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What About This . . .? By Wayne William Cipriano

The recent report by a second-tier news agency regarding the accusations made by one of President Trump’s close associates about business deals in Russia that the President denied and the super-quick refutation by Mr. Mueller’s investigatory team brought to mind, once again, my surprise at the lack of information we are getting about the “Mueller…

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What About This . . .? By Wayne William Cipriano

Christmas is over. What a bummer. When I was a kid, our family stretched Christmas from just after Thanksgiving, when we started to dig out the decorations, look through the Sears catalog for gifts we couldn’t even hope for, visit “Toyland” (the building on whatever Marine Corps base we inhabited that was dedicated to showing…

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What About This . . .? By Wayne William Cipriano

Whenever we go anywhere in the car, I always seem to be the one who does the driving. It’s not that I like driving so much (I don’t), or that my control issues extend to operating the car (they don’t), or that my innate chauvinism is showing (it’s not), or that I am trying to…

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What About This . . .? By Wayne William Cipriano

There is a certain time in our lives when a man’s daughter changes from a little girl to being a young woman. There is no specific age at which that happens that I am aware of, no specific accomplishment nor occurrence, but it always happens – sometimes slowly over time, sometimes in a flash. For…

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What About This . . .? By Wayne William Cipriano

It’s getting toward the end of the year, and in order to balance the Universe, we have Christmas and New Year’s on the one hand, and Tax Time on the other. I don’t know much more about paying taxes than you do, but here are some ideas I’ve been thinking about. You may want to…

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What About This . . .? By Wayne William Cipriano

I have been silent concerning the Administration of President Trump for more than two years. I decided to give him a chance; after all, no one, not even himself, believed he would actually be elected. He was unprepared. He went from a position where he could say or do just about anything and hire lawyers…

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What About This . . .? By Wayne William Cipriano

Whenever a president dies, in or out of office, our entire country seems to pause, and examine not just the passing president, but we often take a look at ourselves via that president’s administration; the good and the not so good. Recently, I heard a lot of comments regarding the life and presidency of George…

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What About This . . .? By Wayne William Cipriano

You may have noticed that we had an election recently. From what I heard, far more voters turned out to make their voices heard than you would expect, this being an “off” election. Since we weren’t voting for President and Vice President, the only time the entire country speaks as one to select leaders, it…

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What About This . . .? By Wayne William Cipriano

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the great American showman P.T. Barnum’s advice for success: Give the People What They Want. He was giving business advice I suppose, but it applies to many other walks of life. And it is simple. Too simple? Just because something is desired doesn’t automatically mean it’s good, does…

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What About This . . .? By Wayne William Cipriano

 We watch a lot of Public Broadcasting System (PBS) television on channel 21. Or we used to (on our antenna television) until that wind storm blew the television tower over that 21 used to send out their signal. After we noticed that the commercial television station that owned the tower (I think it was Channel…

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