Author: Kelly Sloan
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The last, best hope for the Colorado GOP | Kelly Sloan
If the Colorado Republican Party desires to retain any relevancy, let alone wrest back any of the levers of political control in the state, it needs to elect Barb Kirkmeyer in the June 30 primary. To be sure, Kirkmeyer would be a solid candidate for governor in any case, whether or not she shared the…
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A step in the right direction for Taiwan | Kelly Sloan
Earlier this week, amid the chaos, bustle, tension and constant movement of a legislative session in full swing, a short ceremony took place in the east foyer on the first floor of the State Capitol, just steps from the governor’s office. Gov. Jared Polis himself was in fact present, as was the states’ Lieutenant Gov.,…
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The ramifications of President Trump’s pursuit of Greenland | Kelly Sloan
President Donald Trump has evidently stepped back from his threatened fantasy of invading Greenland — the sovereign territory of a U.S. ally — to which many a sigh of relief has been expressed, including by the markets. There was next to no chance of such a thing actually happening, whether by force, annexation, or whatever…
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Regime change, this time down Venezuela way | Kelly Sloan
As luck and the calendar would have it, I penned my annual “state of the world” column two days before the grand fireworks in Caracas took place, and the column was subsequently published two days after. To prove I was not sequestered in a monastery over the last week, herewith a few observations on the…
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Thinking through what to expect in the world in 2026 | SLOAN
It being something of a tradition of mine (and I am ever bound by tradition) to pen my inaugural column of the new year as a tour of sorts of the world scene, let’s begin: We begin in Europe, by which of course we mean Ukraine. It’s fair to say we seem closer to a…
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Slouching into reality regarding climate change | SLOAN
Milton Friedman once quipped that “nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” To that one may add the histrionics of the environmental lobby. Thirty-five years ago, in 1990, William F. Buckley wrote this gem of a paragraph: “In the 1960s, when the ideological swingers spoke of nothing else than the dangers of strontium…
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Rethinking Medicare after COVID-era Obamacare subsidies | SLOAN
Congress is getting all twisted up over health care policy again, and every time they do so it is generally a polemical skirmish regarding one of two things: A) how to deal with whatever problem the government created in health care; or B) how to deal with high costs, a problem largely created by government.…
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What are we doing in the Caribbean exactly? | SLOAN
There is, perhaps oddly, a chance the Trump administration is acting with a degree of geopolitical and strategic prudence regarding the endeavors directed toward Venezuela, but you would not know it from the administration itself. There are several dimensions to this, more than what the White House, inexplicably, is letting on; but the main issue…
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State health department should stay the course on advanced recycling tech | SLOAN
There is certainly no shortage of duly enacted public policy in Colorado that elicits bouts of rueful head shaking. But it is the periodic instances of public policy being made via well-placed whispers — off the books, as it were — that make one question whether perhaps the founders got it wrong, and we ought…
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Dick Cheney, R.I.P. | SLOAN
It is difficult, perhaps impossible, to think of an American political figure who has attracted the level of vitriol — from both sides, at varying times — while simultaneously so undeserving of it as Dick Cheney. Vice President Cheney passed away this week, at the age of 84, and to say his legacy has proven…