Opinion category, Page 668
Letter to the editor: Let Trump keep fighting corruption
During his inaugural address President Trump spoke about the relationship between the people of this country and the government class in Washington. He used the line, “Their victories have not been your victories. Their triumphs have not been your triumphs.” Although accurate, I would have added, “Their prosperity has not...
Editorial cartoons for the week of Feb. 3
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Walter Block: Critiquing Yang’s universal basic income
Andrew Yang is a viable candidate for the Democratic nomination for president. He is not a member of the first grouping (Biden, Sanders, Warren, Buttigeig) but if they falter, Yang might well be in the running for the top spot on this ticket. His signature policy is universal basic income....
S.E. Cupp: Politics & culture need to break free of resentment
I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of feeling sickened. Our nasty politics of revenge, our unabating obsession with hating the other side, our too-quick-to-cancel culture and our fetishization of extreme purity is not only exhausting but it’s making us sick. It’s in President Trump’s puerile tweets and anger-drenched...
Editorial: Where do bright ideas come from?
The visual representation of a good idea is usually a light bulb. Since Thomas Edison’s popular invention was, in itself, a stroke of inspiration, it seems apropos. It’s the symbol that is instantly recognizable in cartoons and comic strips. It doesn’t require a word to convey an idea. But it’s...
Letter to the editor: Property taxes ruin seniors’ ‘golden years’
We senior citizens are on fixed incomes, and again school taxes go up. We paid taxes for years, and we don’t have any kids in school. These taxes will put us out of our homes. We need to keep our homes for these so-called golden years. We worked for our...
Letter to the editor: Minds change on abortion
Thank you for your coverage of the March for Life and the statements by President Trump about his position on abortion (“Trump, a late convert to cause, attends anti-abortion rally”). You repeated Trump’s statement from 1999 that he was “pro-choice in every respect.” We witnessed at the March for Life...
Letter to the editor: CTE is real, and it kills
Regarding John Steigerwald’s insensible and disheartening piece on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (“It might be time to show skepticism about CTE research.”): To date, we have come to realize that 1) the world is not flat, 2) asbestos is bad, 3) cigarettes cause cancer and 4) lead will poison you. Humanity...
Jessica Myrick: Trump’s love of fast food may be bad for public health
“You are what you eat,” the old adage goes. But are you also what you watch? In a media-saturated world, it is worth considering the degree to which our exposure to media about food choices can — either directly or in more subtle ways — shape our own food beliefs...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Joltin’ Bolton’s gift to Democrats
If you’re a Democrat, it’s getting hard to figure out who you’re supposed to be rooting for these days. And it’s a safe bet that you never thought you would hear some of your own people chanting, “Go, John Bolton, go!” But that is what’s happening. The New York Times...
Isaac Brown: Curbing emissions benefits all Pennsylvanians
Pennsylvanians realize that natural gas plays a significant role in the state’s economy. However, the state’s energy resources should be developed responsibly by minimizing natural gas waste and air pollution from new and existing oil and gas infrastructure. To that end, we applaud the administration of Gov. Tom Wolf as...
Kevin Walters: Pros & cons of civilian review boards
Last month’s reintroduction of a proposed ordinance by the Allegheny County Council to create a civilian police review panel is sharply dividing the community between those who believe it necessary to prevent or detect misconduct on the part of county law enforcement officers and those who believe such a civilian...
Editorial: Coronavirus is not alone
Every sniffle is starting to make people wonder about the latest looming monster. Coronavirus. Specifically, it is Wuhan coronavirus, a novel variety of a large family of viruses that include the hundreds of microscopic bugs that cause what we affectionately call “the common cold.” But nobody is afraid of a...
Letter to the editor: Abortion beginning of many evils
Science tells us human life begins at conception, so that makes abortion the beginning of many evils. It is the beginning of child abuse and the beginning of attacks on our environment (nature) as far as human beings are concerned. In addition, Judeo-Christian teaching states that God has a relationship...
Sounding off: Stop hating on the wealthy, cheers to Trump and other top letters of the week
Progressives believe it is unjust for some people to amass huge fortunes because concentrated wealth causes more poverty in others. But such an idea is absolutely false, and here’s why. The potential to become wealthy motivates people to work harder, take risks, invent things and innovate — and that benefits...
Letter to the editor: Love without limits can destroy
Regarding the letter “A more compassionate Republican Party” (Jan. 11, TribLIVE): Being humane, compassionate and caring are admirable qualities. They embody the definition of love. As a country that began by asking God’s blessing, we have been the “city on a hill” for the world through which every continent has...
Letter to the editor: Supreme Court in peril
Some people who voted for President Trump didn’t admire his character. However, they knew the next president would appoint judges to the Supreme Court, and it was important that they were conservatives and followed the Constitution. In the 1930s, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was having trouble getting key parts of his...
Walter Williams: Founders viewed democracy as tyranny
During President Trump’s impeachment trial, we’ll hear a lot of talk about our rules for governing. One frequent claim is that our nation is a democracy. If we’ve become a democracy, it would represent a deep betrayal of our founders, who saw democracy as another form of tyranny. In fact,...
John Stossel: Freebies for everyone
The Iowa Caucus, the real start of the 2020 presidential primaries, is next week. Who’s favored to win? Sadly, the smart money says it’s the candidate who’s promised Americans the most “free” stuff. Six months ago, my staff and I tallied the candidates’ promises. All wanted to give away trillions...
Editorial: Open records, not open identity info
Newspapers are big fans of open records. We want to be able to find out what our government and public entities are doing. What did they buy? What did they spend? Where did the money come from? Who did something wrong? How was it punished? How was it corrected? What...
Letter to the editor: Helping children around world
I am writing to thank area residents for sharing the true meaning of Christmas with children in need this past holiday season. Because of the generosity of donors across the United States, Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan’s Purse, collected more than 8.9 million shoebox gifts in 2019. Combined...
Letter to the editor: Dems, media won’t fool us again
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. How did the Democrats and deep state take the House in 2018? Simply stated, they fooled a lot of voters. First, they pushed for the Russia investigation hoax to make President Trump look bad. Second, the Democratic candidates...
Letter to the editor: Impeach & remove Trump
Thank you for covering this year’s women’s march (“Women’s March rallies for 4th year in Downtown Pittsburgh, with anti-war, anti- Trump focus,” Jan. 18, TribLIVE), albeit on the back page. The guy you photographed had the sign correct: “Impeach & Remove.” I was there along with 1,000 other people, at least...
Colin McNickle: Allegheny County’s real economic performance
Elected and appointed government officials have a troubling habit of engaging in what we’ll call “sound bite promotion.” They go on a radio or television program making wondrous claims of economic progress yet offer only vague support of those claims and seldom are challenged by their interviewers. Thus, for the...
Lori Falce: Groundhog Day all over again
Groundhog Day isn’t here until Sunday but I feel like I’ve been living it for months. Remember the Bill Murray movie where Groundhog Day never ended? Where no matter what happened when he got up in the morning, no matter how he screwed things up or fixed what went wrong,...
