Kim Monson Featured Articles

Roadblocks to Reinstatement

Hollywood Can't Get Death Right

Talking politics over a beer

How Repetition Builds a Republic

A tiny mark carries significant weight

The spectres of the Constitution

PLUGing In to Connect

The impetuous vortex of the purse

Jesse Jackson had an angle

What Is a Fascist?

The ubiquity and frequency of the word fascism have grown significantly in recent years to the point that it is now used as a weapon as opposed to a philosophical argument. Declaring that another is a fascist is a way to

Principles over Party

Two shoe salesmen were sent to a new territory to assess its market potential and report back to their company. The first salesman reported back, “There is no potential, nobody wears shoes here.” The second salesman repo

Health and Human Services Changes Vaccine Recommendations in 2025

In 2025, Health and Human Services (HHS) has implemented changes in vaccine recommendations for the COVID vaccines, the MMRV combination vaccine, and potentially the Hepatitis B vaccine. The American Academy of Pediatric

How Colorado Conservatives Can Unite with Unaffiliated Voters

For the past decade, medical freedom has been my primary issue. Historically, medical freedom was a non-partisan issue. That changed with the controversy over the pandemic mandate of an experimental vaccine. Medical free

Focus on Your Flame

I remember hearing a story about a young man who seeks advice from his teacher after repeatedly failing to reach his goals. The teacher gave him the task of carrying a lit candle to a tree a few feet away without its fla

The Paradox of Freedom

As any parent of a toddler can attest, it takes an act of bravery or a momentary lapse of judgement to give an open-ended question with no restraints to a toddler. What do you want for dinner is promptly met with what ev

Three Days Too Late: How Colorado Endangers Citizens by Withholding Self-Defense

Colorado’s three-day waiting period is built on a presumption of guilt. It assumes that every law-abiding buyer who passes a background check is a potential threat to themselves or others, and so the state imposes a blan

Protecting Senior Citizens from Asset Theft by Collusion of Doctors and Judges, Part Two

In 2022, I wrote Protecting Senior Citizens from Asset Theft by Collusion of Doctors and Judges and this is Part Two. This theft occurs when a doctor declares that a person does not have the mental capacity to make medic

Character, Curiosity, and Communication Lead to Connection

In ancient Mesopotamia there lived a king by the name of Gilgamesh who went on an adventure to find immortality. On his journey he discovered that his true immortality does not rest on eternal life, yet on the impact he

From Clinic to Confiscation: Colorado’s Blueprint for Civil Rights Abuse

In 2021, Colorado passed House Bill 21-1299, creating the Office of Gun Violence Prevention (OGVP) under the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. On paper, it was sold as a public health initiative desig

Innocence is Not a Culture War Casualty–It is the Front Line

Trump’s administration moved quickly to help protect female athletes and keep biological males out of women’s sports. He has used all the power that he has to threaten federal funding to schools that continue to allow th