Opinion category, Page 549
Letter to the editor: We’re citizens, not ‘subjects’
I think too many of us have forgotten we are citizens, not subjects. This year has emphasized that exponentially. Too many state governors have forgotten their role as leaders, not rulers. While leadership has a responsibility to give us guidance, resources and precautions in dangerous situations, leaders still have the...
Letter to the editor: Reschenthaler, why don’t you resign?
And so my question is for Guy Reschenthaler: What are you doing in Washington, D.C., masquerading as a U.S. congressman from the 14th District of Pennsylvania? Since you and 140 other congressmen and 12 U.S. senators claim the Pennsylvania election was a fraud, you and Joe Biden were on the...
Letter to the editor: Pence reacting to a threat?
Vice President Mike Pence publicly announced his decision not to proceed with President Trump’s plan to recognize objections to the presidential election results by some senators and/or representatives of some states during the formal approval of the vote of the Electoral College by the combined houses of Congress prior to...
Letter to the editor: Trump responsible for DC chaos
The shameful bedlam, anarchy, desecration of our sacred Capitol and rioting that took place in Washington on a modern day of infamy was precisely what one could have expected, and the responsibility for it is to be laid solely and squarely at the feet of Donald Trump: so much for...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Jan. 11
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Jan. 11....
Editorial cartoons for the week of Jan. 11
Editorial cartoons for the week of Jan. 11....
Letter to the editor: End chaos, accept results and come together
What has happened to our great country? Regardless of party, we are all Americans living in a democracy, not a dictatorship. We have the privilege to vote for a person we want to run our country. We have all the freedoms given to us by our forefathers. Yet we now...
Letter to the editor: Schools taking care of employees
This letter is in response to Michael Sierk’s letter criticizing local schools for moving to online learning during an out-of-control pandemic (“Closing schools is not containing spread,” Jan. 1, TribLIVE). Mr. Sierk, I am an itinerant teacher in schools all over Westmoreland County. Our custodians, cafeteria workers, secretarial staff, classroom...
Letter to the editor: Thornburgh an example for all politicians
Many years ago, I started a second career in the Washington, D.C., office of the law firm K&L Gates. One of the first people who wandered into my office to welcome me to the firm was Dick Thornburgh. I had gone to college in Pennsylvania and knew people who worked...
Letter to the editor: Keep following the covid-19 rules
The year 2020 was a year of daunting challenge. Covid-19 created significant negative impacts on all aspects of life. We’ve all been touched in one way or another by this virus. We’ve mourned the loss of friends and family, we’ve lost income, we’ve lost touch with those we love. 2020...
Editorial: Making companies immune from misconduct is sick
When we think about immunity, we usually think about being resistant to a disease. Immunity is the ability to shrug off an infection, to ignore a virus. It’s an idea that has occupied us for much of the last year. The possibility of being immune to covid-19 because of having...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Never forget actions of Washington traitors
Remember who did this to us. Do not let the passage of time or the currency of other events dim your memory. Never forget what Donald Trump did last week. Never forget that he incited an attack on our republic by a traitorous mob. Remember Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted...
Sheldon Jacobson and Janet Jokela: Airport security checkpoints are nation’s covid-19 canary
We welcome the new year with nearly 22 million confirmed covid-19 cases and 365,000 deaths. The U.S. leads the world in total confirmed cases and deaths, while also ranking second in confirmed cases per capita and seventh in deaths per capita (for countries with a population over 10 million). The...
Colin McNickle: The continuing struggles of Pittsburgh Public Schools
Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) yet again used fund reserves to balance its 2021 general fund budget, a practice it has employed since 2016. But the school district has a long way to go to address its high expenditures, concludes an analysis by the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy. “PPS’ trends...
Sounding off: We don’t have freedom to harm others
I weep with all the health care workers, families and caregivers who, on top of dealing with covid-19, must listen to the hate spewed forth in the name of “personal freedoms.” Yes, it is hate. It is total disregard for the lives of others. It is like you are driving...
Letter to the editor: Police actions during DC chaos
How come the police were not told to stand down like they were at some of the Black Lives Matter riots? Was it because the politicians were in danger, not private citizens’ businesses? Clem Zahrobsky Delmont...
Letter to the editor: Reschenthaler and Joyce are patriots
I felt compelled to respond to letters from Scott Huber claiming the presidential election was the “most secure election in modern history” (“Will Joyce and Reschenthaler need pardons?”) and Edward Svitek that Biden won “fairly and squarely” (“Does Trump love America?”) when the facts and statistics say otherwise. Joe Biden...
Letter to the editor: Lying to Congress is a crime
Sen. Ted Cruz proposed a congressional inquiry to determine the legitimacy of the 2020 election (and it failed, on Jan. 6). The idea was fine with me — but note that the line between freedom of speech and slander, defamation and sedition is not a fine one. If you’re lying...
Mona Charen: A lesson on our merciless culture
When did we become so merciless? I’m not talking about the 18-year-old kid, featured in a New York Times article, who elected to torpedo a fellow student over a three-year-old video clip — though what he did was cruel. No, I’m talking about all of the supposed adults who created...
Paul Kengor: The ‘gift’ of the lottery
Another Christmas season has ended, and so has, mercifully, another season of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania bearing false gifts of lottery tickets. It’s a perennial promise, with jolly state officials assuming the role of Anti-Santa. It starts every year with those annoying commercials, usually around Black Friday. If you search...
John Stossel: Middle Eastern young people winning war on ideas
Islamic terror has been trending down for five years. Some American officials said this would never happen. America has failed to properly fight terrorism, said former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, so it “has spread, gaining countless new adherents.” Others said fundamentalism’s demand for religious obedience over individual freedom means “peace...
Jonah Goldberg: It’s a fallacy that Trump supporters haven’t been heard
The president of the United States incited a mob. It was a disgraceful, inexcusable, impeachable act. Donald Trump’s defenders offer any number of excuses in order to shave off the shame. The media didn’t condemn riots last summer by left-wing groups, and therefore this was inevitable or just desserts or...
Letter to the editor: Has Trump committed treason?
Our current president spoke a few days ago in Georgia. His harangue was, to me, reminiscent of a Hitler speech. I believe he mobilized the Proud Boys and other white nationalist terrorists to invade the Capitol in an attempted coup and as such has committed treason. Like all other Benedict...
Lori Falce: The bogus integrity of the last-straw brigade
I love a dramatic gesture. If you use a pregnant pause to build anticipation, I will eat it up. If you can make an entrance a little more grand, I fully support that. If you want to make turning in your two weeks’ notice a production worthy of Meryl Streep,...
Letter to the editor: We must protect children from toxic lead
We still have work to do to eliminate the threat of toxic lead in the lives of young children. The covid-19 virus has taken precedence over our health concerns, rightly so, but lead paint dust and lead in our drinking water still loom in the environment of our children and...
