Opinion category, Page 591
Walter Williams: The fight for free speech
The violence, looting and mayhem this nation has seen over the last several months has much of its roots in academia, where leftist faculty teach immature young people all manner of nonsense that contradicts common sense and the principles of liberty. Chief among their lessons is a need to attack...
John Stossel: Fake fact-checking
Recently, I released a video that called California’s fires “government fueled.” A few days later, Facebook inserted a warning on my video: “Missing Context. Independent fact-checkers say this information could mislead.” Some of my viewers now feel betrayed. One wrote: “Shameful, John … what happened to you!!? Your reporting was...
Mike A. Sabat III: Here’s why union members support Biden
When Tenaris idled its Beaver County pipe-making plant and laid me off this spring, I walked out the door with a lifeline — six months of employer-paid health insurance that enabled me to keep providing for my family. The owners of Tenaris didn’t provide this crucial health care coverage to...
Jonah Goldberg: Is America really a democracy?
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) has been tweeting some interesting things. During Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate, Lee declared on Twitter, “We’re not a democracy.” That raised some eyebrows, to say the least. He followed up by tweeting, “Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity are. We want the...
Letter to the editor: Save lives by wearing a mask
Long after the world recognized how to defeat the spread of covid-19, the American deniers continue maskless events to propagate up to 1,000 new daily deaths. And now preexisting conditions don’t count? Comorbidity, or having a preexisting health issue, was not a conscious choice for most of the 211,000-plus American...
Letter to the editor: What Biden-Harris ads should say
I have been so disappointed with the political ads presented by the Biden/Harris campaign. I hope they consider one such as this: Universal health care — FREE. Note: We furnish your doctor and only six to eight months for an appointment. College education/tuition — FREE. Raise taxes by $4 trillion...
Letter to the editor: Election cheating underway
Caught again, it looks like the Pennsylvania Republican Party doesn’t think it can win an election without cheating. According to reporting last month by Barton Gellman in The Atlantic, they have been coordinating a plan/plot with the Trump campaign to set aside the results of the presidential election and appoint...
Laurels & lances: Returning, reclosing, remembering
Laurel: To being back on the job. On an October 2018 morning, Pittsburgh Police SWAT Officer Timothy Matson suffered multiple gunshot wounds responding to the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill. Eleven people were killed and seven wounded that day. It has been almost two...
Lori Falce: Veep is more than spare tire job this year
There are very few things as disappointing as a near miss. It is an honor just to be nominated, but runner-up seems to sting more than honorable mention because you were just that close to the crown. That’s probably part of why the office of the vice president of the...
Ron Klink: Trump’s reference pricing order imports joblessness
Never in the history of the modern world has there been such a desperate need for the pharmaceutical industry to be able to save our world and return all of us to a form of normality. Covid-19 is impacting everyone, including the leader of the free world and his family....
Letter to the editor: What BLM really wants
In 2015, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said in an interview that she and co-founder Alicia Garza are “trained organizers … We are trained Marxists.” The BLM website reads like a communist manifesto, using terms like “comrades” and “communal networks.” Cullors spent more than 10 years being mentored by...
Letter to the editor: Debate was a debacle
The Sept. 29 uncivil presidential “debate” produced no winner; however, the American people were the losers in the most juvenile presidential debate in our nation’s history. In fact, what I witnessed wasn’t a debate at all, but an exchange of attacks and counterattacks between President Trump and Joe Biden. The...
Letter to the editor: News flashes for today’s situation
People enjoying well-cooled workplaces should not dictate, enact or recommend mask requirements for warm or hot workplaces. Further astounding news: My face is inseparable from my rights, these superseded by nothing short of God. I am, like everyone else, above mask requirements beyond medical facilities. Freedom is the heart of...
Editorial: Consistent policies remain Wolf’s hobgoblin
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson. He was probably right about those times that people cleave to one set of rules without thought. A speed limit is a speed limit, but if an ambulance or a fire truck has to go faster, that...
Jonah Goldberg: Is Trump’s treatment an example of VIP syndrome?
A few years before he died, my friend Charles Krauthammer, a psychiatrist turned Pulitzer-winning political commentator, told me that the quality of health care you receive tends to rise in tandem with your income — up to a point. For some people, the two lines separate when they get so...
Sheldon Jacobson: Covid-19 vaccine supply chain could be easier than many expect
Anticipation of a covid-19 vaccine is growing. The National Academy of Medicine issued the report “Framework for Equitable Allocation of Covid-19 Vaccine,” offering guidance on vaccine allocation. The process is certain to be fraught with politics, given that equitable, safe and effective all represent critical, albeit subjective criteria to assess...
Letter to the editor: Flood insurance warning
Beware if you are buying and mortgaging a home in a flood-prone area as determined by FEMA. You must have flood insurance to cover the amount of your loan. I found FEMA-issued maps that state my house is in a flood Zone X, not requiring insurance. But my bank insists...
Letter to the editor: Our rights as a federal republic
It’s tough debating President Trump’s response to coronavirus and civil unrest with folks unaware of America’s government. That includes King Joseph Biden, who seems too confused to know he can’t “shut down the country” or forcibly mask us, too civics-deficient to realize Trump has constitutionally “done his job.” We’re a...
Letter to the editor: Charter school prepared her well
Regarding Kenneth Gatten’s op-ed “We must amend Pa.’s charter school law now” (Aug. 22, TribLIVE): I am a 2020 graduate of Commonwealth Charter Academy (CCA). My experience at CCA profoundly impacted my life. I utilized the school’s dual-enrollment program to take advanced placement and college classes to graduate with 33...
Letter to the editor: Sheriff Albert’s move to the right and facts about left
I am sorry to learn that as Sheriff James Albert changed his affiliation to the Republican Party, he also took the opportunity to spread what I see as falsehoods about the Democratic Party’s stance on law enforcement issues and its alleged “drift to the left” (“Westmoreland sheriff: ‘I have not...
Editorial: Toomey is example to Senate successor
U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey isn’t going to run for reelection in 2022. Toomey has represented Pennsylvanians in the Senate since 2011. A committed conservative — he was president of the fervent free-enterprise Club for Growth — he took over the seat of Arlen Specter after the longtime senator turned his...
Pat Buchanan: Ten days that shook the presidency
What a difference a week can make. Saturday, Sept. 26, was among the best days of the Trump presidency, or so some of us thought watching the president introduce in the Rose Garden his sterling candidate for Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court. Ahead was the Tuesday debate,...
Rep. Bob Brooks: Recognize, don’t criticize, companies’ covid-19 efforts
When the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States, front-line workers risked their lives to protect our communities. Pennsylvania’s nurses, doctors and other health care professionals rose to the challenge to help their patients battle the virus. They deserve our utmost respect and appreciation for their service. We sometimes forget that...
Letter to the editor: How would Barrett be grilled if she was Muslim, Buddhist or Jewish?
Oh, how times have changed. JFK had to defend his Catholicism in 1960. I wonder: If Judge Amy Coney Barrett was Muslim, Buddhist or Jewish, would she face what is coming up in her hearings? No way. Peter A. Mamula Venetia...
Letter to the editor: Mammograms save lives; don’t put them off
Cancer didn’t stop because of the pandemic, but nonemergency exams like mammograms came to a screeching halt. Now, as we enter National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, you should know that medical imaging centers throughout Western Pennsylvania have safely reopened and are offering mammography again. This is a good time to...
