Opinion category, Page 750
S.E. Cupp: Trump’s escalation of Obama’s shadow war
If I gave you a pop quiz on recent current events, I bet you’d do pretty well, thanks to a 24-hour cable news cycle, late night talk shows, social media and popular culture. You undoubtedly know that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had their first child. You can likely go...
Editorial: Can student loan debt be opioid solution?
Solutions can be obvious if we open ourselves to seeing them. Doctors and scientists have a way of looking at something as both a problem and a solution. Something can be poison in one dose, medicine in another. HIV is being manipulated to fight cancer. Radiation can fuel a bomb,...
Letter to the editor: LIFEPAC politicized?
So stunned, I have to ask: Is LIFEPAC, the single-issue, pro-life group, politicized? Since 1980, LIFEPAC’S mission has been to “identify and support all pro-life candidates.” The process of “identifying” included the candidate filling out a questionnaire. Then, LIFEPAC would create a blue-and-white flier and deliver a thousand to churches...
Letter to the editor: Wian for Westmoreland County recorder of deeds
With the May primary election just around the corner, there is one candidate who stands out as the clear choice for Westmoreland County recorder of deeds: Jon Wian. While serving as deputy treasurer, Wian has demonstrated the leadership skills, work ethic and dedication needed to successfully run a county row...
Letter to the editor: Donald Trump & George Washington
President Trump is, and has been, pulling out every stop to hide information about himself, his tax records, bank and business dealings, etc. He calls it harassment and a coup attempt to be asked about such things. Well, the coup may have already taken place in 2016. Who can trust...
Colin McNickle: Reversing Greater Pittsburgh’s population decline
As the population continues to decline in Greater Pittsburgh’s seven-county region, sound public policies that could help to remedy the losses go unimplemented, remind scholars at the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy. Based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s estimates as of July 1, 2018, the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)...
Pat Buchanan: Are all the world’s problems ours?
In 2003, George W. Bush took us to war to liberate Iraq from the despotism of Saddam Hussein and convert that nation into a beacon of freedom and prosperity in the Middle East. Last Tuesday, Mike Pompeo flew clandestinely into Baghdad and met with the prime minister. The visit was...
Editorial: Bishops right with priest suspensions, disclosures
Priests are people, too. They do good things and bad things and sometimes very bad things. They make sacrifices and they make mistakes. Priests are no more likely to lie, cheat, steal or hurt someone than a teacher or a banker, a barber or a chef. The statewide — and...
Letter to the editor: Where are the good guys in politics?
There are so many corrupt politicians that it impossible to identify the good guys. The same goes for the Department of Justice and the FBI. Why do Americans stand for this? John W. Newhouse Shaler...
Letter to the editor: Changes needed on Plum school board
I moved to Plum several years ago with the hopes of sending my kids to quality schools. My son just started kindergarten this year, and I fear for his future if we don’t see changes on the school board. First, I find it hard to understand how a board can...
Letter to the editor: Voting and voter suppression
Anticipating Election Day, May 21, I am forced to face two of my greatest disappointments: citizens who don’t take the time to vote, and the Republican Party’s promotion of voter suppression. The right to vote is the bedrock principle of our democracy. For someone to casually forego this opportunity is...
Tom Purcell: ‘Do over’ proms pursue perpetual adolescence
Prom season is upon us. We all know what that means: More American adults are doing their proms all over again. A New York Times headline about a growing number of adults says they are taking “A second shot to have the best night of their lives.” And carrying on...
Editorial: U.S.-China trade war is scary roller coaster
If you have any money in the stock market, you’re going to want to close your eyes, catch your breath and hold on tight. The roller-coaster ride that is the daily ups and downs of trading is headed for a whole new set of death-defying loops. We know why. In...
Letter to the editor: Keep Logan, Weimer as Hempfield supervisors
Doug Weimer and Tom Logan have done a great job as our Hempfield Township supervisors and we need to keep them in. This year more than ever it’s important to look at the candidates and see what they have done, not what they are saying they will do. These two...
Letter to the editor: Where’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
I am very concerned about the condition and whereabouts of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We’ve heard unsubstantiated stories of her working out with trainers, walking a mile a day, sparring with Chuck Norris, etc. We’ve seen and heard a few vague photos and sound clips, also. All after...
Letter to the editor: Politicians choose deadlock over cooperation
How is it that our government has so rapidly slipped into levels of incompetence, arrogance and corruptive behavior never imagined by the Founding Fathers? Ranting and raving ignoramuses with little understanding of the basics of the Constitution spew ridiculously stupid, inaccurate and blatantly false interpretations of the simplest tenets of...
Editorial cartoons for the week of May 13
Editorial cartoons for the week of May 13....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of May 13
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of May 13....
Jonah Goldberg: If Democrats want ‘normalcy,’ why are candidates so radical?
In the 1920 presidential election, Warren Harding won in a landslide by promising a “Return to Normalcy.” Today’s Democrats would be wise to make that same pledge for 2020. They probably won’t, however, which is why President Trump might get re-elected. Harding’s concept of normalcy has been ridiculed and reviled...
Hugh Hewitt: Senate has important work to do. Why waste time subpoenaing Donald Trump Jr.?
There are six vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals, with two more vacancies certain to occur and many more likely to happen before January 2021 as older members of the courts eager to be replaced by center-right judges take “senior status.” Each is nearly as important to preserving liberty,...
Editorial: Route 30 study needs to be realistic
Good transportation moves the economy. That’s why Route 30 needs to be addressed. It’s a big road. It’s an important road. For more than 100 years, it has been there, connecting a string of communities in a dotted line east to west across Pennsylvania. And that makes it a draw...
Letter to the editor: Help for those who stutter
I’d like to ask your readers: Do you stutter? Do you know someone who does? Most people do. More than 3 million Americans and 70 million people across the globe stutter, but sadly, stuttering is still quite misunderstood. Help us change that. May 13-19 is National Stuttering Awareness Week. To...
Letter to the editor: Robert Mueller should say something
We have now witnessed both the Trumpwash and the Hirono megaslander approaches. But I can’t help but place the blame for all this sturm und drang on … Robert Mueller. The guy had unlimited resources. And after all that (and setting aside that he probably knew no collusion well before...
Letter to the editor: Presidential candidates sound incompetent
After listening to presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and others talk, here are my thoughts on: • Letting prisoners vote: These people gave up their rights when they committed crimes. They lost this freedom as a part of their punishment. • College loan forgiveness: What about all the people who did...
George Will: Danger of dabbling in protectionism
WASHINGTON A man who worked in a boxer’s corner in a 1962 match against Cassius Clay, as he still was known, explained why the referee stopped the fight in the fourth round: “Things just went sour gradually all at once.” It can be like that when government dabbles in protectionism....
