Opinion category, Page 484
Letter to the editor: Flexible Constitution
Since we Americans are living in the land of make-believe, I figured there would be no problem in making up some information, in homage to the brainwashing tactics of the three- or four-letter media many adore. As you know, it’s our constitutional right to believe what we want since the...
Sen. Kim Ward: Retroactive window for victims is no quick fix
Recently, I have been the focus of a targeted media campaign calling for passage of legislation to allow a retroactive “window” for civil lawsuits for past claims of childhood sexual abuse. The campaign has a simple message: The only path to helping these victims is this legislation. As a legislator...
Pat Buchanan: Bitter fruits of interventionism
As President Lyndon Johnson and the best and brightest of the 1960s were broken on the wheel of Vietnam, the Biden presidency may well be broken on the wheel of the Taliban’s triumph in Afghanistan. Less than a week into the chaotic U.S. withdrawal at Hamid Karzai International Airport, a...
Jonah Goldberg: Will GOP go back to heeding its voters on foreign policy?
President Biden’s inept execution of his — and his predecessor’s — policy of withdrawal from Afghanistan was a political gift to the GOP. It has made foreign policy, at least temporarily, a unifying issue on the right. For conservatives, whether you supported or opposed withdrawal, Biden’s shambolic implementation has something...
Letter to the editor: Immigrants’ role in covid resurgence
As I think back a few months, it seems that the covid virus was pretty much under control. We were all looking forward to getting our lives back. Now we are back to wearing masks and limited as to places we can go. What happened? Could it be that the...
Letter to the editor: Vaccination, not God or selfishness, is the way out
What does it take for America to wake up? Serious covid cases reportedly are mostly among the fearful, anti-science and simply ridiculous. These folks are now joined by our local leaders. School boards that are supposed to protect kids are failing and should resign. Superintendents are perhaps the most guilty....
Editorial: A covid vaccine is fully approved — no excuses now
In December 2020, the first shots in the war against covid-19 were fired into the arms of health care workers with the emergency-use authorization of a vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech. Those were followed by another similar authorization for a Moderna vaccine two weeks later, and then in early 2021, Johnson &...
Letter to the editor: Democrats’ ideas confounding
Progressive Democrats and media allies present unrealistic and contradictory ideas as self-evident to prevent being eaten by their own. To avoid cancellation, they promote a list that confounds rational minds. Reduce crime by defunding police and eliminating bail; hire social workers and treat criminals like illegal immigrants with catch and...
Tom Purcell: Service dogs help heal trauma of war
Our botched withdrawal from Afghanistan is hard to witness, but hearing the reports of Taliban brutality is even worse. The U.S. Sun reports that “women face having ‘fingers cut off for using nail varnish’ ” and that the Taliban “reportedly shot a woman dead in the street for not wearing...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: The dots in Afghanistan had names
Last week, at least two men fell from a U.S. military plane as it climbed into the skies above Afghanistan. In video taken from the ground, they are so small you almost have to squint to see them. They seem roughly the size of a period, the end to some...
Gov. Mike DeWine: Moving Appalachia Ohio forward
The Appalachian region of Ohio is diverse in both its landscapes and people. The 32 Ohio counties that make up Appalachian Ohio have terrain perfect for hiking and biking, beautiful waterways for boating or fishing, and even sandy beaches on our northern coast in Ashtabula. My wife Fran and I...
Amy Zimmerman: ‘Imposter syndrome’ at work
What would you do if as an employer, you learned that some of your most trusted and high-performing workers lived many of their days in great distress? How would you react if you found out that these seemingly happy and productive people perceived themselves as fraudsters, compromising the forward progress...
Letter to the editor: Support for Mark Goetz appreciated
To the community: Our son, Mark Goetz, competed in the 121st USGA Amateur Championship hosted by Oakmont Country Club on Aug. 9-15. Many of you were there in person to support him, while others followed his progress virtually. With the excitement that came from finishing as a medalist in the...
Editorial: Facts, not fame and fortune, important in court
Does the Westmoreland County district attorney offer different deals to people with famous names or bigger bank accounts than to average Joes who end up in the criminal court system? A recent filing makes that claim. According to defense attorney Robert Domenick, DA John Peck has shown different standards with...
Letter to the editor: Urge Greater Latrobe to keep French, German
Greater Latrobe School District’s plan to phase out “in-class, face-to-face instruction” of French and German languages is going to cheat future and present elementary school students of a choice of electives beginning with the 2022 school year. The district says students who want to take French and German can take...
Letter to the editor: We must unlearn our racism
Criticism of critical race theory is indoctrination. Denying America’s history of racism is indoctrination. Consider: Benjamin Franklin in 1751 preferred only English- speaking whites from England emigrate to Pennsylvania. No Germans, no Italians, etc. Timothy Pickering coined the terms “negro president” and “negro Congress” because the Constitution’s three-fifths clause gave Jefferson’s...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Aug. 23
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Aug. 23....
Editorial cartoons for the week of Aug. 23
Editorial cartoons for the week of Aug. 23....
Veronique de Rugy: When government’s foolish errands turn into fiascoes
Mona Charen is off this week. Veronique de Rugy is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Another government failure, another outrage. This time the scandal is brought on by the less-than-orderly withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the realization that 20 years of...
Michael Brevda: Nursing home reform legislation offers opportunity for better care
Lawmakers realize we have a pervasive nursing home abuse problem in America. Nursing home covid deaths are nearing 200,000. More glaringly, a bipartisan Senate investigation revealed that poor resident care is overwhelming clustered around less than 5% of the nation’s facilities. A disproportionate amount of neglect cases occur in nursing...
Letter to the editor: Health professionals should be vaccinated
I recently tried to ascertain the vaccination status of several local dentists, their hygienists and staffs. They were unwilling to provide this vital information, citing privacy concerns. I then contacted the Pennsylvania Academy of General Dentistry to find out what its position is on this matter. I was shocked to...
Letter to the editor: Our race problems are real
Nearly every sentence in Steve Ignatz’s letter is incorrect (“Battling critical race theory,” Aug. 10, TribLIVE). The National Education Association is not advocating teaching “critical race theory.” (Does Ignatz even know what this “theory” is?) Judging by his name, I don’t think Ignatz can understand firsthand whether America has a...
Letter to the editor: Nordenberg will ensure redistricting is fair, equitable
Your editorial “Census numbers chance for fair redistricting” (Aug. 15, TribLIVE) was right on target in every category of logic you used to make the point that if ever necessity for equity and fairness in a critical process needed to be paramount, it is in redistricting voting districts. Pennsylvania has...
Editorial: Golf good for economy, but state needs to be open
There are a lot of things that Pennsylvania’s government needs to underwrite. There are more than 3,000 schools, 14 state universities and four more state-affiliated universities. There are 24 prisons, more than 4,000 state police and three levels of state courts. State agencies do everything from supervising parks and forests...
Letter to the editor: Plenty of blame for Afghanistan
What’s most astonishing about the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is how astonished everyone professes to be, while conceding delaying the inevitable would not have prevented it. Failure is often an orphan; this one lays claim to plenty of fathers. Bill Clinton regrets not assassinating Osama Bin Laden after the 1998...
