Opinion category, Page 710
Letter to the editor: Synagogue shooter deserves death
After reading the article about the rabbis within the Jewish community asking that Squirrel Hill synagogue shooter be spared the death penalty (“Dor Hadash, New Light leaders urge AG to accept life in prison for accused Tree of Life gunman,” Aug. 16, TribLIVE), I would like to say that those...
Letter to the editor: Congress, get to work on immigration
I am ashamed of the U.S. House and Senate. The Democrats blame the Republicans for immigration issues, and the Republicans blame the Democrats. They are equally at fault. They sit in Washington and refuse to solve the immigration problem. They prefer to politically point fingers at and blame each other....
Letter to the editor: Robert Mueller’s collusion revelations
After more than two years and an estimated $45 million in taxpayer funding, what was the end result of the Mueller investigation? Fake news owes the public an apology. Day after day, they touted potential “bombshell” revelations that turned out to be fizzled firecrackers. The real collusion appeared to be...
George Will: National Popular Vote gimmick won’t work
WASHINGTON Let us now praise an insufficiently famous man, Nevada’s Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak, who in May gave his party’s presidential aspirants a much-needed example of prudence. With the national media mesmerized by those aspirants’ festival of pandering, scant attention was given to Sisolak’s good deed. He vetoed legislation that...
Vince Mercuri: Learning, growing by sharing worldviews
More than 12 years ago, my future son-in-law confidently posed this question to me: “What is your worldview?” What followed was a discussion/debate about a wide-ranging set of principles — religion, politics, finances, values and the importance of family. While there was agreement on most of these topics, on others...
Editorial: Grandparents need help raising kids
They say it takes a village to raise a child. More and more, it takes a grandma. “We grandparents who are raising grandchildren, we are the protection for that next generation,” said Charlotte Stephenson in a panel discussion Tuesday with U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Scranton. And it’s true. In Pennsylvania...
Lawrence McCullough: Making consumers’ green choices pay off for everyone
Is it possible the U.S. economy can successfully transition to a clean energy foundation without top-down legislative reform effort from Congress? Three market-based approaches would seed and speed the process at the local, micro-economic level and lay groundwork for far-reaching effects in U.S. energy policy: 1. Suspend for three years...
Letter to the editor: Mainstream media should be held accountable
There ought to be an accounting and punitive measures taken against the mainstream media, especially CNN and MSNBC, for what they do to the people who watch, listen and believe. Fortunately, many folks are realizing that many of the accusations against President Trump are baseless. So MSNBC’s ratings are down...
Letter to the editor: What has happened to America?
Why … are there so many abortions? Why … are children’s video games so violent? Why … do people say things on social media sites that they wouldn’t say to a person’s face? Why … is there so much violence? Why … do many athletes refuse to visit our nation’s...
Letter to the editor: Trump is dividing us
I would like to commend Carl Mochak for his letter “Disagreeing with Trump supporters”. The subsequent letter by Bob Serena (“Many veterans support Trump,”) rested my case. I have a rough time accepting the fact that any level-headed, honest-thinking American could cast a vote for such a hateful individual as...
Cal Thomas: They’ve lost their minds in San Francisco
San Francisco, a city described in song for its natural beauty, is descending into an abyss of homelessness, the use of sidewalks as toilets and a place you might not want to visit, much less live. The latest, but surely not the last demonstration of insanity, is San Francisco’s Board...
Pat Buchanan: When, if ever, can we lay this burden down?
Earlier this month, President Trump met in New Jersey with his national security advisers and envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who is negotiating with the Taliban to bring about peace, and a U.S. withdrawal from America’s longest war. U.S. troops have been fighting in Afghanistan since 2001, in a war that has...
Editorial: Opioid verdicts have to hurt
What is the cost of a crisis? The opioid epidemic has been a greedy monster, demanding more and more resources from all levels of government as well as hospitals and insurance companies over the last 20 years. It has eaten lives and devoured communities. In 2013 alone, the Centers for...
Letter to the editor: Voting for Trump with smiles
Al Duerig’s letter “Wild claims about climate change, Trump, reparations” (Aug. 19, TribLIVE) is both laughable and insulting to letter-writer Rudy Gagliardi. I think Duerig is another hate-filled Democrat who can’t accept the obvious. I have been on this earth more years that I care to admit, and the climate...
Letter to the editor: Trump’s words vs. his actions
Rudy Gagliardi’s “Trump will get my vote” (Aug. 15, TribLIVE) was the most delusional, untrue letter I’ve read. Don’t insult us by calling yourself a Democrat. President Trump has not done what he promised, like fixing health care and infrastructure, ending wasteful wars, building a wall that Mexico will pay...
Letter to the editor: Chronic wasting disease
Chronic wasting disease can easily be transmitted by saliva dropped when deer feed next to each other, but aerosol transmission is many times more effective. A snort (as many bowhunters can tell you) is common, a sneeze into the crowd, maybe more often as an infected animal weakens, or just...
Tom Purcell: Social Security’s looming shortfall
“Sometimes I worry that if I ever can retire and do get Social Security payments, they’ll be a lot less than what I’ve been promised,” I said to my CPA, Louie the Number Cruncher. “There is some reason to worry, Tommy. According to the Social Security trustees’ latest report, the...
Editorial: Just put out the fires
Nothing makes priorities more obvious than a fire. You don’t call the insurance company and file a claim before you call 911. You do the most important thing until it’s taken care of and then move to the next one. That is why everyone needs to take the Amazon rainforest...
Letter to the editor: Mistick shows no fairness
I usually avoid reading Joseph Mistick’s commentaries because of his disdain for conservatives. However, when I noticed his commentary “El Paso, Dayton shootings & reckless words” (Aug. 10, TribLIVE), I thought maybe, just maybe, Mistick would express some honesty/fairness. Silly me. Mistick’s suggestion that President Trump inspired someone to kill...
Letter to the editor: Good riddance to Jeffrey Epstein
Although his suffering was nothing compared to the lasting pain and anguish he dealt to young, vulnerable girls, the self-inflicted death penalty of serial child rapist Jeffrey Epstein is a positive outcome. The myriad adolescents whom Epstein indelibly scarred will not now need to relive at a trial the horror...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Aug. 26
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Aug. 26...
Editorial cartoons for the week of Aug. 26
Editorial cartoons for the week of Aug. 26...
Letter to the editor: Paper ballots easy fix for voter fraud
It’s pitiful how stupid our government is being, spending millions upon millions of taxpayer dollars to try to prevent voter fraud of any kind when all they have to do is go back to pencil and paper with a ballot box. Instead of wasting our money on machines that either...
Jonah Goldberg: Maybe liberty isn’t a lost cause in China
Here’s a crazy idea: Maybe the forces of liberty will win. Sadly, few people are rooting for liberty these days, and even among those who are, there’s a dismaying amount of pessimism about its prospects. Consider China. There’s a new bipartisan consensus these days: The “elites” made a “bad bet”...
Cal Thomas: Pick me or else, Trump tells voters
During a December 2015 debate among Republican presidential candidates in Las Vegas, former Florida governor Jeb Bush said to Donald Trump: “You can’t insult your way to the presidency.” Never mind. The question for next year’s election is whether the insulter-in-chief can use the same tactic to win a second...
