Opinion category, Page 607
Letter to the editor: How can veterans support Trump?
In reference to Ken Bossart’s letter “Civility lost in political disagreement”: I would never choose to call you a name if I disagreed with you. I would commend you for your service. But what I can never understand is a veteran supporting a “draft dodger.” Or whatever a person is...
Letter to the editor: Party over constituency in Congress
I find it very interesting that Speaker Nancy Pelosi found it necessary to announce a recall of Congress because of the potential for a postal slowdown. This of course could affect the election results for her party, which is counting large on mail-in voting. The next stimulus act has been...
Letter to the editor: Know the truth before you vote
The presidential election is very important. Presidential candidates have very different views. A search for the truth is not easy; it takes time and much effort. Who you vote for should be determined by knowing the truth. A large problem is that K-12 education and adult education does not always...
Letter to the editor: ‘Demon-strators’ not peaceful
It is just a peaceful demon-stration, as said by the mayors and governors of the liberal cities and states, and the Democratic Party. The word “demon-stration” starts out with the right word: demons, which means evil spirits, causing pandemonium, which means chaos, noise, bedlam, disorder and confusion. Next, the words...
Pat Buchanan: A most consequential presidency
As Donald Trump is about to be nominated for a second term, how his presidency has already altered the orientation of his party is on display. Under Trump, the GOP ceased to be a party of small government whose yardstick of success was how close it came to a balanced...
Tom Purcell: Join covid-19 homebuying rush, develop common sense
American home ownership is soaring, which is good for all of us. Home sales slowed during the early months of covid-19, as millions of Americans stayed inside. In the past few months, however, with interest rates at historic lows, homes have been selling at a record pace, USA Today reports....
L.E. McCullough: USPS delivers more than just mail
Title 39, Section 101 of the U.S. Code: “The Postal Service shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the Nation together through the personal, educational, literary, and business correspondence of the people. It shall provide prompt, reliable, and efficient services to patrons in...
Editorial: Journalism’s revolution against big tech
We need our news. Communicating information about what is happening in our world and in our government, around the globe and around the corner, has been critical from the start. The first newspaper in America was printed in Boston in 1690. The Hartford Courant is the oldest newspaper in the...
Jonah Goldberg: It’s not always as easy as asking, ‘Why not?’
In George Bernard Shaw’s “Back to Methuselah,” the serpent says to Eve in the Garden of Eden: “You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’” What’s funny is that a version of this quote is often ascribed to Robert...
Letter to the editor: Trump is draining the swamp
Please just remember: Our president, Donald Trump, promised to drain the swamp. I think he has done just that. Once you drain a swamp, all kinds of evils emerge. Just thinking. Please — just think for yourselves. Melanie Embrey Ligonier Township...
Letter to the editor: Trump and mail-in voting
Mail-in voting should not be the problem President Trump is saying it will be. That is, if: 1. Trump’s staffers in D.C. do not attempt to sabotage the process, and 2. Republican governors do not find a way to cheat for Trump and party, much like Jeb Bush did for...
Letter to the editor: Swimmers dedicated to safe practice, competition
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt of a letter sent to Gov. Tom Wolf and Robert Lombardi, director of the PIAA, before the PIAA’s Aug. 21 decision to move ahead with fall sports: Dear Gov. Wolf and Director Lombardi, We are athlete representatives of Allegheny Mountain Swimming and Middle Atlantic...
Letter to the editor: Experience matters when keeping the peace
After reading your two front-page articles (“Angry crowd shows up at Mayor Peduto’s home challenging Pittsburgh police arrest of protester,” Aug. 16, TribLIVE; “ ‘Low profile’ arrest creates firestorm as officials, experts blast Pittsburgh police tactic,” Aug. 17, TribLIVE) and editorial (“Low-visibility arrest a high- visibility failure,” Aug. 18, TribLIVE), I...
Letter to the editor: What sane leader would want to defund police?
Edward D. Roberts, known to his friends as Ned, was the police chief of Murrysville for many years. About 25 years ago, he and I were discussing the importance of local police departments when he said, “Police are the thin line between anarchy and a civilized society.” While Roberts passed...
Stephen Bloom: Eliminate barriers to crisis-ready health care
An emergency is no time to trifle with bureaucratic red tape. At the outset of the covid-19 crisis, many feared a surge of patients would overwhelm hospital capacity. Health officials sounded the alarm and identified policy changes that would enable them to meet the coronavirus challenge. And in many cases,...
Letter to the editor: Predicting another Trump failure
In my opinion, Donald Trump has failed at everything he’s ever done in his life. I predict he will fail at trying to steal this election; he will lose and he will leave. Bob Ottaviani Hempfield...
Letter to the editor: Shame on Norwin School Board
Bob Wayman said you should keep driving through a Black Lives Matter protest because they’re just “racist, communist thugs” (“Norwin director ripped over controversial posts; some call for resignation.” Bob Wayman said we should resort to armed combat to keep President Trump in office. Bob Wayman referred to Pennsylvania Health...
Letter to the editor: Trump and the post office’s problems
Did anyone in Congress ever ask you if you wanted your tax dollars used to subsidize the United States Postal Service? Do you know that when your tax dollars subsidize the USPS, you are subsidizing Amazon and other companies that use the USPS for unrealistically cheap delivery rates? Fact: There...
Editorial: In West Deer, deferred property taxes demand oversight
Is delaying a bill the most efficient way of paying it? Not usually. If you refinance your mortgage, it might save you money month to month, but you are spreading your interest out over a longer period of time. If you pay the minimum on your credit cards instead of...
Letter to the editor: Wolf and Levine should be prosecuted
Regarding the article “Brighton Rehab residents, families outraged by lax oversight during outbreak”: This was what I hope is a first on this subject. Gov. Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine seem to have ignored problems since elected and appointed. When covid-19 started and other states increased...
Letter to the editor: Vote in the good, vote out the bad
I realize some people and cultures have serious problems needing mending. Preaching to youth who have not matured and may not be properly educated, using terms such as “good trouble,” or saying it’s OK to protest and be arrested, is dangerously promoting disregard for law and order. It easily and...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Aug. 24
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Aug. 24....
Editorial cartoons for the week of Aug. 24
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Noah Feldman: Let Steve Bannon arrest be the coda on Trump’s corrupt presidency
Steve Bannon’s arrest on fraud charges is hardly a tragedy in the traditional sense of the word. Sure, the fall of a hero is the hallmark of tragedy, and Bannon considers himself an American hero — a self-perception that comes through very clearly in Errol Morris’s brilliant and edgy interview...
S.E. Cupp: I’m voting for Biden because he’s a good person — and why that matters
On the Democratic National Convention’s second night, Joe Biden’s wife, Jill, took America inside her longtime marriage to the presidential nominee. These things usually strike me as schmaltzy and inauthentic — pre-packaged montages about political leaders and their families, their personal trials and triumphs, their “normal” lives, old photos of...
