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Baku-APA. Moscow will not leave the United States' further anti-Russian sanctions unanswered, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told TASS on Tuesday, APA reports quoting TASS. "This situation can be characterized by such proverbs as 'a wise man changes his mind, a fool never will' or 'you might as well be talking to a brick wall,'" he said. "Being absolutely aware that all their attempts to influence us through sanctions are doomed to failure, colleagues from Washington nevertheless are sticking to their false opinion. It is a 'shot in one's own leg' from the point of view of Russian-US relations,...

Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's national security advisor, continues to be apologetic to the Iranian regime and a cheerleader for outreach to the Islamic Republic at any cost. In the aftermath of Iran's seizure and humiliation of ten U.S. sailors, for example, Brzezinski tweeted criticism to the American media for not seeing the episode in a positive light. "The US media has conveniently missed that Iran's release of US sailors is a direct result of the dialogue created by the Iran deal," he wrote. If that's the case, then what explains Iran's holding of multiple American hostages, several of whom...

r the past 7 months, everyone has been saying that Donald Trump has finally met his demise, only to be proven spectacularly wrong. The reason they were wrong time and time again is simple: the other candidates and the moderators always attacked Trump from the left, particularly on immigration. Instead of hurting him, it always fueled Trump’s appeal. Americans are tired of being lectured to on the issue of immigration, and Trump was speaking to where most voters are at this point. - See more at: https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/01/cruz-schlongs-trump-trump-schlongs-jeb#sthash.WcmS9sW2.dpuf

The biggest takeaways from the State of the Union were that about anyone could probably take some money from Paul Ryan in a poker game and that after seven years in office Barack Obama has become adept at expressing rancor with lofty prose, hasn't learned much, and is resentful that he's failed (and it's everyone else's fault)]. The White house claimed Obama's last SOTU would be positive and optimistic. And, the language, the actual words, were positive: the promises brought by these times of change; "always extending America's promise outward to the next frontier"; "a thriving private sector is the...

... Mr. Cruz did not just dominate much of the Republican debate, he slashed, he mocked, he charmed and he outmaneuvered everybody else onstage - but none as devastatingly and as thoroughly as this campaign’s most commanding performer, Donald J. Trump. In the process Mr. Cruz - the high school student who once recited the Constitution from memory and the Princeton debater who dazzled judges with his ability to entrap less shrewd rivals - showed the American public that his surging candidacy is not a fluke. Twenty six minutes into what had been a slug-free evening, a moderator asked Mr....

Here's your Happy Friday video for you hunters. You've heard of the debate gun vs a knife in close quarter battle. The twenty-one foot rule comes to mind for those in the LE role, which means at that distance you should have ample time to react and draw your pistol. The main thing about it is when sh!t hits the fan, and the guy with the knife is upon you, you must fight hand to hand prior to having to pull out your pistol. Man vs CatThe excerpt image above from a video shows this fella defending against a leopard....

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo believes that pro-life activists, along with anti-gay activists and supporters of the Second Amendment, are not welcome in his state. During a radio interview on Friday, Cuomo pointed out that Republicans were in the midst of a schism, where conservatives worked against moderate Republicans. "Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves," he said. "Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that's who they are and they're the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of...

Baku - APA. Russia could give asylum to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad if he has to leave his country, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on January 12, according to RFE/RL. "It was surely more difficult to grant [U.S. national security contractor Edward] Snowden asylum in Russia than it would be in the case of Assad," Putin told the German tabloid Bild, referring to the American leaker of classified U.S. documents who was given asylum in Russia in 2013. Putin said it was too early to say whether Russia would have to give shelter to Assad as...

Donald Trump has rented space at an Urbandale movie theater and will give Iowans free tickets to a showing of the Benghazi movie that critics of Hillary Clinton have been eagerly awaiting. “Mr. Trump would like all Americans to know the truth about what happened at Benghazi,” the GOP presidential candidate’s Iowa co-chair Tana Goertz said Thursday night. Trump will pay for the showing of “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” at 6 p.m. Friday at the Carmike Cobblestone 9 Theatre at 86th Street and Hickman Road, Goertz said. “The theater is paid for. The tickets are paid for....

Donald Trump is renting out an Iowa movie theater and is providing tickets to a screening of "13 Hours," a dramatization of the 2012 Benghazi terror attack that is to be released nationwide on Friday. Trump's Iowa state co-chair Tana Goertz told Trump supporters they could get free tickets to the screening at the Cobblestone Theater just outside of Des Moines, according to a source who attended Trump's debate watch party in Iowa Thursday night.

The recent market jitters have a lot of people saying that the Fed might have made a yuge mistake by raising rates. I’ve been a vocal proponent against raising rates, but I am not convinced that this was a policy error (just yet). The risk/reward doesn’t look great in a world where the US economy is fairly weak and global growth is clearly slowing. Here’s my thinking: The risk with rate hikes is creating an extreme divergence in global policy approaches where the US Central Bank, the world’s most important central bank, is tightening policy into a global slowdown. The...

A video showing an epic temper tantrum of a black female student at a Texas middle school highlights the problem with schools in America today. The unruly teenager climbed on top of a table, stomped her feet, and dared administrators and police to “touch” or “taser” her. “What the f**k are they gonna do, tase my a**?” she shouted, “I wish they would!” The delinquent continued her rant for nearly two minutes, climbing from table to table and provoking authorities to do something about it…but they didn’t: they just stood by and watched her disrupt the rest of the students’...

Cheniere Energy has delayed the first export of liquefied natural gas from its Sabine Pass plant by about one month until late February or early March, the company announced Thursday. The shipment, which was originally secluded to depart near the end of January, is still slated to be the first cargo of liquefied gas to sail from the continental United States. While Cheniere remains ahead of its competitors, the international markets it's racing to serve have been roiled by a crush of liquefaction capacity due online in 2016 and sluggish demand for the fuel. A one-month delay isn't likely to...

Paramount Pictures is releasing 13 Hours: Secret Soldiers of Benghazi nation-wide on Friday. It tells the story of the attack on two U.S. diplomatic outposts in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012 that took four American lives, including that of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya. Despite claims from Paramount and director Michael Bay that the film isn't political (the book on which it's based certainly wasn't), The Hollywood Reporter has noted that it's being marketed specifically to conservatives. So they're specifically targeting one side of the political aisle while more or less neglecting the other? Well, yeah. You don't shop...

1. China bear: The Shanghai Composite closed down 3.6% Friday, more than 20% below its recent high. 2. Oil below $30: Crude oil futures remain as volatile as ever, and are down nearly 5% -- crashing below $30 in morning trading. 3. More stock market movers: Anglo American, GE, Fiat Chrysler: Continuing the theme of battered commodities, Anglo American (AAUKF) is down another 8% in early trading. GE (GE) has agreed to sell its appliance business to China's Haier for $5.4 billion. 4. Earnings: Wells Fargo (WFC), Citigroup (C), U.S. Bancorp (USB), PNC (PNC), and BlackRock (BLK) are expected ahead...

Oil companies have scrapped $380 billion in new projects since the oil-market downturn began a year and a half ago, Wood Mackenzie said Thursday. The energy research firm's dollar-figure estimate has nearly doubled since its first report on the matter last July, as oil prices crashed from around $60 a barrel in the summer to about $30 a barrel this week. About $170 billion of the scrubbed projects had been scheduled to come into production from 2016 to 2020. That means 2.9 million barrels a day that the industry had planned to bring up won't hit the market until after...

U.S. Marine Corps 22 mins *The Marine Corps can confirm there is an active search and rescue operation ongoing for two CH-53 helicopters of the coast of Oahu. The U.S. Coast Guard is currently conducting search and rescue operations. The aircraft are from the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing from Marine Corps Base Hawaii. We will provide more details as they become available.* — Major Christian Devine, USMC

Eight years ago -- that's a generation in presidential politics -- Hillary Clinton expected that as the first woman in the Oval Office she would be making the State of the Union address this week. Instead she's in Iowa and New Hampshire, up to her knees in snow and slush again, fighting off Bernie Sanders, who was left for dead a month ago and has suddenly begun rising in the polls in both states, inflicting severe dyspepsia in the Clinton camp. But this is not the Year of the Woman, and "women's issues" are not front-and-center this year. Clinton's not...

The Fox Business debate made clear that the Republican primary is Donald Trump's race to lose. It's not only that Trump continues his months-long polling lead and the debate won't do anything to change that. It's that Trump's considerable political skills were on display Thursday evening. Provocative, gauche, funny, emphatic, and fearless, Trump doesn't back down when the crowd boos him, he holds his own against more polished opponents, and he has identified and exploited the anger of many Republican and independent voters. But Trump has done something more. He's become the focal point of the 2016 campaign in a...