Opinion category, Page 671
Letter to the editor: If unborn could vote, Democrats wouldn’t stand chance
Just a thought: If unborn infants could vote, a Democrat couldn’t be elected dog catcher, let alone president of the United States. Joseph Marmo Chewick...
Letter to the editor: School taxes are unjust
Regarding Barbara Markle’s letter “Property taxes ruin seniors’ ‘golden years’ ”: Yes! You paid taxes and now don’t have any kids in school — very unjust. How about those of us who never had kids? My husband and I have owned homes since 1959, thus paying taxes all these years. Add...
Letter to the editor: Advice for Harvey Weinstein
Fear not, felon rapist and serial abuser of women, Harvey Weinstein! The door to freedom may lie before you! Here is the proven winning strategy: Immediately after you are sentenced to what is certain to be a lengthy prison term, have your attorneys appear on Fox News for an interview...
Letter to the editor: Greensburg Salem kindergarten policy
Having asked Lenni Nedley, coordinator of elementary education, federal programs and instruction for the Greensburg Salem School District, to clarify the district’s recent decision to move the kindergarten cutoff date from the widely accepted Sept. 1 to Aug. 1, she referred me to Section 1304 of the Pennsylvania School Code....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of March 2
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of March 2....
Editorial cartoons for the week of March 2
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Zachary Yost: When will Pennsylvanians stop being bilked for milk?
Over 200 years ago, the great Scottish economist Adam Smith warned: “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” Although Smith wrote these words so long ago, he...
Colin McNickle: Pa.’s gambling dichotomy
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board reports that total gambling revenues increased by 4.5% in 2019 over 2018. The gain did not reflect any increase in the number of people playing traditional slot machines but rather the expansion of gaming options, scholars at the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy note. However,...
Letter to the editor: Al Gore, Jerry Brown could beat Trump
This might sound crazy, but I wish Al Gore or Jerry Brown would seek the Democratic Party nomination for president. I believe both of them could beat President Trump. They are both well known for being very knowledgeable about the environment, and are just what future generations need as we...
Letter to the editor: Let’s try common sense in politics
Enough already! The election is over and the impeachment is, too. Now can everybody grow up and shut up? All this name-calling has to stop. Speak your mind at the next election and then shut up again — no names or insults to anyone regardless of who wins or loses....
Letter to the editor: Reducing litter, keeping America beautiful
Regarding the article “Study: Pa. roads average 1,030 litter items per mile”: I have done my best to keep a stretch of rural road near my home free of litter. I pick up beer and pop cans, cigarette butts, plastic bottles, and bags from convenience stores and fast-food restaurants. Trash...
Philip Ameris: Don’t expect labor’s endorsement after opposing blue-collar jobs
Pennsylvania’s battleground status draws attention to endorsements ranging from the presidential to the local level. The Allegheny-Fayette Central Labor Council, of which the Western Pennsylvania Laborers’ District Council is an affiliate, recently announced its statewide endorsements. In House District 34, the council endorsed Chris Roland, the Democratic challenger to Democratic...
Peter Morici: Trump the moderate in 2020
Washington has a way of capturing presidents more than they conquer its bureaucracy — in current parlance, President Trump has become an alligator more than he has drained the swamp. Whether it’s Sanders, Warren, Klobuchar, Buttigieg, Bloomberg or Biden, the country will get a choice between a defender of the...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Facts are stubborn things
Americans have become far too familiar with the big lie. It is usually used to cover up a devastating truth or to sell us some public policy that was dreamed up by ideologues or business tycoons. By the time the last Americans were airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, nearly...
Drew Johnson: America shows how to fight climate change without regulation
Speaking at the United Nations in December, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi drew cheers by saying the United States was “still in” the Paris climate agreement. Green activists applauded Pelosi’s defense of the international climate accord, which President Trump has vowed to exit. They claim remaining in the Paris Agreement will...
Editorial: The right prescription for pandemic
Coronavirus has a lot to teach us. Or rather, the way the world has responded to it does. There are those who are overreacting and those who are underreacting. There are those in denial and those in overdrive. And then there are those who are controlling the message. We can...
Sounding off: Chill out; elections come every 4 years
An anticipated coronation turned out to be an election. The long-suffering palace princess was not chosen to lead the multitude into the promised land. A presidential election happens in the USA every four years, a process dreamed about in most other countries. I recently read an article that quoted the...
Letter to the editor: Candidate senators should have recused selves
In his letter “Common sense biggest loser in impeachment” (Feb. 9, TribLIVE), Glenn R. Plummer forgot to mention the “common sense” that three Democratic senators should have recused themselves because they are candidates seeking to run against the president. Perhaps just a little conflict of interest! And why didn’t the...
Letter to the editor: Mike Bloomberg’s apology not enough
In a recent MSNBC panel, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, discussed Mike Bloomberg’s racist policies when he was mayor of New York from 2002 to 2013. Glaude said black people don’t just want an apology, we need to know what...
Letter to the editor: Pelosi’s action no different than Trump’s
Apparently, some of you folks don’t actually read the news in this paper that you send your opinions to. If you did, you would realize that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s response to President Trump’s speech was no different than Trump “tearing up” the Constitution. He admitted to being guilty of...
Letter to the editor: Donald Trump & his adversaries
Time wounds all heals. I didn’t make a mistake with these words. The two-party system in America has been dysfunctional for decades. Nothing gets done in Washington. And it’s getting worse. There is less civility and much acrimony by our “leaders.” Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff...
John Stossel: Bloomberg the nanny
Good for Mike Bloomberg. During his first debate, he slammed Bernie Sanders by saying: “We’re not going to throw out capitalism. We tried that. Other countries tried that. It was called communism, and it just didn’t work!” Exactly right. It’s safe to say Bloomberg is not a communist. I wonder...
Walter Williams: Two sides to ‘stop, question & frisk’
Before former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg threw his hat into the 2020 presidential race, he defended the New York Police Department’s use of “stop, question and frisk” policing. At a U.S. Naval Academy’s 2019 Leadership Conference, Bloomberg said, “We focused on keeping kids from going through the correctional...
Editorial: Keep a leash on bullying
There is something about voicing an opinion online that can turn a forum of ideas into a kennel. Instead of thoughtful insights, honest questions, legitimate concerns and reasonable critique, it can easily turn to snarling, barking and howling as commenters compete to be heard above the din. It is part...
Letter to the editor: Nancy Pelosi’s tantrum inexcusable
We expect a tantrum from a child, not from the speaker of the House at a State of the Union address with the president of these United States. The speaker and the vice president received the president’s speech, the contents which in part were sacred, and to be defaced in...
