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Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Aug. 31
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Eli Lake: Trump doctrine: End wars but keep threatening enemies
At the Republican National Convention last week, one could be forgiven for being confused about President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. On the one hand, his endorsers praised his smashing of the Islamic State’s caliphate and killing of Iran’s terror mastermind. On the other, speakers also touted Trump’s commitment to reduce...
Editorial: Schools need laptops — and answers
Sometimes problems are theoretical. They involve big-picture concepts and abstract ideas and a lot of what ifs and few concrete answers. So far, 2020 has been a year filled with those, from the coronavirus pandemic and its precarious balance with the economy, plus the added challenge of widespread protests and...
S.E. Cupp: Trump’s convention should worry the left
Will we ever learn? In the wake of 2016, many on the left, in the media and certainly on blue-check Twitter, were caught off guard by Donald Trump’s unfathomable win. I count myself among the surprised. Over the past four years, however, we’ve seen over and over again that Trump’s...
Letter to the editor: What presidential election is really about
Wake up, America — this election is not about Donald Trump or Joe Biden. It’s about democracy and Marxist socialism. Think really hard before you vote. Joseph W. Wagner Monroeville...
Letter to the editor: 3 other candidates for president
Two recent letters caught my attention. In “Biden’s climate plan wasteful spending” (Aug. 2, TribLIVE), Marcia L. Velgos claimed that President Trump has kept his promises. But the one I was really looking for was the arrest and prosecution of Hillary Clinton. The other was James A. Bernauer’s “Can’t vote...
Letter to the editor: Life should go on in Pa.
I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, spending most of my adult life in McCandless. Listening to the news out of my hometown is depressing. Gov. Tom Wolf continues to prevent any semblance of a normal life for many small business owners. Unemployment, still very high, could change if the...
Letter to the editor: Police deserve our respect
I’ve seen and heard plenty of dumb ideas in my 47 years, but one of the dumbest is the proposal by some to defund the police. I find it especially disheartening that some unions across the country are demanding that their local police forces be defunded. What am I missing...
Letter to the editor: What it means to be a Democrat
As the 2020 election approaches, before you cast your ballot, before you place a “D” or an “R” after your name, please stop and ask yourself if you actually know what it means to be a Democrat? Democrats believe that cooperation is better than conflict, unity is better than division,...
Letter to the editor: USPS critical to flow of information
The United States Post Office, first headed by Benjamin Franklin, was codified in our Constitution. It gave Congress the power to establish post offices and postal roads. The USPS was created to provide independent and unbiased delivery of information and resources. Privatization of this government agency would threaten this mission....
Editorial: Utility bills will come due
How long can you put off bad news without making it worse? Pennsylvania utility customers will have to find out eventually. In March, the Public Utility Commission put a moratorium on shutoffs due to the coronavirus pandemic. It made sense at the time. Gov. Tom Wolf was instituting lockdowns at...
Sen. Kim Ward: Now is not time for more taxes on electric, gas consumers
Without any input or authorization from elected Pennsylvania House and Senate members, Gov. Tom Wolf effectively shut down the Pennsylvania economy. His unilateral, one-size-fits-all lockdown decree has forced Pennsylvanians to suffer exponentially worse than citizens of other states that have adhered to Centers for Disease Control (CDC) protocols. As a...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Trump, too, owns what happens on his watch
It was a classic example of Donald Trump at his pugnacious best. During a back-and-forth with Jeb Bush over the Iraq War, Trump bashed Jeb and President George W. Bush by going where no other candidate dared to go in the 2016 Republican presidential primary debates. “The World Trade Center...
Editorial: Wolf, GOP need to make election decisions
It’s time to get down to business. In two months, Pennsylvanians will cast their votes for who they want to be mayor and state representative, attorney general and congressman and the top office of all, president of the United States. It may seem like it’s been sneaking up on us,...
Sounding off: Wolf and Levine should be prosecuted
Regarding the article “Brighton Rehab residents, families outraged by lax oversight during outbreak”: This was what I hope is a first on this subject. Gov. Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine seem to have ignored problems since elected and appointed. When covid-19 started and other states increased...
Letter to the editor: Democrats left her behind
I was a loyal Democrat when the party espoused the worker, the sanctity of life, patriotism and the Constitution. Regretfully, the party left me when it evolved into supporting public funded abortion, removing God from civic space, turning a blind eye to looting and rioting and disrespecting the national anthem....
Letter to the editor: Trump supporters own his actions
President Trump, how to support thee. Let me count the ways. 1. Support the deaths of over 170,000 Americans due to lying and not listening to the experts about covid-19. 2. Support endangering our children by forcing them back to school without getting the virus under control. 3. Support Vladimir...
Letter to the editor: Beekeepers care about their bees
Amy Elizabeth’s letter about honeybees is a misleading, at best, picture of beekeeping (“Be a ‘honey’ to the bees,” Aug. 15, TribLIVE). Historically, honeybees and their hives were an important part of American life. Honey was used as a sweetener and medicine. Wax from the hive was used in candles...
Walter Williams: Why social justice warriors battle ‘institutional racism’
Institutional racism and systemic racism are terms bandied about these days without much clarity. Being 84 years of age, I have seen and lived through what might be called institutional racism or systemic racism. Both operate under the assumption that one race is superior to another. It involves the practice...
John Stossel: Tallying Trump’s spending
Last week, I tallied Joe Biden’s spending plans. This week, President Trump’s. Which presidential candidate will bankrupt America first? When Donald Trump ran for president, he promised “big league” spending cuts. Once in office, he again said he’d cut the budget, adding, “There’s a lot of fat in there.” There...
Harold Johnson: Public servants and misdirected loyalty
When is it acceptable for people engaged in “public trust” to place loyalty to each other over loyalty to those they serve? The correct answer is never, because it breeds corruption and undermines trust. The fact is clear: No matter the endeavor of public trust ventured, all realize that, because...
Letter to the editor: Listen to the medical experts
Regarding Russell Fenton’s letter “We must keep Trump to keep our freedom”: B-a-a-a-a! I am a proud member of the “Sheep Party.” I am happy that I am intelligent enough to listen to scientists and medical experts. Perhaps Fenton is a member of the “Lemming Party” that follows President Trump...
Lori Falce: Too much time on election clock?
Elections are often talked about in sporting terms. It’s a race. It’s a game. Who is ahead? By how many points? Play offense. Play defense. Home field advantage. Score big. But maybe the biggest similarity between picking our leaders and playing ball is in the timing. When my family watches...
Letter to the editor: Trump the one to fix USPS
Letter-writer Paul Carrick (“Trump and the post office’s problems,” Aug. 24, TribLIVE) is correct in saying that President Trump only wants to fix the United States Postal Service, and I can testify to how broke it is. When I operated a local contracted post office for seven years (sometimes called...
Letter to the editor: Biden, Harris on abortion, marriage
God tells us, “Judgment is mine says the Lord!” He is talking about the judgment at death when the soul is either saved or damned. We must make judgments every day when we associate with new people that we don’t yet have an opinion of. In November, we will cast...
