Opinion category, Page 615
Letter to the editor: Opinions on Democrats’ values
I think letter-writer Diana Steck (“What it means to be a Democrat,” Aug. 30, TribLIVE) needs a reality check. Here are my opinions on her points: 1. Protecting voting rights: Resist legitimizing IDs, support mail-in voting that will lead to voter fraud. 2. Ensuring health, safety and affordable health care:...
Letter to the editor: Joe Biden’s plans on guns and rocks
Police officers have been under assault in Portland, Ore., and other cities, with protesters throwing rocks, Molotov cocktails and more at them. Now Joe Biden wants to regulate possession of assault weapons. Will he be regulating protesters’ rocks and Molotov cocktails? I have my doubts, since he hasn’t even brought...
Timothy L. O’Brien: Of course Trump couldn’t resist Bob Woodward
Maybe it’s all Senator Lindsey Graham’s fault. “It was Lindsey Graham who helped convince Donald Trump to talk to Bob Woodward,” Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson told his TV audience Wednesday night. “Lindsey Graham brokered that meeting. Lindsey Graham even sat in on the first interview between Bob Woodward and...
Lori Falce: The people we were on 9/11
Why aren’t we the people we were 19 years ago? On Sept. 11, 2001, we were broken and bleeding, grieving and groaning in pain. The terrorist attacks that brought down the World Trade Center and shredded the Pentagon and cratered a field in Shanksville stole thousands of lives and left...
Nick Byrd: The moral trade-offs of public health
Global emergencies cause a series of dilemmas. Consider the covid-19 pandemic. First, many lives have already been lost to covid-19, and many more lives will be lost in the near future. Second, we can drastically reduce the death toll by sacrificing other things that we care about. For example, should...
Letter to the editor: We shouldn’t be ‘canceled’ because of our views
Brooke Roney’s letter demanding that Bob Wayman be removed from the Norwin School Board seems to be part of the cancel culture movement (“Shame on Norwin School Board”): I don’t like what you’re saying; therefore you must be removed. As Roney noted, the board has said it has no grounds...
Letter to the editor: Would Biden be able to prevent radical left takeover?
Letter-writer Richard Patton did a good job describing how the large, central portion of the bell curve of politics contains the majority of moderate voters, both Democrats and Republicans (“Not all Democrats are ‘radical left’”). It is the smaller edges of the curve that contain the loudest and most radical...
Letter to the editor: With schools closed, how was tax money used?
We received our school real estate tax statement for 2020-21, which included an increase. As a former teacher and parent of three children who went through the local school system, I contribute to the education of our students, both in the classroom and extracurricular. This is money well spent in...
Letter to the editor: Let coronavirus run its course
Since March, our society has been subjected to forced closures and restrictions on our behavior. We were told that these actions were taken to “flatten the curve,” to slow the spread of the coronavirus so as to prevent a spike in hospitalizations which may have overwhelmed our ability to help...
Letter to the editor: Dr. Scott Atlas was wrong hire as coronavirus adviser
Once again, President Trump is taking advice from an “expert” with no pertinent credentials for help with his covid-19 response. Dr. Scott Atlas, a neuroradiologist, has no expertise in public health or infectious disease. A senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, he was hired to act as a mouthpiece for...
Letter to the editor: Country can’t survive Kamala Harris
Truth is the reality behind the appearance. Peter Schweizer’s recent book, “Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite,” exposes the dirty secrets of the left. It is eye-opening. Both Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have chapters. Biden and Harris share the same socialist ideology, which includes the...
Editorial: Keep United 93 visits reverent
On Sept. 11, 2001, a field near Shanksville became a shrine — both battlefield and resting place for the passengers and crew of United 93, the fourth plane hijacked by terrorists that day. The official memorial didn’t open until the 10th anniversary of the attacks, but that was just ceremony....
Jonah Goldberg: Despite author’s claims, there’s no defense for looting
Vicky Osterweil, the author of “In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action,” is getting her 15 minutes of fame thanks to a segment on NPR in which she said some really mind-bogglingly dumb, indefensibly evil and fascinatingly reactionary things. We’ll come back to her in a moment....
Letter to the editor: Trump’s Latrobe rally was irresponsible, insulting
I’m a college student whose school has fortunately remained open and permitted students to return to campus. We wear masks everywhere: outside, in the classrooms, in the dining hall and even during a short walk to the bathroom. We can’t have visitors in our rooms or study together in groups....
Editorial: Westmoreland County controller serves public by putting audits online
The idea of putting public information in the hands of the public isn’t one of those things that was enshrined from the beginning of the United States — not like freedom of speech or freedom of assembly. The founders knew early on that they wanted people to have the right...
Letter to the editor: Swamp creatures must be ousted
Any country seeking rioters adept at arson, looting and statue demolition should send recruiters to U.S. Democrat-run cities, especially New York City (see street painter and part-time Mayor Bill de Blasio). There has also been rioting in Washington, D.C., home of the proverbial “swamp.” This political and bureaucratic entity is...
Letter to the editor: Let’s fix the health care system we have
Throughout the covid-19 crisis, America’s hospitals have come together with the rest of the health care system — from doctors and nurses to private insurers to government programs like Medicare and Medicaid — to ensure access to affordable care for patients. It has been a trying time, but hospitals nationwide...
Letter to the editor: C’mon, Comcast, give us something for our money
As a Comcast customer, I think I speak for a whole lot of fed-up people when I say, “C’mon, man.” We’ve been cooped up in our houses for a good while now because of this virus, and all we get for our giant cable bill is reruns over and over....
Letter to the editor: We can, should do better than Trump
I was taken back by a comment in Albert Bianchini’s letter “Trump, Biden and China” (Aug. 20, TribLIVE). To suggest that China created and unleashed the coronavirus to unseat President Trump is unbelievable. That thought process sounds crazy to me. If he and others believe that, what other oddball scenarios...
Pat Buchanan: Why D.C. statehood is a suicidal gamble
When U.S. cities erupted after the death of George Floyd, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser was in the vanguard of the protests, renaming a section of downtown Black Lives Matter Plaza, and painting the name in letters on the street so huge they could be seen from space. Last Thursday, however,...
Letter to the editor: Is a vote for Biden really a vote for Biden?
Letter-writer William Werts states “I’m pro-life, and I’m voting for Biden with no regrets” (“Pro-lifer plans to vote for Joe Biden,” Aug. 20, TribLIVE). With all due respect, voting for the devout Catholic who is pro-abortion aside, I don’t believe you are voting for Biden and his self-proclaimed values, but...
Letter to the editor: Questions on fear, racial unity
Just two questions for readers: Can a Republican win an election without appealing to fear? Why is racial unity so scary for white people? Suzie Morris Dunbar...
Letter to the editor: A speech Trump would never give
The speech Donald Trump would never give: My fellow Americans, America is going through a difficult time. We have lost over 187,000 citizens to the coronavirus. We mourn their loss and pray for their families. A reporter asked me recently if I feel responsible. I answered the way our previous...
Letter to the editor: Abortion is the greatest pandemic
The greatest pandemic is not covid-19. It is and has been the abortion virus for 50 years. There have been 70 million-plus deaths due to abortion since the 1970s. In one year, for example, 860,000-plus abortions (2017) were performed — four times the current covid-19 death count. Yet so many...
Editorial: Keep protests out of residential areas
Protests are staged where people feel they will do the most good. That seldom means they happen where they are the most convenient. If workers go on strike, they make their situation known outside the building, making a visible symbol of their opposition to the management. When people bring their...
