Opinion category, Page 570
Letter to the editor: Trump’s distorted reality
Even after the Supreme Court finds no fraud in his defeat, I’m sure Donald Trump will insist that there is no way Joe Biden got more votes than him. I think he believes this because he fires people who speak the truth. In my opinion, the Trump goggles distort reality....
Letter to the editor: America needs Trump, not Biden
Regarding Jim Raskovsky’s letter “The people have spoken on Trump” (Dec. 2, TribLIVE): The left constantly called President Trump a puppet for Putin, but when Trump mentions Biden getting rich dealing with China, the left gets upset. No credible person ever stepped forward and confirmed Trump called service member suckers...
Tom Purcell: Covid Grinch can’t steal our Christmas
Sorry, covid-19, but you’re not going to stop our Christmas cheer this year. You remind me of the Dr. Seuss Christmas classic, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” The Grinch, you see, is a miserable old grouch. He lives in a cave on a hill and hates the sound of Christmas...
Jonah Goldberg: Conspiracy theories have no place in serious conservatism
You aren’t a conservative if you believe in conspiracy theories. Before I defend this statement, I should say that as a general rule, I do not like statements that begin, “You aren’t a conservative if … .” It’s not that I always disagree with such assertions. For instance, “You’re not...
Letter to the editor: Trump tarnishing his own legacy
You can’t change history. President Trump had a chance to leave office with a little grace and dignity. But no, he refuses to follow protocol and the laws of the land. So now I think his “legacy” will be that he was the most inept president in U.S. history. His...
Letter to the editor: Supreme Court and the ‘unfaithful’
So, if they are the “faithful,” then… ? On the front page of the Nov. 27 print edition, you featured an Associated Press article highlighting the Supreme Court’s split decision against covid-19 attendance limits for religious worshipers in New York (“High court blocks N.Y. coronavirus limits on houses of worship,”...
Letter to the editor: Sylvan Park provides some normalcy
When covid-19 hit and shut schools and life down in mid March, it was a shock to all of us. My children were very much missing friends, family and “the normal.” From the time I was a baby, I spent my summers at Sylvan Park in Natrona Heights. I have...
Letter to the editor: Biden should be excommunicated
The so-called president-elect has been congratulated by the pope, even though he is on the books as pro-abortion rights up to birth. He also has a day one promise to fund Planned Parenthood and reverse many of President Trump’s pro-life efforts. The media is billing him as the first Catholic...
Editorial: Americans rallied after Pearl Harbor, and can again
It was 7:48 a.m. Dec. 7, 1941, when hundreds of Japanese aircraft filled the sky over Oahu. The attack on Pearl Harbor came on a quiet Sunday morning. By the time the last bomb fell, the last torpedo exploded and the last bullet was fired — a mere hour and...
Letter to the editors: Why are schools closing?
I am wondering why schools are being shuttered because a few students have either tested positive or come down with what is supposed to be covid-19. When I was young and in school, the children who came down with measles, chicken pox, polio, the flu, colds, mononucleosis or any other...
Letter to the editor: Democrats will destroy America
To the people of the United States: Let me get this straight. You voted out a president who gave us the best economy we’ve had in 50 years and you elected someone who I believe is a communist and socialist who hasn’t done anything in the 47 years he’s been...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Dec. 7
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Dec. 7....
Editorial cartoons for the week of Dec. 7
Editorial cartoons for the week of Dec. 7....
S.E. Cupp: Celebrities, stop partying like arrogant buffoons
It has long been a fashionable and celebrated pastime in Republican circles to mock Hollywood celebrities for their elitist, superficial and often silly proclivities, their inability to relate to average Americans and the belief that rules don’t apply to them. Hollywood is in fact a reviled category of people for...
Letter to the editor: Trump’s actions criminal?
When it was determined that American presidents would be inaugurated on Jan. 20 of the year following an early November election, could anyone have envisioned that some day, a vengeful leader who lost would repeatedly assert that he had won, desperately seek one plot after another to cheat and disenfranchise...
Letter to the editor: Biden deserves same chance Trump got
Oh, by all means, Ron Giuliana, let’s “Give Biden a chance” (Nov. 29, TribLIVE). Let’s give him the same chance that the Democrats gave President Trump when he was elected. Let’s begin immediately forming plans to spend the next three years of his presidency doing everything we can to impeach...
Letter to the editor: An ode to the year of covid-19
2020 has been quite the year, Less celebration and a lot more fear, A new enemy is among us Invisible to the eye, As if it literally dropped from the sky. Covid is all around us, it is very real, It is not a hoax, it is the real deal....
Editorial: Pa. should take it slow on legalizing marijuana
Marijuana is the trend the whole country is watching. Weed was first banned by Massachusetts in 1911. Pennsylvania was one of the last states to outlaw it in 1933. The federal government followed in 1937. For a long time, everyone was on the same page about it — at least...
Letter to the editor: As president, Biden must support Roe v. Wade
In her letter “Biden against death penalty, but not abortion?” (Nov. 30, TribLIVE), Michele M. Lucas proclaims the president-elect supports abortions but does not support capital punishment. As a practicing Catholic, Joe Biden is supposed to support life, from conception to natural death. He has noted this often. But as...
Letter to the editor: Republicans need to learn to fight
To answer Paul Kengor’s question at the end of his column “Is Western Pa. home to a new Republican coalition?” (Nov. 27, TribLIVE), about whether the GOP can keep the “Reagan Democrats” voting for American values: I don’t think the Republicans can keep those voters and others who hold those...
Peter Morici: Biden must make a covid-19 stimulus bill happen now
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” the oft-quoted opening line from “A Tale of Two Cities,” is an apt description of the American economy. And we know how those times ended — in revolution. The stock market booms as if America shines more brightly...
Jonah Goldberg: Republicans need to find a way out of this mess
“How do we get out of this?” That’s the question preoccupying the right these days. The specific “this” varies, but what unites all the concerns is the mess Donald Trump has made. For Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the “this” is the embarrassing mess in Georgia, where many gettable Republican...
Jonathan Goldstein: How we know who wins elections, and why it matters
By now we know the story of the 2020 election. One with heroes and villains. Laudatory tales and vile conspiracies. And, most importantly, a fog that obscured the winner for days. In a normal year, we tune into the news on election night to learn who won and who lost....
Joseph Sabino Mistick: A lesson on patience from Henry Gunther
When Henry Gunther, a young American Army sergeant, was killed on a battlefield in the Argonne Forest at 10:59 a.m. Nov. 11, 1918, he became the last American killed in World War I, and his death made no sense at all. Earlier that day, before sunrise in the woods outside...
Ruben Navarrette Jr.: Biden is not ‘The One’ to fix America’s race problem
SAN DIEGO — Joe Biden wants to be the civil rights president. You don’t say? That old dog isn’t likely to learn new tricks, and so it’s no shock that the 78-year-old president-elect sees America in Black-and-White. However, what is new — and noteworthy — is that the Biden White...
