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Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of April 15
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Christine Emba: Congress should ease the pain of filing taxes
For the first time in a long time, I managed to do my taxes early this year. My refund check arrived by mail. Opening it, I looked down at the (paltry) sum, sighed and placed the letter into my bag. And then it blew away. Literally. It blew out of...
S.E. Cupp: The silver lining in Trump’s homeland security purge
“They are decapitating the entire department,” a Department of Homeland Security official ominously told The Washington Post of last week’s alarming purge that resulted in forcing the resignation of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, pulling the pick to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement and firing the Secret Service director. President Trump’s ouster...
Michelle Malkin: False accuser Shaun King’s record of harm
This weekend, “journalist, activist and humanitarian” Shaun King gave the keynote speech at the annual Innocence Network Conference in Atlanta. The theme of the event, whose attendees work to prevent and undo wrongful convictions, is “The Presumption of Innocence.” It was just three months ago that King recklessly exploited the...
Cal Thomas: God & the Democrats
For the last 27 years, Democrats have been trying to win over evangelical Christians who last voted in large numbers for their party’s presidential candidate, Jimmy Carter, in 1976. At the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Al Gore gave it a go, but misquoted Scripture. In his acceptance speech for the...
Editorial: Veterans court extends a helping hand
A veteran is someone who has proven they understand discipline. They know how to follow orders. They get what it means to be a small part of a larger operation, and why every part has a job to do. That means that when they get in trouble with the law,...
Letter to the editor: Politicians & your money
All politicians have very little problem spending your money. The Democrats just do it more often. John Newhouse Shaler...
Letter to the editor: Socialism never works
There are some scary things going on in our country. The influential radical left of the Democratic Party is aggressively promoting economic socialism. As economist Thomas Sowell said, socialism sounds great, but simply has never worked. Socialist policies promise free college, medical care, housing and support, so they attract poorly...
Letter to the editor: Saving the planet
In my letter “Global lukewarming” (Feb. 15, TribLIVE) I presented two instances when dire scientific projections were promulgated and publicly accepted, only to dramatically fail. I cited the book “Lukewarming,” which contains scientific articles that provide a realistic view of climate change. Letter-writer George A. West (“Ignoring facts,” March 15,...
George Will: The Democrats’ sweepstakes of frivolity
WASHINGTON The Democrats’ presidential aspirants seem determined to prove that their party’s 2016 achievement — the election of the current president — was not a fluke that cannot be repeated. But the Republican Party, whose last remaining raison d’etre is to frustrate Democrats, seems to be thinking: We are determined...
Jonah Goldberg: Kirstjen Nielsen wasn’t right for Trump’s ‘bad cop’ role
Summoned to the White House last Sunday, embattled and apparently overwhelmed secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen arrived with a resignation letter in tow. “Despite our progress in reforming homeland security for a new age,” it read, “I have determined that it is the right time for...
Editorial: Pa. rape kit progress has to continue
Imagine being robbed and finding out that, despite reporting it to police and turning over pictures and serial numbers for your TV and your laptop, the report sat on a shelf and waited for an investigation that never happened. Imagine being shot and discovering that the bullet was in an...
Sounding off: Keep the Pittsburgh airport world class
I have traveled into and out of Pittsburgh International Airport at least 240 times since the new terminal opened in 1992. My first trip was on the terminal’s first day. My wife and I arrived eight hours before our flight’s scheduled departure because we expected the newness of the airport...
Letter to the editor: Leaving the liberals
I recommend that anyone who is a member of a minority (homosexual, black, Hispanic, women, et al.) and has a deep resentment of President Trump, or who cannot understand how any rational person could support this president, view Mark Levin’s March 3 interview with #WalkAway movement founder Brandon Straka on...
Letter to the editor: Gov. Tom Wolf’s tax plan will hurt consumers
Gov. Tom Wolf must enjoy Groundhog Day, as his latest plan, Restore Pennsylvania, is simply the same attempt to tax and borrow on the backs of citizens. Like Groundhog Day, Wolf’s plan is the same every year. The only difference is that every year he masks his attempt to tax...
Letter to the editor: Climate activism not just for Democrats
Regarding the article “Gore: US getting close to political shift on climate change”: Climate activism is not just for Democrats; however, it has been associated with them. The article implies that conservatives and moderates being pushed toward action are outsiders to climate change, coming late to the party the liberals...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Trump’s disdain for law & order
“Cruella De Vil” and “The Queen of Mean” are just a couple of the nicknames for Kirstjen Nielsen that have been making the rounds since she was fired as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. At the end of the day, “Cruella” was not cruel enough and the “Queen”...
Nathan Benefield: How to deliver what ‘socialists’ want
Socialism has hit the mainstream — or so we’ve been told. Yes, democratic socialists are winning elections, including recent Pennsylvania victories in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and Bernie Sanders is again a frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination. But does this mean Americans’ political views have U-turned from free-market capitalism? That’s...
John Stossel: Mark Zuckerberg’s cronyism
Please, regulate me! That was Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s message to Congress recently. “Lawmakers often tell me we have too much power over speech, and frankly I agree,” he wrote in an op-ed. “(W)e shouldn’t make so many important decisions … on our own.” It sounds so self-sacrificing. But give me...
Walter Williams: Tragedy of socialism
If one needed evidence of the gross ignorance of millennials, and their teachers and college professors, it’s their solid support for socialism and socialist presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders. Socialism has produced tragedy wherever it has been implemented. Last year marked the 40th anniversary of nearly 1,000 Americans perishing in...
Editorial: Prosecuting Peduto for gun ban is wrong move
Six members of Pittsburgh’s city council and Mayor Bill Peduto have taken steps to change the law within their sphere of influence as applies to a certain class of weapon. It was a big step. The U.S. and Pennsylvania constitutions both uphold gun ownership as a right. But both also...
Letter to the editor: Fund our own security
In January, the U.S. House of Representatives passed House Resolution 21, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, which included over $35 billion in foreign aid. Funds are allocated to fight illegal immigration, terrorism, and sex and drug trafficking; secure borders; assist refugees; fund peace-keeping, disaster assistance and global security efforts; finance militaries;...
Letter to the editor: No ‘accord’ in Paris
President Trump has been the target of much criticism since he withdrew the United States from the Paris climate accords after taking office. It’s worth noting, however, that “Paris” itself has also more or less withdrawn from the accords. Parisian “yellow vest” protesters and 282,000 French citizens in general began...
Letter to the editor: Minimum-wage apocalypse
I have been waiting for nearly a half-century for the minimum-wage apocalypse, wherein smaller businesses (and some large chain restaurants) “seize up,” fail to function and fail in business terms. Such are the highly predictable diatribes by “economists” every time raising the minimum wage is broached. I refer to Lloyd...
Timothy L. O’Brien: Bill Barr is trying hard to be President Trump’s Roy Cohn
The attorney general of the United States is, we now know, quite sure of himself. Exhibit A: Spying During Senate testimony on Wednesday, William Barr was asked if, as Bloomberg News reported, he was planning to review how and why the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched an investigation into possible...
