Letters to the Editor category, Page 364
Letter to the editor: Walter Williams’ racism
Did letter-writer Laurie Lucianne Scheid actually suggest that black columnist Walter Williams was racist because of his op-ed regretting how easy it is to be labeled racist (“Walter Williams’ op-ed misleading,” Aug. 20, TribLIVE)? She sure proved him wrong. Thomas Wagner Murrysville...
Letter to the editor: Reschenthaler & our elections
It is plain to see from his op-ed (“Mueller show’s over; it’s time to move on,” Aug. 7, TribLIVE) that my representative, Guy Reschenthaler, does not believe that a) the Russians compromised our 2016 presidential election; b) the confirmation of our nation’s 17 intelligence agencies that the Russians had compromised...
Letter to the editor: Do homework to see who’s lying
How do so many of your thoughtful, well-meaning letter-writers come to such opposite hyper partisan conclusions? Your July 31 letter headlines were typical: “Overcoming the Trump mistake,” “Dems’ racist rhetoric,” “Mueller vs. Trump: Who to believe?” We are being unduly and selectively influenced by the confusing and repetitive, and even...
Letter to the editor: Synagogue shooter deserves death
After reading the article about the rabbis within the Jewish community asking that Squirrel Hill synagogue shooter be spared the death penalty (“Dor Hadash, New Light leaders urge AG to accept life in prison for accused Tree of Life gunman,” Aug. 16, TribLIVE), I would like to say that those...
Letter to the editor: Congress, get to work on immigration
I am ashamed of the U.S. House and Senate. The Democrats blame the Republicans for immigration issues, and the Republicans blame the Democrats. They are equally at fault. They sit in Washington and refuse to solve the immigration problem. They prefer to politically point fingers at and blame each other....
Letter to the editor: Robert Mueller’s collusion revelations
After more than two years and an estimated $45 million in taxpayer funding, what was the end result of the Mueller investigation? Fake news owes the public an apology. Day after day, they touted potential “bombshell” revelations that turned out to be fizzled firecrackers. The real collusion appeared to be...
Letter to the editor: Mainstream media should be held accountable
There ought to be an accounting and punitive measures taken against the mainstream media, especially CNN and MSNBC, for what they do to the people who watch, listen and believe. Fortunately, many folks are realizing that many of the accusations against President Trump are baseless. So MSNBC’s ratings are down...
Letter to the editor: What has happened to America?
Why … are there so many abortions? Why … are children’s video games so violent? Why … do people say things on social media sites that they wouldn’t say to a person’s face? Why … is there so much violence? Why … do many athletes refuse to visit our nation’s...
Letter to the editor: Trump is dividing us
I would like to commend Carl Mochak for his letter “Disagreeing with Trump supporters”. The subsequent letter by Bob Serena (“Many veterans support Trump,”) rested my case. I have a rough time accepting the fact that any level-headed, honest-thinking American could cast a vote for such a hateful individual as...
Letter to the editor: Voting for Trump with smiles
Al Duerig’s letter “Wild claims about climate change, Trump, reparations” (Aug. 19, TribLIVE) is both laughable and insulting to letter-writer Rudy Gagliardi. I think Duerig is another hate-filled Democrat who can’t accept the obvious. I have been on this earth more years that I care to admit, and the climate...
Letter to the editor: Trump’s words vs. his actions
Rudy Gagliardi’s “Trump will get my vote” (Aug. 15, TribLIVE) was the most delusional, untrue letter I’ve read. Don’t insult us by calling yourself a Democrat. President Trump has not done what he promised, like fixing health care and infrastructure, ending wasteful wars, building a wall that Mexico will pay...
Letter to the editor: Chronic wasting disease
Chronic wasting disease can easily be transmitted by saliva dropped when deer feed next to each other, but aerosol transmission is many times more effective. A snort (as many bowhunters can tell you) is common, a sneeze into the crowd, maybe more often as an infected animal weakens, or just...
Letter to the editor: Mistick shows no fairness
I usually avoid reading Joseph Mistick’s commentaries because of his disdain for conservatives. However, when I noticed his commentary “El Paso, Dayton shootings & reckless words” (Aug. 10, TribLIVE), I thought maybe, just maybe, Mistick would express some honesty/fairness. Silly me. Mistick’s suggestion that President Trump inspired someone to kill...
Letter to the editor: Good riddance to Jeffrey Epstein
Although his suffering was nothing compared to the lasting pain and anguish he dealt to young, vulnerable girls, the self-inflicted death penalty of serial child rapist Jeffrey Epstein is a positive outcome. The myriad adolescents whom Epstein indelibly scarred will not now need to relive at a trial the horror...
Letter to the editor: Paper ballots easy fix for voter fraud
It’s pitiful how stupid our government is being, spending millions upon millions of taxpayer dollars to try to prevent voter fraud of any kind when all they have to do is go back to pencil and paper with a ballot box. Instead of wasting our money on machines that either...
Letter to the editor: No air conditioning in Greensburg Salem schools
It’s that time of year again, back to school, and I am again writing that I am terribly upset that Greensburg Salem schools are opening this year, again, with no air conditioning in mostly all schools, except for one elementary school. Why is that? I believe this is a tragedy....
Letter to the editor: Going vegan can help clean up planet
This World Water Week, Aug. 25-30, we can all do something to help conserve water and keep our waterways clean: Go vegan. The water footprint of vegan foods — the amount of water it takes to produce them — is generally much smaller than that of animal-derived ones. For example,...
Letter to the editor: Wolf’s charter school blindside
When one of your biggest donor’s competitors is providing a better service, what do you do? “Blindside” them with rules and regulations to cripple them (“Gov. Wolf calls for sweeping reforms for charter schools in Pennsylvania,” Aug. 13, TribLIVE). Gov. Wolf, we know the teachers’ union is in your pocket;...
Sounding off: What is ‘supremacy’?
I offer this opinion at the risk of being labeled, but I believe that it’s important that the term “supremacy” deserves greater scrutiny. I first heard the term years ago. It gradually and ultimately disappeared as a result of the civil rights movement begun in the ’60s. The left has...
Letter to the editor: Now’s not the time to restrict guns
At a time in the history of our country when we have seen massive undocumented immigration, now is not the time to pass legislation restricting the rights of Americans to obtain and utilize guns for protection. Jackie Frazier Bellevue...
Letter to the editor: Killers deserve swift, final justice
Recently two Jewish leaders from Squirrel Hill announced they have petitioned U.S. Attorney General William Barr to seek a plea deal to spare the life of Robert Bowers, the killer of 11 Jewish worshippers in Squirrel Hill in October 2018 (“Dor Hadash, New Light leaders urge AG to accept life...
Letter to the editor: Left’s gun-control propaganda
It is August, and as they say, “make hay while the sun shines.” Democratic presidential hopefuls have been doing just that, known to take advantage of every opportunity to use whatever advantage that is afforded them to win an election and gain power. To date this year, 1,636 people have...
Letter to the editor: Cancellation of dangerous movie
The decision to cancel the film “The Hunt” due to criticism after the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, was hopefully a wake-up call for the liberal entertainment industry. Universal Films, owned by Comcast, produced “The Hunt,” in which a group of “elites” kidnap and hunt “deplorables”...
Letter to the editor: Where’s Trump’s wall?
Well, it’s been six months, and I just wanted to check in on the emergency at the border. Are the troops stationed there safe and well supplied and staying clear of harm’s way? No casualties, I hope, from the “invasion” of women, children and infants. I’m just asking because it...
Letter to the editor: Let’s get serious about our problems
When is it time we can be done with this? People put up billboards with harmful messaging that is influential and may be effective enough to encourage harm. The Republican Party of Fayette County puts congresswomen’s faces on dartboards, believing it’s funny to use their pictures as targets at the...
