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Tom Purcell: Buy a home! You’ll benefit — but be miserable
Why do I want more Americans to buy homes? Because misery loves company. The Wall Street Journal reports most American renters believe homeownership is financially out of their reach — only 24% say it’s “extremely likely that they would ever own a home, 11 percentage points lower than four years...
Cal Thomas: Questions I would have asked the Democrats
The likelihood I would ever be invited to serve on a network panel questioning the Democratic presidential candidates is equivalent to an invitation to take the next trip to the moon. Still, as I tortured myself watching the two “debates,” which were not really debates, but mostly a show of...
Editorial: Penn Hills can’t depend on state money
Good for the taxpayers of Penn Hills. The highly troubled school district is getting a $3.3 million cash injection from the state on top of the regular annual contribution all districts receive. State Sen. Jay Costa, D-Forest Hills, helped Penn Hills get the extra money from the Department of Education....
Letter to the editor: Thanks for FBI’s vigiliance
Many thanks to the FBI, which thwarted a terrorist attack on a North Side church (“Syrian refugee charged with plotting to bomb Pittsburgh church”).President Trump has disparaged the organization because of its scrutiny on his criminal activity, but its never-ending vigilance is appreciated by every decent American. Joe Lucas South...
Letter to the editor: Tragedy at our border
Recent media articles and commentary, either directly or by implication, project that inadequate child care or security at the southern border are the fault of the U.S. This is unfair and irresponsible reporting and opinion. No country or people in the world have shown more commitment and support to troubled...
Letter to the editor: UPMC-Highmark political stunt
The UPMC/Highmark situation is a great example of why health care should never be delegated to government control or interference. Attorney General Josh Shapiro should have left the issue alone. People had five years to decide what was best for their health care and wallets. Shapiro was only good for...
Editorial cartoons for the week of July 1
Editorial cartoons for the week of July 1....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of July 1
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of July 1....
Michelle Malkin: Unraveling of crafting & politics
Fun fact: I’ve been crocheting since I was 10., when my Tita Lisa taught me the magic of granny squares Fellow yarn nerds will understand the heavenly bliss of spending hours at Hobby Lobby or Walmart immersed in a sea of alpaca, mohair, angora, super bulky and super saver skeins...
G. Terry Madonna & Michael Young: The Democrats’ debate marathon
A Debate Marathon Who will win the 2020 presidential election seems endlessly debatable—and the Democrats are preparing to demonstrate just how endless that debate will be. Overall there will be 12 sanctioned Democratic presidential debates during the party’s nomination battle, six of them in 2019 with six more in 2020....
Editorial: Gerrymandering doesn’t represent us
Whether you are in a casino or a courtroom or state house, stacking the deck is wrong. You don’t get to load up your hand with aces. You don’t get to put your best friends on your jury. And you aren’t supposed to carefully, surgically carve out a constituency that...
Letter to the editor: Trump is the president we need
Some dislike President Trump’s abrasive style and long for the days of Mitt Romney and the Bushes, when Republican candidates respectfully faced unfair and relentless attacks from Democrats without fighting back. Over the past 60 years, Democrats have befuddled Republicans with aggressive tactics invented by Chicago activist Saul Alinsky in...
Letter to the editor: Knitters support Trump
Did you know that if you are a member of the Ravelry knitting community and support President Trump and his administration, you are a white supremacist, a bigot and a racist? Ravelry is a popular worldwide community; did those in charge not realize that they are calling millions of conservatives...
Letter to the editor: Trump is the disgrace
Donald Trump says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a evil and a disgrace. A true pot calling the kettle black. Trump says he hates the word impeachment and calls it a “dirty, filthy word.” How does he think I, and many Americans, feel? We think Trump is the most evil,...
George Will: Last century’s immigration debate makes today’s seem enlightened
“Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, And through them presses a wild motley throng … O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?” — Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1892) WASHINGTON— If you think we have reached peak stupidity — that America’s per-capita quantity has never been...
Donna Pierantoni: Home care crisis’ impact on disabled adults, seniors
Home health aides provide valuable and compassionate home care services to seniors and adults with disabilities that enable them to remain safe at home and out of nursing homes. As a clinical manager who oversees a team of home health aides, I know our state is in a home care...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: The optics of presidential golf
Golf is “a good walk spoiled,” according to some non-golfers. But it still has a tremendous following. And, since it started as a game for those fortunate enough to afford the gear and take a whole day off, it has presented image problems for politicians. “Presidential golf” has been a...
Javier Palomarez: Taking on America’s waste crisis
America has a big waste problem. In fact, the problem weighs approximately 280 million tons. That is the quantity of municipal solid waste (MSW) Americans create every year. As waste creation skyrockets, landfills across the country are nearing capacity, generating a waste crisis that crosses state lines. The U.S. produces...
Editorial: Budget behavior, childish tantrums
We don’t have time for leaders to act like children. The people we have elected are there to do a job. We might not like the job they do, but that’s why we get to shuffle the deck periodically. What we didn’t do was send grown men and women to...
Sounding off: Wealth tax could decrease poverty
I would like to see Congress pass a new program into law to replace the former Aid To Families With Dependent Children program, which was passed under FDR in 1935 and abolished in 1996. Since its abolition, there has been a large increase in the number of people (especially children)...
Letter to the editor: Spending in Norwin
So now we have the Norwin School District raising taxes again due to a budget shortfall (“Norwin OKs tax hike; maintains staff, programs,” June 21, TribLIVE). It’s interesting how they have money to pay for soccer field and other sporting venue “upgrades” but find it necessary to jam it to...
Letter to the editor: Grieving for our democracy
As we prepare to celebrate the founding of our nation, we are in the grip of a narcissistic president who has spent two years successfully violating Amendment 1 and the Emolument Clause of our Constitution. He has joined other populist leaders in the Philippines, Turkey, Egypt, Poland, Hungary and others...
Letter to the editor: Celebrating UPMC-Highmark deal
The news about UPMC and Highmark reaching a 10-year agreement is historic (“UPMC, Highmark reach 10-year deal for patient coverage,”). The hundreds of people on Highmark have cause to celebrate. It was the grassroots people of Pennsylvania who banded together and wouldn’t give up as they fought and beat the...
Walter Williams: Reparations & responsibility for slavery
Several Democratic presidential hopefuls are calling for Americans to make reparations for slavery. On June 19, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held a hearing. Its stated purpose was “to examine, through open and constructive discourse, the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, its...
John Stossel: Candidates have lots of bad ideas
So many people want to be president. Unfortunately, many have terrible ideas. Sen. Kamala Harris wants companies to prove they pay men and women equally. “Penalties if they don’t!” she shouts. But there are lots of reasons, other than sexism, why companies pay some men more than women. Harris also...
