Opinion category, Page 758
Letter to the editor: Not vaccinating endangers others
People who refuse to vaccinate their children are violating the law. This is a law that is taught in high school, but not in law school. It was made in 1666 by Sir Isaac Newton: “For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.” If you do not vaccinate...
Letter to the editor: Balance of media needed
The letter “Can we survive 2 more years of Trump?” (Feb. 19, TribLIVE) was illuminating. After calling advisers to President Trump “classless” and “know-nothing,” the writer only lists what he judges as Trump’s failures. Then, this revealing quote: “This reality is known to anyone who reads or watches news other...
Letter to the editor: Keep Sundays safe
As a horseback-riding enthusiast, I fear that hunting on Sundays would greatly limit the time that non-hunters would be able to enjoy the woods. We currently ride nearly every Sunday in the state parks. It is the one day during hunting season that we know we can enjoy our horses...
Letter to the editor: Go vegan for Lent
March 6 marked the beginning of Lent, the period before Easter, when devout Christians abstain from animal foods in remembrance of Jesus’ 40 days of fasting in the wilderness. The call to abstain from eating animals is as traditional as Genesis 1:29, yet as current as the teaching of evangelical...
Editorial: Campaign finance ethics should be transparent
Can we ever really be too ethical? Especially when it comes to running for office? Can we be too transparent about where the money for our campaigns comes from? Can we be too honest about where it is going? Campaign finance regulations tell us all of that. They provide a...
Sounding off: End Pennsylvania’s Sunday hunting ban
Pennsylvania Grange president Wayne Campbell’s op-ed (“Keep Sunday hunting ban”) is missing existing perspective/data. Yes, hunter numbers will likely decline over time. The Pennsylvania Game Commission agrees culture shifts are significantly to blame. Campbell ignores the fact that hunters cite lack of free time as the overwhelming reason they stop...
Walter Williams: Our planet is not fragile
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., claims that “the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.” The people at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change agree, saying that to avoid some of the most devastating impacts of climate change, the world must slash carbon emissions...
John Stossel: Higher-ed hoaxers
If you are an American college professor, the way you get a raise or tenure is by getting papers published in “academic journals.” The stupidity of these journals says a lot about what’s taught at colleges today. Recently, three people sent in intentionally ridiculous “research” to prominent journals of women...
Letter to the editor: Trump alpha dog
Eureka! I’ve figured out why the mainstream media and the D.C. political establishment detest President Trump: He’s an alpha dog and they aren’t. Joe Marmo Cheswick...
Letter to the editor: White American male will stand tall
I’m a longtime fan of Walter Williams. I think his columns are well written, and I like the way he expresses his points of view on current issues and his common-sense analysis of those issues. He is a keen observer of the human condition. I respect his opinions and often...
Letter to the editor: Let’s get to work on traffic issues
Interesting article about the Parkway East/West having major traffic problems, especially for a city the size of Pittsburgh (“Parkway East, West among the most congested U.S. roads, study finds,” Feb. 12, TribLIVE), plus the subsequent “lance” from the Trib’s editorial board a couple days later (“Laurels & Lances: Perfection, Parkway,...
Russ Diamond: Pa. should lead the charge on banning daylight saving time
This weekend, we again will be forced to comply with an archaic tradition, one that offers no benefits. In fact, “springing forward and falling back” comes with many consequences at significant cost. If that’s not enough to make you wake up on the wrong side of the bed, remember that...
Paul Kengor: Michael Cohen, Trump’s buddy turned bad boy
Michael Cohen’s face is everywhere. Reviled by Trump supporters, cheered on by Trump opponents. The media has a new bad boy to tar and feather Donald Trump. But before he was the media’s buddy, he was Trump’s buddy. Cohen isn’t new news to me. I wrote an article in February...
Lori Falce: Women’s history is quiet, nameless
My grandmother didn’t make history. She made home. Grandma was a force of nature. She was barely more than 5 feet tall and was as delicate as the robins she fed on the porch, but I never knew anyone who did more in a day. She raised a family of...
Laurels & lances: Let the sun shine in
Laurel: To rebirth of local communities. Slowly — and cautiously — but surely, some downtowns’ formerly empty storefronts are filling again. Open a brewery, or an on-trend eatery, or turn a multi-level building — perhaps a department store in an earlier life — into loft apartments, and “they” will come....
Letter to the editor: No walls needed?
Letter-writer Keith Vacula (“No walls,” Feb. 17, TribLIVE) lists three places — Area 51, the Eastern Russian border, and the border between North and South Korea — without walls. I would like to see you try and walk into Area 51. I would like to see you walk across the...
Letter to the editor: Apollo needs its police
Apollo’s council raised taxes for the first time in over a decade (“Apollo tax hike approved, office hours cut until manager hired,” Dec. 18, TribLIVE). Although a bitter pill to swallow, it was overdue to keep up with inflation. The additional tax money will go into the general fund for...
Letter to the editor: A plea to Republicans
Guys … it’s time. The Republicans won the election in 2016. It’s undeniable it was a slaughter, winning the presidency and majorities in both houses of Congress. It wasn’t the outcome I wanted, but I accepted it. In the first two years of the Trump presidency, you’ve put an indelible...
George Will: Might the Democratic push for reparations benefit Trump?
WASHINGTON Tiptoeing along the edge of caricature, Sen. Elizabeth Warren says: Native Americans should be “at the table” with African-Americans for a “robust discussion” about making some Americans pay reparations to other Americans to atone for misdeeds by still other Americans. The enumeration of the misdeeds, and the assignment of...
Rick Ebert: Clean water, clear rules for farmers
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers have proposed a new plan to clarify what bodies of water and areas around waterways should be regulated by the federal government in conjunction with the Clean Water Act. The new proposal has been drafted to replace a flawed rule...
Editorial: Toomey bill addresses Trump’s tricky trade
Negotiating trade is not a crossword puzzle with a solution you can find in the back of the book. It is the building of a house of cards. The rules are simple. Balance. Lean. Nudge. Repeat. But little things can tilt the table — weather, growth in one area, development...
Letter to the editor: Trump ‘hate’ is justified
Let’s be clear about the emotion of hate. Some letter-writers are aghast at the degree of hatred that has been directed at Donald Trump and his presidency. Here are two questions for their consideration. 1. From our earliest years, are we not taught to hate mendacity, fraud, arrogance, narcissism, rudeness,...
Letter to the editor: McCarthy was right
In 1950 Sen. Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin said there were communists in our Congress. He was right then, and he would be right today, only today they would be called the New Socialist Democratic Party. Maybe we should call them the Democratic baby killers. Steven “Hoppy” Ignatz West Mifflin...
Letter to the editor: Dems are morally bankrupt
Regarding the letter “Where is my Democratic Party?” (Jan.27, TribLIVE): I think the Democratic Party started its decline under President Carter, who was a nice guy but lacked the experience to be president. President Reagan put us back on track, but that only lasted until Bill Clinton was elected. Clinton...
Pat Buchanan: Is the American Century over for good?
“Politics stops at the water’s edge” was a tradition that, not so long ago, was observed by both parties, particularly when a president was abroad, speaking for the nation. The tradition was enunciated by Sen. Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan in 1947, as many of the Republicans in the 80th Congress...
