Odds are good that, while strolling the streets of upscale Colorado resorts like Vail and Aspen, you are far more likely to encounter a celebrity somebody from the Left like actor/environmentalist Robert Redford than, say, Rush Limbaugh or Herman Cain. So what a pleasant surprise it is to discover Melanie Sturm at the Aspen Times.

Sturm is new columnist who writes from a conservative/libertarian perspective. She’s good, too, a fact that was pointed out at a recent conference by no less a luminary than The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund, who knows a thing or two about what it takes to write great columns.