Opinion category, Page 393
Letter to the editor: AIPAC undermining democracy
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC for short, recently launched a super PAC called The United Democracy Project. Yet despite the name, it has only worked to undermine our democracy. Here in Pennsylvania District 12, it recently launched a political ad attacking Rep. Summer Lee, suggesting she is...
Letter to the editor: Goldie’s Act will save dogs’ lives
A dog known only as Golden Retriever No. 142 was raised in a USDA licensed puppy mill in Iowa, one of hundreds of dogs living in horrific conditions. She died there after months of suffering extreme neglect. USDA inspectors were witness to her deterioration and were responsible for protecting her...
Editorial: Bullying is more than a school problem
Bullying is an idea that conjures images of elementary school playgrounds and high school cafeterias. We think of mean girls. Jocks ganging up on nerds. The fat kid. The new kid. The weird kid. But is that fair? Are kids being tagged as the perpetrators when the problem is much...
Letter to the editor: Citizens shouldn’t be paying for illegal immigrants
The following is from the Federation For Immigration Reform (FAIR), under the headline “The Only Thing Rising Faster than Inflation under President Biden is Illegal Immigration”: “U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered 221,303 migrants illegally crossing the southwest border in March. The March totals are the highest since February...
Editorial cartoons for the week of May 2
Editorial cartoons for the week of May 2....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of May 2
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of May 2....
Mona Charen: In Utah, Democrats get serious about democracy
Fighting Republican authoritarianism means sometimes delaying political gratification. The Utah Democratic Party did something extraordinary last month: They threw their support behind a Republican. Well, a former Republican, anyway. Evan McMullin, who ran for president as an independent in 2016, is now seeking to unseat Sen. Mike Lee. At the...
Anthony Hennen: Pa. county demolition funds for blighted properties — a rural and urban divide
Blighted properties are a problem in every county across Pennsylvania, and a proposed bill would make permanent a new fee counties can impose to raise funds for demolition. Senate Bill 439, sponsored by Sen. David Argall, R-Berks/Schuylkill, would remove a 10-year sunset provision from Act 152 of 2016 that authorizes...
Letter to the editor: Why no sanctions on Putin’s girlfriend?
The headline on the front page of the April 25 Wall Street Journal, “Putin’s Reputed Girlfriend Spared U.S. Sanctions,” is incomprehensible. The woman who is allegedly Putin’s girlfriend, who is the mother of at least three of his four children, is not going to be sanctioned by the U.S.? Why?...
Letter to the editor: Socialism and capitalism
Socialism or capitalism? You decide. With socialism, government controls business, industry and prices; with capitalism, individuals control the means of production. With socialism, individual rights are curtailed for the “common good.” With capitalism, individual liberties and free markets are protected. Socialists share existing wealth, while capitalists create wealth and, therefore,...
Editorial: Is inflation as bad as it seems?
Inflation is on the rise. That’s not news to anyone who has been to the grocery store lately. Or bought a house or car. Or signed a lease. If you’ve spent money on literally anything in the past two years, you have seen the cost steadily rise. A U.S. Commerce...
Letter to the editor: Teaching history will not divide us
Once again, one must point out that critical race theory is not being taught in any public school in the United States. Nor was it ever intended to be. The real attack is on the normal process of updating American history, something which every country engages in. Beginning in the...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Could we get back to friendship in politics?
When 19th-century journalist Charles Dudley Warner wrote, “True it is that politics makes strange bedfellows,” he was talking about political opponents who were forced by circumstances to work together. Either for common interest or for the common good, they got past their differences. It’s not like that anymore. Cultural warriors...
Sounding off: Leaders must address border crisis
The Trib recently reported 168 drug overdose deaths in Westmoreland County in 2021, up 37% from the prior year (“Coroner’s report shows 168 accidental overdose deaths in 2021 in Westmoreland County”). What a senseless tragedy this is for families that have needlessly lost loved ones. Sadly, addiction is an illness,...
Mathias Bernard: Macron’s victory has deep challenges
Emmanuel Macron’s decisive victory over Marine Le Pen in the second round of France’s presidential election April 24 is no surprise. For more than a year, opinion polls had been predicting it. As early as April 2021, the leading polling institutes estimated the final score of the outgoing president in...
Dr. Myechia Minter-Jordan: Pa. just took major step to address maternal mortality crisis
Uncertainty. Anticipation. Fear. These are just a few of the emotions that run through the minds of almost every expecting parent. And for many expecting Black parents, those feelings can be more acute. That’s because for far too many, having a child can be a life-threatening event. Across our country,...
Letter to the editor: Small businesses, not airport, should get free money
Regarding the article “Arnold Palmer airport, Adelphoi among Westmoreland recipients of $14M in state funds” (April 22, TribLIVE): Not long ago, the airport received $2.3 million in federal pandemic grant money, and it is asking the county for more. I don’t think it’s fair to small family businesses that a...
Letter to the editor: Republican Party taken to lowest point
Letter-writer Ralph Dunsworth seems to think Sen. Ted Cruz’s treatment of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was appropriate, asking, “What about treatment of Brett Kavanaugh?” (April 6, TribLIVE). Unlike Jackson, Kavanaugh was accused of sexual misconduct. Wouldn’t you want to really look into accusations like that? I wonder if Dunsworth thought...
Editorial: Domestic violence and public office
A Wayne County judge has responded to a three-page, handwritten petition from a Poconos woman by granting a temporary protection-from-abuse order against her husband. This isn’t unusual. The petition complains of verbal, physical and mental abuse, including stalking the wife at work, preventing her from seeing her family — even...
Letter to the editor: We don’t need stronger gun laws
Regarding Alicia Chatkin’s letter “Fox’s Pizza shooting shows need for stronger gun laws” (April 10, TribLIVE): We do not need stronger gun laws in Pennsylvania. What we need to do is get rid of these lily-livered, soft-hearted judges and prosecutors in our courts. We need the death penalty — I favor...
Gary Franks: A distasteful solution that would save lives — fight another day and in another way!
Forever talking about events related to the Jan. 6 attack of the Capitol or former President Trump makes Democrats and the liberal media giddy, but we have very serious matters before us. The nation with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons is threatening to use them. Please, Democrats and liberal...
S.E. Cupp: Who does Twitter owner Elon Musk think he is?
Like everything else in today’s era of total partisan absolutism, the news that billionaire tech magnate Elon Musk is buying Twitter landed like a giant sledgehammer, cleaving the country in two. Depending on one’s politics, the sound made by the hostile takeover was either the death knell of truth and...
Anjana Susarla: Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter could make its misinformation problems worse
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, acquired Twitter in a $44 billion deal April 25, 11 days after announcing his bid for the company. Twitter announced that the public company will become privately held after the acquisition is complete. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for his...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: A bad Monday for freedom
I’m probably out of step with many of you. Everywhere I turn, folks are discussing Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. I certainly get it. After all, it was Monday’s biggest domestic story. The sale sparked fears that the petulant billionaire will turn one of the world’s leading social-media platforms into...
Letter to the editor: Immigrants and housing problems
In 2021, more than 1.5 million illegal immigrants were apprehended trying to enter the United States. In 2021, 326,000 Americans, including nearly 20,000 veterans, were homeless. A lot has been reported about the U.S. housing shortage, with rising home prices and rents. My question is, how did President Biden find...
