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.

Media

Howard PortnoyOctober 9, 2013
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American Indian rights group receives unexpected reaction to thought experiment

The best place to begin is with the Jewish stereotype of answering a question with a question: Put simply, who…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 9, 2013
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Whoops! Despite earlier reports House gym would be closed during shutdown, facility is open

Remember the reports about the grievous hardships members of Congress would be forced endure because of the partial government shutdown? If…
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Media

Howard PortnoyOctober 8, 2013
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Obama’s nonsensical answer to why he won’t accept GOP’s piecemeal funding fixes during shutdown

A Kinsley gaffe is a truthful statement told accidentally, usually by a politician. Members of the Obama White House have…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyOctober 8, 2013
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Park rangers used ‘Gestapo’ tactics on seniors at Yellowstone but all sweetness and light to illegals

At first you sort of had to feel sorry for the park rangers. Early in the shutdown showdown, one of them…
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Education

Howard PortnoyOctober 8, 2013
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NY school bans balls at recess, games of tag

First they came for the toy guns. Then they came for the forefingers, which went extended could become a pretend…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyOctober 8, 2013
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Obama’s campaign letter to federal workers

In a column at Townhall yesterday, Katie Pavlich provided an excerpt from a letter sent by Barack Obama on Oct. 1, the…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 7, 2013
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Amber Alert website back up as Spite House reacts to public outrage

Playing politics? Toying with people’s lives? What a ghastly thing to accuse the president of the United States of doing.…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 7, 2013
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9-year-old boards plane alone … and without ticket (Update)

The nation may be in the throes of a (partial) government shutdown, but no one can accuse the TSA of changing…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyOctober 7, 2013
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Michigan’s national park barricades latest obstacle to be pushed aside by angry citizens

This wasn’t how it was supposed to play out. Barack Obama had it all figured: He’d hang tough on his…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyOctober 6, 2013
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Feds spend $14.5 billion annually on animal testing

If you’re not yet outraged over Barack Obama’s decision to shut down the known universe as a way of punishing profligate House…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyOctober 6, 2013
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Shutdown theater: Obama evicts senior citizens from their private homes

Even God rested on the seventh day, but not Barack Obama. The president has been busy, busy, busy, showing prodigal House…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 5, 2013
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Obama tries to ‘shut down’ ocean as part of grudge battle with GOP

“Generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when the…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 5, 2013
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Kentucky allows dead people to sign up for Obamacare

Among the complaints that have been leveled at the Affordable Care Act by consumers who have visited an online exchange…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyOctober 5, 2013
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WH wants you to share your government shutdown sob story

When Barack Obama is not busy staging a campaign-style event to excoriate the Republican-led House as “blackmailers” and “anarchists” (his actual words),…
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Education

Howard PortnoyOctober 4, 2013
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MN HS students suspended for defacing school … with American flags

Let that be a lesson to students at Red Wing High School! More than a dozen of them were suspended…
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Media

Howard PortnoyOctober 4, 2013
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Chris Matthews: DC car chase somehow tied to GOP anti-Obamacare efforts

MSNBC resident loon Chris Matthews out-tingled himself last night when he sought to draw connective tissue between the wild car…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 3, 2013
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CA joins NJ in criminalizing ‘revenge porn’

If the concept is unfamiliar, it’s probably because you’re one of those prudes who don’t have a video camera in…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyOctober 3, 2013
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To sign up for Obamacare, dial 1-800-F**KYO: A bridge too far

You’d think some prankster is at work — that the phone number is bogus, similar to the one in the…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyOctober 3, 2013
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Models stripped down to their skivvies take to Denver streets to hawk Obamacare

Despite Harry Reid’s professed certainty that Obamacare “is working” and that in time “people will love it more than they do now,”…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 2, 2013
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Harry Reid on helping children with cancer: ‘Why would we want to do that?’

Granted, the battle lines in Washington have been drawn, and the warring factions are dug in. Under the circumstances, it…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 2, 2013
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History will not look kindly on Obama’s boundless ignorance

“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.” — John F. Kennedy “Negotiation in the classic…
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Education

Howard PortnoyOctober 2, 2013
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Jimmy Kimmel asks Americans which they prefer: Obamacare or Affordable Care Act

I’m not sure which polls late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel is citing in his prefatory remarks, which include the claim…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 1, 2013
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Day 1 Obamacare sign-up horror stories

“A year from now, we’ll look back on this and laugh.” If you’re wondering who said it, the answer is…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyOctober 1, 2013
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Firm sued for fraud 18 months ago is back … signing up Obamacare applicants

What could be more perverse than a nonprofit firm being commissioned to sign people up for Obamacare a year and…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 1, 2013
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How long will the shutdown last and who will take the fall for it?

In case you’ve been stranded on a desert island or in a coma up until today, the U.S. government officially…
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Politics

Howard PortnoySeptember 30, 2013
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Family caught selling stolen church goods in front yard of home

Thou shalt not steal. A Louisiana family failed not only to heed that commandment, but the unwritten one that stipulates…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoySeptember 30, 2013
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Obamacare website quietly drops reference to ‘free’ health care

A nifty catch by Jeryl Bier of The Weekly Standard. He notes: Even as President Obama and his administration are making a last minute…
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Media

Howard PortnoySeptember 30, 2013
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New mayor of Jackson, Miss., wants to create independent black nation in South

One might call it racial progress. Jackson, Miss., has elected its second black mayor (which is perhaps not that progressive…
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Economy

Howard PortnoySeptember 29, 2013
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Saturday Night Live skewers Obamacare

How can you tell when an initiative to turn one sixth of the economy over to the federal government has…
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Media

Howard PortnoySeptember 28, 2013
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Colin Flaherty’s book made Amazon’s best-seller list

Please forgive a little rent-paying, but the LU team and I would like to give a public shout-out of congratulation…
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Media

Howard PortnoySeptember 28, 2013
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The winners of this year’s MRC DisHonors Awards

“Media bias is not always a laughing matter,” the Media Research Center reminds attendees of its annual DisHonor Awards dinner in…
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Education

Howard PortnoySeptember 28, 2013
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School district apologizes for indoctrination video pledging allegiance to Obama

Is it possible to unwatch a video? The Hudson (Wisc.) School District certainly hopes so. It has even issued an…
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Education

Howard PortnoySeptember 25, 2013
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U. of MD prof’s email to students: Trayvon Martin case proves it’s ‘legal to hunt, kill children’

If it wasn’t obvious before why Barack Obama is so bullish on increasing college enrollment even as reports suggest the marketplace…
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Sports and Culture

Howard PortnoySeptember 24, 2013
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Couple captured on video doing the nasty during highway driving

Even the most diehard libertarian would agree there are certain activities that should be off-limits when seated behind the wheel…
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National Security

Howard PortnoySeptember 24, 2013
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Obama speechless (literally) after vandals topple Ten Commandments monument in D.C.

“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” That is what President Barack Obama said…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoySeptember 24, 2013
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Nancy Pelosi confuses Constitution with Declaration of Independence in speech

Hey, it could happen to anyone. Both documents are really old. Besides, they were written entirely by white males. I…
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