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.

Politics

Howard PortnoyMarch 7, 2015
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Gym cancels woman’s membership after she complains about ‘man’ in women’s locker room (Video)

Membership has its privilege. Membership in a protected class, that is. Michigander Yvette Cormier learned this the hard way when she…
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Sports and Culture

Howard PortnoyMarch 7, 2015
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American Indians’ latest crusade is to persuade Buffalo, N.Y., to change its ‘racist’ name

Call it guilt by association. From Pundit Press comes word of a petition at Change.org calling upon “the Mayor and City Council of…
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Email Featured

Howard PortnoyMarch 6, 2015
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In responding to question in re Hillary’s private emails, John Kerry brings on the snide (Video)

A Fox News poll out yesterday finds that, in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s private email scandal, the question of…
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Unyielding

Howard PortnoyMarch 6, 2015
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Egyptian wedding includes kidnapping of bride by fake Islamic State militants (Video)

Call it whistling past the graveyard, or write it off as just plain old bad taste. Mere weeks after 21 Egyptian Christians…
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Unyielding

Howard PortnoyMarch 6, 2015
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Yemeni children imitate Islamic State terrorists, lock 10-year-old in cage and set him on fire

One might call it the twenty-first-century version of “Cops and Robbers” or “Cowboys and Indians” —childhood RPGs that are frowned…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyMarch 5, 2015
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Video: ‘Stick a fork in Hillary,’ say Dems around the nation

Suddenly Hillary Clinton is the epitome of transparency, tweeting, “I want the public to see my email. I asked State…
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Religion

Howard PortnoyMarch 5, 2015
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Muslim Costco employee who refused to handle pork sues when store switches him to a different job

There’s just no pleasing some people, and Jean Camara of Brooklyn is one of them. When Camara told his supervisor at…
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyMarch 5, 2015
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Fatwa allows Islamic State militants to play foosball as long as the little men are ‘beheaded’

Who knew that the Islamic State had a rec room, much less a foosball table? But as with everything else the…
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Social Issues

Howard PortnoyMarch 4, 2015
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Three gay men marry in Thailand, becoming the world’s first ‘triple’

Three may be a crowd, but a trio of homosexuals in Thailand are out to disprove that adage. Two of the…
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Education

Howard PortnoyMarch 4, 2015
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Carrot and stick? Ky. school will reward students who eat Michelle O’s ‘healthy’ lunch with ice cream

You can lead a kid to brown rice, but you can’t make him eat. Or maybe you can if you…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyMarch 4, 2015
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Tweet of the Day: NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will ‘respect diversity’ by closing schools for Muslim holidays

Last year at this time, it was little more than an unformed “vision.” Bill de Blasio, New York City mayor and champion…
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyMarch 3, 2015
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Netanyahu speaks, Obama responds predictably, round and round we go (Video)

If you asked Barack Obama what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech today to a joint session of Congress was…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMarch 3, 2015
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Killer of 88-year-old World War II veteran changes plea to guilty, could face 16 years

Remember Delbert “Shorty” Belton? He was the World War II veteran who was beaten to death in a Spokane parking lot in…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMarch 3, 2015
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Man who made a killing publishing stolen nude pix of woman goes after news sites that posted his picture

How do you spell chutzpah? If you don’t have an answer, the story of Craig Brittain, shown at the left (much…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyMarch 2, 2015
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Picture of the Day: Official Clinton portrait contains discreet reference to Lewinsky

Secret clues embedded in paintings is the stuff of which fiction is made. Think “DaVinci Code.” But it turns out…
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Science and Technology

Howard PortnoyMarch 2, 2015
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Introducing the ‘Wankband,’ a phone charger powered by masturbation (Video)

“The power is in your hands.” “Do your part with your part.” Remember those tag lines. Both are for a product…
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Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyMarch 2, 2015
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Video: Prager U on the nature of sexual attraction

Men look at pretty women. That goes for men who are married, men who are dating, and men who are…
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyMarch 1, 2015
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In updated memoir, Obama expresses compassion for 9/11 terrorists

Let him be clearer. If Barack Obama wasn’t already crystal clear in his views about the identity of America’s enemy, or lack…
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Education

Howard PortnoyMarch 1, 2015
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Daily Beast latest media outlet to retract fake story about Scott Walker

Did you hear the latest scuttlebutt about Wisconsin governor Scott Walker? Seems the 2016 presidential hopeful sat in the pews of a…
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Social Issues

Howard PortnoyFebruary 28, 2015
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Tweet of the Day: To boldly go where no president has gone before

To the good, the White House tweet honoring the memory of “Star Trek” actor Leonard Nimoy, who died yesterday at 83,…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyFebruary 28, 2015
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Inquiring minds DON’T want to know why FCC hasn’t released the 300-plus pages of gov’t regs on the internet

On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission ruled 3 to 2 that the internet would henceforth be classified as a public…
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Unyielding

Howard PortnoyFebruary 27, 2015
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Oops! Among IRS emails unearthed is one by Lerner that pretty much admits cover-up

Here’s hoping for Lois Lerner’s sake that orange is her color and that she looks good in jumpsuits. As noted…
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyFebruary 27, 2015
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One administration, two radically different reports on the threat of terrorism

Remember the logic problem in which a man visits an island inhabited by two tribes, one made up of pathological…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyFebruary 27, 2015
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It’s official: The President of the United States is the Bizarro World Obama (Video)

For those who are not fans of the “Superman” comic book series (or of “Seinfeld”), the Bizarro World is a…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyFebruary 26, 2015
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BREAKING: FCC passes net neutrality regulations on 3-2 vote

Where better to receive the bad news than from the techcentric website TechCrunch, which confirms that the worst fears of…
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Education

Howard PortnoyFebruary 25, 2015
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LGBT acronym not inclusive enough for Wesleyan University, which insists on LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM

…expialidocious! This is no joke, notes Jennifer Kabbany at College Fix, by which she obviously means it is not intended to…
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Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyFebruary 25, 2015
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Were you a problem child? Find out by taking this simple test

I came across this quiz at a friend’s Facebook page. The friend will remain anonymous because his answers to the questions…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyFebruary 24, 2015
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What will really happen in the event of a Homeland Security Department ‘shutdown’

We are three days shy of a partial government shutdown, and some on the left are predicting the sky will…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyFebruary 24, 2015
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V.A. secretary ‘apologizes’ for lying about serving in military’s special forces (Video)

On Monday, Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald apologized for lying. No, not for that lie — not for claiming that he had fired 60 V.A.…
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyFebruary 23, 2015
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Marie Harf’s ‘jobs for jihadists’ strategy put to the test

In articulating a strategy for confronting Islamic terrorism that she is unlikely ever to live down, State Department Spokesmodel Marie Harf…
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National Security

Howard PortnoyFebruary 23, 2015
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Black (gulp!) preteen releases video affirming that Obama doesn’t ‘love America’ (Video)

If Barack Obama had a son, he would not look like CJ Pearson. No way: Not even close. Which is not…
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Education

Howard PortnoyFebruary 23, 2015
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8th-graders taught Republicans are morally bankrupt, Dems America’s salvation

Careful readers will observe that the title of this post is editorializing, which is precisely what the teacher of an eighth-grade…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyFebruary 22, 2015
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Bomb threats against mosque and Muslim food truck in Austin turn out to be hoax (Video)

Drat and double drat! Barack Obama was so busy this past week with his “violent extremism” summit that he had no…
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Unyielding

Howard PortnoyFebruary 22, 2015
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Why did Obama prevent reformist Muslims from attending ‘summit on violent extremism’?

The White House has been adamant that the summit held last week addressed violent extremism and not Islam. Yet, as CNSNews…
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyFebruary 22, 2015
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Islamic State’s army of 7-footers? Experts say terrorists have been doctoring images (Video)

Militants with the Islamic State are giants among men. Or so they’d have us believe. Fox News reports that experts who…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyFebruary 21, 2015
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Members of ‘Party of Civility’ make death threats against Rudolph Giuliani for questioning Obama’s patriotism

“Remember the Maine Gabrielle Giffords!” For the ideological faction that views itself as the more cerebral of the two major parties…
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Howard Portnoy

American Indians’ latest crusade is to persuade Buffalo, N.Y., to change its ‘racist’ name

In responding to question in re Hillary’s private emails, John Kerry brings on the snide (Video)

Egyptian wedding includes kidnapping of bride by fake Islamic State militants (Video)

Yemeni children imitate Islamic State terrorists, lock 10-year-old in cage and set him on fire

Video: ‘Stick a fork in Hillary,’ say Dems around the nation

Muslim Costco employee who refused to handle pork sues when store switches him to a different job

Fatwa allows Islamic State militants to play foosball as long as the little men are ‘beheaded’

Carrot and stick? Ky. school will reward students who eat Michelle O’s ‘healthy’ lunch with ice cream

Tweet of the Day: NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will ‘respect diversity’ by closing schools for Muslim holidays

Netanyahu speaks, Obama responds predictably, round and round we go (Video)

Introducing the ‘Wankband,’ a phone charger powered by masturbation (Video)

Video: Prager U on the nature of sexual attraction

In updated memoir, Obama expresses compassion for 9/11 terrorists

Daily Beast latest media outlet to retract fake story about Scott Walker

Inquiring minds DON’T want to know why FCC hasn’t released the 300-plus pages of gov’t regs on the internet

Oops! Among IRS emails unearthed is one by Lerner that pretty much admits cover-up

One administration, two radically different reports on the threat of terrorism

It’s official: The President of the United States is the Bizarro World Obama (Video)

BREAKING: FCC passes net neutrality regulations on 3-2 vote

What will really happen in the event of a Homeland Security Department ‘shutdown’

V.A. secretary ‘apologizes’ for lying about serving in military’s special forces (Video)

Marie Harf’s ‘jobs for jihadists’ strategy put to the test

Black (gulp!) preteen releases video affirming that Obama doesn’t ‘love America’ (Video)

8th-graders taught Republicans are morally bankrupt, Dems America’s salvation

Bomb threats against mosque and Muslim food truck in Austin turn out to be hoax (Video)

Why did Obama prevent reformist Muslims from attending ‘summit on violent extremism’?

Islamic State’s army of 7-footers? Experts say terrorists have been doctoring images (Video)

Members of ‘Party of Civility’ make death threats against Rudolph Giuliani for questioning Obama’s patriotism

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