Opinion category, Page 700
Letter to the editor: Pa. crime victims need Marsy’s Law
People who fall victim to crime find themselves in a confusing and stressful judicial process while also trying to recover from physical and emotional trauma. In Pennsylvania, survivors have a strong system of laws to protect them, but they currently have no recourse if their rights are overlooked or ignored....
Letter to the editor: Good news belongs on front page
Good news on page 1 I just wanted to thank you for putting good, kind, happy and heartwarming stories on your front page. The stories about Dylan Tetil talking to the elderly gentleman at Eat’n Park (“Rostraver Eat’n Park waiter serves up simple act of kindness to WWII veteran,” Aug....
Letter to the editor: Jane Fonda should be in Hall of Shame
I agree with Kenneth R. Nath’s letter ”Can’t forgive Jane Fonda” (Sept. 24, TribLIVE). Fonda should have been tried for treason. Women’s Hall of Fame? She should be in the Women’s Hall of Shame. Joseph M. Tomasic Wilmerding The writer is a Vietnam veteran....
Cal Thomas: Faith & presidential authority
The debate about political power and authority among those who profess the Christian faith has raged since the first century. In modern America, the debate raged throughout Jimmy Carter’s presidency and more recently through the presidencies of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. The debate now looms large for Donald Trump....
Walter Williams: People really don’t care about you
During my student days at a UCLA economics department faculty/graduate student coffee hour in the 1960s, I was chatting with Professor Armen Alchian, probably the greatest microeconomic theory economist of the 20th century. I was trying to impress Alchian with my knowledge of statistical type I and type II errors....
Editorial: College athletes are pros
As the idea of college athletes getting paychecks on top of their scholarships gets kicked around in California and now in Pennsylvania, the attention tends to focus on the stars and the National College Athletic Association. The NCAA, after all, makes the rules. The sports oversight organization that calls all...
Letter to the editor: We all must act on climate change
It is hard to go five minutes without reading or hearing news reports about climate change and its destructive effects around the world. Seven in ten Americans say they are worried about climate change. Count me as one of those seven. Not only am I growing concerned with what I...
Letter to the editor: Why is legalized pot a priority?
Questions for Gov. Tom Wolf and Attorney General Josh Shapiro, both of whom endorsed the legalization of marijuana (“AG Shapiro supports legalized marijuana as Gov. Wolf pushes support in Oakmont.”): In the whole scheme of things, is the legalization of marijuana really a high priority? Also, Shapiro indicates that his...
Letter to the editor: Leftist voters easily indoctrinated
Just like skilled seamstresses at Auschwitz sewed beautiful dresses for the German elite, the U.S. elite (better known as ”the swamp”) in NYC/Washington use their supplicant poor and struggling voters to keep them poor and struggling. It’s been going on since the Roman Empire. Why? 50% of Homo sapiens, Shakespeare’s...
Editorial: We don’t have to forgive and forget
We can forgive without forgetting. On Wednesday, Amber Guyger — the former Dallas police officer convicted of murder for shooting Botham Jean in his apartment after she mistakenly walked in, thinking it was her home — was sentenced to 10 years in prison. What garnered almost as much attention as...
Donald Boudreaux: James Buchanan, economist for the ages
One hundred years ago this month, James Buchanan was born on a Tennessee farm. No, not the 15th U.S. president. (That James Buchanan was from Pennsylvania.) The James Buchanan to whom I refer won the 1986 Nobel Prize in economics and taught for most of his career in Virginia, most...
Lori Falce: Bugs are little problem with big lesson
I sat at my desk, reading the story, feeling tiny pinpricks of dread running down my spine. It wasn’t a crime story — something bloody and unthinkable. It wasn’t the latest volley in the political war of words. It wasn’t a tragic human interest tale of heartbreak and loss. Nope....
Letter to the editor: America has done well by our planet
I have seen a lot of letters addressing climate change and how we need to save the planet, including letters on how to administer a carbon tax. This needs to be put in a perspective that does not hover on the brink of panic. The planet has been around for...
Letter to the editor: What will Dems try to pin on Trump next?
If you play pin the tail on the donkey, you eventually win. In America, the Democrats are trying to pin the tail on President Trump and have continually lost. Kids don’t play games they always lose. Democrats do. We’ve had Russians, collusion, obstruction, racist, climate denying, warmongering, Hitler, crazy, incompetent,...
Letter to the editor: NBC’s Jeffrey Epstein report biased
NBC’s “Dateline” on Sept. 20 had a story about several women accusing Jeffrey Epstein of sexual misconduct. Donald Trump was mentioned twice as a friend of Epstein. It also included a picture of Trump standing beside Epstein. Showing the network’s obvious bias, the reporter never mentioned Bill Clinton as a...
George Will: Korean Peninsula a dangerous neighborhood
SEOUL, South Korea In 1950, when Han Sung-joo was 10, shrapnel from an artillery shell lodged in his hip. This happened as Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s troops, fresh from the bold Incheon landing, were retaking this city — it would be lost and retaken again — after North Korea’s June invasion....
Jonah Goldberg: Little doubt he did it, but should Trump be impeached?
Here’s a take no one will like: I’m confident he did it. I’m confident it’s impeachable. I’m just not so sure he should be impeached for it. Let’s start at the top. It’s obvious to me that President Trump pressured the Ukrainian government to launch a probe of former Vice...
Editorial: Pro pot? Pay attention to hemp pains
If you want an example of exactly why some changes can’t happen overnight, look to the hemp industry. Regardless of anyone’s position on the decriminalization of marijuana or the legalization of cannabis for medicinal use or the newest push for it to be permissible recreationally, it is hard to turn...
Letter to the editor: This deplorable won’t respond to nasty letter
Dear Mr. Plummer (“Further grouping the deplorables,” Sept. 23, TribLIVE): I can think of several smart or hateful words to say about about the Democrats, but I‘ll keep my thoughts to myself. You are one nasty person. Hannelore Miller Hempfield...
Letter to the editor: Kids & climate change
School taxes in the U.S. are obscenely high, so we’d hope that the kids are getting a good education, learning some math, etc. But alas, recently they were allowed to cut classes to scream in the streets about “stopping climate change.” The goal of the movement: impose new taxes on...
Letter to the editor: Greta Thunberg deserves Medal of Freedom
In an enlightened administration, the remarkable 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg might be in line to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which was initiated by President Kennedy to honor those who engage in significant public or private endeavors. The bestowing of such an award on one like Thunberg will...
Vince Mercuri: Forgiveness frees our souls
Over the years I have collected funeral cards as I grieved the loss of family and friends. In remembrance of them, I’ve noted a positive attribute or characteristic that they had displayed, and I use it as a means of reflection and growth on my personal journey. Three cards with...
Pat Buchanan: Biden impeachment’s first casualty
Even before seeing the transcript of the July 25 call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Nancy Pelosi threw the door wide open to impeachment by the Democratic House. Though the transcript did not remotely justify the advanced billing of a “quid pro quo,” Pelosi set in motion...
Editorial: Helping women helps us all
Women need a helping hand. It isn’t that women are more deserving of help than men. It isn’t that women are more likely to be in need of help than men. It isn’t that women can’t help themselves. It’s that women in need are likely to have so much on...
Letter to the editor: Why do liberals want more polluters in US?
If people are causing the global warming problem in the USA, why are the libs fighting to bring in more illegals to add to the pollution? Clem Zahrobsky Delmont...
