Opinion category, Page 559
Editorial: Covid complications must be taken seriously
Westmoreland County Commissioner Sean Kertes isn’t an old man. He doesn’t have a long list of the kind of health problems that can make it easier to get sick — things like diabetes or heart disease. He isn’t obese. He is young, healthy and hard to keep down. But that...
Letter to the editor: Biden voters aren’t going away, either
Let me correct letter- writer Stephen Sokol (“Half the country who voted for Trump not going away,” Dec. 4, TribLIVE) with some facts, something many of President Trump’s supporters can’t seem to deal with. Sokol states, “Half the country, 74 million Americans, voted for Donald Trump” and they’re “not going away.”...
Pat Buchanan: Exploiting the Capitol riot to nix Trump
Donald Trump has stumbled and fallen, and the establishment is not going to let slip this last opportunity to stomp him and his movement to death. On Sunday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a startling ultimatum: Either Vice President Mike Pence and the Trump Cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment, declare the...
Jonah Goldberg: Violence at Capitol was horrific, but don’t lose sight of attempted theft
An attempted bank robber who doesn’t hurt anybody is still guilty of attempted bank robbery. If someone gets hurt, though, the penalties are greater even if the robber didn’t intend harm. This is how I think about what Donald Trump did last week. Of course the violence makes everything worse....
Editorial: The opioid crisis has not gone anywhere
It sometimes seems like the coronavirus pandemic devoured every other problem, leaving nothing in its wake. While it is hard to find a news story — whether health or politics, local government or education — that doesn’t have the word “covid” in it somewhere, that isn’t what happened. Instead of...
Letter to the editor: Events in DC inevitable
I read the article on the locals who went to President Trump’s “rally” (riot) on Wednesday (“Western Pa. residents share experiences from chaotic day in nation’s capital” (Jan. 7, TribLIVE). The people who traveled to D.C. to see the chaos firsthand were either naive or lying. The torrent of hateful...
Letter to the editor: Trump is exposing corruption
President Trump has poked a hornet’s nest with his so-called conspiracy theories. But he does not have enough strong backers to defeat the people and organizations who have been working since day one to take him down. I believe there are elements working to change our country and values as...
Letter to the editor: We need to get rid of career politicians
I am so sick and tired of politics. Mitch McConnell and other Republicans opposing $2,000 checks handed the Democrats a win in Georgia. Average people need the money! I would be ashamed to be a member of either party. That’s why I am an independent. Career politicians are ruining our...
Letter to the editor: Trump lost because of Trump
President Trump stated that if he lost, it would be because the election was rigged, beginning to sow the seeds of distrust. Following that logic, Democrats who lost also can claim the same. Yet many Republicans won their elections. If it was rigged, it should have been rigged down the...
Letter to the editor: Reschenthaler should resign
Dear Rep. Guy Reschenthaler: Last week, President Trump incited a crowd — that he had assembled — to advance on the Capitol buildings. Their conduct constituted rebellion against the government you have pledged to support and defend. You called what happened “reckless events,” as if we were enduring high school...
Tom Purcell: Disgraceful discourse ours to correct
Without grace, our public discourse will continue to suffer. “Grace,” according to Dictionary.com, has more than one meaning, but all of them are powerful. Grace is “a pleasing or attractive quality,” as well as “favor or goodwill.” In a religious sense, grace is “a virtue or excellence of divine origin”...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: After the Capitol rampage, what now?
So what now? A few things, actually. But before we get to them, we must recognize last week’s insurrectionist rampage at the Capitol for what it was. It is being seen, and not wrongly, as the angry response of delusional right-wingers lied into believing a presidential election was stolen. It...
Editorial: Make electronics disposal cheap and easy
We live in a very garbage-heavy world. People throw away everything and do it without thinking much about it. Paper plates and plastic straws and the boxes and bags that package them. The jars and cans that hold food. Baby diapers and cardboard and banana peels and coffee grounds and...
Letter to the editor: Questioning Pens’ CARES loan
I don’t think the media has made a big enough deal about the Penguins borrowing almost $5 million under the CARES Act to help cover expenses. At the same time, co-owner Ron Burkle was buying Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch in California. Quite obviously, many small businesses are struggling to say...
Letter to the editor: Infectious leftist populism
The center-left populism was exhibited for all to see in burning cities and still the “educated” voters in the Pittsburgh suburbs voted for the clearly addled, seemingly semi-competent Joe Biden, who never renounced the mayors of these kindled Democrat-run cities. That’s the inexorable Exhibit A that shows just how infected...
Letter to the editor: We’re citizens, not ‘subjects’
I think too many of us have forgotten we are citizens, not subjects. This year has emphasized that exponentially. Too many state governors have forgotten their role as leaders, not rulers. While leadership has a responsibility to give us guidance, resources and precautions in dangerous situations, leaders still have the...
Letter to the editor: Reschenthaler, why don’t you resign?
And so my question is for Guy Reschenthaler: What are you doing in Washington, D.C., masquerading as a U.S. congressman from the 14th District of Pennsylvania? Since you and 140 other congressmen and 12 U.S. senators claim the Pennsylvania election was a fraud, you and Joe Biden were on the...
Letter to the editor: Pence reacting to a threat?
Vice President Mike Pence publicly announced his decision not to proceed with President Trump’s plan to recognize objections to the presidential election results by some senators and/or representatives of some states during the formal approval of the vote of the Electoral College by the combined houses of Congress prior to...
Letter to the editor: Trump responsible for DC chaos
The shameful bedlam, anarchy, desecration of our sacred Capitol and rioting that took place in Washington on a modern day of infamy was precisely what one could have expected, and the responsibility for it is to be laid solely and squarely at the feet of Donald Trump: so much for...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Jan. 11
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Jan. 11....
Editorial cartoons for the week of Jan. 11
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Letter to the editor: End chaos, accept results and come together
What has happened to our great country? Regardless of party, we are all Americans living in a democracy, not a dictatorship. We have the privilege to vote for a person we want to run our country. We have all the freedoms given to us by our forefathers. Yet we now...
Letter to the editor: Schools taking care of employees
This letter is in response to Michael Sierk’s letter criticizing local schools for moving to online learning during an out-of-control pandemic (“Closing schools is not containing spread,” Jan. 1, TribLIVE). Mr. Sierk, I am an itinerant teacher in schools all over Westmoreland County. Our custodians, cafeteria workers, secretarial staff, classroom...
Letter to the editor: Thornburgh an example for all politicians
Many years ago, I started a second career in the Washington, D.C., office of the law firm K&L Gates. One of the first people who wandered into my office to welcome me to the firm was Dick Thornburgh. I had gone to college in Pennsylvania and knew people who worked...
Letter to the editor: Keep following the covid-19 rules
The year 2020 was a year of daunting challenge. Covid-19 created significant negative impacts on all aspects of life. We’ve all been touched in one way or another by this virus. We’ve mourned the loss of friends and family, we’ve lost income, we’ve lost touch with those we love. 2020...
