Opinion category, Page 742
Letter to the editor: Our sad but true political comedy
Moe, Larry and Curly (Al Gore, John Kerry and Barack Obama), Hillary Clinton as the femme fatale. What’s next, Shemp (Joe Biden)? It would be a great comedy if it wasn’t true. Howard L. McHenry East Vandergrift...
Jonah Goldberg: Does reality change ideas, or vice versa?
The intellectual right is in the middle of a huge brouhaha, as some prominent right-wing commentators celebrate what they believe is the end of the “conservative consensus” around classical liberalism — free markets, limited government, the sovereignty of the individual and even in some cases free expression. Fox News’ Tucker...
Editorial: The power of zoning and local government
If you want to know why you should vote, think about what you want to see happen next door. Zoning decisions can be hot topics. There is always someone who doesn’t want the new business or activity on the horizon. Landfills. Strip clubs. Methadone clinics. Halfway houses. Prisons. Factories. There...
Letter to the editor: PIAA wrestling changes
I see that the PIAA is going to allow two wrestlers per weight class to weigh in for certain tournaments. Great! Now all they have to do is recind their petition to the National Federation of State High School Associations to reduce from 14 to 12 weight classes (“PIAA approves...
Letter to the editor: Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer may be job hunting soon
The Democratic Party still cannot accept the fact that they lost the 2016 election, and they continue to harass and attack President Trump. They had pinned their hopes on the Mueller report exposing “collusion,” but after 2½ years and more than $30 million, they have nothing. They also attack Attorney...
Letter to the editor: Abortion & death penalty
I am concerned that our legislators and most notably our Gov. Tom Wolf have lost sight of the need for proper insight into the sanctity of life. How in God’s name can they say that the death penalty is inhumane but the butchering of the unborn is OK (“Death penalty...
Letter to the editor: More on fairness in taxation
I want to thank James Kvitkovich for his response (“Capitalism & taxes,” May 23, TribLIVE) to my letter on fairness in taxation (“Fairness in taxation,” May 2, TribLIVE). He calculated an average tax payment of $10,299 per taxpayer for 2015, claiming how draconian a capitalistic approach is to taxation, in...
Letter to the editor: Pittsburgh ready for 100% renewable energy
Two years ago, I was standing at the Highland Park Reservoir at a press conference next to Mayor Bill Peduto, City Councilwoman Deb Gross and community leaders announcing that privatization was off the table for our dysfunctional water system. This was big news. Little did I know that just minutes...
Tom Purcell: My remarkably “unremarkable” father
My dad turns 86 next month. He never thought he’d live so long — or see as many Father’s Days as he has — because his parents both died far too young. A stroke claimed his mother when she was 69 — the same night Pittsburgh Pirates great Roberto Clemente’s...
Editorial: Facing facts about facial recognition
You may have gotten accustomed to using your face as your password with your iPhone. Then maybe you got used to using it via your phone to buy your lunch, pay for an online purchase or just pick up a soda at the vending machine in your office breakroom. But...
Letter to the editor: Justice for Democrats
Now that the Mueller investigation is over, the Democrats are acting like cornered snakes. They are striking out, but their desperate screams are nothing more than proof that they are scared to death that the truth about this scandal is about to explode in their faces. It has been proven...
Letter to the editor: Honor, integrity & Trump
In response to Terry E. Swindell’s letter — “America’s self- destruction”: This is one of the best summations I have read concerning our current leadership. His supporters say his bankruptcies don’t matter, cheating on his wives isn’t significant, comments about grabbing genitals (sexual assault) has no relevance, sex with prostitutes...
Letter to the editor: Trump will win in 2020
You’ve probably seen it before, that miserable sad sack sitting at a casino slot machine after work shelling out every last penny he’s got— only to get the same results over and over again. We’ve seen similar behavior in Washington recently, and not from the big orange bogeyman who has...
Editorial cartoons for the week of June 10
Editorial cartoons for the week of June 10....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of June 10
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Editorial: Is restoring Pennsylvania enough?
“Restore Pennsylvania” is a good concept. Pennsylvania could use a little restoration. That’s not a revelation. Pennsylvania needs more jobs. It needs more business. It needs more industry. It needs more development. But Gov. Tom Wolf’s push to take $4.5 billion in severance tax that could be generated from Marcellus...
Michelle Malkin: Exoneree, now a law grad, fights for justice
What would you do if you were falsely accused and convicted of a brutal rape and murder you didn’t commit? How would you handle a violent maximum-security prison, sentenced to 16 years to life, at age 17? And where would you go, what would you choose to do, if you...
Letter to the editor: Liberals could lose on abortion
New state bills are aimed at overturning Roe v. Wade. This is a response to liberals wanting to allow late-term and partial-birth abortions. No doubt if these bills make it into law they will be heard in the courts. Perhaps it will settle the question on whether a state has...
Letter to the editor: Litter plays part in flooding
With the recent heavy rains, we have been deluged (no pun intended) with many reports of road closures due to flooding even if no nearby waterway. A PennDOT spokesperson stated that one of these floods was due to the Jersey barrier acting as a dam. He also said storm drains...
Letter to the editor: Don’t glorify perpetrators
Why, when our country desperately needs heroes, does the media venerate perpetrators? On May 16 the Tribune-Review published an Associated Press article, “‘Time for us to live for him’: Slain Colorado student remembered.” It reported on a memorial service for Kendrick Castillo, a teenager who was killed while he and...
Christopher Duncan: Community support will inspire future Army leaders
“Thank you for your service.” As an Army soldier living in Pennsylvania, I am grateful for these words, which I hear often when wearing my uniform in public. What many people do not understand is that I am the one who is thankful. I am thankful for the camaraderie, the...
George Will: College Board tries to solve social problem it’s unsuited to solve
WASHINGTON — The earnest improvers at the College Board, which administers the Scholastic Aptitude Test, should ponder Abraham Maslow’s law of the instrument. In 1966, Maslow, a psychologist, said essentially this: If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. The College Board wants...
Cosmo Servidio: EPA delivers on fuels promise
Last fall, President Trump promised the American people that the Environmental Protection Agency would bring consumers more choices at gas pumps across the country. In a federal rule finalized last week, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler delivered on that promise by clearing regulatory barriers to make it easier to sell fuel...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Leon Redbone & an elixir for our time
Leon Redbone died last month. The 69-year-old singer and guitar player stopped performing a few years ago for health reasons, but he had a long run and kept his loyal followers happy with 17 albums and a raft of club appearances for nearly five decades. In his family’s announcement of...
Peter Morici: Trump must run against Bernie Care & GOP in 2020
President Trump is the victim of his own success. Voters now rank health care above the economy as the top issue for Washington to address, and the president must run against his own party to win in 2020. American discontent stems from affordability. We pay 75% more for health care...
