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.

Social Issues

Howard PortnoyApril 2, 2014
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Mexican teen stabs best friend 65 times for posting nude selfies on Facebook

Late last year, the term revenge porn — posting another person’s naked or lascivious pictures on line to settle a score —…
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Email Featured

Howard PortnoyApril 2, 2014
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MSM take a victory lap: Awards for best and worst Obamacare predictions

Talk about counting your chickens! An article this morning at the Wire titled “Pundit Accountability: The Best and Worst Obamacare Predictions” is…
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Education

Howard PortnoyApril 1, 2014
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A Common Core lesson in simple division

Michael J. Petrilli has been fighting a courageous uphill battle. Petrilli, who is an executive vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute,…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyApril 1, 2014
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz can’t name a single problem with Obamacare

Whenever Republicans cite a problem with Obamacare, they are accused by the left of playing politics. This is nothing new.…
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Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyApril 1, 2014
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GOP to become the ‘blue’ party?

A communique from GOP.com. Today RNC Chairman Reince Priebus announced new changes to the Republican brand as part of the…
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyApril 1, 2014
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Egyptian journalist demands that Israel pay reparations for ‘ten deadly plagues’

Man, some people really know how to carry a grudge! It’s been quite a few years — millennia, in fact…
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Unyielding

Howard PortnoyMarch 31, 2014
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Tweet of the Day: Obama celebrates the end of open enrollment … by signing baseballs?

This is getting frighteningly weird. Today is the last day of the open enrollment period to sign up for Obamacare…
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Education

Howard PortnoyMarch 31, 2014
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Video: ‘How to Be a Lesbian in 10 Days or Less’

My first instinct when I first saw the title of this video was skepticism. I mean, with all the syllables…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMarch 31, 2014
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Radical de Blasio aide is foul-mouthed racist, cop hater, and more

For most of America, life after Obama (LAO) begins in two years and eight months. For the poor saps who…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyMarch 31, 2014
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Dem-allied Senator: ‘There’s no such thing as Obamacare’

Would that it were so! The words are those of Senator Angus King, of Maine, who is registered as an…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMarch 30, 2014
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Obamacare exchange sends couple voter registration form pre-marked as Democrat

Last October, LU staff reported that Obamacare exchanges offered visitors an option to register to vote. Brian Cook, a spokesman for Medicare…
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Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyMarch 29, 2014
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Video: Parisian Jew savagely beaten by Arab thugs

Footage has emerged via Arutz Sheva of a vicious anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish teacher. The assailants, described as a group of…
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Media

Howard PortnoyMarch 29, 2014
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Stephen Colbert’s dumb Asian joke and the problem with righteous indignation

It is not the color of anyone’s skin but the thinness of it that is the problem in America these…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyMarch 28, 2014
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Video: Maine council members refuse to stand for Pledge of Allegiance

What would Shakespeare do? It’s not a question often asked, but in this case it is not only appropriate but…
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Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyMarch 28, 2014
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Apple introduces Sharia-compliant emoticons

It makes sense … sort of. If women are forbidden from displaying more than just a sliver of their appearance…
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Education

Howard PortnoyMarch 28, 2014
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University of Michigan ‘art’ exhibit celebrates and glorifies abortion as ‘life-affirming’

The University of Michigan can’t stay out of the spotlight, it seems. Last week, the school admitted it had fallen…
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Education

Howard PortnoyMarch 27, 2014
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Fourth-grade Common Core reading worksheet features story about adultery

“Making inferences is a skill with which students often need much practice.” So begins the syntactically challenged introduction to a series of…
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Education

Howard PortnoyMarch 27, 2014
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Missouri teacher testifies she was bullied, intimidated for opposing Common Core

There have been many dozens of anecdotal articles written about the abomination that is the Common Core Curriculum Standards. Examples…
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Media

Howard PortnoyMarch 27, 2014
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Fireworks: Bill O’Reilly and race hustler Barbara Lee exchange barbs

If you’re a fan of California Congresswoman Barbara Lee and/or think she’s pure as the driven snow, forgive the reference…
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Media

Howard PortnoyMarch 27, 2014
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Video: Houston Fire Dept.’s dramatic rescue of worker

Amazing footage of real-life drama. The Wasington Post (h/t Raffi Williams) provides the setup: A woman watching from a nearby…
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Religion

Howard PortnoyMarch 26, 2014
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Lesbian asks black church with provocative sign to stone her

And now for the latest installment of “When Lesbians Meet God-Fearing Blacks.” If it sounds like the introduction to a…
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Education

Howard PortnoyMarch 26, 2014
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Why won’t WH release State Dept. report on Saudi Arabia’s hate-filled textbooks?

The move on President Obama’s part could arguably be rationalized as an act of self-preservation, or at least good will.…
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Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyMarch 26, 2014
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Flashback: Obama promises to televise health care law hearings

In case you’re keeping score of the number of lies and half-truths Barack has told in jockeying for the passage,…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMarch 26, 2014
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WH: You have until mid-April to enroll in Obamacare but the deadline is still the 31st

If the headline of this post is confusing it is because you haven’t yet mastered Obamaspeak, which permits riddles like…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMarch 25, 2014
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Melowese Richardson and Eric Holder’s selective enforcement of the law

In her excellent report on Melowese Richardson, the Ohio woman who in 2012 voted for Barack Obama not once, not…
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Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyMarch 25, 2014
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Video: Freedom Tower BASE jump

“Footage that’s simultaneously old and new,” Allahpundit writes, explaining that the BASE jump from the top of the Freedom Tower, in New…
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Media

Howard PortnoyMarch 25, 2014
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NYT’s James Risen said WHAT about Obama?

“You take that back this minute, James Risen. Do you hear me?” The above quote, by Jill Abramson, executive editor of…
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Religion

Howard PortnoyMarch 25, 2014
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Flight 370 ‘flew too high, got stuck in heaven’: Libs get stuck swallowing Palin satire

I have to keep reminding myself that liberals are the deep thinkers in the room. Once again, they have been…
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Education

Howard PortnoyMarch 24, 2014
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Common Core textbook rewrites Second Amendment

Much has been written here and elsewhere about the toll the Common Core Curriculum Standards have already exacted on hapless children trying to learn simple…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyMarch 24, 2014
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Shock report: Aborted babies burned as fuel to heat UK hospitals

Label this BG, for Beyond Ghastly. The Telegraph (UK) reports that the remains of more than 15,000 aborted and miscarried babies were…
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Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyMarch 23, 2014
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Question of the Day touches on Crimea

So what’s your take on the question? Do you believe Crimea’s vernal equinox should remain in the multiverse, or do…
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Education

Howard PortnoyMarch 23, 2014
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University police: Racist scribbles found on college dorm room door ruled a hoax

Real incidents of hatred against gays, blacks, and other “protected classes” continue to occur at too slow a pace to…
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Unyielding

Howard PortnoyMarch 23, 2014
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End of an era: The Hot Air Green Room is no more

If you are a regular reader of the blog Hot Air, you will notice something different if you stop by…
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Unyielding

Howard PortnoyMarch 22, 2014
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Is administration on verge of extending Obamacare open enrollment period?

And … time! Pencils down. Unless you’ve already begun the process of enrolling in Obamacare, in which case pencils back…
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Education

Howard PortnoyMarch 21, 2014
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Common Core’s absurdly circuitous method for doing subtraction

Now, class, today we will learn how to subtract one two-digit number from another. What’s that, you say? You already…
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Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyMarch 21, 2014
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Video: WH spending $17M a month on Obamacare ads

For an administration that has added $6.5 trillion to the national debt — more than all 43 of his predecessors combined — $17…
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