My trust in the democratic process was rudely jolted a few days ago.

Watching the news and reading recent letters to the editor in The Daily Progress, I don’t understand all the consternation and hate aimed at Sarah Palin.

For the first time since Barry Goldwater ran against Lyndon B. Johnson back in 1964, a major party candidate on the presidential ticket is making a spectacle with spectacles.

I have been dismayed by reports that white women are shifting support from Barack Obama to John McCain following McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin.

The Snickers bars are in the bag with the Gatorade and pads, and the skates and sticks are in place, making it time for the newest political lobby to caucus.

Simple folk know that Hormel, the food-processing biggie, offers a line of canned chili, some varieties of which are composed of spicy beans, but no meat. Isn’t that an apt description of Sarah Palin’s address to the Republican convention?

Republican John McCain’s selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate was a “brilliant” pick, according to two University of Virginia political scientists.