Opinion category, Page 171
Letter to the editor: A sartorial solution to our current crisis
Polyester is a much maligned fabric. In ages past, it was texturized to look like gabardine, in the case of a business suit, and, later, during the disco era, the 1970s, it was made to look like plaid mashed potatoes shaped with a fork. There were worse things happening to...
Letter to the editor: Olympics’ ridicule of Christianity disgraceful
Concerning “Opening ceremony tableau sparks Olympic flame of controversy” (July 29, TribLive): Who do the Olympic organizers think they’re fooling? Of course they meant to ridicule Catholics and Christians, Jesus’ supper with his disciples, by depicting them using the “rights victims du jour.” I don’t dismiss intolerance and outright abuse...
Letter to the editor: Is lawfare becoming the weapon of choice?
Lawfare is when government officials use their powers as a weapon against their adversaries with the intent of politically neutralizing them. The most famous lawfare cases were perpetrated by Democrats disguised as Klu Klux Klan members in the post-Civil War South who used it on former Black slaves. The legal...
Editorial: The end for terror masters: Death comes for Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr and Hamas’ Ismail Haniyeh
A small bit of justice came to two very evil men when they met their ends in Beirut and Tehran last week. Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr was blasted to oblivion by Israel in Beirut after Hezbollah fired an Iranian-made Falaq-1 rocket into the Golan Heights, killing a dozen Druze children...
Letter to the editor: Letter-writers need a reality check
Two recent letters have me wondering what reality the authors are living in. “Trump has integrity, honor” (July 29, TribLive) opened with “Trump is a man of integrity and honor.” “Harris will win because of Biden’s ‘payoffs’ ” (July 30, TribLive) accused President Biden of “payoffs” to the Teamsters and other...
Letter to the editor: Real reason food prices are so high
Let’s say the cost of fuel goes up 18% (actually it’s been more) since 2020. A farmer buys new equipment or parts to fix his equipment — 18% increase in fuel cost. A farmer buys seed/fertilizer to use for planting in the spring — 18% increase in fuel cost. A...
Editorial page cartoons for the week of Aug. 5
Editorial page cartoons for the week of Aug. 5....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Aug. 5
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Aug. 5....
Letter to the editor: Project 25 piece better served as editorial
The article “What is Project 2025, and how could it impact the Pittsburgh region?” (July 28, TribLive) would have been better served as an editorial. To have it as a top story in your Sunday print edition is shameful. The entire article is conjecture and blatantly screams of “Vote for...
Letter to the editor: Ending K9 officers a bad look for Jeannette
The City of Jeannette recently announced that they are no longer going to employ the police K-9 officers (“Jeannette shutters K-9 program as ‘cost prohibitive,’ ” July 25, TribLive). Details were not given, but the officers recently filed a lawsuit against the city for overtime pay. Prior to the lawsuit, there...
Letter to the editor: Celebrating all of a person’s heritage
Simple biology shows us that each person has a mother and a father. Both contribute DNA equally to the offspring. If a person has both the great African American and people of India as a heritage, both should be celebrated. Ignoring this fact shows a sad lack of understanding of...
Letter to the editor: Saddened by daily news reports from Western Pa.
As the son of a mother who lovingly recounted growing up in Butler, and a grandfather who made sure I was the only kid in Queens County, N.Y., who grew up with a reverence for Ralph Kiner, Bill Mazeroski and most of all Roberto Clemente (which didn’t exactly endear me...
Letter to the editor: ‘Weird’ is a mean word, and Trump may take the bait
Was anyone surprised last week to hear so many prominent Democratic spokespeople use the same exact word? The word of the day was “weird.” When you see a montage of the clips, it’s obvious to me that they brainstorm via Zoom each morning to decide on the talking point for...
Letter to the editor: Netanyahu visit strange time for consensus
Congress gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a standing ovation. He has faced calls to resign from 72% of Israelis, including Hamas hostages’ family members, six of whom were arrested protesting the very address Congress applauded. He has faced indictments in Israel for corruption. Just a year ago, Israelis took...
Editorial: This trade is not finished, Mr. President
A Rube Goldberg machine is the intersection of inspired engineering, cartoonish imagination and childlike faith. Familiar from Goldberg’s own illustrations in the 1930s and Saturday morning programming like “Tom and Jerry” and “Scooby-Doo,” they are contraptions that string together improbable parts to accomplish a seemingly simple task. A marble rolls...
Letter to the editor: Ending price gouging
Fidelity sends a periodic newsletter to its investors. Its June 17, 2024, issue dealt with the gap between the reality and the perception of the U.S. economy. The data shows the economy is healthy and growing, but Americans are very pessimistic. Our gross domestic product has grown over the past...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Trump’s sideshow is back, and it’s grown old
I was determined not to lose any friends during and after the 2020 presidential race between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, and my plan was moderately successful. You want to be challenged if you write a weekly newspaper column about politics and government, but my email during the Trump years...
Richard Forno: Social media and political violence — how to break the cycle
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13 added more fuel to an already fiery election season. In this case, political violence was carried out against the party that is most often found espousing it. The incident shows how uncontrollable political violence can be — and how dangerous the...
Sheldon H. Jacobson: Who will pay for the Crowdstrike outage?
Crowdstrike did not have a good day on July 19. During a routine software update, the file that the cybersecurity firm issued triggered a logic error that prohibited Windows machines from rebooting. Microsoft estimates that about 8.5 million computers may have been affected by the event. This created a tsunami of...
Elisabeth Rosenthal: Why many nonprofit (wink, wink) hospitals are rolling in money
One owns a for-profit insurer, a venture capital company and for-profit hospitals in Italy and Kazakhstan; it has just acquired its fourth for-profit hospital in Ireland. Another owns one of the largest for-profit hospitals in London, is partnering to build a massive training facility for a professional basketball team and...
Letter to the editor: Red-light tech could increase fatalities
Regarding the July 30 article “Red-light district: Pittsburgh mulls tech to catch traffic light scofflaws” (July 30, TribLive): Pittsburgh City Council should consider the data from other cities that have implemented this policy. Washington, D.C., has been utilizing this technology since 2015, and fatalities have actually increased since doing so....
Sounding off: Politics week’s top letters’ topic
Why don’t we better protect our presidents, candidates? How many times have we heard the same refrain from a U.S. president, federal officials serving in the Secret Service, FBI and Central Intelligence Agency, and news media pundits after a president or presidential candidate has been assassinated or wounded in assassination...
Letter to the editor: Our pitiful world
What a pitiful world we live in when drag queens are in the opening ceremony of the Olympics, when illegals seem to have more rights than citizens, when many criminals are not held accountable, when the government wants to force its agendas on us and, especially, when a first-grader is...
Letter to the editor: Democrats’ bait and switch
I find it curious how quiet the mainstream media is about the bait and switch pulled by the Democrats. It was President Biden who got the votes and the delegates, not Kamala Harris. If the Republicans had done this prior to the nomination, you know we wouldn’t hear the end...
Laurels & lances: Doing good & doing nothing
Laurel: To a sense of purpose. When you mention “volunteering” and “dementia,” people have an image in mind. It’s about people coming to a nursing home and doing something with the patients. Maybe they read. Maybe they play music or just sit and talk. But it’s about an able person...
