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Letter to the editor: Biden discriminating with Supreme Court picks
The Supreme Court was once described as an old white men’s club. Today, there are women and a Black justice on the court. Conservatives have been accused of being sexists and racists, but President Biden’s reported slate of possible nominees proves that he is a sexist and racist. Inclusion is...
Letter to the editor: Rescuing democracy
Like Spider-Man breaking the multiverse at your local multiplex, our common American reality has been shattered as evil forces run amok. Before Uncle Ben and Aunt May, Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: “In a democratic world, as in a democratic Nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend...
Editorial: Suicide prevention programs need to utilize and support students
Suicide is an issue everyone needs to note. It’s something to understand, something to keep at bay. After several years in 10th place on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s list of the top causes of death in the United States, suicide was finally knocked off the podium in...
Letter to the editor: Facts on ‘global warming’
In 2015, scholar Walter Williams stated that during the Ordovician period (460 million years ago), carbon dioxide concentrations were 4,400 PPM (parts per million), and temperatures were about the same as today. (This is over 10 times the level, 415 PPM, recorded Nov. 18, 2021, by the Global Monitoring Laboratory.)...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Feb. 14
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Feb. 14....
Editorial cartoons for the week of Feb. 14
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Mona Charen: Pre-K’s broken promise
“Children learning, parents earning!” That was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s summation of the case for the “comprehensive child care and early learning legislation” of 2017, a plan similar to the proposal currently languishing in President Biden’s Build Back Better legislation. For many progressives, it is axiomatic that government-funded day care...
Letter to the editor: Won’t watch Olympics
Is it just me, or has anyone else noted the similarities between the 1936 Olympic games held in Nazi Germany and the 2022 winter Olympic Games in Beijing? A pre-Olympics crackdown on potential dissidents with many people arrested; up to 1.8 million Uyghurs in forced labor camps. The Chinese Communist...
Letter to the editor: Biden, Casey, protect our borders first
I cannot attend one of President Biden’s press conferences or Pennsylvania’s Sen. Bob Casey’s. But, if anyone knows someone who can, could you have them ask one or more of my questions for me? President Biden and/or Senator Casey, you have to know that there is a tremendous amount of...
Letter to the editor: Republican Party hijacked by fascists
My response to the letter “Voting Democrat an addiction” is to suggest that fascists have hijacked the Republican Party and use it to promote propaganda and defamation for political gain. This is plainly evident in the RNC’s support of the pillage of the U.S. Capitol in which it mislabeled hooliganism...
Editorial: Delayed petitions latest sign of redistricting drama
If you want a practical example of why deadlines matter, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has given it. The process of changing districts for lawmakers is not something that sneaks up on us. It’s prescribed by law. It’s enshrined in the Constitution. It is a tradition more than 200 years in...
Letter to the editor: Bridge collapse shows need for salt alternative
Will anyone be surprised to learn that the cause of the Fern Hollow Bridge collapse was corrosion of steel components ( beams, joints, rivets/bolts) and concrete rebar/prestress cables? Such corrosion is accelerated by the use of salt for snow and ice removal. The ice/snow melt saltwater passes through small cracks...
Letter to the editor: We all benefit from ‘socialism’
An accusation that Republicans love to hurl at Democrats is that they are “socialists.” Do these Republicans understand what American socialism, also called “democratic socialism,” really is? Are they confusing it with Soviet socialism, from the old USSR days, or modern socialism in North Korea or Venezuela? Socialism, or socialization,...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Cancel culture, on both sides, robs us all
President Dwight David Eisenhower knew how to fight cancel culture before it had a name. As Sen. Joe McCarthy was destroying careers, attacking the Voice of America and demanding that books authored by those who he recklessly called “known Communists” be removed from library bookshelves, Eisenhower had a better plan....
Sounding off: Decisions of today’s women
I read with interest Betty Harp’s letter “Avoiding abortion.” Harp’s rudimentary understanding of modern social dynamics was on full display when she stated, “So, young women, keep yourself clean for that special man when you are old enough to get married. My mother was a wise lady.” Perhaps Ms. Harp...
Dan Rodricks: A ‘special place in Hell’ for the perpetrators of elder fraud
I seldom use the expression “a special place in Hell” because it has been suggested as the ultimate destination for too many people by now, from serial killers to women who voted for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. Invoked too often, it loses its punch. Still, it’s a tempting phrase...
Colin McNickle: Pittsburgh’s office vacancy rate continues to struggle
Languishing. That’s the best word to describe Pittsburgh’s continuing high vacancy rate for office space in its central business district (CBD), concludes an analysis by the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy. “The data for 2021’s fourth quarter shows scant improvement in the city’s office market as the pandemic continues its...
Emily Jane O’Dell: Bearing witness in Tibet
My isolated summer cabin in the Himalayas of Tibet was raided this summer, when occupying Chinese Communist Party police stormed every hotel on the Tibetan plateau to force foreigners against their will into ambulances and clear them from the region. I knew instantly they were doing this to tighten their...
Letter to the editor: Research party platforms
To letter-writer Jim Papke (“Biden should learn history, humility,” Jan. 19, TribLIVE): It would behoove you to research the platform of the parties during the 1860s, as well as the platform of the Confederate States of America. Now which side do you support? Leonard Mucci Derry Township...
Letter to the editor: Conditions dire under Biden
Numerous letters to the editor bitterly harangue President Trump and his loyal followers to the point of blurred insanity. Why? Didn’t the Democrats win? The letters march in sync with whatever the Democratic party line is at the moment, all meant to obfuscate the dire circumstances America finds itself in...
Editorial: Bridge failures have courtroom costs
The cities and counties of Pennsylvania need to pay attention. The same goes for PennDOT, too. They need to note what happened on Friday as attorneys for a Penn Hills couple confirmed what was as sure as gravity at 6:41 a.m. Jan. 28. That was one minute after the Fern...
Letter to the editor: Republicans, the party of lies
The Republican Party has officially established itself as the party of Donald Trump and the party of lies. Its national committee has censured GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for having joined Democratic colleagues in investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. It gets worse: The charges against...
Rabbi Sara Perman: Learn, speak out against antisemitism
On Jan. 15, we were shocked to learn that once again a house of worship, the synagogue Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, was attacked during the Sabbath service. A man held the rabbi and three members hostage for over 10 hours. This was unquestionably an act of antisemitism. As...
Gary Franks: It’s time for liberal media to step up
When will the liberal media stop following the Democrats’ wishes? We get it. You despise former President Trump. Oh, yes, the riot on Jan. 6 was bad. However, doing a deep dive on this matter is like doing a deep dive into the sinking of the Titanic. Why? America has...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: These are no ‘ordinary citizens’
They stormed through police barricades, these “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.” They shattered windows and chanted death to the vice president, these “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.” They smeared their own feces on the wall, “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.” Over the last 13...
