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Butch Mazzuca

Ooh Rah!

My blog posts usually appear on Monday, but today marks the 249th birthday of the United States Marine Corps, and a fitting moment to pay tribute to the men and women who epitomize the meaning of honor, courage and commitment.  The Marines are America’s “force in...

Winners & Losers Part II

Yesterday I wrote about winners and losers as general concept, but we also had an election yesterday, so I feel I’d be remiss if I didn’t comment about the real winners and losers in this election. The Ten Big Losers – President Xi Jinping Vladimir Putin the Mullahs...

Winners & Losers

Today is Election Day and instead of speculating about the outcome, I thought to share some thoughts about outcomes of even greater import – life and how we live it. A Winner makes commitments—A loser makes promises. When a winner makes a mistake he says, “I was...

Just Sayin’

The ideological Left, including presidential candidate Kamala Harris has it backwards regarding capitalism and believe its prime motivation is selfishness and greed. And while you cannot extract the human condition from any economic system, capitalism begins not with...

Taxes, Fascists & Foreign Policy

I saw a vehicle the other day sporting two bumper stickers.  The first read, Harris-Walz; the second, Everyone Must Pay Their Fair Share.  The owner of the vehicle was obviously a democrat evinced by their inability to examine an issue in depth or to get beyond the...

Leadership isn’t a communal activity

Recently I visited the Pima Air & Space Museum here in Tucson, and among the many exhibits was a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, the same type aircraft I flew in Vietnam.  But it was the helicopter’s squadron designation that fascinated me – HMM-163, which just...