Letters to the Editor category, Page 207
Letter to the editor: Bradshaw, not Roethlisberger, the greatest quarterback
I do not like when Ben Roethlisberger is portrayed as our greatest quarterback. Terry Bradshaw has been through more battles than Roethlisberger ever saw, and people keep forgetting he won four Super Bowls. Roethlisberger had great defenses the same as Bradshaw, but he survived before all of the rule changes....
Letter to the editor: Biased media a danger to our country
How do you explain the many extreme, conflicting viewpoints in the pro-Biden and anti-Biden letters in this paper? Are both sides getting the same set of “facts” from their media? For example, I believe that MSNBC and CNN and much of the mainstream media are in the back pocket of...
Letter to the editor: Tired of Fauci’s tactics
Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s covid rule-maker, recently challenged Fox News as a source of covid misinformation. This time, Fauci’s ire was directed at Tucker Carlson and his frequent guest, Alex Berenson. Berenson is an investigative journalist who challenges the “vax everyone” mandates. He reports on vaccine effectiveness, questions the lack...
Letter to the editor: Where’s proof of hospitals’ covid ‘subsidies’?
“Early on, state and federal subsidies were offered to hospitals throughout the nation for administering specific treatments and reimbursing hospitals for deaths classified with covid-19. These subsidies are poor incentives for achieving the mutual goal of minimizing suffering.” This is a quote from Garrett Ringler’s letter “End covid reimbursement policies”...
Letter to the editor: Republicans taking us back to the past
In the past, I thought the Republican Party wanted to return to an idealized version of the 1950s and 1960s. Men were the breadwinners. A much lower number of women were employed outside the home. However, recently I have begun to realize that what the GOP really wants is to...
Letter to the editor: Where’s coverage of Clinton investigation?
Where is the coverage of the disclosure of the Durham investigation that the Clinton campaign was involved in the Trump-Russia collusion that dominated news for over three years, tearing this country apart? Is the media complicit in this serious crime? Richard Hohmann Mechanicsburg...
Letter to the editor: False narrative on voting
No legal registered citizen who votes is being denied their right to vote. No one. Each of the 50 states makes up election procedures, constitutionally. Every two years there are major elections, for president and Congress. That’s plenty of time for anyone who wants to vote to do so. Find...
Letter to the editor: Gun owners targeted by Democrats?
Last year in a truly unremarkable way, I became a target of the Democratic Party. How did this happen? I bought my first firearm. I’m a middle-aged white guy who never grew up around guns and before last year, I knew nothing about them. My initial interest came about after...
Letter to the editor: Biden hypocritical
It seems we have a hypocrite at the helm of our nation, saying one thing while hiding what’s really going on. He tells the American people there is no border problem, and focuses on people coming from just three countries; meanwhile, there are thousands coming from more than 100 countries,...
Letter to the editor: Casey, Toomey must protect our right to vote
In January, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to the urgent need to safeguard Americans’ right to vote. In Pennsylvania, and the rest of the country, voter suppression efforts include gerrymandering and voter ID requirements. Pennsylvanians are at risk of losing their right to vote. This disproportionately impacts...
Letter to the editor: More to pro-life than just abortion
The pro-life movement focuses on the unborn, which is a good cause. However, there seems to be an anti-life movement when it comes to gun control laws, vaccines and mask mandates and climate change. All of these issues also affect human life. Marilyn Dvorsky Elizabethtown...
Letter to the editor: Don’t want covid tests made in China
Our family received our free covid tests in the mail. We considered it quite ironic (and disgusting) to see that they were made in China. I was tempted to “return to sender.” Instead I’m throwing them in the trash. Regis Brentin Scott...
Letter to the editor: Politicians not worth the money or vote
Why is it that when you have selected an individual from one of the two major voting parties, they feel you are obligated to continue donating to them when they haven’t accomplished anything they originally promised to do when first running for office? If at any time a politician would...
Letter to the editor: Celebrating Black History Month
The educators and support professionals of the Pennsylvania State Education Association are proud to celebrate Black History Month. Black history is American history, and we believe that it must be part of the curriculum all year long. That includes telling the stories of Black Americans that are too often left...
Letter to the editor: Impeachment reserved for crimes
I am amazed at how many right-wing politicians and voters completely misunderstand, and how casually they bring up, the somber issue of presidential impeachment. The United States impeaches our presidents for committing crimes. There is no other reason that justifies impeachment. We can vote a president out in national elections...
Letter to the editor: Founding Fathers may have anticipated turmoil of political parties
There must be a reason the Founding Fathers did not place any mention of political parties in the Constitution. Perhaps it was just something that never came up in their discussions. Perhaps in their wisdom, they anticipated that something like a political party might grow too powerful and become a...
Sounding off: Biden, Casey, protect our borders first
I cannot attend one of President Biden’s press conferences or Pennsylvania’s Sen. Bob Casey’s. But, if anyone knows someone who can, could you have them ask one or more of my questions for me? President Biden and/or Senator Casey, you have to know that there is a tremendous amount of...
Letter to the editor: Biden demonstrating his racism again
President Biden is at it again. He announced that his selection for the Supreme Court will be a Black woman. This statement excludes all white women and all men, both Black and white. Racist? During the campaign Biden stated his selection for VP would be a woman of color. This...
Letter to the editor: Money is today’s magic medicine
In the last century, deadly diseases included tuberculosis, flu, smallpox, measles, yellow fever, polio, pneumonia, syphilis. Cures or vaccinations were found (in order listed) in 1921, 1940, 1796, 1963, 1938, 1950, 1977 and 1928. Note that at these times higher education was either rare or not common. Today college graduates...
Letter to the editor: Secured weapons are benign
We see it in the news every day: stolen weapons used in murders or robberies, often both. First, the term we should use is weapons, not guns. When discussing “guns,” the message becomes politicized and emotional, which undermines reason-based discussion and solutions about the topic. Americans have a long history...
Letter to the editor: Don’t vote for Dr. Oz
I felt the need to write this letter to encourage Pennsylvania voters not to vote for Dr. Mehmet Oz. I’m not judging Oz; all I’m saying is, he’s not a resident of Pennsylvania. He lives in New Jersey, and to fulfill the Pennsylvania residency requirement, he listed his in-laws’ address...
Letter to the editor: Our justice system puts citizens at risk
When you no longer have a justice system that works, you put the lives of U.S. citizens at risk. There are times I felt safer serving my country in Vietnam than I do in parts of the U.S. There no longer seem to be deterrents to keep people from committing...
Letter to the editor: Some socialism might be Christian
I found myself intrigued by Jim Stahl’s letter “Socialism is not Christian” (Feb. 5, TribLIVE). Both “socialism” and “Christianity” can mean different things to different people, and I can’t fully know Stahl’s view on those terms based on his letter. So, to look at socialism and Christianity through a different...
Letter to the editor: History repeating itself in Ukraine
This Russian threat on Ukraine is history repeating itself. Make no mistake: Vladimir Putin will not be satisfied with only Ukraine. I believe Putin wants to rebuild the old Soviet Union and take over the rest of Europe. This reminds me of 1939 and the years before. Adolf Hitler first...
Letter to the editor: Saluting our farmers
I recently attended the 2022 Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg. It is touted as the best in our state, and certainly the biggest and best in the country. I was in awe of the preparation it must take to produce an event of this magnitude to inform the general public...
