Opinion category, Page 351
Letter to the editor: Disappointed in today’s teachers, unions
I am a retired teacher who taught for 36 years, and I am completely disappointed with today’s teachers and their unions. The president of the National Education Association wanted to replace the word “mother” with “birthing parent.” A California high school teacher suggested her class pledge allegiance to a “pride...
Editorial: Candidates need to participate in debates
Pennsylvania will get at least one debate. It seems odd to suggest that not having debates during a midterm is at all possible, and yet the top two races in the Keystone State have kept that question unanswered for weeks. It’s absurd to consider skipping them. Pennsylvania has one of...
Letter to the editor: Fetterman disastrous choice for Senate
We are being bombarded with annoying and in many cases untrue TV ads touting the candidates. A new ad promotes John Fetterman, saying that he “rebuilt his town and brought back jobs.” Braddock remains a very depressed town, now numbering only 1,700 residents after losing 41% of its population between...
Gary Franks: Shades of Burr vs. Hamilton
Blaming a segment of America for the acts of their failed leaders, further dividing America with angry rhetoric and scaring Americans is usually not the best way to lead a country. However, President Joe Biden accomplished this feat in a recent speech. There are threats to our democracy. Ironically, the...
S.E. Cupp: Republican Party is nominating losers
In 1950, the late UCLA Bruins football coach Red Sanders entered the forever zeitgeist when he told his men, “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.” The quote has endured as a testament to competitive drive and ambition, both in sports and life. And nowhere is winning more important than...
Cal Thomas: Britain has lost its rock
Watching BBC and Sky News coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, one is struck by the adjectives used by reporters, commentators and people interviewed outside Balmoral castle and Buckingham Palace: sense of duty, virtue, integrity, service. What astounds is that these and other character traits the late queen...
Christopher Beem: Virtue signaling isn’t same as virtue — it actually furthers partisan divide
In a speech on July 23, 2022, before the Conservative Political Action Committee, or CPAC, Sen. Ted Cruz introduced himself to the audience with the words, “My name is Ted Cruz and my pronoun is kiss my ass.” In 2019, the Vermont College of Fine Arts appealed to a different...
Letter to the editor: Questions for Fetterman
A recent John Fetterman ad states that Dr. Oz wouldn’t last two hours in Braddock. Why is that? Is it because Oz is old and white? Is that a racist thing to say? Is it because the present Braddock administration is incompetent? Or is it that Democratic leaders of cities...
Letter to the editor: Challenged voters can use absentee ballots
I would like to inform letter-writer Anne Rindt (“Voting in person can be a challenge for many,” Aug. 30, TribLIVE) and others who are physically challenged and cannot stand for long periods of time in line to vote or use a wheelchair that no one would be deprived of voting...
Letter to the editor: Stop-arm cameras don’t solve problems
Regarding the article “Start of school year comes with new offerings from districts across the Alle-Kiski Valley” (Sept. 1, TribLIVE): Act 38 should be repealed. This law modified the stop-arm camera law for illegally passing school buses. It assumes a vehicle’s owner was driving and takes away all the person’s...
Lori Falce: Queen Elizabeth’s legacy is a measurement of history
On Tuesday, Queen Elizabeth formally accepted Liz Truss as the new prime minister of the United Kingdom and gave her the authority to form a government in her name. Two days later, Truss returned the favor, acknowledging the queen’s death and formally naming Charles III as king. There may never...
Letter to the editor: Republicans will destroy democracy
Birds of a feather flock together. Every member, except one, of Pennsylvania’s U.S. House delegation has endorsed Sen. Doug Mastriano for governor of Pennsylvania. At the very least, this shows that they don’t have the best interests of their constituents at heart. Mastriano has been affiliating himself with some of...
Letter to the editor: How to help our struggling country
In my 82 years, I have never seen my country, the world’s strongest democracy, struggling so mightily — economically, politically, militarily, morally, securitywise, healthwise and media-wise. This shocking deterioration began with the 2020 election. And there is plenty of blame to go around — politicians whose party comes ahead of...
Laurels & lances: Listening and racism
Laurel: To listening to the people. Actually, Brackenridge’s problems started with listen to a few people complain about basketball hoops and hockey goals. In response to some complaints about traffic obstructions and property damage from kids playing sports on or near neighborhood streets, the borough proposed an ordinance that would...
Sen. Scott Martin: Bipartisan education reforms set up students for success
As a father, one of my highest priorities is ensuring my kids have real opportunities to chase their dreams and achieve whatever they can possibly imagine. Most parents I know share these same feelings. To help all families meet those goals, state lawmakers need to make sound policy decisions that...
Letter to the editor: Biden not cause of country’s division
I agree with what letter-writer Pamela Anderson (“Biden destroying our nation,” Aug. 24, TribLIVE) wrote, except blaming President Biden for our country being divided. This division has been coming a long time and was escalated under President Trump and the mob that attacked the Capitol. With abortion ever increasing this...
Letter to the editor: MAGA Republicans not extremists
I am a proud MAGA Republican. There are millions of us across this great country. We are not “extremists,” “terrorists” or “neo-Fascists.” We love America and are very concerned with the direction it is taking. We are distressed with the high inflation, as prices of everything soar. We are alarmed...
Editorial: Redistricting legal bills are cost of putting party before people
Redistricting is not just something that happens every 10 years. It is more than just the way that we shuffle the decks of legislators and change the game board that says who goes where. It’s a complicated, necessary process that should be an accurate reflection of not how we wish...
Letter to the editor: Why should we vote for Fetterman?
If you cannot participate in a debate, how are you going to show that you are able to perform the duties of a U.S. senator? Performing in scripted commercials that can be done over and over again until you get it right is different than responding to questions in the...
Letter to the editor: Free money doesn’t solve problems
What lesson is learned from student loan debt forgiveness? Do signed agreements mean nothing anymore? Apparently, it is too easy for our government to squander our hard-earned tax money on things that they should not. This plan just puts a patch on the problem of the outrageous cost of attending...
Jonah Goldberg: Sure enough, Trump is sucking the air out of the GOP’s midterm momentum
It’s one of the most enduring rules of thumb in American politics. Since 1862, the president’s party has lost seats in the House in every midterm election but three (1934, 1998 and 2002). Until very recently, it seemed like the 2022 midterms would provide one more data point to this...
Baruch Stein: Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump
Donald Trump is currently targeted by more than 15 separate legal proceedings, including proceedings in Georgia pertaining to election interference, financial cases in New York, an FBI investigation reportedly pertaining to his handling of classified information, and cases brought by police officers, members of Congress and the NAACP over the...
Jane Ladley: How my 8-year lawsuit helped settle public employees’ rights
This Labor Day felt different. For the first time in eight years, I celebrated with family and friends without also battling the state’s largest labor union in court. My long journey through the legal system ended this spring — and its result is relevant to thousands of public employees across...
Letter to the editor: Loan forgiveness a Dem scheme for votes
Anther Democratic political scheme to gather votes — cancellation and/or reduction of student loan debt at the expense of a $300 billion taxpayer burden. What are we teaching these students? A sense of responsibility, not! If they incurred the debt, then they should work to repay. What an insult to...
Letter to the editor: Lying politicians will pay the price
Nothing shocks me more in this life than politics gone wrong. Just to win in the political arena to further advance their corrupt sense of values on all Americans, politicians spread malicious lies and deceit to control the American people. Lies said against other politicians are deadly sins. God is...
