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Vail Valley Voices: Taking the Earth's temperature

The public is finally catching on to the fact that the global-warming scare is driven far more by ideology than science, and a recent Gallup poll revealed that the percentage of Americans who think the threat of global warming is exaggerated is at its ...

From BUTCH MAZZUCA, Vail Daily,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Gallup,  Cato Institute,  University of Virginia,  Al Gore,  George Will

Vail Valley Voices: A tale of two hunts

My wife and I recently returned from southern Africa, where we experienced one of the most incredible spectacles imaginable. On our first morning in the bush our guide was driving us and another couple from the Matashu Camp through the center of the ...

From BUTCH MAZZUCA VAIL, CO, COLORADO, The Vail Trail,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Land Rover

Vail Valley Voices: Obama needs a 'W'

After watching the latest round of Sunday talk shows and listen­ing to both liberal and conserva­tive pundits, I've come to the conclusion that President Barack Obama needs a “W” — no, not as in Dubya, but a “W” as in a “win.” A quick glance back ...

From BUTCH MAZZUCA, The Vail Trail,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  NATO,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Congress,  White House

Vail Valley Voices: Questions worth asking about health care reform

Ninety percent of the American public has health insurance; and according to surveys, 80 percent of us are happy with that insurance. So why is President Obama trying to inject big government into every aspect of health care when the vast majority of ...

From BUTCH MAZZUCA VAIL, CO, COLORADO, Vail Daily,  13 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence

Vail Valley Voices: Today's political 'Catch 22'

The archetypal Catch-22 was formulated by Joseph Heller in his irreverent novel (of the same name) about World War II. It involves the case of John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces bombardier who wishes to be grounded from combat flight duty. In ...

From BUTCH MAZZUCA VAIL, CO, COLORADO, The Vail Trail,  3 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Joseph Heller

Vail Valley column: Attitude is everything

Earl Nightingale was an American author and motivational speaker who came to be known as the dean of personal development. He believed the world in which we live and work is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. The maxim that runs through all ...

From BUTCH MAZZUCA, Vail Daily,  26 Jun 2009

Related Topics: United Airlines

Vail Valley Voices: Give Obama an A

The other day, I received another one of those e-mails criticizing Barack Obama for apologizing for every perceived American contravention since 1776. Some obviously aren't comfortable with the president's obsession with appeasing both the Europeans ...

From BUTCH MAZZUCA VAIL, CO, COLORADO, Vail Daily,  14 Jun 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Central Intelligence Agency,  William Ayers,  Joseph Goebbels

Vail Valley Voices: What are we teaching our kids?

On June 26, 1963, in what was to become John F. Kennedy’s most significant speech, the young American president told an adoring crowd of 1 million West Berliners, “There are many people in the world who really don’t understand, or say they don’t, what ...

From BUTCH MAZZUCA VAIL, CO, COLORADO, The Vail Trail,  16 Apr 2009

Related Topics: Karl Marx,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama

Vail Valley Voices: Everyone operates on self interest

Years ago, liberal talk show host Phil Donohue interviewed now deceased Nobel Prize winning economist and public intellectual Milton Friedman. Mr. Donohue is a well-intentioned entertainer who believes it’s patently immoral for humankind to allow ...

From BUTCH MAZZUCA VAIL, CO, COLORADO, The Vail Trail,  20 Mar 2009

Related Topics: Milton Friedman,  Henry Ford,  Hugo Chávez,  Harry Reid,  Nancy Pelosi

Vail Valley Voices: Creeping toward socialism?

If you were to ask the average American what form of government we have in the United States, the likely response would be that we live in a democracy. But what if I told you the United States is not a democracy? Rather, we are a republic, and ours ...

From BUTCH MAZZUCA VAIL, CO, COLORADO, The Vail Trail,  7 Mar 2009

Related Topics: Harry Reid,  Nancy Pelosi

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