Opinion category, Page 713
Lori Falce: We all need more team players
This week, I was reminded of how old I am because of a football player. Jon Condo retired. You might not recognize that name. Condo is a Pennsylvania native, a graduate of my own high school, Philipsburg-Osceola, that straddles the line between Clearfield and Centre counties. And he was a...
Letter to the editor: Bills would work to end gerrymandering
Let’s work together to stop partisan gerrymandering. Gerrymandering puts power in the hands of a few — the politicians — at the expense of the rest of us — the citizenry. We can stop this crooked process by telling our state reps that we support House Bills 22 and 23....
Letter to the editor: Democrats deceitful, deranged
Impeachment inquiry: Disgusting, deceitful, deranged, demented Democrats. ‘Nuff said. Frank Novotny Unity...
Letter to the editor: Undermining our freedom of self-defense
For hateful rhetoric like Robert Jedrzejewski’s letter “NRA’s terroristic ways” (Sept. 10, TribLIVE) to be spewed out on your pages on 9/11 — a day reminding us that we are victims in the face of oppression unless we mass and fight to overcome our assailants, as those on Flight 93...
Letter to the editor: Youth, vaping & climate
Regarding two prominent topics in the Sept. 20 edition (“Vaping defense is up in smoke”; “Greensburg joins in Global Climate Strike”): Our youth are not educated, enlightened and mature enough to grasp the fact that sucking an unknown foreign substance directly into their little pink lungs is dangerous (basic anatomy/physiology),...
Tom Richard & Justin Schwartz: Universities must lead on climate solutions
Headlines from around the world increasingly reinforce a sobering point: Climate change is the defining crisis of our time. A new poll shows the number of Americans who see climate change as a crisis is growing — just after the strongest hurricane on record. For the sake of the planet...
George Will: Time is on Taiwan’s side — but it needs U.S. support
TAIPEI, Taiwan Now only 15 flags in the Foreign Ministry’s foyer represent the nations that have not yet succumbed to Beijing’s financial blandishments — targeted at governments and individual politicians — and other pressures to sever diplomatic relations with this island nation. There were 17 flags a few weeks ago....
Editorial: Conversion therapy proposals pure politics
Conversion therapy is a grab bag of practices that utilize psychological, emotional, spiritual or physical techniques to try and remake someone who is gay or bisexual into a heterosexual. The practice also has been used on people identifying as transgender. Subjects are often minors. So kudos to the Allegheny County...
Letter to the editor: NRA not terroristic
I disagree with letter-writer Robert Jedrzejewski’s view of the NRA ("NRA’s terroristic ways," Sept. 10, TribLIVE). He is pro gun control. I am pro responsible gun ownership, which the NRA promotes. Guns are inanimate objects. They do not, cannot and never will be able to shoot themselves. They need an...
Letter to the editor: Society needs love & laws
At a time in our lives where everybody seems to be at each other’s throat, the simple truth is that love is the defining difference in a society. That love comes from God. Here’s the simple truth as to why we have so many problems. We kill our young before...
Letter to the editor: Tom Wolf right to act on charter schools
I am writing to inform op-ed writer Colleen Cook (“Tom Wolf’s attack on charter schools unfair”) that Gov. Tom Wolf’s attempt to fix the problems with the state’s charter schools is spot on, particularly those that are cybercharter schools. While your son has benefited from taking his classes this way,...
Pat Buchanan: Can Trump still avoid war with Iran?
President Trump does not want war with Iran. America does not want war with Iran. Even the Senate Republicans are advising against military action in response to that attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities. If neither America nor Iran wants war, what has brought us to the brink? Answer: The...
G. Terry Madonna & Michael Young: Election reform standoff
Lawmaking has often been compared to sausage making. One may relish eating it but not want to know how it is produced. Never has this been truer than watching the Pennsylvania General Assembly tackle modern election reform. The Legislature has a precious few weeks left in 2019 to decide a...
Editorial: How much surveillance is too much?
Someone is always watching. That might sound a little crazy, but you’re only paranoid if it’s not true. These days, everything is being monitored all the time. It’s not that someone can swoop in and stop you from doing something illegal or saying something inciteful. It’s that if something does...
Letter to the editor: Can’t forgive Jane Fonda
On page A4 of your Sept. 15 edition, you reported that Jane Fonda was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. As a Vietnam veteran, I cannot begin to tell you how much this upsets and disrespects me and every one of my brothers and sisters in arms who...
Letter to the editor: More gun laws won’t stop killings
I don’t know if Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto has been reading the news lately about the shootings in other countries or not. Yes, we Americans can carry weapons such as handguns. We do have the right to buy military-style rifles. This is our right. I agree that any weapon in...
Letter to the editor: Democrat votes for family values
The Democratic/socialist debates were the same old soup just warmed over. All basically promise the same thing: give-aways, higher taxes and gun confiscation. I don’t need free college, loan forgiveness, Medicare for all or a $15 minimum wage. I was born in a Democrat family and grew up in a...
Tom Purcell: Make this a beautiful day in your neighborhood
Tom Hanks is right: We should be allowed to start off our days feeling good. Hanks stars as Fred “Mister” Rogers in the movie “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” opening Nov. 22. At a press conference after its world premiere at a film festival in Toronto, reports Deadline, Hanks...
Jonah Goldberg: Candidates & constitutional boundaries
It’s exhausting being both a conservative and a critic of President Trump. When I aim my pen at the White House, many of my comrades on the right go nuts. And readers who love it when I go after Trump turn into a cage full of poo- flinging monkeys when I...
Editorial: Where have all the birds gone?
Pennsylvania may be dotted by cities and towns, but at its heart, the state is a forest. It’s right there in the name. Pennsylvania. Penn’s Woods. The state has always embraced that nature. The Department of Environmental Protection was established in 1995 but traces its roots all the way back...
Letter to the editor: Bernie Sanders’ communist policies
President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama recently made an offer on a nearly $15 million house and property in Martha’s Vineyard. Since Bernie Sanders is such a good communist, he can seize through taxation Obama’s property to help the downtrodden in America. Obama would no doubt protest Sanders’ communist policy....
Letter to the editor: Further grouping the deplorables
Hillary Clinton was wrong to call then-candidate Donald Trump’s supporters “deplorables.” Had she sub-grouped the Trumpites, as follows below, voters might have understood her point. The enablers comprise one segment of Trump’s followers. They cringe at his lies and behavior and hate his tweets, but their GOP roots keep them...
Letter to the editor: Radicals then & now
The shouting down of anyone who doesn’t agree with the left wing’s liberal agenda is nothing new. The radicals have always tried to drown out any reasonable discourse over the decades. In the midst of the sexual revolution of the ’60s and ’70s, people who tried to warn the public...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Sept. 23
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Sept. 23....
Editorial cartoons for the week Sept. 23
Editorial cartoons for the week of Sept. 23....
