Opinion category, Page 699
Editorial: Myles Garrett’s helmet strike on Steelers QB should be investigated
It is easy to dismiss some post-game howling as poor sportsmanship. That call was blown! The refs were biased! The game was rigged! It so often comes down to the fact that one side won and the other side lost. Identify yourself so closely with a team and it can...
Letter to the editor: Support ‘heartbeat’ bills that protect children
There is nothing more sacred than the sanctity of life. It is truly a gift that has been provided to every human being on Earth from God — and it becomes a gift that we pass down to our children. Unfortunately, this gift is being taken from countless lives here...
Letter to the editor: Presidential heroes & zeroes
November, being the month to honor the sacrifices of America’s veterans, seems the perfect time to recount the military service of some of our recent presidents. Harry Truman served in the field artillery in World War I, memorizing the eye chart in order to gain induction. Dwight Eisenhower served as...
Letter to the editor: Drivers scarier than shooters
As horrific as mass shootings are and the terror they create through media hype, I am not afraid of them because of the pure randomness and infinitesimal odds of being caught up in one. However, I am afraid every day when I get in my car. Drunken driving alone kills...
Walter Williams: Young people are ignorant of history
A recent survey conducted by the Victims of Communism and polled by YouGov, a research and data firm, found that 70% of millennials are likely to vote socialist and that one in three millennials saw communism as “favorable.” Let examine this tragic vision in light of the Fraser Institute’s recently...
Laurels & lances: Growing, paying, climbing, working
Laurel: To making the holidays bigger. The Ligonier Country Market’s annual Christmas Market is getting a boost with a second location. The boost to the Nov. 30 event will not just accommodate more crafters, artisans and other producers, but also additional shoppers. Way to grow. Lance: To not paying up....
Donald Boudreaux: State of humanity is excellent — and improving
To encounter the news today is to encounter an America verging on destruction. Global warming will soon incinerate us, but not before income inequalities turn ordinary Americans into the slaves of oligarchs. And as these ghastly fates unfold, those of us who somehow escape being raped, robbed and cheated out...
Lori Falce: Pay attention to government
On Wednesday morning, it seemed like every television camera in the world was pointed at the House of Representatives for the first Trump impeachment hearings. As almost anyone could have predicted, the Democrats advanced questions in one direction while the Republicans pulled the other way. I watched the testimony with...
Letter to the editor: Humans are destroying our birds
The article “Where have the wild birds gone? 3 billion fewer than 1970” (Sept. 19, TribLIVE) should have grabbed everyone’s attention. I noticed a decline in the bird population many years ago. About 70 years ago, when I was just a kid, I used to see and hear the bobwhites...
Letter to the editor: Dump Trump while we can
President Trump’s actions with Ukraine for personal political gain should trouble us all. Worse is the fact that he sees nothing wrong with getting dirt on a political opponent from a foreign country, even after having said as much openly in an interview in June. But worst of all is...
Letter to the editor: Distraction can be deadly
Imagine you’re on a walk. You have your headphones in to distract you from the rest of the world. You come to a stoplight. You look. No one is coming. You start to walk, but you aren’t aware of the immediate changes in the world around you; you don’t hear...
Letter to the editor: Liberals & guns
Only in America because of the liberals would the legal gun owners have to jump through hoops while the thugs roam the streets armed with no problems. The liberals are the ones who ended “stop and frisk,” which I doubt any legal gun owner would object to. Clem Zahrobsky Delmont...
Editorial: Ethics have to be AG priority
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s office sends out a lot of press releases. They come when a drug dealer is arrested or when a lawsuit is filed against a pharmaceutical corporation. They come when he releases a grand jury report. They come when charges are filed against an elected official....
Dr. Lawrence John: Patients want physicians involved in their health care
Nurse practitioners have been pushing state lawmakers to remove their collaborative agreements with physicians in Pennsylvania for a number of years. But a new public opinion poll should give state lawmakers in Allegheny County pause, as the vast majority of participants indicated they would not support such a move. Susquehanna...
Kathryn Kugler: To attract more physician assistants, Pa. needs modernized laws
Pennsylvania educates more PA (physician assistant) students than almost any other state. With one of the highest numbers of accredited PA programs in the country — 23, to be exact — our state has access to an enormous group of bright, ambitious, well-trained medical providers who can help to improve...
Letter to the editor: Socialism & communism
This is a quote for the Democratic/socialist/communist party and to anyone who believes socialism is the way of the future: “The goal of socialism is communism” (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin). Words from a man who should know. Steven Ignatz West Mifflin...
Letter to the editor: US needs secure borders
I believe secured borders would help reduce corruption in the country. Border security would help control the goods that come in and go out of the country. As a result, many people would feel secure because they will be assured that anything they are interacting with came into the country...
Letter to the editor: Attacks on Trump outrageous
Every day the left becomes more outrageous in its attacks on President Trump. Last month two of the top ISIS terrorist leaders died in a brilliant military operation without any loss of life for American forces. While The Washington Post described the dirtbag Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as an “austere religious...
Letter to the editor: Trump deserved World Series boos
Congratulations to the Washington Nationals on their exciting first World Series win. And an even bigger congratulations to the fans in Washington for their response to President Trump’s presence at Game 5. The long, loud boos and chants of “lock him up” were inspiring. I hope it was a sign...
Pat Buchanan: Will ‘sexist’ white males derail Elizabeth Warren?
After celebrating last week’s takeover of Virginia’s legislature and the Kentucky governorship, the liberal establishment appears poised to crush its biggest threat: the surging candidacy of Elizabeth Warren. From the tempo and tenor of the attacks, establishment fears of Warren’s success are real — and understandably so. The danger for...
Reps. John Joyce and Abby Finkenauer: Rural broadband key to 21st-century success
When was the last time that you unfolded a map for directions before a road trip or required a postage stamp to send a photograph to a friend? More likely than not, you have turned to a phone, tablet or other device to complete these simple tasks. In the 21st...
Editorial: Write-in votes shouldn’t be wasted
Your vote is a valuable commodity. It’s the difference between being a victim or a volunteer. It is participation. It is involvement. And that’s all serious business. Voting for Porky Pig? That’s really not. In every election, there are people who exercise another right: the ability to disregard the options...
Letter to the editor: Exhausted by Trump
Even when presented with evidence to the contrary, President Trump’s supporters continue to hold to their opinions. You cannot reason with an unreasonable attitude, position or person. But the facts about this amateur president are clear. In my opinion, Trump is the living embodiment of the seven deadly sins, pride,...
Letter to the editor: Let’s take care of special-needs kids, adults
Policies put into place by Pennsylvania government will eliminate free choice for disabled and special needs citizens who work, children and adults alike. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services’ Office of Developmental Programs policies threaten programs like Clelian Heights and the Westmoreland County Blind Association workshops. These policies will push people...
Letter to the editor: Apologies for being old, white, straight, conservative, Christian male
The guilt is just too much for me to take, so I need to confess. I humbly and contritely apologize to all for being an older, white, straight, conservative, Christian male … the current most reviled creature in America. I apologize for working hard over the past 40 years, obeying...
