{"id":15660,"date":"2026-03-09T18:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T01:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15660"},"modified":"2026-03-09T18:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T01:16:38","slug":"plenty-of-money-for-war-but-not-enough-for-you-bradcast-392026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15660","title":{"rendered":"Plenty of Money for War, But Not Enough for You: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 3\/9\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_PentagonAerial_030926.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">It&#8217;s Happy Beginning of Daylight Saving Time Day on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>! (The <i>actual<\/i> unofficial start of Summer!) That said, thanks in (very small part) to last night&#8217;s Spring Forward clock change, I&#8217;m too tired to write much today. So&#8230; [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]\n<p>Among our many stories covered today&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our brightest news of the day: A Reagan-appointed federal judge over the weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/03\/08\/nx-s1-5741594\/u-s-judge-kari-lake-broke-law-voice-of-america\">ruled<\/a> that former Phoenix local news anchor, twice-failed statewide candidate and election denier <b>Kari Lake<\/b>&#8216;s destruction of the beloved <b>Voice of America<\/b> was all entirely illegal. Turns out she was never legally serving in her role as Trump&#8217;s Acting Director of the independent executive agency that oversees it. Presumably &#8212; barring any successful changes at the appellate level &#8212; thousands of people unlawfully fired by Lake at the 84-year old worldwide global media outlet must be rehired.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An update on <b>Donald Trump<\/b>&#8216;s horrible, still-expanding <b>War on Iran<\/b>, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/08\/politics\/us-service-member-killed-iran-war?cid=ios_app\">seventh<\/a> U.S. service member has been killed; new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/08\/world\/middleeast\/iran-minab-school-strike.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share\">evidence<\/a> that the U.S. was responsible for bombing a girls&#8217; school in the southern part of the country on Day 1 of the war, killing about 175 people, many of them children; an even harder-line cleric is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/08\/world\/middleeast\/mojtaba-khamenei-iran-leader.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SFA.vg-I.flhNgIC5TSY6&#038;smid=url-share\">chosen<\/a> to be Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader, with 56-year old <b>Mojtaba Khamenei<\/b> now set to replace his assassinated 96-year father <b>Ali Khamenei<\/b>; and oil and natural gas prices are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/09\/politics\/rising-oil-costs-gas-trump\">spiking<\/a> as production in the region grinds to a standstill. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And a few thoughts today &#8212; from Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953 to Hawaii&#8217;s Democratic U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz in 2025, and me &#8212; on the fact that there is always plenty of money for the U.S. military industrial complex to wage wars anywhere in the world. There&#8217;s just never enough to make sure that you have food, housing, education, healthcare, good roads and a happy life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Finally<\/i>, we open the phones to <b>listeners<\/b> on all of the above, and the conversations quickly &#8212; and, happily! &#8212; turn to &#8220;what the hell can and should we do about it?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tune in for another lively <i>BradCast<\/i>!&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-KariLakeVOA-IranWarUpdate-NeverEnoughMoney-Callers_030926.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/256-the-bradcast-w-brad-friedm-30973643\/\">iHeart<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Happy Beginning of Daylight Saving Time Day on today&#8217;s BradCast! (The actual unofficial start of Summer!) That said, thanks in (very small part) to last night&#8217;s Spring Forward clock change, I&#8217;m too tired to write much today. So&#8230; [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] Among our many stories covered today&#8230; Our brightest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,89,675,912,272,479,1445,390,2053,134,1791,477,498,540,1726],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-brian-schatz","category-dept-of-defense","category-donald-trump","category-dwight-d-eisenhower","category-economy","category-election-2026","category-iran","category-kari-lake","category-kpfk","category-natural-gas","category-oil","category-voice-of-america-voa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15660"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=15660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}