Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 26, 2009, 9:00 am
A year ago today, the site you’re reading now, Wellsy’s World, came into existence. I had no idea how any of this was going to turn out when I wrote that weak little introductory post last...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 26, 2009, 7:00 am
Today as we get together with friends and family, stuff our faces and contentedly watch football as our meals digest, keep in mind the bounty, blessings, and freedoms this great nation has enjoyed th...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 25, 2009, 8:34 pm
After leaving CNN following a fairly successful run as a political commentator, Lou Dobbs has been publicly flirting with the idea of running for public office. Now a new Rasmussen poll states the obv...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 23, 2009, 10:05 pm
As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, on Saturday night (yet another example of fantastic legislative transparency) the Senate voted to open debate on Sen. Reid’s health care bill by a ma...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 23, 2009, 9:27 pm
The debate over the causes and severity of climate change was thrown into disarray over the weekend as a series of internal e-mails from the East Anglia Climate Research Center were released by hacker...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 19, 2009, 8:49 pm
The New York Daily News is reporting that after months of speculation, former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani will not run for governor of New York, but instead run in 2010 for the Senate seat currently occu...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 19, 2009, 8:25 pm
Ugly racial politics were on full display yesterday when Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke to a reception held by the Congressional Black Caucus. Long a racial demagogue, Jackson used the occasion to call out ...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 18, 2009, 9:46 pm
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid finally unveiled his health care reform bill today, which weighs in at over 2,000 pages and has been scored by the CBO at a cost of $849 billion. Reid bragged the Se...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 17, 2009, 9:35 pm
Sobering news from the Treasury Department today as the nation learns it’s in the hole to the tune of over $12 trillion. My share ($38,974.34) is just a bit less than my yearly salary as a micro...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 17, 2009, 8:59 pm
Rep. Bart Stupak doubled down today on his strong stance against federal funding of abortion in the health care reform effort. He pledged that if any attempt is made to water down the language of his...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 13, 2009, 10:15 pm
An astounding Gallup poll came out today that states that a majority of Americans (50%-47%) now believe the government shouldn’t be responsible for making sure everyone has health insurance. Tha...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 13, 2009, 9:30 pm
In a move that seems now too ridiculous to be believed, President Obama is hinting that his focus in 2010 will be on cutting the federal deficit in a shift toward fiscal responsibility. The move come...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 13, 2009, 9:03 pm
Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed would stand trial in New York City along with four other terrorists for the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Ame...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 12, 2009, 1:00 pm
Nearly three months after Gen. Stanley McChrystal submitted his analysis of the Afghanistan situation and a request for more troops, President Obama has now reportedly rejected all of the options subm...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 12, 2009, 12:28 pm
Quinnipiac University has released two polls over the last 48 hours that have shown severe warning signs for Democrats in Ohio and across the country. Yesterday’s poll had incumbent Dem Gov. Te...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 11, 2009, 6:48 pm
To all veterans past and present, all this blogger has to offer you is his heartfelt thanks for your service and sacrifice. For some, the debt is to great to ever repay. Many servicemen and women serv...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 10, 2009, 9:43 pm
Dede Scozzafava, the GOP nominee for the NY-23 Congressional district, has a sympathetic piece in the Washington Times about those mean ol’ Republicans and those rascally conservatives who R...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 9, 2009, 9:44 pm
CBS News is reporting that President Obama has decided to send nearly 40,000 additional combat troops to Afghanistan, honoring the majority of Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s request for that country....
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 9, 2009, 9:02 pm
Twenty years ago today, a decades-long symbol of division and oppression came crashing down. The roar of its falling stones was felt across Europe, across Russia, across America, across the entirety o...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 8, 2009, 1:56 pm
A little after 11 pm on the East Coast, Democrats in the House were able to get the votes needed to pass the bill introduced by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The margin, however, was extremely close for a par...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 6, 2009, 9:10 pm
Speaker Nancy Pelosi had hoped to have a vote on her behemoth health care bill in a rare Saturday vote in what seemed to be a rush to hurry through unpopular legislation before any more issues could ...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 6, 2009, 8:41 pm
(See below for image credit.) The latest unemployment figures continue to show a bleak picture for job hunters as the unemployment rate climbed to 10.2% in October. Counting those who have settled fo...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 5, 2009, 9:29 pm
House Democrats have scheduled a rare Saturday vote in an attempt to rush through Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s health care reform bill before any more moderates have a chance to get queasier in the w...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 5, 2009, 9:00 pm
Tragedy struck the military here in America as an Army psychiatrist opened fire with two handguns at Fort Hood in Texas. Twelve people have died as a result of the attack, and 30 were wounded in the a...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 3, 2009, 10:12 pm
On an issue of local importance to the Miami Valley, independent challenger Gary Leitzell has pulled ahead of Democratic incumbent Rhine McLin in the race for mayor of Dayton, OH. Leitzell leads McL...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 3, 2009, 9:40 pm
Of the three heavily watched national races, the governor’s race in New Jersey was the one that most on both sides looked toward most closely as a bellwether for the national mood and the fortun...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 3, 2009, 9:17 pm
In a race where the only uncertainty was the margin of victory, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell annihilated Democrat Creigh Deeds by a margin of 18 points. Going into Election Day, th...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 2, 2009, 9:41 pm
Vice President Joe Biden was in upstate New York today stumping for Bill Owens in the heated NY-23 Congressional special election. You know, the one that doesn’t matter and has no national porte...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Nov 1, 2009, 10:35 pm
The drama over the special election in NY-23 has taken a variety of surprising turns over the past few weeks. The Republican candidate, Dede Scozzafava, was selected by a county board of GOP superviso...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Oct 30, 2009, 9:04 pm
In a deal brokered by senior US diplomats, an agreement has been reached that will potentially reinstate Manuel Zelaya as President of Honduras after he was was ousted in June. Under the agreement,...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Oct 29, 2009, 9:38 pm
We’ll get to why they’re worried in a second. The big headline is that the American economy grew at an annual rate of 3.5% between July and September. The report by the Commerce Department...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Oct 29, 2009, 9:13 pm
In a ceremony closed to the public, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled to much fanfare her version of health care reform that includes a public option. Weighing in at an astounding 1900 pages, it ha...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Oct 27, 2009, 9:08 pm
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced yesterday that he was planning on sending a bill to the Senate floor that has a public option with an opt-out clause for states (although apparently a co-op...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Oct 27, 2009, 12:15 pm
The new chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, Rocco Landesman, addressed grantmakers in a post on the official NEA website. He seems like a nice guy, but he makes a rather over-the-top and co...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Oct 25, 2009, 9:49 pm
I’ve really dropped the ball in passing along a bit of news regarding myself and this site. A few months ago, Joe Gandelman e-mailed me and asked if I’d like to write a few guest posts for...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Oct 25, 2009, 8:58 pm
There was a heartening turn of events on Thursday that doubled as bad news for the White House in its ill-advised war on Fox News. As part of its petulant campaign against Fox, the Obama administrati...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Oct 21, 2009, 9:17 pm
The Obama administration indicated today that it will slash the salaries of executives of companies who received bailout money by up to 90%. Kenneth R. Feinberg is the Treasury Department official in ...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Oct 20, 2009, 9:14 pm
The small town of Kinston, NC, population 23,000, voted to do away with partisan elections, meaning party affiliation would be meaningless in local contests. To comply with the Voting Rights Act, they...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Oct 20, 2009, 8:36 pm
  In the latest example of how seriously lacking in leadership Congress has become, one needs to look no further than the actions of Rep. Edolphus Towns, Democratic chairman of the House Oversight ...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Oct 19, 2009, 9:15 pm
Over the last week, members of the White House staff have gone out of their way to single out Fox News as an unworthy news organization. It began with White House communications chief Anita Dunn’...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Oct 13, 2009, 9:44 pm
 Troubling news on the strength of the dollar as a report comes out showing that banks are moving away from using it as their reserve currency. Central banks increased their foreign currency holdings...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Oct 13, 2009, 8:32 pm
With a vote of 14-9, the Senate Finance Committee approved the healthcare reform bill summary proposed by Sen. Max Baucus. Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe crossed party lines to support the measure, t...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Oct 12, 2009, 10:20 pm
Is it flogging a dead horse? Perhaps. But a few columnists caught my attention when analyzing Barack Obama’s undeserved Nobel Peace Prize. Ross Douthat of the New York Times says Obama missed an...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Oct 12, 2009, 9:13 pm
The BBC has a wonderfully balanced article on global warming that notes that the past 11 years have seen no increase in global temperature and that current climate models have failed to predict such a...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Oct 12, 2009, 8:40 pm
CBO Director Doug Elmendorf released a statement on his blog indicating that the Congressional Budget Office had taken a look at current proposals to limit malpractice lawsuits. They found that tort r...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Oct 9, 2009, 9:36 pm
The Nobel Peace Prize was already flirting with irrelevance after recent selections like Al Gore, Yasser Arafat, and Jimmy Carter, but after the award was today announced as going to President Barack...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Oct 8, 2009, 10:07 pm
Rep. Charlie Rangel is finding himself in deeper trouble every day as the House Ethics Committee announced today it was expanding its probe into Rangel’s finances. In an investigation that has a...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Oct 8, 2009, 9:41 pm
Pick your preferred source on this one, whether it’s the AP or the Times of London. The Obama administration appears to be headed down a course that would see the focus of military operations in...
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Jon W. posted an article on Wellsy's World - Oct 8, 2009, 8:43 pm
The above piece of art is called “I Think I’ll ….” by Ed Ruscha and deals with the subject of indecision. And Obama has chosen it to hang in his White House residence. No, this...
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