Opinion category, Page 619
Letter to the editor: Republicans are divisive, too
Regarding Thomas Wagner’s letter “Divisiveness belongs to Democrats” (June 9, TribLIVE): Do you remember when Mitch McConnell swore to make Barack Obama a one-term president on the day he was sworn in? Or when former sheriff Joe Arpaio and Donald Trump started the birther theory, which later caused Obama to...
Letter to the editor: We’re stronger together
History and misplaced hate have kept us apart in America far too long. We have seen diversity in appearance and culture as a negative thing rather than as the sources of beauty and opportunity they make possible. This is a loss for African Americans, Native Americans and other groups that...
Pat Buchanan: How long will the vandals run amok?
The left’s war on America’s past crossed several new frontiers last week. Portland’s statue of George Washington, the father of his country and the first president of the United States, the greatest man of his age, was toppled and desecrated. In Portland also, a statue of Thomas Jefferson that stood...
Editorial: Covid-19 and cost of doing business
A price tag is more than just a number on a piece of paper. The cost of an item on a menu isn’t pulled out of a hat. At least, it isn’t if a business wants to stay in business. It’s a complicated dance of expenses and projected revenues, all...
Keith Williams: Unions want everyone to vote by mail, but won’t let their own members vote at all
In case you haven’t checked on labor unions in a while, you might still have an image of workers in squalid factories, forced to work night shifts or lose their job, who band together and strike for fair wages and safe conditions. But things have changed a bit since the...
Letter to the editor: Stores are trying to keep customers safe
I think it’s ludicrous to sue Giant Eagle or any other store or business over the objection to wearing a face mask (“32 lawsuits filed against Giant Eagle over pandemic mask policy.”) The company is only doing its job of protecting customers. A lot of people are going in, and...
Letter to the editor: Statues and righting wrongs
Touring Germany I saw no statues of Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess or other Nazi criminals. In Italy I found none of Benito Mussolini. I doubt Cambodians honor Pol Pot in bronze or granite. And I was pleased watching on television as the statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled....
Letter to the editor: Trump and Black Lives Matter
Black lives absolutely matter. So do police lives. So do all lives lost (17?) in the George Floyd riots. Logic tells us any interracial killing isn’t automatically racist. The same applies to cops killing unarmed suspects. Court-worthy proof or confession of racial bias is needed prior to making that claim....
Letter to the editor: Citizens have police officers’ backs
I am a 75-year-old, 20-year resident of Lower Burrell, and have lived in the Allegheny-Kiski Valley for 70 years. I pay my taxes every year and I vote every year to elect whoever I think will do the best job. That is why I feel every police force in our...
Letter to the editor: Preach against all sin
Regarding Keith G. Kondrich’s letter “Owning, confronting our racism” (May 19, TribLIVE): Our country is also the country where the highest crime rate against blacks (especially murder) is committed by other blacks. Witness Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, etc. Walter Williams has written about this issue quite often. The white (cop) against...
Tom Purcell: Kids, pedal those pandemic blues away
Amid the covid-19 pandemic, bike sales are booming. I hope that means kids will begin riding in big numbers again. There was a big bike-sales boom in the early 1970s, too — the result of millions of baby boom kids, like me, riding our bikes from dawn until dusk. From...
Rep. Guy Reschenthaler: Trump built greatest American economy before. He’ll do it again.
Thanks to President Trump’s well-thought-out policy decisions since the beginning of the global coronavirus pandemic, Americans should have confidence that better days are ahead. Policies the president enacted like the Payment Protection Program provided much needed relief for businesses affected by the coronavirus and brought Pennsylvanians back to work. The...
Editorial: Metcalfe’s call to impeach Wolf is a distraction
Impeachment — that constitutional mechanism for checking the behavior of an elected official and possibly removing that person from office — is vital in our system of government. It keeps good people vigilant. It keeps the ambitious accountable. It, ideally, keeps the power-hungry off the top rungs of the ladder....
James Owens: A new era of transparency, safety in automated vehicle testing
One day, a fully automated vehicle may drive you to work, take your elderly parents to the doctor or deliver packages to your doorstep. With the appropriate testing, safety protocols and public trust, this transformational future could be sooner than you think. Last week, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National...
Letter to the editor: Stereotyping of police unfair
For untold decades various ethnic, racial and religious groups have been subjected to stereotyping. Blacks and Latinos as criminals, Muslims as terrorists, Asians as underhanded — the list goes on and on. In today’s world, another group has been added to the list: law enforcement. The unjust and despicable acts...
Letter to the editor: Vaccine aid for developing countries
A few days after her birthday, Mississippi’s Bertha Vickers killed two deer in one shot (“101-year-old woman, avid deer hunter, bags 2 with 1 shot,” Jan. 19, 2019, TribLIVE), then cleaned, prepared and shared her belated present with her family. A century ago, the average life span was only 49....
Letter to the editor: Longtime legislators’ legacy
Patrick Leahy, 45 years; Chuck Grassley, 39 years; Mitch McConnell, 35 years; Richard Shelby, 33 years; Diane Feinstein, 28 years; Chuck Schumer, 39 years; Dick Durbin, 37 years; Nancy Pelosi, 33 years; Maxine Waters, 29 years; Don Young, 47 years; John Dingle, 59 years; Robert Byrd, 57 years. Immigration (fixed),...
Letter to the editor: Cameras should have caught destructive protesters
Once again, the liberal, Democratic, progressive ideologies-driven administrations in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County have given a free pass to the rioters, looters, fire-starters and property destroyers by dropping charges filed against them because they don’t have suitable evidence to conduct preliminary investigations (“DA’s office drops charges filed against 39 Pittsburgh...
Letter to the editor: Progressives and science
Progressives frequently appeal to science to justify radical policy, including their plan to lock down the world — and destroy the economy — to purportedly protect us from covid-19. When anyone disagrees with progressive ideas, they are often labeled as unscientific and deserving no credibility. But science has always been...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of June 22
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S.E. Cupp: Trump’s salvation can only come from his playing on fear
There are endless reasons to believe President Trump will be unceremoniously kicked out of the White House in November after a four-year experiment in utter lunacy. The most compelling is this administration’s flagrant incompetence in the hands of one of the worst managers in political history. From bumbling a global...
Editorial: Policing partnerships prioritize coverage in affordable way
Police are in the news a lot right now. There are protests and calls to defund and reform. But not every department is old and entrenched. Some are barely walking. The Allegheny Valley Regional Police Department was just created in 2019. It was born from the fusion of Cheswick and...
Letter to the editor: We need to stand up for police
Ask the community around Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill what carnage was stopped when our first responders, the Pittsburgh Police, entered their synagogue at 9:59 a.m. on Oct. 27, 2018. By the time the police had stopped the killing and subdued the gunman, 11 of the congregants...
Letter to the editor: Outsiders agitate at rally
I’m pleased to see the Trib’s coverage of the peaceful protests in our area following the death of George Floyd. The reality of systemic racism has finally reached into small cities, suburbs and even small towns. And white Americans are standing with our fellow black citizens to demand change. Let...
