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L.S. “Butch” Mazzuca
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Recent Commentaries

From the Jungle to the Swamp

Understandably the president is sometimes described as a street-brawler because when you’ve spent most of your life in the Manhattan real estate market, the “Hit me & I’ll hit you back twice as hard” attitude is necessary just to survive. And that’s precisely the...

Same Ol’ Same Ol’

I was unable to attend the recent climate lecture at Battle Mountain H.S., but I did read Nate Peterson’s (the Vail Daily's editor) article on Friday when he reported on the event, and was struck by the lack of specificity regarding the topic.  Not on Nate’s part, but...

Results, not process.

While commenting about the NY Times’ endorsement of Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren, a pundit for Mediaite.com wrote, “…some in the Democrat Party view the president as an aberration and believe that a return to a more sensible America is possible,” followed by,...

The New Normal

A little less than a year ago Nancy Pelosi said, “… impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path because it divides the country.”   For a brief moment I...

Questions

Let’s get something straight from the get-go—the history of U.S. relations with Iran did not begin when Donald Trump took office.  But judging from recent comments, the left doesn’t to want to acknowledge we’ve been in a de facto war with Iran since they overran our...

Don’t Lose Your Identity!

The commercials about identity theft are cute, but the subject matter is very serious.  Identity theft can cause years of agony, including problems obtaining credit, the aggravation of having to clean up one’s financial report and even legal problems.  According to...

It’s not that complicated

There are no shortages of opinions regarding the most pressing issues facing this nation.  Some cite the rising national debt and point to the fact that historically speaking; large debt always precedes the collapse of government.  Others point to the safe spaces that...

Don’t Touch My Social Security

Social Security has long been called the third rail of American politics because of the political danger it poses to politicians attempting to change or reform it.  But change it must because Social Security will not deliver as promised to the majority of Americans...

A Christmas Story

This is a reprint of a commentary I wrote years ago in the Vail Daily, and every word is true! For Italian mothers, Christmas is the social event of the season—it’s their raison d’être. They clean, they cook, they bake; they orchestrate the day.  In essence, Christmas...

Removing the spin

For three years we've heard Nadler and Schiff tell anyone who would listen that they had "proof" of Russian collusion on the part of the Trump campaign, so in light of the recent IG report I decided to write this commentary and do something novel in the world of...