Author: Kelly Sloan

Denver residents are being offered an opportunity to democratically affirm one of the axioms of a free society — namely, that the government should not stand athwart a willing buyer and a willing seller — by rescinding the city’s recently inflicted ban on flavored vapes and other tobacco products through voting “no” on proposition 310.…

The images emerging from Israel this past week were heartwarming, the return of the 20 Israeli hostages who remained alive after just more than two brutal years in the clutches of Hamas. The ceasefire arrangement that effectuated the release was a remarkable accomplishment, and to date President Donald Trump’s most important, and most noble, foreign…

The question of Taiwan continues to bear down, never quite occupying the forefront of collective international thought — at least not for long, but permanently lingering in our peripheral vision. A constant storm warning, but just distant enough to lull us into an undeserved sense of security. There are, in fact, several questions surrounding Taiwan,…

I met Charlie Kirk twice, the second time over dinner, several years ago as he was still just starting out on what would become a spectacularly ascendent career in the polemical arena. I found him to be an especially bright, articulate, and ambitious young man, a deeply committed Christian with sharp instincts who left you,…

The special legislative session is now underway, the assigned task list for which includes measures to deal with the roughly (another) $1 billion hole in the budget. The reasons offered for the 11-digit deficit depend a great deal on one’s political affiliation: Democrats, rather conveniently, are blaming the One Big Beautiful Bill, the federal budget…