HeyJaredWilliam W Bedsworth
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- Sep 22, 2026
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- Jul 29, 2026
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The staggering cost of Trump’s unnecessary war in Iran (opens the original)
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According to my morning newspaper, we have now spent $43.6 billion on the war in Iran. $43.6 billion. Well, good morning to us. The elderly among us trying to get by on a pensioner’s income, the working stiffs trying to figure out how to pay for their children’s education, the young families trying to save money for a first home—we’ve all spent $43.6 billion on the most phenomenal ego trip since Napoleon invaded Russia. Because that’s all it’s been. The man whose ego is so pathologically despera
William W. Bedsworth: Why the Trump DOJ can’t even indict a ham sandwich (opens the original)
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Let’s talk about a subject I know something about. After dealing with me for 37 years when I was a judge in this county, I’m sure the local bar will be hurrying to get to the next paragraph and find out what that might be. I want to talk about our court system. Every day, this newspaper publishes another article about a federal court somewhere that has thrown out something the Trump administration tried to do. The list of their cockamamie failures grows faster than the dandelions in your backyar
William W. Bedsworth: The ‘American Greed’ presidency (opens the original)
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If you’ve watched the television show American Greed, you’ve seen plenty of grifters who ignore the law until it catches up with them. But until now, none of those has ever reached the highest office in the land. Donald Trump is the epitome of the people profiled on that show. He started out trying to get around the law, but then realized nobody was catching on, so he’d just ignore the law and do whatever he pleased. As he told The New York Times, “I found out nobody cared.” And, with nobody car
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