We know no one in our area who reacted to the attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue nearly a year ago with anything other than sorrow and anger. We doubt that you know anyone with a different opinion, either. But a microscopically tiny number of people viewed the assault, in which 11 worshippers ...
To the editor: My Democrat friend, Ken, was positively ecstatic in Louie’s the other day. “Finally, they’re going to get him; impeachment is under way. I told you guys that this would happen, and you all said I was full of it. Well, it’s here now; maybe he’ll be out of office by ...
It has been just two years since the #MeToo movement came on the national stage. Its founder and others concerned about sexual assault and harassment worry that the issue has been sidetracked by candidates for president next year. #MeToo founder Tarana Burke is doing something about that. ...
Democrats in the House of Representatives remind us of the old West judge who promised defendants he would give them a fair trial —then hang them. The “impeachment inquiry” engineered by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is no more than her attempt to pursue a vendetta. Our nation’s ...
Members of Congress who want to “overturn” President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria are engaging in an absurd performance of political theater. Many lawmakers, both Republican and Democrat, have been critical of Trump’s decision to abandon Kurdish separatists in ...
Conventional wisdom — even its more intuitive cousin, common sense — sometimes needs to be tested scientifically. This year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in economics are living proof of that. Michael Kremer of Harvard University and Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of the ...
To the editor: Wow! Amazing! Thank you! These are the first words that come to mind as I reflect on the 2019 Potato Drop that happened on Sept. 28. It was amazing to see 20,000 pounds of potatoes being unloaded at 6 a.m. and 50-plus volunteers sort and rebag them to be distributed. It ...
An important matter of public interest has been settled, and that has to do with whether the names of candidates for appointment to unexpired terms of public office should be made public. When the issue surfaced about five years ago, our sister publication, the Williamsport Sun-Gazette, ...
To the editor: The Sentinel’s Trump-centric viewpoint has become truly wearisome. Monday’s editorial concerning Joe and Hunter Biden is one example. The editorial states that the heart of the impeachment case against the president is the relationship between Hunter Biden and Burisma. This ...
Conventional wisdom — even its more intuitive cousin, common sense — sometimes needs to be tested scientifically. This year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in economics are living proof of that. Michael Kremer of Harvard University and Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of the ...