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.

Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 24, 2013
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How badly did Team Obama botch Healthcare.gov? Some facts and figures

White House mouthpiece Jay Carney yesterday repeated his boss’s claim that the Affordable Care Act is “more than a website.”…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyOctober 24, 2013
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Fashion update: Obama wants to create a ‘unisex’ look in Marine uniforms

It’s an understatement to say that the commander-in-chief of the U.S. armed forces has his priorities mixed up. Barack Obama’s…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyOctober 23, 2013
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Cost of Obamacare website translates to 1 million man hours @$200

“Cast in thousands, cost in millions.” That ad line was popular among movie moguls like Cecil DeMille decades ago when…
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyOctober 23, 2013
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WH official fired for tweeting snarky insults about colleagues

Josh Rogin of The Daily Beast reports that a White House national security official has been fired for anonymously tweeting insulting comments…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 22, 2013
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Feds accuse AZ deaf housing complex of discrimination, but it’s not what you think

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has come down hard on the state of Arizona regarding its housing for…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyOctober 22, 2013
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About that Obamacare penalty: The government has no way of enforcing it

Yesterday, following the president’s silly Rose Garden infomercial for Obamacare, White House spokesmen were grilled on the timetable for the next steps…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyOctober 21, 2013
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Individual mandate to be delayed starting in 5, 4, 3, …

Barack Obama did his best today to allay concerns over the star-crossed website of his star-crossed health care law. He had…
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Social Issues

Howard PortnoyOctober 21, 2013
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Government says no to Asian-American band that wants to call itself ‘The Slants’

Some will see it as a victory for in the struggle to banish racially insensitive terms from the American vernacular.…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyOctober 21, 2013
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Obamacare success stories trumpeted in confused (and confusing) Rose Garden event

Over the weekend, the Department of Health and Human Services put out a news release, eagerly reported by CNN and other media…
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Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyOctober 20, 2013
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Outrage: Syrian snipers make game of shooting pregnant women in uterus, killing fetus

Warning: Following article is not for the fainthearted. Of the many unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust, one of the most…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 19, 2013
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Dead infant at 6 months of development discovered in teen shoplifter’s bag was born alive, police say

A Brooklyn teen who grotesquely carted the corpse of her aborted baby around with her as she shoplifted may be facing far…
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National Security

Howard PortnoyOctober 19, 2013
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U.S. Army classifies Christian ministry as 'domestic hate group'

“Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyOctober 18, 2013
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Woman takes $3 in coins from public fountain to feed herself, charged with theft

It’s the sort of “crime” rumored to happen in places with Draconian legal systems, like Singapore. An Ohio woman who…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 18, 2013
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Teen arrested for shoplifting was carrying stillborn fetus in shopping bag

When New York’s finest busted a teen for shoplifting lingerie on Thursday, they discovered something totally unexpected in her shopping…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 17, 2013
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Leaked memo shows WH expected 500,000 would enroll in Obamacare by Oct. 31

From all outward appearances, the president believes he is sitting in the catbird seat today, having signed a bill last…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 17, 2013
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Mother of the year: Woman caught shoplifting flees, leaves infant behind

Women and children first! Wait, make that woman first! The kid will have to find his own escape route. According…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyOctober 17, 2013
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Reid-McConnell deal to avert default included $3 billion kickback for McConnell’s home state of Kentucky (Update)

The Wall Street Journal ran an item yesterday about a small Alaskan town whose mayor over the past 16 years has…
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Media

Howard PortnoyOctober 16, 2013
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Spray-painting vandals in Philly misspell racial slur, write ‘F**k Crakers’

Craker? Is that a new insult — a melding, perhaps, of cracker and Quaker? Or is it simply the case that the vandals…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyOctober 16, 2013
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Main Street doesn’t blame Obama for shutdown, but you’ll never guess who is blamed

This is almost too funny not to be a spoof. Sadly and astonishingly, it’s real. MRCTV’s Dan Joseph conducted a man-on-the-street survey…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyOctober 16, 2013
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Traffic at Obamacare website falls off 88% since Oct. 1 rollout

Obamacare’s diehard supporters will tell you, as they have repeatedly since the law squeaked past a Democratic supermajority in the…
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Social Issues

Howard PortnoyOctober 15, 2013
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Dem party chair Wasserman Schultz calls for civility in new book (Update)

Caution: Spit take alert: If you’re still working on your morning coffee, you’d better put your mug down before reading…
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Education

Howard PortnoyOctober 15, 2013
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HS principal orders students to forgo Pledge of Allegiance, citing shutdown

If “the foundation of every state is the education of its youth,” as Diogenes supposedly wrote, the threat of a…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 15, 2013
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Obamacare website glitches were purposely baked in to deter sticker price shock

Fact: Everybody and his cousin are complaining about the amateurishness of the Obamacare website rollout, which is so buggy that…
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Media

Howard PortnoyOctober 14, 2013
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WaPo crusade inspires replacement logo, name for Washingon Red— er … pro footballers

And speaking of sports (to borrow a phrase from the late Howard Cosell)… How eager is The Washington Post to bully the…
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Social Issues

Howard PortnoyOctober 14, 2013
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When did sports fans become such huge jerks?

Jerk is the polite substitute for a term I’d prefer to use after reading this morning that fans of the Houston…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyOctober 13, 2013
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SF Chronicle’s advice column on how to become poor enough to qualify for Obamacare subsidy

Imagine a world where everyone held hands and shared equally in the income amassed by a few. Barack Obama is…
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Education

Howard PortnoyOctober 13, 2013
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Trayvon Martin Day canceled at Pittsburgh high school after parents protest

Trayvon Martin Day? Is that where the first thousand students to show up at school get a free bag of…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 13, 2013
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Patriotic Americans fed up with Obama antics storm Lincoln Memorial

Last Thursday, Barack Obama announced that his administration would allow some national parks to reopen … so long as they paid their…
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Media

Howard PortnoyOctober 12, 2013
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Gay rights advocates in Israel want TV puppets to admit they’re gay

Granted the names translate to “Plug” and “Socket” in English, but that’s because the Israeli Muppet duo appear in TV…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 11, 2013
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Obamacare forces small-town folk to choose between ‘new health plan and feeding their kids’

“If you like your doctor, you like your plan — you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan.…
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Education

Howard PortnoyOctober 11, 2013
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Mandatory student activities fees used to pay for masturbation lecture at public university

As I intimated in a previous report about a university that was planning a masturbation tutorial for its students, if doing…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 11, 2013
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New low: National Park rangers remove handles from drinking fountains

You really have to hand it to Barack Obama. Who but this nasty, petty tyrant could turn as benign an…
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Media

Howard PortnoyOctober 10, 2013
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Bill Press: Death benefits to military families should not be paid during shutdown

A blog entry at Huffington Post in 2010 asked whether conservatives were heartless villains or just naïve idealists. It reminded me of…
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Sports and Culture

Howard PortnoyOctober 10, 2013
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NYC restaurant has no-talking policy

Shut up and eat — literally. If you’re looking for idle chatter or any other kind of verbal interaction with…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyOctober 10, 2013
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A ‘clean’ debt ceiling increase? There’s nothing clean about it

An article at the website of ABC News this morning carries the headline “Senate to Move Ahead on ‘Clean’ Debt-Limit Increase.” The…
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Social Issues

Howard PortnoyOctober 9, 2013
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IN man shoots self in scrotum after shooting another man

Talk about your cosmic justice! The Evansville Courier Press reports (h/t Steven Ein) that 21-year-old Arthur L. Jones committed a Plaxico Burress after shooting…
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Howard Portnoy

WH official fired for tweeting snarky insults about colleagues

U.S. Army classifies Christian ministry as 'domestic hate group'

Woman takes $3 in coins from public fountain to feed herself, charged with theft

Mother of the year: Woman caught shoplifting flees, leaves infant behind

Reid-McConnell deal to avert default included $3 billion kickback for McConnell’s home state of Kentucky (Update)

Main Street doesn’t blame Obama for shutdown, but you’ll never guess who is blamed

HS principal orders students to forgo Pledge of Allegiance, citing shutdown

WaPo crusade inspires replacement logo, name for Washingon Red— er … pro footballers

Patriotic Americans fed up with Obama antics storm Lincoln Memorial

Mandatory student activities fees used to pay for masturbation lecture at public university

New low: National Park rangers remove handles from drinking fountains

Bill Press: Death benefits to military families should not be paid during shutdown

NYC restaurant has no-talking policy

A ‘clean’ debt ceiling increase? There’s nothing clean about it

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