Author: Kelly Sloan

Kelly Sloan If the situation seems familiar, it’s because, yes, we’ve been here before. The federal government is butting up against it’s debt limit (again) and (again) a Republican House majority is gearing up for a showdown over it with the sitting Democratic president. There are, nonetheless, a few differences from 2011. Part of the…

Kelly Sloan My favorite Scott McInnis story transpired shortly after the former Congressman assumed his latest role as Mesa County Commissioner, back in 2015. He spoke to me on several occasions about the deplorable condition of the Colorado-Utah state marker on Highway 50, lamenting how a visitor’s first welcome to the Centennial State from the…

Kelly Sloan As I write this, the U.S. House Republicans are headed to their – let me check – eighth round of voting for the new speaker of the House. Yes, the country is desperately in need of some conservative counter-balancing leadership in Washington, and the only group of people who can offer that can’t even get…

Kelly Sloan It has become a bit of a personal tradition of mine to write my final column of the year as something of a review of the world scene. I am hardly one to buck tradition, so let’s commence: The predominant international event of the past year has unquestioningly been Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…

Kelly Sloan ‘Tis the week before Christmas and plenty is stirring. I don’t know why we persist in telling ourselves, every year, that the lead up to the Christmas holiday will be some sort of dead-time where not much will happen because everyone, in and out of politics, will be more concerned about getting things…

Kelly Sloan The predominant geopolitical event of the year has unquestionably been Russia’s war against Ukraine, and everything that goes along with that. Concern over it here has largely been displaced by more pressing matters such as Harry and Meghan’s contemptuous new mini-series and the relative fortunes of this-or-that football team, but the war presses…

Kelly Sloan Bill Huang is one of the ablest diplomats I’ve come across. He is the director general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Denver, which would be called the “Taiwanese Consulate” had Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy been a little less myopic, covering a six-state region that includes Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and…

Kelly Sloan It’s that special time of year again – no, not Christmas, but open enrollment, when our thoughts turn again to the eternal, and apparently insoluble, problem of rising health care costs. Now the problem itself seems to coincide strongly with the advent of government in medical expenses. State Sen. Jim Smallwood reminds us, in…

Kelly Sloan I must admit that my first impulse upon writing this, the day before the Thanksgiving holiday, is to implore you, if you are reading this, to stop, put it down, and go back to your friends, family and turkey. Pay your monthly subscription of course – but do yourself and your loved ones a…

Kelly Sloan National Review’s Jim Geraghty has written an impressive summary of Donald Trump’s re-run announcement, reminding us of the infernal role he is likely to play in 2024. He begins by pointing out that Trump announced his first presidential run some 7,211 days ago and has been dominating the political scene ever since. He…