Pentagon Planning To Rename Iran War ‘Operation Sledgehammer’ If US Restarts Bombing Campaign

Waste Of The Day: Town Manager's Snacking Spree Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: Michael Boaz, the former town manager of Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, made hundreds of unauthorized purchases on his city credit card from 2022 to 2024, including bullets and a hotel for his family vacation, according to a state audit released in May. Boaz was fired in 2024 when the allegations first came to light. Now that a state audit confirmed the questionable purchases, he has been indicted for felony embezzlement. Key facts: Boaz' questionable purchases totaled $18,426, much...

We're All On Borrowed Time... Authored by Brad Todd via The What For Substack, We bought our house in the same year I discovered Piemonte, and that was fortuitous. The house came with a walk-in wine cellar and the family-owned vineyards strewn across the rolling Italian hills from LaMorra to Serralunga D'Alba provided a learnable collection of producers to fill it up. It is a good thing I have enjoyed the chore of curating this wine because I will not get to enjoy drinking it. This afternoon, maybe even as you read...

An Overheating Feedback Loop Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Congratulations, you made it through the panic…and now the market has decided none of it ever mattered and things are 5% better than they’ve ever been in history. Prices have not only recovered from the Iran war scare, they’ve pushed comfortably beyond where they were before it even started. The NASDAQ is logging a batshit insane 13-day winning streak, marking its longest consecutive green run since July 2009. That’s impressive, if your definition of impressive includes a complete disregard for unresolved risk and/or any type of...