Opinion category, Page 512
Letter to the editor: Women, police and civilization
A thought: Without women and police there is no civilization, only chaos. Just sayin’ … . Joseph Marmo Cheswick...
Letter to the editor: Benefits of community recycling
I was sad and discouraged to hear the remarks by Delmont Councilman Dennis Urban about requiring residents to pay for access to a recycling program instead of keeping it part of the trash collection service (“Murrysville, Export, Delmont prepare as trash collection contracts expire in September,” April 13, TribLIVE). Urban...
Editorial: Earth Day is about the good business of stewardship
Earth Day is not a crunchy granola holiday about a utopian future filled with solar-powered cars. It is — and from the beginning has been — about education. It is less celebration than it is workshop, and that is exactly how it was envisioned in 1969 when it was first...
Letter to the editor: Citizens’ right to vote
Just a quick response to letter- writer Harold W. Beatty III (“Citizens, not ‘anybody,’ have right to vote,” April 10 TribLIVE). In a rebuttal to Leonard Pitts Jr.’s column “Republicans consider ballots more dangerous than bullets” (March 23, TribLIVE), Beatty replied that: “Our Constitution states that ‘citizens of the United States’...
Letter to the editor: What conservatives believe
Please stop telling lies about conservatives/Republicans. We are not anti-immigrant, we are anti-illegal immigration. We are not “climate deniers.” We know the climate has always changed and will continue to change, and many experts say CO2 is not the cause — it is the sun, the earth’s orbit, the earth’s...
J. Christian Adams: Voter rolls without dead people is good first step toward election integrity in Pa.
All eyes were on Pennsylvania in the 2020 election. The commonwealth’s election process was one of chaos, with issues caused by mass mail balloting, blocking poll watcher access and ballot harvesting, to name just a few. Now some good news. Prior to the 2020 election, the Public Interest Legal Foundation...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Real justice shouldn’t be this difficult
I sat there trying to remember how to breathe. I suspect I had that in common with people — particularly African American people — all over the country. Didn’t we all hold our breath as we awaited the verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin? Then that verdict was read....
Jonah Goldberg: Mad queen Marjorie Taylor Greene abdicates her throne
Marjorie Taylor Greene was readying her assault, like that legendary Anglo-Saxon warrior Canute the Great at Assandun. The QAnon-friendly first-term Georgia congresswoman, who was banned from any committee assignments shortly after she was sworn in, was poised to launch her “America First Caucus” with Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., an anti-Semitic...
Letter to the editor: Biden’s feel-good gun control plan
Like most liberal ideas, President Biden’s proposed gun control plan is big on feelings and small on facts. Since liberals seem to not often look beyond their own emotions, I’d like to point out just two unintended consequences of the recent nonsense related to gun control. How does the “defund...
Letter to the editor: Georgia voting rule not Christian
Joseph Sabino Mistick hit the nail on the head in his column “Georgia’s assault on democracy” (April 3, TribLIVE). Denying people a drink of water is not Christian. The Bible says, “anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to the Messiah will certainly...
Letter to the editor: False portrayals of fascism
In response to Frank Zalakar’s letter “Knowing right from left” (March 4, TribLIVE) about my Jan. 30 letter “Capitalism is on the right side”: The issue of fascism as a right-wing political ideology is countered in the recently published best-selling book by Dinesh D’Souza, “The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi...
Editorial: Labor disputes solved by good-faith negotiation show the way forward
It can be hard to look at the divisions that happen in Washington or in Harrisburg and put them into perspective. If you were at work, the accounts receivable department couldn’t just decide not to work with sales. In a church, the choir can’t go to war with the Sunday...
Letter to the editor: Who does minimum wage hike benefit?
Thank you, Democrats. As a senior citizen, why would I want the minimum wage raised? We seniors won’t be getting a raise like this. If they raise the minimum wage, I will be paying more for the food and goods they make. If I go out to eat, I will...
Pat Buchanan: Who will be next ‘America First’ president?
When President Joe Biden announced he would withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of 9/11, GOP hawks like Sens. Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham responded predictably. “Grave mistake,” muttered McConnell. “Insane,” said Graham, “dumber than dirt and … dangerous.” Of more interest were the responses of...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: ‘A riot is the language of the unheard’
“The anguish we are suffering cannot translate into violence.” So said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey last week in the wake of yet another police killing of yet another unarmed African American man. The sentiment was altogether fitting and proper, especially given that his city was the epicenter of a national...
Letter to the editor: Disinformation campaign nearing completion
The more I read the letters that readers write to the Trib, the more I believe this quote attributed to William Casey, CIA director from 1981-87: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” David Cassidy Penn Township, Westmoreland County...
Letter to the editor: Warnings from history
Something I never thought could happen in my lifetime: A man is elected leader of the country because he alone can produce prosperity and keep his countrymen safe. He announces that foreigners no longer will be welcome, and those already in the country would be deported or treated very badly....
Letter to the editor: Scalia held that Second Amendment not absolute
I have known Jim Albert for many years, both as a magistrate and as Westmoreland County sheriff, and I’ve always liked him. However, his recent letter to the editor (“Second Amendment is absolute,” April 3, TribLIVE) declaring I was wrong in my letter stating the Second Amendment is not absolute...
Editorial: Why an excellent council member can’t be halfway there
Editorials generally applaud what’s right and denounce what’s wrong. It’s a rare that they cite people trying to do right but have to point out what they’re getting wrong. Yet here we are. Last week, Lower Burrell Councilman Robert Hamilton offered to resign from his position because of some career...
Letter to the editor: Pa. must hike funding for nursing homes
It’s time for Pennsylvania government to fairly fund long-term providers that care for Pennsylvanians in nursing homes. Medicaid funding, which covers most of the costs, has been flatlined by the Wolf administration. After being in the heart of covid-19, nursing homes watched as Gov. Tom Wolf again proposed flat funding...
Letter to the editor: Consequences of transgender athletic competition
What is the future of high school female sports programs? President Biden recently signed an executive order making it federal policy, and encouraging states to follow, to allow transgender females to participate in high school female sports. Far-left Democrats in Congress want to make it mandatory. What are the consequences?...
Tom Purcell: The high price of a modest roof
The cost of construction materials has gone through the roof — if you can still afford a roof, which isn’t very affordable right now. All I wanted to do was build a modest roof over my modest deck at my modest house. But a year of government pandemic policies and...
Timothy Williams: Remember our history and welcome the strangers
Ten years ago, I left the United States to teach overseas. Since then, I have lived in five different countries and traveled to numerous others. I am often asked if living abroad is dangerous. It strikes me, however, that in all these years, I have never been verbally harassed or...
Letter to the editor: District 59 leader must be responsible
Helen Sitler’s letter “Mariah Fisher ready to represent” (April 4, TribLIVE) makes it sound like Fisher likes to spend someone else’s money. What about creating actual good-paying jobs for us and for college graduates so we don’t need to leave the county or state for them? This is done by...
Letter to the editor: Would one overall gun law work?
Given that we already have thousands of gun laws on the books that aren’t working, President Biden needs to pass a new national law that supersedes all other gun control laws. It should be short and definitive. Something like: “It is illegal for all convicted criminals, future criminals, the mentally...
