Opinion category, Page 518
Letter to the editor: Other countries aiming to take us down
President Biden says “America is back.” How true. America is now back to giving billions to countries that hate us and want to destroy us. We will go back to being energy dependent. While we are going “green,” other countries, our enemies who don’t care about emissions, will be ramping...
Letter to the editor: We’ll be glad to have another Republican president
To all you liberals out there, I hope you see what is happening to our country after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Democrats were going to “change America.” There have been so many changes in only two months of President Biden’s four-year term. They are putting illegal immigrants...
Letter to the editor: AP too biased
As a longtime subscriber to the Trib, I am concerned that it has veered far left in just the last few years. I don’t consider the Associated Press a journalistic news organization any longer, and think the Trib’s relationship to it should be terminated. AP’s use of inflammatory and unproven...
Letter to the editor: Immigration debacle
With current numbers of undocumented immigrants already surpassing last year’s total, calling President Biden’s immigration policy a debacle is certainly a fitting term. On his first day in office, Biden stopped the border wall construction and discarded the Migrant Protection Protocols agreed to by Mexico’s president that kept would-be migrants...
Letter to the editor: Mail-in ballots allow more voters to vote
I was disappointed to learn that Westmoreland County Commissioner Doug Chew told a Pennsylvania Senate committee that his constituents want to eliminate no-excuse mail-in voting (“Westmoreland commissioner says county voters want end to no-excuse mail-in ballots, another disputes that,” March 23, TribLIVE). He claimed that 20,000 county residents were “potentially”...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of April 5
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of April 5....
Editorial cartoons for the week of April 5
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S.E. Cupp: To cover or not to cover Trump?
“Please stop covering the crazy stuff out Trump’s mouth (sic). The nightmare is over. Please #CNN, #NBC, #CBS, #ABC.” That’s just one of probably thousands of similar tweets in recent months imploring the media to just ignore the former president and, to invoke a Bush-era mantra, move on. I’m here...
Editorial: Following the local money of the American Rescue Plan
Imagine someone has left you some money. It’s a good chunk of change — maybe even 60% of your annual salary. But it comes with strings. You can’t use it to pay your bills and you can’t stick it in your savings account. Your dear departed uncle wanted you to...
Editorial: At Easter 2021, the rays of hope are bright
Easter is a celebration of resurrection. It is about the restoration of life, rising back from the dead. But resurrection isn’t just about the miracle of the holiday. It is also about bringing something back in other ways. A lost art can be reclaimed. A lost manuscript can be discovered...
Sounding off: More guns means more shootings
As people are tiring of covid, the mass gatherings are resuming, and so are the mass shootings. No other country has this problem, and no other country is so saturated with guns. Coincidence? I hear all the gun advocates’ arguments and scoff, like guns don’t kill, people do. It’s as...
Letter to the editor: Local soldier’s story lifts spirits
I sincerely want to thank the Tribune-Review for the article “New book chronicles North Huntingdon soldier’s recovery from life-altering accident” (Nov. 5, TribLIVE). The book, “A Noble Knight: Dan Priatko’s Story of Faith and Courage,” is definitely a must read. During this pandemic, a lot of us have had our...
Letter to the editor: Looking to Jesus in difficult times
Easter is upon us. We may look at life from different perspectives, but in times of heartache we have the option to reflect on what Jesus endured for us. Many of us judge; however, like Jesus said, let he who is without sin cast the first stone. We are not...
Letter to the editor: Illuminated cross a beacon of hope
I am writing to say thank you to the wonderful parishioners of Logan’s Ferry Presbyterian Church (Parnassus). I was told they are responsible for lighting the beautiful cross that sits high on the hilltop above the bottom of Coxcomb Hill (Route 909) for all to see, from dusk till dawn....
Letter to the editor: Zero Waste legislation will help stop plastic pollution
I recently explored my school’s campus woods for the first time in a year, and I saw some disturbing sights. There was plastic waste everywhere. Even after a year without students on campus, the trees, the soil, the water — it was all contaminated with plastic trash. PennEnvironment just published...
Letter to the editor: Mariah Fisher ready to represent
Mariah Fisher, a Democrat, is already effective as an elected official and now offers voters a real choice for Pennsylvania’s 59th District. Have you seen the beautiful new Diamond in Ligonier? Through Ligonier Borough Council, Fisher chaired the parks and recreation committee that guided that project. In the past year,...
Letter to the editor: Abolishing the death penalty
At a recent virtual event on Catholicism and capital punishment, people with personal experience with the death penalty shared powerful stories. Vickie and Syl Schieber’s daughter, Shannon, a 23-year-old Wharton School doctoral student, was raped and murdered in Philadelphia. Kirk Bloodsworth, an honorably discharged Marine, was wrongfully convicted and sentenced...
Faye Flam: Don’t believe the doomsayers. Vaccines will end the pandemic.
Following pandemic news too closely can be an emotional roller coaster, with dire public health warnings immediately followed by hopeful new studies. The latest soaring discovery: a new CDC study showing vaccines sharply cut all covid-19 infections — not just symptoms. That news puts to rest one worst-case-scenario: that vaccines...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Georgia’s assault on democracy
Of all the low-down dirty deeds you can do to anyone, denying them a drink of water when they are thirsty is among the lowest and dirtiest. And that tells you everything you will ever need to know about the politicians running Georgia. Among recent election law changes, the Georgia...
Letter to the editor: Pa. lawmakers’ undocumented expenses disgraceful
It’s an absolute disgrace that, as you reported, the Pennsylvania state representatives and senators are collectively charging the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars each year for “per diem” expense without supporting receipts (“State lawmakers need daily expenses accountability,” March 21, TribLIVE). Any company or organization that I’ve ever been...
Letter to the editor: Thanks to Trump for vaccines
Thank you, President Trump: Thanks to you and your staff my wife and I received our first dose of the Moderna vaccine. Fortunately you were in office when this non-American virus was let loose on the world. Had a Democrat been in the White House, I bet we would still...
Letter to the editor: Trump’s world
I believe in President Trump’s world, truth is a foreign word. Lies rule the day. He is a self-appointed king, minus the crown (his coiffure would be disturbed). It seems a perfect day for Trump is when he flaunts himself onstage before a highly motivated audience. More clapping and enthusiasm...
Letter to the editor: Second Amendment is absolute
I must disagree with David Millstein’s letter “Commissioners misguided on gun-rights resolution” (March 21, TribLIVE). He wrote that the Second Amendment’s language is not absolute. That is incorrect. The intended scope and reach are binding forever. Absolute means total and complete, not diminished in any way. The Second Amendment is...
John Stossel: Woke colleges want to eliminate tests
Did you take the SATs to try to get into college? Your kids may not have to. More than 1,300 schools have become “test optional,” meaning students need not submit SAT scores. Some, like the entire University of California system, now won’t even look at scores. There are seemingly legitimate...
Mona Charen: What we can learn from Asian Americans
This much can be said without fear of contradiction: There has been a spike in disgusting crimes against Asian Americans during the past year. One analysis of 16 of the country’s largest cities found that acts of anti-Asian bias, not just crimes, increased by 145% between 2019 and 2020, even...
