Opinion category, Page 749
Lori Falce: Julian Assange arrest not a press attack
You, Julian Assange, are not a journalist. I know you like to claim that you are, largely because you like to hide behind the protections journalists are sometimes afforded when it comes to obtaining and releasing information and questioning authority. But what you have done is not journalism. It has...
Laurels & lances: Ligonier, light, lessons and love
Laurel: To preserving a little piece of the past. Ligonier Township leaders don’t want lose their connection to a treasured longtime landmark. Instead, the municipality is interested in buying Ligonier Beach to keep the private pool from floundering after the owners filed for bankruptcy. Details are still up in the...
Letter to the editor: Trump our general in battle
I believe we are teetering dangerously on the verge of a civil war over the heart and soul of our country. The conservatives want to preserve this country as it was founded, based on the Constitution and with all of its freedoms and opportunity. I believe the leftist/progressives want to...
Letter to the editor: Lessons from Westerns
I hate to admit it, but I learned some moral lessons from the TV Westerns I watched as a kid. For example, I learned that a lawman was a coward if he shot another man in the back, even if the man he shot was a gunslinger or a horse...
Letter to the editor: Where’s outrage over Trump’s McCain comments?
As a veteran I find it disgusting that the president of the United States would insult a decorated combat veteran, POW and U.S. senator. President Trump’s continuing childish comments about the late Sen. John McCain are insulting to not only the McCain family, but to all veterans. This from a...
Paul Kengor: Frustrated feminists confront gender orthodoxy
Picture an elderly British man opening his newspaper and sharing this story with his wife: “A 52-year-old woman is guilty of raping two other women at a facility in West Yorkshire. Claiming to be suffering from erectile dysfunction, she assaulted the two women.” The gentleman scratches his head and says...
George Will: Cain, Moore nominations are two more tests for Republicans to fail
WASHINGTON In 1964, although there was scant chance that Americans would choose to have a third president in 14 months, Lyndon Johnson took no chances. The economy was sizzling and in November Johnson would carry 44 states. Nevertheless, he wanted low interest rates, so he summoned to his Texas ranch...
Editorial: Toomey’s common-sense solution to gun law loophole
Listen to squabbles about gun control and you are bound to hear one question come up, either from frustrated proponents of limits or aggrieved champions of the Second Amendment. Why don’t we just enforce the rules we already have? If the two sides would actually listen to each other, they...
Letter to the editor: Pot & government vultures
I’m writing to deliver the same message as letter-writer John Waite (“Legal pot is a Pandora’s box,” March 21, TribLIVE). It is a disgrace to all Pennsylvanians that the vultures in our government can attempt to legalize recreational marijuana. We pay and pay, and they don’t care — they just...
Letter to the editor: Minimum wage will hurt young, poor
Yet again Democrats seek to increase the minimum wage. But that is a bad idea because it will hurt those it is supposed to help. If the minimum wage were raised to $15 an hour, those already making $15, $20 and up would need raises also. These raises would drastically...
Letter to the editor: Democratic insanity
I did not vote for candidate Trump in 2016, but I will vote for President Trump in 2020. I will do it because America needs a strong two-party system. The Democratic Party has been hijacked by wackos and radicals. The moderate members and “leadership” — Pelosi and Schumer — have...
Vince Mercuri: Healing body, mind & spirit
Over 150 years ago, the seeds of a philosophy of healing were planted. In 1865, three Franciscan Sisters came to Pittsburgh from Buffalo looking for funds for their ministry. They opened a 15-bed hospital in a frame house to aid German immigrants in Lawrenceville. Over the years, the hospital grew...
John Baer: Pa. lawmakers to child-sex-abuse survivors: Take a number, have a seat
The Pennsylvania legislature, once again, is poised to turn its back on who knows how many survivors of child sex abuse. Promises of action? Pledges to victims? Repeated assurances that those who were violated (and long-voiceless) might find some measure of justice? You tell me. The state is among the...
Pat Buchanan: Socialist America or Trump’s America?
In the new Democratic Party, where women and people of color are to lead, and the white men are to stand back, the presidential field has begun to sort itself out somewhat problematically. According to a Real Clear Politics average of five polls between mid-March and April 1, four white...
Editorial: Do Excela problems show changing hospital industry?
Are hospitals becoming the new malls? Just like retail has evolved, getting out of the big, glassy, glitzy shopping centers and into the phone in your pocket, it seems like medicine is likewise morphing into something else. And also like retail, it’s taking its toll on the old way of...
Letter to the editor: Political parties, Trump & Rose
A friend once said we have three political parties in this country: the liberal/socialist Democrats; the Republicans, who don’t know how to lead when they have congressional majorities; and President Donald Trump, the best of the three, a man who has done more good for our country in two years...
Letter to the editor: Why I don’t love Trump
This is in response to the letter “Why I love Trump”.Let’s call it “Why I don’t love Trump.” Will not release his taxes — Yes. Admiration for dictators — Yes. Constant tweets — Yes. Continued bashing of a real American hero, John McCain — Yes. By the way, in what...
Letter to the editor: Proud of Burrell hockey team
I am so proud of every member of the Burrell High School hockey team. I was hoping you could win just one game in the USA Hockey tournament, and you went to the national championship game against a team that you beat in the first preliminary game. You barely had...
Colin McNickle: Facts and fallacies on British Airways’ return to Pittsburgh
With much pomp and circumstance, British Airways last week resumed nonstop flights between Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) and London’s Heathrow Airport after a 20-year absence. The new flights are being subsidized with $3 million in public money over the next two years. However, the rationales cited for restarting the service...
Tom Purcell: Hope ‘springs’ eternal for civil discourse
Spring has finally arrived in all its glory. In Pittsburgh, the weather has warmed, the trees are blossoming and the birds are singing cheerfully. Sure, we Pittsburghers get plenty of rain this time of year, but as English poet Thomas Tusser reminds us, “Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.”...
Editorial: UPMC, Highmark should consent to modification
It’s not that nothing can be done. When Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson issued his decision in Josh Shapiro’s plea for a stay of execution in the UPMC-Highmark consent decree, he didn’t throw the Pennsylvania attorney general a lifeline. Simpson’s ruling might be read as helpless when he says, “this...
Letter to the editor: Welfare in the U.S.
With all the discussion about illegal immigration, an observation occurred to me: People without jobs in other countries come to the U.S. to look for work. People without jobs in the U.S. go on welfare. Nick Kyriazi East Allegheny...
Letter to the editor: No bridges built in Catholic school merger
The news of merger between my daughter’s Catholic school, Holy Trinity in Robinson, and St. Malachy School in Kennedy, was hastily handed down without input from the faculty or even parents on Feb. 23 (“Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh to close 2 schools, merge 2 others next school year,” Feb. 23,...
Letter to the editor: Boycott Sunoco for ethics breach
As a child, I was taught the “sticks and stones” slogan. As I grew, I was taught about freedom of speech. Now that I’m old, I realize that it seems either rule applies only sometimes. If Sunoco did not own the billboard on which gas station owner John Placek displayed...
Editorial cartoons for the week of April 8
Editorial cartoons for the week of April 8....
