Opinion category, Page 758
Letter to the editor: Matt Schimizzi for judge in Westmoreland
Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and should be totally indifferent to the pressure of the times. This is one of the many reasons I’m supporting Matt Schimizzi for judge in the Westmoreland County Court of Common Pleas. Randy S. McIndoe Jeannette...
Letter to the editor: Abortion & overpopulation
Regarding Al Duerig’s letter “Overpopulation will destroy earth” (Feb. 27, TribLIVE): You really helped to open our eyes to the mindset of the many millions who support abortion. If overpopulation is truly a concern, I assume you don’t have any children, or are hopeful that you won’t become a grandfather....
Letter to the editor: True Democrats should revolt
I do not know what letter George O. Curry (“Democrats want balance,” March 27, TribLIVE) was reading, because I did not praise President Trump in my letter (“Not true Democrats,” March 13, TribLIVE). I did not call the Democrats socialists or communists. I did not even mention the Republican party....
Colin McNickle: Pennsylvania gaming expansion’s marginal returns
State-sanctioned gambling — “gaming,” in the parlance of its overlords — has seen marked growth in Pennsylvania. But as a new analysis by the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy notes, the returns — initially sketched as the be-all and end-all on many fronts — remain marginal when considered in context....
Pat Buchanan: Pete Buttigieg & Christianity’s crackup
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so,” said Hamlet, who thereby raised some crucial questions: Is moral truth subjective? Does it change with changing times and changing attitudes? Or is there a higher law, a permanent law, God’s law, immutable and eternal, to which man’s...
Editorial: Notre Dame fire shows strength of resurrection
It took more than a hundred years to build. It stood for hundreds more. It defined the skyline of a city and the soul of a religion. And it didn’t stand a prayer against the consuming hunger of fire. The vast, awe-inspiring beauty of one of the great palaces of...
Letter to the editor: Do Democrats care about lower, middle classes?
Now that they weren’t able to nail President Trump with the Russia probe, congressional Democrats have moved on to obsessing about his tax returns. Meanwhile, they are almost totally silent about his budget proposal with big cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. But they go on and on about...
Letter to the editor: Gun sanctuaries
Bad ideas and actions trigger more bad ideas and actions when groups on the opposite end of the political pendulum react like they are doing in Colorado, where numerous counties have declared themselves “Second Amendment sanctuary counties.” Timothy E. Walsh North Huntingdon...
Letter to the editor: Pipelines are critical
Natural gas and oil continue to play an increasingly important role every day in the U.S. New data reveals natural gas use in the U.S. hit a record high in 2018, largely due to its role in producing more than 30% of the country’s electricity. On the other hand, crude...
Tom Purcell: Bribing kids’ way into the ‘easy life’ robs them of true happiness
Boy, do I feel sorry for Lori Loughlin’s daughters. It’s been all over the news that Loughlin and her husband allegedly paid $500,000 in bribes to get their two girls into the University of Southern California. The fellow they allegedly bribed is said to have helped them falsely identify the...
Editorial: #HeartsTogether promotes Tree of Life healing
How do you fill the hole left by grief and sorrow? How do you close the wound ripped open by hate? With hope. The Tree of Life synagogue stands — an empty shell — since the Oct. 27 shooting that shattered worship services on a quiet Sabbath morning. In the...
Letter to the editor: Fox News not fair, balanced
More hilarious than the comics section of the Trib are the occasional letters that extol Fox News as the “other side” of current political discourse. The failure of so many to recognize the network’s dishonesty has led to their conviction that to get the “truth” out of any political controversy,...
Letter to the editor: Mitchell Garabedian’s criticism
In regard to lawyer Mitchell Garabedian’s criticisms of the Erie diocese opening its files (“Erie Catholic diocese will open files to priest sex abuse victims,” April 5, TribLIVE): Garabedian does not prosecute priests but represents victims. The diocese has not released these names. This is a search for customers. Robert...
Letter to the editor: Left still can’t get over Trump’s win
Democrat Pam Iovino won the hotly contested Senate race in the 37th District and what happened the next day? Nothing. No angry mobs roaming the streets and picketing the Senate office. No paid protesters with prepared signs marching. No calls of voter fraud. No blocked highways. No local celebrities crying...
Editorial cartoons for the week of April 15
Editorial cartoons for the week of April 15....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of April 15
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of April 15....
Christine Emba: Congress should ease the pain of filing taxes
For the first time in a long time, I managed to do my taxes early this year. My refund check arrived by mail. Opening it, I looked down at the (paltry) sum, sighed and placed the letter into my bag. And then it blew away. Literally. It blew out of...
S.E. Cupp: The silver lining in Trump’s homeland security purge
“They are decapitating the entire department,” a Department of Homeland Security official ominously told The Washington Post of last week’s alarming purge that resulted in forcing the resignation of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, pulling the pick to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement and firing the Secret Service director. President Trump’s ouster...
Michelle Malkin: False accuser Shaun King’s record of harm
This weekend, “journalist, activist and humanitarian” Shaun King gave the keynote speech at the annual Innocence Network Conference in Atlanta. The theme of the event, whose attendees work to prevent and undo wrongful convictions, is “The Presumption of Innocence.” It was just three months ago that King recklessly exploited the...
Cal Thomas: God & the Democrats
For the last 27 years, Democrats have been trying to win over evangelical Christians who last voted in large numbers for their party’s presidential candidate, Jimmy Carter, in 1976. At the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Al Gore gave it a go, but misquoted Scripture. In his acceptance speech for the...
Editorial: Veterans court extends a helping hand
A veteran is someone who has proven they understand discipline. They know how to follow orders. They get what it means to be a small part of a larger operation, and why every part has a job to do. That means that when they get in trouble with the law,...
Letter to the editor: Politicians & your money
All politicians have very little problem spending your money. The Democrats just do it more often. John Newhouse Shaler...
Letter to the editor: Socialism never works
There are some scary things going on in our country. The influential radical left of the Democratic Party is aggressively promoting economic socialism. As economist Thomas Sowell said, socialism sounds great, but simply has never worked. Socialist policies promise free college, medical care, housing and support, so they attract poorly...
Letter to the editor: Saving the planet
In my letter “Global lukewarming” (Feb. 15, TribLIVE) I presented two instances when dire scientific projections were promulgated and publicly accepted, only to dramatically fail. I cited the book “Lukewarming,” which contains scientific articles that provide a realistic view of climate change. Letter-writer George A. West (“Ignoring facts,” March 15,...
George Will: The Democrats’ sweepstakes of frivolity
WASHINGTON The Democrats’ presidential aspirants seem determined to prove that their party’s 2016 achievement — the election of the current president — was not a fluke that cannot be repeated. But the Republican Party, whose last remaining raison d’etre is to frustrate Democrats, seems to be thinking: We are determined...
