Opinion category, Page 690
Letter to the editor: Trump supporters should see writing on wall
Let’s make America great again with help from Russia, China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Ukraine. After listening to all of the testimony against President Trump over the past three years, the way I see it is, Trump had Russia interfere with our 2016 election, and now he owes...
Letter to the editor: Businessman Trump best at running country
Whether you like him or not, Donald Trump is our president. He is proving to me that a businessman can run this country better than any politician in spite of all of the resistance from the Democrats, RINOS, never-Trumpers and the Deep State. There were 266,000 jobs added in November...
Letter to the editor: Therapy dogs in order?
Letter-writer Oren Spiegler (“Attack on Yovanovitch cruel,” Nov. 30, TribLIVE) is probably a fine human being, but he really should let go of the impeachment hearings/Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch issue, which seems to have twisted his knickers greatly. In my 25 years with the State Department, I was microwaved by the...
Donald Boudreaux: Talk of global supremacy meaningless
Often in political discourse we encounter statements that initially seem to make sense but that, when examined, turn out to be silly. Here’s a recent example from a Chatham House Royal Institute of International Affairs paper: “The current dispute between the U.S. and China goes far beyond trade tariffs and...
Lori Falce: Impeachment strikes back
It is blockbusting. It is epic. It is the massive story years in the making that closes out the decade. And depending on the reviews you read, it’s a terrible failure or a stunning masterpiece. I might be talking about “Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker.” I might be talking about...
Laurels & lances: Giving, pleading and delivering
Laurel: To really giving back. For Trafford Borough Council President Kris Cardiff, the idea of giving back to the community is more than lip service. He is actually returning his $600 a year in pay for being a public official. It’s something he says he has been doing for a...
Letter to the editor: Impeachment is cartoonish
The ’toon seemed to begin two days after inauguration with Maxine, the Squad and the pack calling for the impeachment cannon on Road Runner Trump, but the “hidden” episode showed Brennan, Clapper and Comey coyotes used the “Hillary paid for” dossier to try to torpedo the candidate RR. Following “Stormy”...
Letter to the editor: Reparations for abuse are important
In his op-ed “Statute of limitations ‘window’ wrong path for past abuse cases” (Dec. 7, TribLIVE), Rep. Paul Schemel notes that “the growing cost of legal settlements relating to old claims of child sexual abuse by Scout leaders” is causing the Boy Scouts of America to increase its annual dues...
Letter to the editor: Trump’s ‘Crazy Train’
What more can be said about Donald Trump? Well, I can think of a few things. First of all, he promised to withdraw troops from Syria because he doesn’t seem to believe in intervention in other countries. Then he sends them to Iraq. Now he wants to take over Syria’s...
Jonah Goldberg: Diversity panic hits Democratic field
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An Asian guy, two black guys, three white women (one of whom spent much of her life claiming to be Native American), a Pacific Islander woman, a gay guy, a Hispanic guy, two elderly Caucasian Jews (one a billionaire, the other a...
Editorial: Better school funding needed in Pennsylvania
It should not cost more to teach math in Squirrel Hill than it does in New Kensington. It should not be more expensive to teach history in Hempfield than in Jeannette. It should not take more money to teach reading in Upper St. Clair than in Clairton. But geography ends...
Letter to the editor: Abused women have power
Domestic abuse can increase around the holidays. Men who beat and abuse their partners emotionally and physically need to be exposed for what they are: cowards of the worst sort who do not even deserve to be called human beings. They will try to deny they did anything, or say...
Letter to the editor: Impeachment like crucifixion
What the Democrats are doing to President Trump brings to mind what the Pharisees did to Jesus Christ. The Pharisees (Democrats) brought false charges against Jesus (Trump) — none of the witnesses in the Schiff and Nadler investigations raised their hands when they were asked if Trump committed impeachable offenses....
Letter to the editor: Republicans undermining Constitution
Trump and his band of merry white Republican men are trying to undermine the Constitution of the United States of America — in my view, simply because of racism and sexism. A lot of President Trump’s Republican government officials are lawyers, and I know they understand constitutional law. I believe...
Pat Buchanan: Is it jaw-jaw or war with Iran?
“Jaw-jaw is better than war-war,” is attributed, wrongly, say some historians, to Winston Churchill. Still, the words lately came to mind. While the first week in December ended with a hopeful U.S.-Iranian prisoner exchange that was hailed by President Trump — “Thank you to Iran for a very fair negotiation....
Colin McNickle: Negative job growth dogs Greater Pittsburgh
There has been lots of happy talk about Greater Pittsburgh’s supposed economic “resilience,” if not an outright “renaissance.” But the latest jobs report belies that notion and yet again exposes the many elephants in the room that continue to retard growth, concludes an analysis by scholars at the Allegheny Institute...
Editorial: Ghost guns decision makes sense
On Monday, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro officially stated his legal opinion that most of a gun is a gun. That means that felons and others barred from buying or possessing guns in Pennsylvania can’t buy something called an 80% receiver — a kind of building block for a weapon...
Letter to the editor: Democrats not for working people
I was a union worker for 38 years. I was told I must vote Democrat in every election. Maybe in the past the Democratic Party was for the working person. No more. I started paying attention to the way things were going — using my brain instead of being one...
Letter to the editor: Trump must be defeated
Only in a dream world would “Make America Great Again” be true. President Trump has disgraced the country. The multiple instances of obstruction of justice revealed in the Mueller report and in the impeachment process demonstrate real concern. The impeachment hearings have proven that Trump and cohorts pressured foreign entities...
Jonah Goldberg: Trump defenders continue to push Ukraine conspiracy theories
Contrary to heated rhetoric from Democrats, most Republicans understand that Russia was responsible for the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s server in 2016 and other efforts to sow mischief in the electoral process. They’ll even admit it when pressed. The problem is they want everyone to believe that Ukraine...
Tom Purcell: Why Christmas nostalgia is good for us
I indulge more deeply in Christmas nostalgia with every passing year, but it turns out that doing so is a good thing. “Nostalgia,” according to Merriam-Webster, is “a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for the return to some past period or irrecoverable condition.” Time is certainly irrecoverable. I wish I’d...
Editorial: Pitt’s part in HIV fight shows possibility
There was a time that living with HIV was an unimaginable idea. HIV was the contagious virus that dragged you down the unavoidable road to AIDS, and AIDS killed you. It was a fact and there was nothing anyone could do about it. Except they did. Globally, HIV and AIDS...
Letter to the editor: Government should not force religion on others
Considering the responses in the Trib and the numerous social media messages I received about my last letter to the editor (“Atheism & politics,” Nov. 16, TribLIVE), I wanted to give a general response to clarify some things. I am an atheist. The only thing that means is that I...
Letter to the editor: Trump needs better advisers
Whoever is giving advice to our president is doing a terrible job. It’s obvious to me that he is taking advice from sycophants. It will take people with backbone, guts and a healthy dose of patriotism to stand up and get it through his thick head that: • No, it...
Letter to the editor: Democrats’ motives for removing Trump
I, for one, am sick and tired of the Democratic House of Representatives trying to remove a duly, lawfully elected president from office. I believe they started talking about impeaching President Trump the day after he was sworn in, after the election did not turn out in their favor. When...
