Opinion category, Page 733
Letter to the editor: No Sunday hunting
I urge Pennsylvania lawmakers to not allow Sunday hunting. I enjoy the outdoors in our great state, and I feel that I and others should have one day a week to enjoy our beautiful woods in peace and quiet, not having to fear being shot by a careless hunter. Many...
Letter to the editor: Dems & citizenship question
Just answer the question: Why don’t Democrats want the U.S. citizenship question included on the census form? Because they know they will lose thousands of votes they shouldn’t be getting in the first place. That very question is asked on many forms, from the doctor’s office to the DMV, and...
Letter to the editor: Next presidential pick will be easy
Boy, I’m glad the next presidential election is still far away because it’s going to be a very difficult decision for me. On one hand, we have President Trump: booming economy; 4 million jobs added; record low unemployment, lowest ever for blacks and Hispanics; renegotiation of lopsided, detrimental trade agreements...
Letter to the editor: Megan Rapinoe’s behavior is disgusting
On July 8, I watched an “ABC Nightly News” segment heaping adulation upon the U.S. women’s national soccer team following its World Cup victory. This was a hollow victory because of the disgusting performance of team captain Megan Rapinoe. I watched Rapinoe stand stonefaced as our national anthem was played...
Editorial cartoons for the week of July 15
Editorial cartoons for the week of July 15....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of July 15
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of July 15....
Doyle McManus: Coming soon: Impeachment for dummies
WASHINGTON — Robert S. Mueller III isn’t expected to roll out any bombshells when he testifies before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees on July 24. “The report is my testimony,” he said in May, the first time he had spoken in public in nearly two years. But that’s OK....
Gwendolyn Huntoon: Connecting Pa. communities with vital broadband
For a large majority of Pennsylvanians with good connectivity, the internet signifies a 24/7, 365-day stream of information. However, if you live in an area with limited broadband availability, you are likely more frustrated than informed. Access to reliable, high-speed internet service has become a necessity, not a luxury, in...
Editorial: Same old drug policy? Good grief
Charlie Brown is a cookie-cutter drug czar. The round-headed kid with earnest intentions and a fervent desire to just do the right thing would want to stop dangerous drugs from flooding the streets. He would want to save people from the downward spiral of addiction. He would do everything he...
Michelle Malkin: Democratic donors’ sex-creep club
Well, well, well. “Follow the facts,” Democratic strategist Christine Pelosi advises fellow liberals in the wake of billionaire and high-flying political financier Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking indictment . Some of “our faves” could be implicated in the long-festering scandal, she warned, so it’s time to “let the chips fall...
Editorial: The ABCs and 123s of SATs and ACTs
If we care about educating our kids, let’s put the money into teaching them. Let’s not send millions of dollars to companies who can really just tell us whether our kids can take tests. According to Auditor General Eugene DePasquale, Pennsylvanians pay almost $18 million for testing high school seniors...
George Will: To defeat Trump, Democrats should nominate Bennet
WASHINGTON With a disgust commensurate with the fact, Michael Bennet, the Colorado Democrat, says that during 40% of his 10 Senate years the government has been run on “continuing resolutions.” Congress passes these in order to spare itself the torture of performing its primary function, which is to set national...
John Sparks: Religious liberty, freedom of speech & gay rights
Among recent actions by the U.S. Supreme Court, a four-sentence order may set the stage for the court to eventually address the collision between free speech and religious freedom on one hand and gay rights on the other. The order voided a judgment by the state of Oregon that had...
Jonah Goldberg: Political leanings can’t be reduced to genetic programming
Increasingly, the intellectual consensus seems to be that our political leanings are hardwired in our genes. There is some excellent research behind this thinking, and I’ve come around to believing that DNA plays a bigger role in our political worldviews than many on the right or left are willing to...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Tough kids have great potential
There may be worse things for a kid than being homeless, but there are not too many. Too often, homelessness can kill the ambition and hope of any kid. Every grownup knows that the starting point for a productive life is a safe place to rest, away from chaos, at...
Sounding off: Gerrymandering and democracy
Thank you for the editorial ”Gerrymandering doesn’t represent us.” Gerrymandering can be a complicated subject, but you focused on the essence of the problem with the sentence, “Representative democracy doesn’t work if it’s not representative.” This assessment sums up the reason our state and federal governments are dysfunctional. If we...
Letter to the editor: Flag co-opted by hate-mongers
When I first heard about Nike removing its Betsy Ross flag shoes from the market, I was dismayed and thought that people where being too touchy-feely and too PC. Once I heard the context of the situation, I understood the objection. I always saw that flag as a starting point...
Letter to the editor: Disaster at the border
The Democrats have done little to stop the crisis at the border. They don’t seem to be interested in stopping caravans or filling in immigration law loopholes. They have tried to block everything President Trump has done to control the crisis through what appears to be biased judges and their...
Letter to the editor: Elizabeth Warren’s unfair debt forgiveness plan
Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren proposes to forgive up to $50,000 of student loan debt per student depending on the person’s income. This is a lot of “free stuff” money. On the campaign trail, I wonder how Warren would reply to a person who did not attend college and asked the...
Jennifer Christman: Technology & mental health in rural America
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 5 Americans will experience mental health issues in any given year. But imagine living in a rural community, where the nearest doctors are located an hour’s drive away, or worse, there aren’t specialized health care professionals in the area...
Walter Williams: Our free-speech crisis
The First Amendment to our Constitution was proposed by the 1788 Virginia ratification convention during its narrow 89-79 vote to ratify the Constitution. Virginia’s resolution held that the free exercise of religion, right to assembly and free speech could not be canceled, abridged or restrained. These Madisonian principles were eventually...
John Stossel: Government bullies try to mow down homeowner
The city of Dunedin, Fla., wants Jim Ficken’s home. Ficken’s mom died, so he went to South Carolina to take care of her estate. He asked a friend to look after his house. But then the friend died, and no one cut Ficken’s grass. When it grew to 10 inches,...
Editorial: Wolf’s voting veto a head-scratcher
Gov. Tom Wolf thinks that scrapping straight-ticket voting will lead to confused voters and long lines at the polls. Do you know what else confuses voters? Do you know what else leads to long lines? When no one knows what’s going on. How we vote might be the most important...
Letter to the editor: Radical left’s subversion
Golly gee, gee whiz and a double yoi! It’s becomeing more and more difficult for me to comprehend the radical left’s subversive thinking that seems to favor runaway immigration for votes, sanctuary cities, runaway spending and debt, and most of all, socialism, and disfavor the president for making headway in...
Letter to the editor: Good calls by Supreme Court
Win-loss scoreboard: Trump administration 1/1; John Q. Public 2/0. The Supreme Court made two good decisions before its summer break. In gerrymandering, the Supreme Court feels that the states must oversee. I agree gerrymandering is a part of our political system. Redistricting won’t happen again until after the 2020 census...
