Kelly 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Kelly Sloan It is generally the business of the columnist to write something piquant about whatever it is that happens to be generating headlines and activating the salivary glands of those who consume current affairs on a given day. I find myself wondering, sort of, what Ed Feulner might have had to say about the […]

Kelly Sloan It’s probably understandable that there has been relatively scant coverage of the rescission bill just passed by the Senate, and on its way back to the House before consummating its journey on the president’s desk. After the several weeks this spring and summer in which we were inundated with the intricacies of the […]

Kelly Sloan It’s probably understandable that there has been relatively scant coverage of the rescission bill just passed by the Senate, and on its way back to the House before consummating its journey on the president’s desk. After the several weeks this spring and summer in which we were inundated with the intricacies of the […]

As I write this, word has percolated out that the U.S. House of Representatives has passed President Donald Trump's signature spending initiative, the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” That name conveys

The question on the minds of everyone watching the events unfold in the Middle East (namely, the whole world) is “what will the United States (meaning President Donald Trump) do?”

President Donald Trump’s deployment of the California National Guard (and now the Marines) to help quell the violence in Los Angeles and protect federal law enforcement officers and property has

In what turned out to possibly be one of the last truly cogent thoughts publicly articulated by then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was his observation during his 2020 campaign, “Milton