Author: Kelly Sloan

Kelly Sloan It took a year, but the Biden administration has finally stopped pretending the Inflation Reduction Act has a whit to do with reducing inflation. At a press conference this week, White House Deputy Chief of Staff John Podesta remarked “we have to cut the carbon pollution that’s driving the climate crisis. And that’s…

Kelly Sloan It’s the big, flashy, headline-mill Supreme Court cases that tend to generate the biggest reactions from a salacious public, but the under-the-radar, boring ones sometimes have a bigger impact which warrants significant attention. While everyone was watching the High Court deal with affirmative action, website designers, and patiently telling President Joe Biden he…

072023-cp-web-oped-sloan-1 I am not a film critic, and make no pretense to being one. So I cannot speak to the subtleties of cinematography, character development, dialogue, story arc, or whatever it is that film critics dissect when practicing their art. But as a commentor on social and political matters of the day, it is impossible…

Kelly Sloan Should one wish to seek out a pearl or two of political wisdom from the Republican perspective in the Centennial State, Dick Wadhams and Sean Duffy would certainly be near the top of any list. Both gentlemen have written recently in these pages about the lamentable state the Colorado Republican Party finds itself…

072023-cp-web-oped-sloan-1 John Kerry is the third high-level U.S. official to visit Beijing in recent weeks, and the third to accomplish precisely nothing. He went there under the auspices of his retirement gig, U.S. climate envoy, to try and beg the PRC leadership to hobble their economy by eschewing fossil fuels. Given that the Chinese economy…

Kelly Sloan Can someone please explain to me why some government officials from Western democratic countries feel the need to (literally) embrace, kiss, or bow to despots? Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen took a trip to Beijing last weekend, and the first thing she does is bow not once, not twice, but three times to the…

Kelly Sloan The most recent and significant Supreme Court decisions have created hysteria pretty much where one would expect. They have also reignited examinations into the mind and philosophy of Chief Justice John Roberts. Roberts has been the target of a great deal of disapprobation during his tenure, from both the left and the right.…

Kelly Sloan The question of how to lower the cost of providing health care seems to be as persistent as it is vexing. The fact that all avenues being explored by the current crop of decision makers appear to point in one direction – the eventual adoption of a “single payer” or some other centralized system –…

Kelly Sloan It has often been said of Switzerland that it is the best run country in the world, and in many ways it is. Perhaps growing weary of carrying that mantle, or becoming uncomfortable with their success, the Swiss decided by referendum earlier this week to commit their otherwise well-run country to a pair…

Kelly Sloan The circus continues its performance, unabated. Former President Donald Trump, as expected, pled not guilty to charges earlier this week stemming from allegations laid out in a federal indictment unsealed last week related to his hoarding several classified national security documents. The alleged facts, even accounting for a bit of prosecutorial hyperbole in…