Author: Kelly Sloan

Kelly Sloan Failure may be an orphan, as the aphorism goes, but it certainly spurs a lot of people to assign paternity. The failure of the Silicon Valley Bank earlier this year is no exception. Almost before the story broke, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, along with a slew of pundits who vote for people…

Kelly Sloan The news of the shooting at East High School, to which Denver and the state awoke on Wednesday morning, was a particularly cruel punctuation on the issue of crime which is gripping the city. As such, it was also one which ought to have disqualified a number of the candidates for mayor right…

Kelly Sloan William Kristol took to Twitter earlier this week and had this to say: “I assume @WSJopinion and @NRO will not only come out strongly against DeSantis on Ukraine, but also discuss whether being on the wrong side of the defining foreign policy issue of our time isn’t disqualifying for the presidency. Or are…

Kelly Sloan Ian Easton has a lot to say about China that is worth listening to. Mr. Easton boasts an impressive curriculum vitae which marks him as among the foremost Western experts on the region. He has written a fascinating and well-documented, if somewhat chilling, book called “The Final Struggle,” in which he outlines, convincingly,…

Kelly Sloan By all accounts, the Biden Administration’s arguments defending President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness edict before the Supreme Court are not going very well. The Court heard arguments this week challenging the president’s unilateral decision to dismiss, with the flick of his presidential wrist, nearly half-a-trillion dollars in student loan debt, absent any…

Kelly Sloan It is refreshing to witness Democratic State Senate President, Steve Fenberg, team up with Republican Sen. Kevin Van Winkle on a bill that has wide support from the business community – SB 143, which is designed to offer some relief to businesses tasked with administering the retail delivery fee foisted on them two legislative…

Kelly Sloan In the hailstorm of criticisms over health care costs, we hear every now and again about the costs associated with treating mental health. Since, like the rest of health care, the great innovations of the last 50 years have come from the pharmaceutical industry, what we are predominantly talking about is the cost…

Kelly Sloan The 100-years war against business continues briskly. The latest offensive was introduced a little over a fortnight ago, HB 1118, the Fair Workweek Employment Standards bill, which asks state legislators to consider writing into law a requirement employers accurately predict the future. It’s a fairly enormous bill, coming in at 33 pages. The…

Kelly Sloan It’s one of the peculiar exigencies of American political practice that one must maintain a certain coyness, up to a point, when quizzed about a potential presidential run. We are approaching that point in the cycle where deliberate ambiguity starts gradually transitioning to more concrete commitments. To wit, Nikki Haley seems poised to…

Kelly Sloan It took far too long to get it done, but Germany and the U.S. have finally seen fit to supply the beleaguered Ukrainians with the top-end tanks they begged for for weeks. The whole tank drama was a spectacle that illustrated disunity within NATO, the inability of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to aptly…