Opinion category, Page 782
Letter to the editor: Dog verdict disgusting
I absolutely cannot believe the “not guilty” verdict in the case of the UPS driver attacked by three German shepherds trained as attack dogs (“Penn Township man found not guilty of dog law citations in UPS driver mauling,” Jan. 9, TribLIVE). It was weird that those dogs were not euthanized...
Letter to the editor: Pittsburgh crime will increase
Gun ban = more crime Regarding George Karpacs’ letter “Address gun issue now” (Jan. 6, TribLIVE): Do you do any thinking on your own? Pittsburgh’s mayor and Pennsylvania’s governor don’t. If they are successful with their gun-ban legislation, Pittsburgh will become like Chicago and other cities with high murder rates,...
Tom Purcell: Relax, people — they’re just cookies
Just as my annual diet has begun showing promise, my greatest obstacle to success is upon me: Girl Scout cookie season has begun. My problem with Girl Scout cookies is personal. But, like everything else in our culture, some people have moral or political problems with them. Some nutritionists say...
Editorial: Amnesty could stop avalanche of legal trouble
A little amnesty can be a good thing. A lot of people in Allegheny County have a chance to find that out. The county is swimming in about 450 bench warrants issued to people who didn’t show up at court appearances. It’s just about the easiest way to guarantee a...
Letter to the editor: Op-ed missed mark on pro-life goals
Tara Murtha & Susan Frietsche’s op-ed “Nothing ‘pro-life’ about overturning Roe v. Wade” (Jan. 12, TribLIVE) misses the mark on anti-abortion goals. It begins with the subtle rhetorical move of “pro-life” in scare quotes that is often used to assert the absurd idea that the very people attempting to save...
Letter to the editor: Poor choice of headline word
Your Jan. 16 edition included the headline, “New pack of migrants heads north,” on a wire story. I would like to know who chose the term “pack” to refer to a group of people. Whatever your views on immigration, can’t we at least agree that we are talking about human...
Letter to the editor: Tomlin should go
I agree with the letter-writer who suggested firing Steelers coach Mike Tomlin (“Fire Steelers coaches,” Dec. 29, TribLIVE). After the fourth-down call in New Orleans, giving the ball to the Aints, they scored. This showed he didn’t know how to preserve a lead. Why would Tomlin go for a “fake...
Letter to the editor: Fanning flames of Russian hysteria
“Without presenting any evidence, President Trump said … .” This is how the media covers the Trump administration, with additional commentary accusing him of lying. The New York Times on Jan. 11 published a piece about the FBI’s inquiry into the possibility that Trump was working on behalf of Russia....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Jan. 21.
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Jan. 21....
Editorial cartoons for the week of Jan. 21
Editorial cartoons for the week of Jan. 21....
Michelle Malkin: Procter & Gamble’s toxic sanctimony
One of the world’s most successful brands committed ideological hara-kiri last week. Recognized around the world as a symbol of manly civility for more than a century, Gillette will now be remembered as the company that did itself in by sacrificing a massive consumer base at the altar of progressivism....
Editorial: Whose shutdown is it?
Whose problem is it anyway? President Trump sat in a meeting with Democrats and pushed for a border wall. He did it emphatically and without question. “I am proud to shut down the government for border security,” he said Dec. 11. “I will take the mantle.” And government shut down....
Mitchel Nickols: King legacy makes difference today
When a person is born, we don’t know what impact their birth will make on the lives of others. When Martin Luther King Jr. was born, it would take a number of years to see and hear the things that would transform the lives of so many who had been...
Letter to the editor: Do math on wall
I do not understand why politics is taking such a toll on the government shutdown. Do the math: Estimates put the cost of illegal immigration at $130 billion per year. The president is asking for $5.7 billion for a border wall. If the wall proves to be over 80 percent...
Letter to the editor: Progressive coup
It’s a shame that the letter-writers fraught with anxiety and seething rage concerning President Trump are wasting so much energy and happiness when most of their stated reasons are, I believe, without basis in truth and fact. It’s also a shame that so many intelligent, reasonable people have been convinced...
Letter to the editor: Preventing gerrymandering
With news of the Supreme Court open to hearing gerrymandering cases from North Carolina and Maryland, it’s time to fan the inferno about Pennsylvania’s own redistricting reform. For a long time, I believed that promoting an independent, nonpartisan citizens’ commission on redistricting that is proposed by Fair Districts PA was...
George Will: Trump is a sad specimen
WASHINGTON Half or a quarter of the way through this interesting experiment with an incessantly splenetic presidency, much of the nation has become accustomed to daily mortifications. Or has lost its capacity for embarrassment, which is even worse. If the country’s condition is calibrated simply by economic data — if,...
Antony Davies & James Harrigan: Peduto, council should learn facts on gun violence
There are few forces as pernicious as politicians who feel the need to “do something,” but that’s what we have in Pittsburgh in the wake of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting. Predictably, Pittsburgh’s mayor and city council have endorsed various restrictions on semi-automatic weapons. This is nothing but political...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Political fear cuts both ways
When newly elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” he was not downplaying the economic crisis that Americans faced. It was 1933, the lowest point in the Great Depression, and he was warning his fellow Americans that “unreasoning, unjustified” fear was...
Editorial: STEM doesn’t have to mean college
A good job. A good paycheck. A balance between work and home. These are the things most of us want, and the things most of us want for our kids. They aren’t things that have to come with a college degree. Maybe your child really wants to go to college....
Harold Johnson: Corruption in the Catholic Church
My Catholicism, my faith, states that the Catholic Church consists of the people, and the head of the Church is Jesus Christ. Not the pope, the cardinals, the bishops and archbishops, or the priests and deacons. They are administrators of the Catholic organization, and, yes, they are members of the...
Letter to the editor: Medicare for all? It’s not free
Certain politicians have been proposing the idea of Medicare for all. Sounds great, right? What they are not telling the public is that Medicare is not free. Consider Original Medicare 2019 : Part A: Premiums: Less than 30 quarters working (Medicare taxes paid), $437 per month; 30-39 quarters working, $240...
Letter to the editor: Divisive politics dangerous
As a decades-long independent, I find the behavior of the Republican and Democratic Party leadership in Washington disgraceful, embarrassing, unpatriotic and dangerous. They, along with their respective cronies in the media, have successfully divided the country into opposing factions who disregard the Constitution, precedent and common sense, whenever convenient. Extremists...
Letter to the editor: What if Native Americans built walls?
Although I recognize the need for border controls, I wonder how many of us would be here if the Native Americans had constructed walls around our country … . Jim Blahovec Penn Township, Westmoreland County...
John Stossel: Shutdown not a ‘crisis’
This government shutdown is now longer than any in history. The media keep using the word “crisis.” “Shutdown sows chaos, confusion and anxiety!” says The Washington Post. “Pain spreads widely.” The New York Times headlined, it’s all “just too much!” But wait. Looking around America, I see people going about...
