Liberal comedian and social commentator Bill Maher recently opined about the Chinese Communist government’s growing dominance over the United States. He referred to Americans as “silly people” and rhetorically asked, “Why are we sleeping?” in reference to the fact...
Butch Mazzuca
A logical conclusion
A question that's become a real hot button in political discussions these days is whether or not systemic racism exists in the United States, or if this is another artificial construct of the left. But before we can answer that question common sense dictates that we...
A Casual Observation
“Docendo discimus,” is a Latin proverb that means, “By teaching, we learn,” said differently, if you want to master something, teach it! Many years ago, my 7th grade teacher taught me a lesson I’ve never forgotten. Danny Skaluba and I were arguing about which was...
Did Aliens Visit Us?
One of the many curiosities packed into the $2.3 trillion omnibus spending and coronavirus-relief package passed by congress was a stipulation requiring the Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to deliver an unclassified report...
Thoughts and observations
Friends, many of my comments below were in last week's blog but, they didn't make it into the Vail Daily, so, I've repeated some of them here since this is what appears in today's Vail Daily. The reason socialism has never worked anywhere it’s been tried is because in...
Ideas I Happen to Agree With
It’s a given that the kids attending inner city schools are not receiving the same quality of education as say, those attending Eagle County schools. Yet due to affirmative action, after being denied the opportunity receive a quality education in both grade and high...
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
Recently physicists at MIT and the State University of New York confirmed that the surface area of two black holes was maintained after the two entities merged, which was predicted by both Einstein’s theory of general relativity and Stephen Hawking’s work at Cambridge...
A State of Mind
Newcomers tell me how they marvel at the seeming “agelessness” of valley, and how the limitless outlets for physical activity helps delay, prevent, and even manage many costly, chronic illnesses. And while physical activity is critical to our wellbeing, it’s also...
It’s About More Than Just Guns
Many believe the most pressing problem facing the nation today is the rising crime rate, where preliminary FBI data points to the largest single year increase in murders since the agency began publishing this data 60 years ago. Meanwhile, cities across the U.S. have...
America Needs the Full Story
Stephen Schneider, an Environmental Biology professor at Stanford University, told a group of reporters, “That as scientists, we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but… which means we must...