Politics
Trump’s revenge and paybacks
September 12, 2024
To the Editor: The thought of four more years of Donald Trump’s self-centered, total incompetence is absolutely terrifying. How can you ever forget the “Trump virus.” It would go away like as if by a ...
Politics
September 12, 2024
The editorial department of the Mon Valley Independent encourages letters to the editor. Letters must be no more than 500 words, must be in good taste and must include the author’s name, town of resid...
The debate about the debate
Politics
September 12, 2024
Debate winner: CNN’s Candy Crowley. In 2012, she — the moderator — interjected herself into a Romney-Obama debate to fact-check Mitt Romney with a lie. But unlike ABC’s crack moderators on Tuesday nig...
Politics
By By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press 
September 11, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed Tuesday to press ahead with requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration as part of a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown when the n...
Politics
September 10, 2024
WE THINK OF VIOLENCE — especially gun violence — as something that is lightning fast. A gunshot is almost a measure of something here one minute and gone the next. Superman famously is described as “f...
The left-wing media lies add up
Politics
September 10, 2024
The public is exhausted after a decade of chronic untruth from the left-wing and its media. The 2016 presidential campaign will be long remembered for the false allegation that Donald Trump colluded w...
Captains courageous
Politics
September 10, 2024
We live in an age of anxiety, full of anger and depression. The presidential candidates are clearly playing on both emotional states. There’s need for healing. But there is also an invitation for cour...
Politics
September 9, 2024
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG, JILL COLVIN and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MOSINEE, Wis. (AP) — With just days to go before his first and likely only debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, former Preside...
Politics
September 9, 2024
The editorial department of the Mon Valley Independent encourages letters to the editor. Letters must be no more than 500 words, must be in good taste and must include the author’s name, town of resid...
Lives lost are sacrifice to the worship of firearms
Politics
September 9, 2024
The school year has begun. My teenager trots off to class in a school uniform, backpack stuffed full, water bottle filled. Early morning and afternoon traffic serve as reminders of the school calendar...
Politics
September 6, 2024
IF YOU CHECK YOUR CUPBOARD, more than likely you’ll have dinnerware and bakeware with the Pyrex, CorningWare and Corelle brand labels — three brands developed by Corning Glass Works during the 20th ce...
Canceling the Trump show
Politics
September 6, 2024
More than it’s anything else, an American presidential election is a TV series. And all the available evidence appears to show that the nation is ready to change the channel. To put it bluntly, The Tr...
Another lie: Biden is deporting more illegals than Trump
Politics
September 5, 2024
The mainstream media has always engaged in mass lying about immigration, but they’re really going the extra mile this election cycle. Lie No. 1 is the toughness of the “bipartisan” border bill, covere...
Politics
September 5, 2024
SO DONALD TRUMP HAS HAD HIS FUN with those AI-generated images of crowds of Taylor Swift fans in “Swifties for Trump” T-shirts, which reportedly sparked a backlash among actual Swifties. And who didn’...
Politics
September 4, 2024
HOW HARD IS IT TO REPORT suspected sexual abuse of a minor? In recent years, we have been buried under an absolute avalanche of proof that children have been sexually abused, if not outright raped, by...
Politics
September 4, 2024
By STEVE PEOPLES, THOMAS BEAUMONT AND AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — After a summer of historic tumult, the path to the presidency for both Kamala Harris and Donald Tru...
Harris, Trump, and Arlington cemetery
Politics
September 4, 2024
It looks like the fight between the Harris and Trump campaigns over former President Donald Trump‘s appearance at Arlington National Cemetery is intensifying, not diminishing. Vice President Kamala Ha...
Politics
September 3, 2024
LAST WEDNESDAY, NIPPON STEEL made a promise. The Japanese giant would invest “no less than $1 billion” into the U.S. Steel operations in the Greater Pittsburgh area. “Nippon Steel believes that a tran...