengers and…
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Howard PortnoyApril 7, 2015
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Measures would bar health professionals from counseling gay children who wanted to go straight

Last February an article appeared in this space that addressed efforts by the gay community in Louisville, Ky., to shut down…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyApril 4, 2015
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NFL hires its first female referee (Video)

Another glass ceiling has been shattered. The National Football League announced late last week that it had hired its first female…
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Religion

Howard PortnoyApril 4, 2015
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Islamic State being eaten alive … literally, by flesh-eating disease

In H. G. Wells’s “War of the Worlds,” the alien invaders from Mars are poised to take over the Earth…
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Howard PortnoyApril 4, 2015
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Obama’s statement on massacre of college students in Kenya omits mention of religion of gunmen or victims

As reported here, a band of masked al-Shabaab gunmen raided a dormitory at Garissa University in Kenya early Thursday morning. The terrorists went…
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Media

Howard PortnoyApril 3, 2015
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Tweet of the Day: Libs claim Indiana pizzeria orchestrated public outcry to profit from it

We’ve been warned repeatedly that the Democratic Party is the “more cerebral” of the two major political parties in America.…
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Howard PortnoyApril 3, 2015
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Calif. prison ordered to grant murderer’s taxpayer-funded sex change surgery

Hey, even lifers have their needs. Last February, a mass murderer in a Norwegian prison threatened to go on a hunger…
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyApril 2, 2015
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DEVELOPING: Feds arrest 2 radicalized women who planned to detonate bomb in NYC

Al Qaeda may be on the run, as Barack Obama proclaimed on 32 separate occasions, but they are running toward —…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyApril 2, 2015
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Indiana HS teacher suspended after tweet about burning down ‘anti-gay pizzeria’ (Video)

The “journalists” at ABC57 in South Bend, Ind., reported yesterday on the suspension of a high school teacher who attempted to organize a flash…
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Howard Portnoy

Why are so many black college students fat and sick? One-word answer: Racism

Tweet of the Day: Hillary Clinton flies home coach, carries own luggage

Tweet of the Day: Hillary’s van parks in ‘handicapped’ space (Video)

Business as usual on the foreign donation front for Clinton Foundation: Conflict of interest?

An exercise of religious freedom that even liberals can get behind (Video)

Ga. mom busted after hosting teen party that included sex, booze, and drugs

MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski: Hillary would ‘eat Putin for lunch,’ Rubio just ‘little boy’ (Video)

Vet at wits’ end called veterans’ suicide hotline … and was put on hold

Judge lashes out at white family robbed at gunpoint because their toddler now ‘fears blacks’

TSA screeners manipulated system to allow male agent to grope men’s genitals

School gives 12-year-old girl contraceptive implant without parental consent

Islamic State makes it personal: Releases video of Obama being beheaded (Video)

Tweet of the Day: Hillary campaign gets off to not very good, in fact awful, start

$1,425 for a pair of sweats? Yes, but they’re ‘in’ in the workplace

Rutgers U. professor: Christian conservatives worship ‘a**hole’ God and ‘white supremacist Jesus’

Hundreds watch as four men take turns raping unconscious teenage female (Video)

‘We’re hiring’: Islamic State posts help wanted ads for media reps, teachers, bomb makers

Tweet of the Day: White House defends mocking Netanyahu on Twitter

Third-graders instructed to write ‘get-well’ cards to cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal UPDATE

La. mom drove 6 juveniles to fight that left one of them wounded by gunfire

Obama calls for end to efforts to ‘straighten out’ gay, transgender children

Poll: Obama twice as popular in Cuba as he is in U.S.

New stamp honoring Maya Angelou features quote she lifted from another poet’s work

BREAKING: Jury returns guilty verdict in Boston Marathon bombing trial

States flout post-9/11 law, hand out IDs to illegals that look like driver’s licenses (Video)

NFL hires its first female referee (Video)

Islamic State being eaten alive … literally, by flesh-eating disease

Obama’s statement on massacre of college students in Kenya omits mention of religion of gunmen or victims

Calif. prison ordered to grant murderer’s taxpayer-funded sex change surgery

DEVELOPING: Feds arrest 2 radicalized women who planned to detonate bomb in NYC

Indiana HS teacher suspended after tweet about burning down ‘anti-gay pizzeria’ (Video)

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