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.

Foreign Affairs

Howard PortnoyAugust 8, 2013
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Obama wasn’t just wrong about al Qaeda, but about Russia, too

Barack Obama is taking heat, deservedly, for his foolish boast that al Qaeda was “on the run.” Some of his…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyAugust 7, 2013
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'We are all Trayvon Martin' mural to be unveiled at FL capitol

If you’re wondering what ever happened to the Occupy movement, a group of Occupy-type squatters descended on the Florida statehouse in…
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Social Issues

Howard PortnoyAugust 7, 2013
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Rent out your teat to gay parents: Women only need apply

It’s not every day that someone comes up with a better mousetrap. But an entrepreneurial French nurse has. She has…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyAugust 7, 2013
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Questions Jay Leno should have asked Obama

Despite a study at George Mason University that found that Barack Obama is no longer considered “too cool” to be off-limits as the…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyAugust 7, 2013
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Is 'non-partisan' Organizing for Action helping raise funds for Democratic candidates?

If it walks like Obama and talks like Obama, chances are it’s going to reek like Obama. Did you ever…
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Media

Howard PortnoyAugust 6, 2013
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White teen savagely beaten on FL school bus by purple people eaters

When all was said and done, the 13-year-old victim of a brutal July 9 beating aboard a school bus in…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyAugust 5, 2013
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Another major insurance carrier, Aetna, pulls health plans from state exchange

Memo to Nobel Prize-winning economist and former Enron adviser Paul Krugman: If you’re going to engage in hyperbole, you should…
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Media

Howard PortnoyAugust 4, 2013
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Tawana Brawley — 1987 rape hoaxer — pays first installment to attorney she defamed

Are you familiar with the name Tawana Brawley? “Reverend” and MSNBC host Al Sharpton is. He was one third of…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyAugust 4, 2013
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FBI allowed informants to commit 5,658 crimes in a single year

Imagine a government agency authorizing confidential informants to break the law in order to gather information about a major crime…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyAugust 3, 2013
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Black man in hoodie stabs 17-year-old ‘white Hispanic’ girl 11 times

A new branch of the Smithsonian announced interest this week in acquiring the hoodie worn by Trayvon Martin the night he…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyAugust 2, 2013
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OFA, Obama’s dark money group, resurrects ‘Truth Team’ to help expose ‘liars’

It’s hard to say which trait of Barack Obama’s is the least flattering. Is it his paranoia, which has prompted…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyAugust 2, 2013
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Oh, goody! Another city bans 'potentially offensive' language

Languages change: That is an accepted truth among students of language. But linguistic change occurs independently of academic interdiction or…
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National Security

Howard PortnoyAugust 2, 2013
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CIA administering lie detector tests to operatives to ensure they stay silent on Benghazi

For a “phony scandal,” the administration’s actions during and after the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist raid on the U.S. Consulate…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyAugust 1, 2013
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What happens in Obama’s world after you ‘get ahead’?

Nile Gardiner has an interesting column in The Telegraph titled “Barack Obama’s clueless message to America’s middle class shows a presidency…
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Media

Howard PortnoyAugust 1, 2013
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Newspaper compares conservative news source to KKK, apologizes, repeats insult

If you’re a fairly large daily paper and you’re looking to make a complete fool out of yourself, you can…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyAugust 1, 2013
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CA prison inmates can move to nicer digs … for $155 a night

What’s that you say? That your cell is cramped and your neighbors are noisy? That you have a view of…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyAugust 1, 2013
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Millions in U.S. farm subsidies go to dead farmers

It was either Mark Twain or Benjamin Franklin (or Daniel Defoe) who said, “Nothing is certain except for death and…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyJuly 31, 2013
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Obama makes it official: Keystone XL Pipeline is a no-go

OK, the headline is perhaps premature. President Obama didn’t come out formally and declare that the Keystone XL Pipeline is…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyJuly 31, 2013
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Secret sex tape emerges: Monica Lewinsky tells Bubba, ‘I could take my clothes off…’

Weinergate is a demonstration of the depths of depravity to which people in public office are capable of sinking. But…
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Social Issues

Howard PortnoyJuly 31, 2013
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Meet the newest ‘diverse’ group needing your pity: Asian Americans

In May, an article in the opinion pages of The New York Times addressed the subject of Asian enrollment quotas at the…
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Social Issues

Howard PortnoyJuly 30, 2013
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Study: Criticizing fat people for being overweight just makes them fatter

If you believe, to paraphrase songwriter Randy Newman, that fat people got no reason to live, then you are guilty…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyJuly 30, 2013
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Appeals court upholds ruling slapping down Bloomberg's ‘big gulp’ ban

Chalk up another loss for nanny state Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his desire to run the lives of the people…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyJuly 30, 2013
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WH creates ‘nudge squad’ to shape thought and behavior

Barack Obama thinks he knows better than his subjects — er … constituents — what they need and want. Accordingly, he has…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyJuly 30, 2013
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Weiner’s approval rating among young women hangs tough at 78%

There is some good news and some bad news for Anthony Weiner. The good news is that his approval numbers…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyJuly 25, 2013
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Martin juror: Zimmerman ‘got away with murder’

This bombshell should do wonders for the moods of folks like the rational and fair-minded citizen pictured here. Many were ready…
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Unyielding

Howard PortnoyJuly 25, 2013
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News reporter unwittingly draws large phallic symbol on live TV

Is that an alternate traffic route, or are you just happy to see me? Quizzical viewers of ABC 12 in…
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Politics

Howard PortnoyJuly 25, 2013
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Another ‘phony’ scandal: DOE blocks investigation of illegal hiring practices

Good thing for President Obama that there are no real scandals plaguing his administration — and that apparently includes the IRS targeting of…
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Economy

Howard PortnoyJuly 24, 2013
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Was Obama making a thinly veiled threat in today’s ‘jobs speech’?

It has been observed in this space before that Barack Obama loves a good fight. Or at least he claims…
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Education

Howard PortnoyJuly 24, 2013
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(Vigilante) Justice for Trayvon: Teachers threaten to teach that ‘FL kills black kids’

“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth,” Diogenes said. It would seem to follow logically that…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyJuly 24, 2013
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How much would you pay to get the TSA to grope you less? Do I hear $85?

Do you hate getting patted down or zapped by a full-body scanner at the airport? Do you wish you could…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyJuly 24, 2013
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Zimmerman Derangement Syndrome and its leftist enablers

Granted, it’s only been a week and a half since the verdict in the George Zimmerman murder trial was read:…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyJuly 23, 2013
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Woman sues police for ‘borrowing’ nude photos of her from her iPhone

Here’s hoping that 27-year-old Pamela Held of Deer Park, N.Y., has learned her lesson. If you’re going to have your…
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Media

Howard PortnoyJuly 23, 2013
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The cold-blooded murder involving a black 17-year-old that hasn't received wire-to-wire media coverage

If Obama had a son, he might look like 17-year-old De’Marquis Elkins. In all likelihood, that name doesn’t ring a…
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Education

Howard PortnoyJuly 23, 2013
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Father defends 14-year-old daughter's 'Jesus isn't a d**k' message

If Barack Obama had a daughter… Wait a minute. Obama does have a daughter. Two of them, in fact — one 15…
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Media

Howard PortnoyJuly 22, 2013
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MSNBC’s Dyson onto something in blaming racism for Detroit’s decline

The post-mortems on the city of Detroit continue to filter in. For commentators at MSNBC, there seems to be a…
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Social Issues

Howard PortnoyJuly 22, 2013
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George Zimmerman rescues family trapped in overturned vehicle

It surely won’t make a whit of difference to those aghast that a jury of George Zimmerman’s peers found him…
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Howard Portnoy

Obama wasn’t just wrong about al Qaeda, but about Russia, too

Questions Jay Leno should have asked Obama

Is 'non-partisan' Organizing for Action helping raise funds for Democratic candidates?

FBI allowed informants to commit 5,658 crimes in a single year

OFA, Obama’s dark money group, resurrects ‘Truth Team’ to help expose ‘liars’

Oh, goody! Another city bans 'potentially offensive' language

CIA administering lie detector tests to operatives to ensure they stay silent on Benghazi

What happens in Obama’s world after you ‘get ahead’?

CA prison inmates can move to nicer digs … for $155 a night

Millions in U.S. farm subsidies go to dead farmers

Obama makes it official: Keystone XL Pipeline is a no-go

Secret sex tape emerges: Monica Lewinsky tells Bubba, ‘I could take my clothes off…’

Appeals court upholds ruling slapping down Bloomberg's ‘big gulp’ ban

WH creates ‘nudge squad’ to shape thought and behavior

Weiner’s approval rating among young women hangs tough at 78%

News reporter unwittingly draws large phallic symbol on live TV

Another ‘phony’ scandal: DOE blocks investigation of illegal hiring practices

Was Obama making a thinly veiled threat in today’s ‘jobs speech’?

How much would you pay to get the TSA to grope you less? Do I hear $85?

Woman sues police for ‘borrowing’ nude photos of her from her iPhone

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