Letters to the Editor category, Page 154

I sincerely hope Liz Cheney enjoys her future job as the third-shift fry cook at a busy truck stop on I-80, ’cause she ain’t getting reelected! Maria Maliszewski Brackenridge...

Gun safety shouldn’t be a partisan issue Many Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers seem to care more about appeasing a minority of their base than protecting their own constituents’ lives. Republicans have persistently blocked and obstructed any legislation or even debate on gun safety bills in Harrisburg. Afraid of a small but...

There are plenty of both facts and “fake facts” out there about our energy situation. Facts don’t seem to matter much to some people. Green energy is anything that Mother Nature makes available to us if we take the initiative to seek and use it. We have used oil and...

Hello new hires! Welcome to your new job! Here, you’ll be able to enjoy all the freedom you can muster after working and commuting all day! Be sure to arrive by 8 a.m., even though your kids catch the bus at 8:30. You’ll figure it out! Lunch is unpaid, even...

The article “‘Tidal wave’: Pittsburgh abortion clinics see influx of out-of-state patients” (July 8, TribLIVE) features an apparent abortionist at a “clinic” (a questionable use of the word, considering what they do) in East Liberty that has seen a threefold increase in demand for abortions. Another article describes how “impassioned”...

I wish more people would educate themselves before making false comments on subjects that they have obviously not researched. President Biden did not shut down any pipelines. What he did was stop the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which was the Phase IV part of the current operational Keystone...

The Pennsylvania General Assembly is among the largest, most expensive legislative bodies in the country. At the same time, it is one of the least effective in passing bills favored by its citizens. Now it wants to bypass the democratic process altogether with amendments to the state Constitution. They submit...

Why are gasoline prices high? There’s plenty of crude oil. The essential problem is that the world, and the United States in particular, lacks refining capacity for gasoline. There has not been a major refinery built in the United States since 1977, and there are no plans to build new...

The presidency was finagled by the combined efforts of corporate America, academia/big tech and the media. This nefarious trio formed a national version of filmdom’s Three Stooges — Corporate Curly, Laboratory Larry and Media Moe, the bulwark of President Biden’s Build Back Better brain trust. Their zany antics torpedoed President...

Letter-writer Mike Rock (“Fully automatic weapons not legal,” July 9, TribLIVE) stated that my letter “We need lifesaving gun laws” (June 28, TribLIVE) is full of untruths. I reread the letter several times looking for untruths and could find none, just possibly that I used the wrong terminology. My information...

William Penn, the founder of our commonwealth, was an advocate for religious and personal freedom for all people who came to live here. As opposed to Doug Mastriano, the current Republican candidate for governor, whose inflammatory comments have appeared in newspapers all over the state, including his promise to overturn...

All this crying and uproar about Roe v. Wade is ridiculous. No. 1: Why should the rest of the country be dealing with the personal problems of anyone? No. 2: Women, if in fact you don’t want to become pregnant to begin with, there are many things you can do...

Who leaked the Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision? The silence is deafening. First, they tried to blame one of the justices’ aides. That did not pan out. Could it be one of the progressives’ justices who did it? This leak was unprecedented and was to be punished because of...

The Jan. 6 committee is really strange. I think they are trying to make President Donald Trump look bad so he can’t run for president in 2024. Everyone knew there could be trouble at the rally because of intelligence and the large crowd size. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund pleaded...

It seems fashionable to blame a former president for this country’s current woes, so I blame Harry Truman. “Truman?” you might say, but let me defend my position for a moment. If not for Truman, we might not have nuclear threats. When he gave the go-ahead to bomb Japan (twice!),...

A few years ago, my dear friend was shot and killed. I still feel the pain of that loss as gun violence ravages our communities. This ongoing carnage has raised concerns at community action group Voice of Westmoreland. We cannot stand by while our loved ones are gunned down in...

In response to George O. Curry’s letter “Trump won’t make America great again” (July 12, TribLIVE). Mr. Curry, the real joke is that somebody wants to pin the rampant inflation our people are experiencing on President Donald Trump. President Joe Biden, through executive order, restricted nearly every aspect of the...

They called it “massive resistance.” That, some of you may recall, was what Virginia dubbed its campaign of defiance of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that outlawed school segregation. The Virginia crusade was just part of a drive by conservatives all over the South to...

I could not help but notice the gas price difference recently between Sam’s Club and all other stations along Route 30 from Jeannette through Latrobe. For the past few weeks, Sam’s was selling gas for $4.45 to $4.55 while everyone else was at $4.75 to $4.89. I am the last...

With reference to Simon P. Solar’s letter “DeSantis endangering lives” (July 11, TribLIVE): According to information found at www.worldometers.info, Pennsylvania has the distinction of the highest covid mortality rate in the entire country, whereas Florida’s is the same as the national one. It would also seem that stricter adherence to...

This letter is to acknowledge the “going the extra mile” efforts of Westmoreland County Coroner Timothy Carson, his staff and their many partners who sponsored and supported Operation Dignity on July 15 at Hempfield Park and the National Cemetery of the Alleghenies. The selection of the title given to the...

The covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing inflation reminded us of the interconnected nature of global markets; one action a continent away can have effects on jobs, prices and shipping here. For this reason, foreign aid is more important than ever, especially for Pennsylvanians. Foreign aid can be broad in its...

My family recently attended two outstanding CLO productions, “Jersey Boys” and “Godspell,” on June 11 and July 16, respectively, at the Benedum. Unfortunately, excessive parking rates and traffic jams due to bridge closures have dampened our enthusiasm for future weekend shows. The “Jersey Boys” show coincided with the Three Rivers...

It’s a little creepy to see photographs of Gov. Tom Wolf and his pals all dressed up to tell people how they plan to kill babies. That is such a dark, ugly deed. For more than 40 years, the grassroots pro-life groups in Southwestern Pennsylvania have been working with pregnancy...

The radical left (the New Democratic Party) seems to want to destroy the American economy along with the standard of living of the majority of Americans through their climate change agenda. The biggest proponents of this hysteria (John Kerry, Al Gore, Joe Biden ) and other wealthy elites own multiple...