A.B. Stoddard: Iraq, then and now
Wanted: Republicans willing to step up and explain just how we are going to face down the threat of new terrorist groups and non-state actors trying to take over sovereign countries in the Middle East,...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Obama’s border woes
Just days ago, a defiant President Obama ended his attempts to work with Congress on immigration reform and declared he would go it alone, using all of the power of the executive office possible to...
View ArticleStoddard: Rand Paul 1, Rick Perry 0
Let’s hope other 2016 presidential hopefuls learn from Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s mistake this week — drunk on confidence and mojo, politicians often shoot themselves in the foot. Perfectly positioned as...
View ArticleTime to act presidential
Perhaps President Obama might consider it his duty to act presidential, even if it is just acting. He could acknowledge that Americans find it comforting and appropriate for their president to be...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Crossing the border divide
Just weeks ago a humanitarian crisis exploding on the border was scrambling the politics of immigration — Republicans agreed immediate resources were needed to confront the problem, and Democrats...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: An impotent president
As he faces plummeting approval ratings, wars in Europe and the Middle East and a border crisis that has prompted talk of impeachment, it may be time to ask what it is that President Obama...
View ArticleStoddard: Will Obama meet ISIS threat?
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, formerly some ragtag terrorist group President Obama wrote off as “JV,” has suddenly hijacked Obama’s presidency and his legacy — forcing Obama back in to war in...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: A major policy misfire
We are facing what the Defense secretary has characterized as an unprecedented threat from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, al-Nusra is threatening Israeli Defense forces on the border of the Golan...
View ArticleStoddard: We cannot be lukewarm on ISIS
Imagine allies and leaders across the ocean trying to match the statement to the statesman: “We know that if we are joined by the international community we can continue to shrink ISIL’s sphere of...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Dems face dim future
It’s gloom time for Democrats.As most Americans worry about a new, unprecedented terror threat from the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS), national Democrats are facing their fears about losing...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Waiting for Clinton
So we know how Hillary Clinton feels about steak, retiring Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), equal pay, a minimum wage increase and how hard Democrats should campaign for the midterm elections in November. But...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Who will lead the GOP?
Perhaps Dr. Ben Carson is prescient and the 2016 election won’t even happen because our nation will soon devolve into anarchy brought on by the threat from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS),...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Clinton’s calculus
It must be hectic at Clinton Inc. these days, what with the excitement of a newborn granddaughter, a busy speaking schedule, that yoga she’s doing and now the need to game out multiple scenarios for a...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: No one at the helm on Ebola
The spread of Ebola in America, once described in repeated reassurances as only a remote possibility, has caught our health system flat-footed. Sadly, that doesn’t come as a big surprise.But now, weeks...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: What if Dems win?
So, let’s just say, what if Democrats survive Election Day?Seriously, even Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) thinks they might. “It’s close enough it could break either way,” Cruz said on Bloomberg television...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: The midterms in review: Who made the biggest mistakes?
Ah, the midterm elections of 2014, thanks for the memories. There were certainly some keepers: a supporter of Sen. Thad Cochran's opponent snuck into Cochran's wife’s nursing home to take pictures of...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: A bad night for Clinton?
While reports from the White House on election night described a fuming President Obama still in denial about his role in Democratic losses all over the country, you might have heard champagne corks...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: All eyes on Jeb Bush
The 2016 GOP presidential nominating contest, which began after last week’s midterm elections wrapped up, already includes 17 potential candidates and their families, hundreds of would-be staff and...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Pelosi’s lost leverage
For Nancy Pelosi, November is the cruelest month. At least, it is this November.Unanimously elected House Democratic leader for a seventh term this week, the first female (and now former) House Speaker...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Jeb stalling in neutral
Guess who isn’t running for president? Jeb Bush. Just listen to him.The GOP presidential race is frozen until the former Florida governor makes his decision, and he sounds like a man ready to run for...
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