The pendulum of American politics, which had been swinging to the right, is now swinging back to the left. Conservative is now becoming a dirty word, and liberal a more favored term.

Dear WesBanco, closing the South Charleston branch was bad enough, but shutting down the ATM is completely inconvenient! How much effort would it take to at least leave the ATM operational? Now your customers have to ride to another branch or incur fees to get their money.

I read in Readers' Voice today that the Salvation Army bell ringers get $10 per hour. Is this true? Please let us know how this works.

If you want to know if the Republican Party cares about America, just watch what happens now. If they work with the re-elected president to solve the problems we face as a nation, then they care about all of us. If they launch impeachment proceedings or committee hearings against the president then they care only about the rich, who finance their campaigns and will be willing to destroy America to defeat President Obama.

I had to laugh when Obama said during the campaign that the rich had to "pay a little more" in taxes. The inconvenient truth that neither he nor anyone else will say is that taxes must go up for everyone -- a lot! The deficit we have cannot and will not be closed in any significant way until everyone realizes it. There are no painless ways to get there.

Please be nice to the nutty right-wing Tea Party. They are doing more to defeat Republican candidates than anybody I know.

The DOW dropped after Obama won! Looks like fat-cat Republicans had inside info on stocks that were going to benefit from a Romney win. Now they have to dump those stocks.

Wow. Despite the ignorance often on display here, I don't recall seeing much, if any, outright racism -- until today. "Integration gave us Obama?" Hispanics will "take over in 2035?" You're the reason your party lost the election.

So you "say again that 51 percent is in no way a mandate?" Funny <t40>...<t$> when your guy beat John Kerry in 2004 by gaining only 50 percent of the vote, he declared he had a mandate and I don't recall his fellow Republicans warning him that his slim margin did not a mandate make. Y'all are such hypocrites.

Before fussing about Republicans blocking Democrats in Congress, maybe you should do some research and see why they're blocking them. The Dems want to continue spending money we don't have. The GOP wants to cut spending. Now which makes the most sense?

Before the election, the kool-aid drinkers praised Obama for his actions after Sandy. Two weeks later, after he's re-elected, thousands are still homeless and suffering and he's doing nothing.

Today, as we honor our veterans, realize that hundreds of thousands of our young women and men have lost their lives to guarantee each American citizen the right to vote. Since the year 2000, a certain party's politicians and their supporters have been bound and determined to deny and/or suppress citizens from voting. Any politicians placing themselves above the [U.S.] Constitution is dishonoring our veterans and I bet our Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves.

Pitiful. For the past month, you couldn't get NBC to mention Benghazi, but tonight they did over five minutes on the general's affair. Anything to pull attention from Obama's part in the coverup.

Enough already, you lost the election. It's over. Your failed policy of Robin Hood in reverse is done and you need to put it in your tattered scrapbook and put it to fire. The truth won out against the lies and fright. Take the un-American socialist attitudes and move to the Ukraine.

My attendance at and my support of WVU ended with the fiasco that started two years ago. It's comforting to know that none of my money or wasted emotion is involved in this current rapid slide to mediocrity.

The downward spiral in Morgantown is picking up speed. It could be a long time before that team is ever respected again. Paying unproven neophytes millions of dollars attached to long-term contracts was just brilliant. No one is ever held accountable for the millions wasted on these athletic programs.

Let me see if I have this straight. We have two gold diggers who get in a catfight over who is the baddest. They destroy their own reputations, the careers of military men, an FBI agent, and ultimately their own families. Is access to powerful people really that important?

There simply has been too much to be questioned in this Democratic administration, with Solyndra, Petraeus, Benghazi, and it goes on and on. Both parties with their career members are responsible and should be replaced and anyone with common sense knows this. Bad part is we must wait two more years to replace some of them.

I always knew Jane Claymore is a diehard Democrat, but after reading Monday's article, the words vicious and crude can be added to her résumé.

Makes my blood boil. The press keeps reporting that what's-his-name defeated Darrell. He could not defeat a bug if he stamped on it all day. The Super PAC beat Darrell with all their trash.