Letters to the Editor category, Page 219
Letter to the editor: Vaccinate for victory
America has now accumulated the most covid deaths per person of any advanced country. This failure is hurting our economy. But we can do better. We must work as a team to defeat covid. You might say “omicron is mild,” “the pandemic is behind us” or “vaccines don’t work.” If...
Letter to the editor: Chinese stand-in as Olympic flag-bearer wrong
I was watching the parade of nations of the opening ceremony of the 2022 winter Olympic Games. The flag-bearer for the United States Virgin Islands delegation was a Chinese volunteer. This was done because the islands’ sole athlete, and ipso facto flag-bearer, Katie Tannenbaum, had tested positive for covid-19 and...
Letter to the editor: Madden’s absurd claims on Flores
How does “Super Genius” Mark Madden know that former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores has “not enough evidence” to prove his case against National Football League team owners and managers (“Brian Flores’ case has merit, but proving guilt will be challenging,” Feb. 4, TribLIVE)? To my knowledge, no one has...
Letter to the editor: What’s going to happen in Ukraine
Put aside for the moment all of the pressing problems facing our country today, and concentrate on what surely is the jewel of Europe, Ukraine. It is the poorest of the European countries with rampant crime, weak currency, dysfunctional government, wealthy oligarchs and crippling corruption with high rates of disease,...
Letter to the editor: Plenty of incitement on Jan. 6
I found Guy Kosinski’s letter “Incitement a tool of the left” smug and lacking in facts. He demeans another letter-writer, writing, “Like all misguided liberals, (Suzanne) Colvin attempts to paint the Jan. 6 incident at our nation’s Capitol as the worst threat to life and liberty we’ve ever seen.” The...
Letter to the editor: Jan. 20 is a day of infamy, too
I had a good laugh after reading Sandra Kremer’s letter “Why the big lie continues.” She designated Dec. 7, Sept. 11 and Jan. 6 as days that will go down in infamy. I laughed because for more than a year I have had a bumper sticker on my car that...
Letter to the editor: Biden discriminating with Supreme Court picks
The Supreme Court was once described as an old white men’s club. Today, there are women and a Black justice on the court. Conservatives have been accused of being sexists and racists, but President Biden’s reported slate of possible nominees proves that he is a sexist and racist. Inclusion is...
Letter to the editor: Rescuing democracy
Like Spider-Man breaking the multiverse at your local multiplex, our common American reality has been shattered as evil forces run amok. Before Uncle Ben and Aunt May, Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: “In a democratic world, as in a democratic Nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend...
Letter to the editor: Facts on ‘global warming’
In 2015, scholar Walter Williams stated that during the Ordovician period (460 million years ago), carbon dioxide concentrations were 4,400 PPM (parts per million), and temperatures were about the same as today. (This is over 10 times the level, 415 PPM, recorded Nov. 18, 2021, by the Global Monitoring Laboratory.)...
Letter to the editor: Won’t watch Olympics
Is it just me, or has anyone else noted the similarities between the 1936 Olympic games held in Nazi Germany and the 2022 winter Olympic Games in Beijing? A pre-Olympics crackdown on potential dissidents with many people arrested; up to 1.8 million Uyghurs in forced labor camps. The Chinese Communist...
Letter to the editor: 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: Republican Party hijacked by fascists
My response to the letter “Voting Democrat an addiction” is to suggest that fascists have hijacked the Republican Party and use it to promote propaganda and defamation for political gain. This is plainly evident in the RNC’s support of the pillage of the U.S. Capitol in which it mislabeled hooliganism...
Letter to the editor: Bridge collapse shows need for salt alternative
Will anyone be surprised to learn that the cause of the Fern Hollow Bridge collapse was corrosion of steel components ( beams, joints, rivets/bolts) and concrete rebar/prestress cables? Such corrosion is accelerated by the use of salt for snow and ice removal. The ice/snow melt saltwater passes through small cracks...
Letter to the editor: We all benefit from ‘socialism’
An accusation that Republicans love to hurl at Democrats is that they are “socialists.” Do these Republicans understand what American socialism, also called “democratic socialism,” really is? Are they confusing it with Soviet socialism, from the old USSR days, or modern socialism in North Korea or Venezuela? Socialism, or socialization,...
Sounding off: Decisions of today’s women
I read with interest Betty Harp’s letter “Avoiding abortion.” Harp’s rudimentary understanding of modern social dynamics was on full display when she stated, “So, young women, keep yourself clean for that special man when you are old enough to get married. My mother was a wise lady.” Perhaps Ms. Harp...
Letter to the editor: Research party platforms
To letter-writer Jim Papke (“Biden should learn history, humility,” Jan. 19, TribLIVE): It would behoove you to research the platform of the parties during the 1860s, as well as the platform of the Confederate States of America. Now which side do you support? Leonard Mucci Derry Township...
Letter to the editor: Conditions dire under Biden
Numerous letters to the editor bitterly harangue President Trump and his loyal followers to the point of blurred insanity. Why? Didn’t the Democrats win? The letters march in sync with whatever the Democratic party line is at the moment, all meant to obfuscate the dire circumstances America finds itself in...
Letter to the editor: Republicans, the party of lies
The Republican Party has officially established itself as the party of Donald Trump and the party of lies. Its national committee has censured GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for having joined Democratic colleagues in investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. It gets worse: The charges against...
Letter to the editor: Government should starting doing more with less
The Feb. 3 editorial cartoon really struck a nerve with me. One more time we see a perfect example of where we are always being hit with more taxes and fees from state and local governments to get their job done, but there is little or no accountability for them...
Letter to the editor: Answers needed on bridge collapse
Funny how President Biden showed up in Pittsburgh the same day a major bridge collapses and promises that the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law would help fix this problem. If I remember right, back in 2009, under President Obama’s stimulus package, $48 billion was promised to help fix roads, bridges and other...
Letter to the editor: Save our Steelers
Apparently, a 39-year-old has-been is bigger than the team. Ringmaster Mike Tomlin must think so, as he let a very talented Mason Rudolph languish on the bench to appease a quarterback who can’t run or throw. If Ben Roethlisberger actually practiced, perhaps he’d see what we’ve seen the last 10...
Letter to the editor: Government’s failings
I found Robert Supansic’s letter “Dealing with public health emergencies” (Jan. 25, TribLIVE), regarding the the U.S. government successfully handling the current and future pandemics, very funny. That would be the U.S. government that succeeded so spectacularly when it brought us: • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ levees in...
Letter to the editor: Republicans’ mischief
When I think of our Republican lawmakers, I have an image in my head that I cannot shake. It is one of bored adolescent boys looking for mischief. Look at their recent antics. Some participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection or in its planning and preparation. They compiled fraudulent phony...
Letter to the editor: Make your voice heard on redistricting
This is the true way our votes are stolen: We are forced to cast ballots where we have been directed — snaky lines going through townships, counties and sometimes even homesteads. Make your voice heard on redistricting. Simon P. Solar Lower Burrell...
Letter to the editor: Leaders kept Americans living in fear
The Great Barrington Declaration was written in October 2020 by three doctors concerned about lockdowns hurting children, workers and the poor. Eventually, 50,000 doctors, scientists and medical researchers signed on. The doctors are Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a physician, professor at Stanford University Medical School, epidemiologist, health economist and public health...
