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.

Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyJanuary 25, 2014
0 0

Recession forces family of 4 to live in 168 square foot house

Economizing to make ends meet is one thing, but a Florida family who lost their home and business in 2008…
Read More »
Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyJanuary 25, 2014
0 0

‘Bad Lip-Reading’ crew back with NFL video

What better way to get psyched for the Super Bowl than by listening to some “trash talk” from the players…
Read More »
Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyJanuary 25, 2014
0 2

WH to hold ‘Virtual Big Block of Cheese Day’

If you find this one a little hard to wrap your mind around, you’re not alone. Even NBC News admits…
Read More »
Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyJanuary 24, 2014
0 2

NFL prepared to change time, date of Super Bowl

Blame it on climate change. Or better still, George W. Bush. The Big Game, which is scheduled to get underway…
Read More »
Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyJanuary 24, 2014
0 1

Obama has used word ‘gay’ more times than any other president

Seems like tell well spent. Human Rights Watch reports: No president in history has used the word “gay” in public…
Read More »
Media

Howard PortnoyJanuary 24, 2014
0 0

What do you want Obama to talk about at SOTU? OFA wants to know

The discontent between the Obama promise of transparency and the reality of opacity is nowhere more visible than the silly petition page…
Read More »
Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyJanuary 23, 2014
0 0

Video: Wendy Davis supporters mock Greg Abbott’s paraplegia

Talk about class with a capital K! James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, which was instrumental in exposing ACORN for the corrupt…
Read More »
Unyielding

Howard PortnoyJanuary 23, 2014
0 0

Illinois mom who is sick son’s caretaker fights state law mandating unionization

Thanks to a cushy deal, the union siphons off a portion of the son's disability check as "dues."
Read More »
Unyielding

Howard PortnoyJanuary 23, 2014
0 1

Female teen has sex on school bus, elbows 13-year-old for laughing when she ‘queefs’

Some operant definitions may be in order (at least for readers who don’t watch ‘South Park’). From the Urban Dictionary: Queef (n.):…
Read More »
Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyJanuary 23, 2014
0 1

Gravely ill CA woman enrolls in Obamacare, can’t find doctor

Unlike the lie that Obama told about the circumstances of his mother’s death in order to promote his health care reform…
Read More »
Sports and Culture

Howard PortnoyJanuary 23, 2014
0 1

Bar on political correctness raised to new ridiculous high by reaction to Japanese ad

It thy nose offend thee, pluck it off. Ditto for if it offend people who desperately needeth to get a…
Read More »
Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyJanuary 22, 2014
0 0

NYT blackens pig faces to appease Muslims

As Emily Litella might say, “What’s this I hear about pigs wearing blackface?” AFP has the actual story (via Weasel…
Read More »
Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyJanuary 22, 2014
0 0

Fake doctors love Obamacare

I’m guessing they were going for a joke. You know how absolutely hilarious Barack is, after all. Disclaimer: @KalPenn has…
Read More »
Politics

Howard PortnoyJanuary 22, 2014
0 1

What the Wendy Davis story tells us

Texas state senator and rising Democratic star Wendy Davis has admitted to having embellished the facts in her personal history.…
Read More »
Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyJanuary 22, 2014
0 0

Richard Sherman: ‘I don’t want to be a villain’

Seattle Seahawks Richard Sherman is currently making his way through the 5 stages of what might be called Loose Tongue…
Read More »
Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyJanuary 21, 2014
0 0

‘Naked Cowgirl’ to entertain Super Bowl fans

It’s beginning to seem like you can’t trust anybody any more. Take the “Wall Street Journal,” as straight-shooting and fair-minded…
Read More »
Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyJanuary 21, 2014
0 0

TIME’s political quiz will tell you if you’re really conservative

I just discovered that I am 30% liberal and 70% conservative. But I have to admit that I cheated. I…
Read More »
Law and Government

Howard PortnoyJanuary 21, 2014
0 0

Eric Holder shakes down ‘racist’ lenders to tune of $1 billion

There was a time when the nation’s leading shakedown artist was racial grievance monger Jesse Jackson. Now, sadly, it’s our “top…
Read More »
Social Issues

Howard PortnoyJanuary 20, 2014
0 0

TN man arrested for ‘liking’ woman on FB (Update)

Thaddeus likes Towanna. But Towanna doesn’t like Thaddeus. She so doesn’t like him that when he virtually “liked” her on…
Read More »
Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyJanuary 20, 2014
0 0

WH celebrates National Popcorn Day: Guess how

What time is it? It’s time for another photopgraph of the man without whose picture nothing can be commemorated. Not…
Read More »
Media

Howard PortnoyJanuary 20, 2014
0 1

Bill Keller’s surprising unsung hero of civil rights

We learn when we are young never to look a gift horse in the mouth, but what gives with Bill…
Read More »
Unyielding

Howard PortnoyJanuary 20, 2014
0 1

WaPo runs MLK Day piece by former Obama aide comparing MLK to Obama

If I didn’t know better, I’d think the White House had its fingers all over this. We saw it at…
Read More »
Law and Government

Howard PortnoyJanuary 19, 2014
0 0

Mickey D worker busted for selling heroin from fast food restaurant

Customer: We’d a like two Big Macs, a Quarter Pounder, and two vanilla shakes. Clerk: Would you like smack —…
Read More »
Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyJanuary 19, 2014
0 1

Obama: ‘I would not let my son play football’

Barack Obama still doesn’t have a son. But if he did, there are now two things that we know about…
Read More »
Politics

Howard PortnoyJanuary 19, 2014
0 0

As many as 89% of Obamacare exchanges enrollees were previously insured

The White House and its water carriers in the mainstream media continue to insist that all is well in Obamacareland.…
Read More »
Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyJanuary 19, 2014
0 1

HS student revives ‘rickrolling’ … with hilarious results

Sairam Gudiseva has a bright future. But I’m getting ahead of myself. What, some readers are asking, is rickrolling? Wikipedia defines it…
Read More »
Social Issues

Howard PortnoyJanuary 18, 2014
0 0

College Feminists celebrate Sex Week at Northwestern U. with ‘sex position cookies’

So what did you do this year for Sex Week? For all you poor shlubs who don’t celebrate Sex Week…
Read More »
Media

Howard PortnoyJanuary 18, 2014
0 1

Latest Christie scandal: Hoboken mayor says gov held Sandy money ‘hostage’

Anyone who doubts Chris Christie’s bona fides as a Republican (yo!) isn’t a Democrat. The donks, who break out in…
Read More »
Social Issues

Howard PortnoyJanuary 18, 2014
0 1

Shoplifter instructs 7-year-old to help her assault store clerk

Children are never too young to learn the family business. This evidently was what a mother in Holly Hill, Fla.,…
Read More »
Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyJanuary 18, 2014
0 0

Men still make more money than women … in Obama’s WH

The claim that women earn 77 cents for every dollar that men earn has been proven false repeatedly. There is, however,…
Read More »
Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyJanuary 18, 2014
0 1

Harvey Weinstein’s overnight metamorphosis

That was quick! It took filmmaker Harvey Weinstein less than 24 hours to recognize the error of his ways. Last…
Read More »
Law and Government

Howard PortnoyJanuary 17, 2014
0 1

Obama nominates black lesbian federal judge: So what?

When I first read the headline at Politico — “Obama to nominate first black lesbian judge in 20 years” — my first…
Read More »
Law and Government

Howard PortnoyJanuary 17, 2014
0 0

TX man arrested for warning drivers of speed trap has day in court

The “crime,” if it can be called that, is nothing new. But the punishment is. The question now is whether it…
Read More »
Politics

Howard PortnoyJanuary 17, 2014
0 1

Dem super PAC ad takes shot at Obamacare

To listen to the Democratic leadership, it is the Republicans who are in trouble over Obamacare in 2014. In October,…
Read More »
Politics

Howard PortnoyJanuary 17, 2014
0 1

Pols: Could you please stop pretending to follow sports?

The examples that come to mind are all from Dems, though I imagine there is at least one Republican out…
Read More »
Quick Takes

Howard PortnoyJanuary 17, 2014
0 2

Man gives homeless person change, gets pulled over, handcuffed

No good deed goes unpunished. Just ask Greg Snider of Houston. Station KPRC reports that Snider was driving in downtown…
Read More »