Opinion category, Page 712
Letter to the editor: Unfair sentence compared to DUI
I read about the man from Scottdale who robbed a Dollar General for $402 and got a sentence of up to 10 years (“Cops: A week after burglary, Scottdale Dollar General gets robbed,” Aug. 14, TribLIVE). My husband was killed by a drunk driver with no insurance, no license; he...
Sally Pipes: Trump’s socialist price controls will harm patients
The Trump administration is planning one of the biggest changes to Medicare in decades. The draft rule would effectively bring socialist drug price controls to the United States. The change would threaten patients’ health and discourage companies from funding experimental treatments for deadly diseases. The rule impacts Medicare Part B,...
George Will: ‘The Nickel Boys’ : A searing reminder of what’s not unthinkable
WASHINGTON Because of the investigation led by three University of South Florida researchers, and because of exemplary journalism by the Tampa Bay Times, we now have an intensely discomforting but welcome enrichment of American literature. It requires artistry to write beautifully about children suffering at the hands of evil men,...
Editorial: Do the math on jobs numbers
When you can’t quite believe what you hear, you might want to go back to the numbers. There’s nowhere that’s more true than when you look at a government report. Some of them are straightforward. This budget accounts for so much money in and so much money out. That’s hard...
Letter to the editor: Mueller exonerated Trump?
Regarding Guy Reschenthaler’s op-ed “Mueller show’s over; it’s time to move on” (Aug. 7, TribLIVE), I have to question him on his comment “In fact, despite Mueller’s report exonerating the president … .” I read your newspaper daily, and I follow all news very closely, so my question is: What?...
Letter to the editor: How much greed is in a gallon of gas?
I totally agree with Robert Ober’s letter “Petroleum industry greed.” There is too much greed in a $3 gallon of gasoline. The oil company greed (the drillers, a tedious and dirty job) charges $1.38 per gallon (at $58 per 42-gallon barrel). Then the refinery greed (it runs 24 hours a...
Letter to the editor: Understanding can make for new ‘good old days’
If we’re ever going to have constructive dialogs about the changes facing America today, our younger and older generations need to try harder to understand each other. For example, when us older folks say that we sometimes yearn for “the good old days,” no, we don’t mean we want the...
Pat Buchanan: Trump’s great gamble
President Trump’s reelection hopes hinge on two things: the state of the economy in 2020 and the identity of the Democratic nominee. The further left the Democrats go to select their candidate, the greater the probability Trump wins a second term. Thus Trump got good news last week. The verbal...
Jonah Goldberg: Epstein’s death reflects new age of conspiracy theories
Anyone who’s watched a courtroom TV drama has heard the phrase “Hard cases make bad law.” It’s a legal maxim that says really extreme — i.e., rare or weird — cases are not only hard to generalize from, they’re also a bad foundation for new legislation or policy. This also...
Editorial: Just take a minute and connect
We all have someplace to be. We all have things to do and people to meet and tasks to complete and hurdles that frustrate us. But we also have time to stop and listen. We just have to decide to do it. Dylan Tetil did. On Saturday, Tetil was seating...
Letter to the editor: Baltimore brawl typical Democrat behavior
The “Baltimore brawl” going on between Congressman Elijah Cummings, who represents that district, and President Trump is a perfect example of the cancer that is destroying American culture. Cummings started the brawl by personally attacking Trump’s head of Homeland Security in a public hearing. Trump defended his administrator, calling Cummings...
Letter to the editor: Walter Williams’ op-ed misleading
On a recent Saturday morning I opened the paper to an op-ed by Walter Williams (“Being a racist is easy today,” Aug. 2, TribLIVE), who has built a career as a black conservative, and who appears to have extreme right-wing views which are biased, if not racist. I am a...
Letter to the editor: On clergy abuse, action needed
Regarding the Aug. 7 front-page article “Nearly 1,900 calls fielded by hotline”: I can only follow the page 2 continuation headline — “Shapiro blames Senate GOP for lack of reform” with one question: What are they waiting for? Tom Duffey Reynoldsville...
Doyle McManus: Trump’s silence on Hong Kong is making America weaker
WASHINGTON — As China and its unruly possession Hong Kong teeter on the edge of catastrophe, President Trump has issued a series of messages with a common theme: If his friend Xi Jinping decides to crack down on the city’s pro-democracy movement, the United States will understand. It’s the wrong...
Tom Purcell: Unleashing entrepreneurs good for all
Here’s some great news: The American entrepreneur is flourishing again. From 1980 until 2017, “the number of new startups formed each year … plummeted by half — from almost 15% of all business 35 years ago to barely 8%,” according to Forbes contributor David Pridham. Just a few years ago,...
Editorial: Arsonist burns firefighter reputations
It doesn’t take much for a reputation to go up in smoke. It happens all the time. A respected person — a community leader or a valued professional — couldn’t possibly be responsible for a crime. Until it happens. Generally, it’s the kind of thing that hits only that person’s...
Letter to the editor: Mental health laws must change
How sanctimoniously disingenuous are those politically correct gun-control dogmatists who believe this one issue is the end-all and be-all to mass casualty shootings, failing to recognize the primordial cause. Most sensible individuals can see through their puerile thought. Foremost, the mental heath laws demand change. Several years ago the New...
Letter to the editor: Wild claims about climate change, Trump, reparations
Rudy Gagliardi makes some pretty preposterous statements in his letter “Trump will get my vote.” He says “I think global warming is something Al Gore came up with to become a millionaire.” Seems pretty arrogant to think that nature gives a damn what you think. Are you a climatologist? Obviously...
Editorial cartoons for the week of Aug. 19
Editorial cartoons for the week of Aug. 19....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Aug. 19
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Aug. 19....
Michelle Malkin: Who’s funding the wicked war on ICE?
All the gun control zealots out in full force this month have apparently gone to the beach. An alarming shooting took place at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Antonio on Tuesday. Local media reported that “multiple shots were fired on two floors targeting ICE officials.” The...
Colin McNickle: Attendance matters to students, schools
The nexus between school attendance and academic performance is well established. In general, the better a student’s attendance is, the better that student’s academic results. And, of course, the better the respective school’s attendance rate and academic results. But an updated analysis of Pittsburgh Public Schools by a scholar at...
Editorial: Cheaper solutions work better sometimes
Sometimes you’ve got to decide between what’s better for the job and what you can afford. Maybe you could really use a brand-new custom-built house with four bathrooms and a kitchen that is all granite and stainless steel. But what you can afford is a fixer-upper where your kids will...
Letter to the editor: What is ‘supremacy’?
I offer this opinion at the risk of being labeled, but I believe that it’s important that the term “supremacy” deserves greater scrutiny. I first heard the term years ago. It gradually and ultimately disappeared as a result of the civil rights movement begun in the ’60s. The left has...
Letter to the editor: Hempfield reassessments a cash grab
The Hempfield Area School Board voted last month to reinstate residential tax reassessments (“Hempfield school officials move forward with tax assessment appeals,” July 23, TribLIVE). This is not the “Welcome to Hempfield” message current residents and possible future investors in our communities would think the sign in front of Hempfield...
