The US May Have Shot Down a Small Hobby Balloon With a Sidewinder Missile

From Trucks To Tanks: Pentagon Looks To Automakers To Rebuild America's Arsenal With two active conflict areas in Eurasia - the Russia-Ukraine conflict in Eastern Europe and the U.S.-Iran theater in the Gulf - the world is moving deeper into a war cycle. The latest indicator is not only that militaries around the world are beginning to stockpile one-way attack drones, but also the early-stage push to convert underused civilian industrial capacity, including struggling auto production lines, into wartime manufacturing hubs. The Wall Street Journal is out with a new report...

Indiana Primary: Senate Incumbents Crushed By Trump-Backed Challengers First rule of politics:  Never ignore the will of your base.  Second rule of politics:  Never make your party and your supporters weaker, or the opposing party stronger.  In December 2025, 21 Republican Indiana state senators joined forces with 10 Democrats to vote against a Trump-supported bill to redraw the state's congressional map as more favorable to conservatives in the midst of a redistricting battle that could decide the outcome of the 2026 mid-terms.  The decision was viewed by many conservative voters in...

Bernstein Says Bitcoin Market Already Priced In Quantum Risk Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, Bernstein said Monday that Bitcoin’s selloff has already priced in much of the market’s fear around quantum computing, arguing that the threat is real but still manageable rather than an immediate existential risk. Bitcoin’s (BTC) near 50% drawdown from its $126,198 all-time high in October 2025 is proof that the market has “priced in” several risks tied to a quantum breakthrough, partly thanks to technological progress on zero-knowledge privacy and quantum-proof cryptography that “counterbalance” the AI and...