https://drudge.com/user/bellringer New links and comments. en-us http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Wordzilla/0.58 10 https://drudge.com/news/294419/5-years-after-botched-afghanistan https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/08/26/wsj_opinion_doc_the_path_to_zero_--_americas_disastrous_withdrawal_from_afghanistan.html It recounts a chain of strategic and political decisions in August 2021 that culminated in the shocking scenes the world witnessed at Kabul Airport ... <blockquote class="bluesky-embed" data-bluesky-uri="at://did:plc:lzfzawdilrmsfikvr4c6ytk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6mlph5y4k2r" data-bluesky-cid="bafyreidwwzsrxkzvijsggl3jjcpkbpsrc2texa7qvgxijeuybgn5e5m6aa" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode="system"><p lang="en">Reminder: Timeline of U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan &quot;Trump administration in Feb 2020 negotiated a withdrawal agreement with Taliban..set a date of May 1, 2021 for withdrawal..President Biden delayed the withdrawal date..until Aug 2021&quot; www.factcheck.org/2021/08/time ... <br><br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lzfzawdilrmsfikvr4c6ytk4/post/3m6mlph5y4k2r?ref_src=embed">[image or embed]</a></p> -- Timothy McBride (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lzfzawdilrmsfikvr4c6ytk4?ref_src=embed">@mcbridetd.bsky.social</a>) <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lzfzawdilrmsfikvr4c6ytk4/post/3m6mlph5y4k2r?ref_src=embed">9:34 AM &Acirc;&middot; Nov 27, 2025</a></blockquote><script async src="https://embed.bsky.app/static/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:31:39 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/294419/5-years-after-botched-afghanistan#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294419 news, 0.5 daily 294419 https://drudge.com/news/294307/end-near-american-bar https://www.civitasoutlook.com/research/the-end-is-near-for-the-american-bar-association-61e88382-6ec2-49fa-a6e0-44ea3b0d0f7b When the history of the American Bar Association's downfall is written, one theme will recur: it didn't have to end this way. By the 1960s, nearly half of the lawyers in the United States were members of the ABA. Congress, Presidents, and the courts consulted the ABA closely as a trusted advisor on all legal matters. Yet, tragically, that trust was squandered when the ABA was captured by the left. Instead of serving as a trade group for lawyers, the ABA became just another left-wing advocacy group. As membership declined, the ABA could have arrested its progressive lurch, but instead accelerated in the wrong direction. The group took liberal positions on abortion, affirmative action, national security, and other controversial issues that had nothing to do with the legal profession ... Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:20:22 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/294307/end-near-american-bar#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294307 discussion, 0.5 daily 294307 https://drudge.com/news/294279/i-reject-dems-sympathy-no-way-you-guys https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/09/01/father_of_girl_left_disabled_by_illegal_immigrant_rips_democrats_theres_no_way_you_guys_are_sorry.html Marcus Coleman, the father of a California girl permanently disabled by an illegal immigrant, blasts sanctuary city policies at a Congressional hearing on Tuesday. Coleman's daughter, Dalilah, suffered a fractured skull, broken femur, and traumatic brain injury in the 2024 California crash after an 18-wheeler driven by an illegal immigrant crashed into the vehicle she was in. At a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement hearing, Coleman told Democratic members of Congress that he "rejects their sympathy." Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:35:32 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/294279/i-reject-dems-sympathy-no-way-you-guys#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294279 discussion, 0.5 daily 294279 https://drudge.com/news/294254/whistleblower-alleges-letitia-james-abused https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/whistleblower-alleges-letitia-james-abused-011907698.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJy5nY6dlW7ZSGgoQfW0dmTgJNTDoIBfR4wxbwH9572ZcXRLah0-DCS98brcfpJKOfj_WWzTYafYBciFOlZxapG4MpVtIPTWQsV6Bpob9TJCG7DEku-ZP7vhkfnsTlMhl1Wl1gDUKKkSr_GACfkJ2_E3i9y9YEh-9MSZLBsjRS7U A senior prosecutor in New York Attorney General Letitia James' office has accused his superiors of wasting taxpayer money by targeting President Donald Trump and his allies without legitimate investigative grounds, according to the New York Post. Assistant Attorney General Daniel Wiesenfeld made the allegations in a weekend email sent to roughly 2,000 employees in James' office, arguing that its resources were being used to pursue "convenient public enemies" instead of crimes affecting New Yorkers. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:59:39 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/294254/whistleblower-alleges-letitia-james-abused#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294254 discussion, 0.5 daily 294254 https://drudge.com/news/294253/political-violence-double-standard https://www.city-journal.org/article/political-violence-right-left?skip=1 When a leftist turns violent, Democratic politicians and their media allies offer a familiar response: yes, this is terrible, but right-wing violence is the greater threat. They have made that claim for decades, and it has always rested on a dubious premise. The premise depends on statistics compiled by advocacy groups that exclude a vast catalog of left-wing violence"from the George Floyd riots to murders committed by pro-Palestinian activists and attacks on synagogues, Catholic churches, Tesla dealerships, and ICE facilities. Meanwhile, conservatives are routinely held responsible for the actions of violent loners, drug dealers, and conspiracy theorists with no coherent political program. Deranged anti-Semites, racists, incels, and antigovernment extremists get classified as right-wing, even when their targets span both parties. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:57:28 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/294253/political-violence-double-standard#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294253 discussion, 0.5 daily 294253 https://drudge.com/news/294100/harp-loyal-aide-not-scandal-get https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/08/25/trump-natalie-harp-obsession-media/91442712007/ Natalie Harp has been in the news so much that I assumed she must have committed a crime, done something unethical or botched her job as one of President Donald Trump's aides so badly that he fired her. I'm as disappointed as you are to learn none of the above is true (at least not yet). Nevertheless, Harp has dominated news coverage Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:15:41 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/294100/harp-loyal-aide-not-scandal-get#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294100 discussion, 0.5 daily 294100 https://drudge.com/news/294081/dei-refuses-die https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/08/24/dei_refuses_to_die_154439.html Although the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and civil rights laws dating back to 1866 prohibit nearly all racial preferences, most Americans oppose these preferences, and Donald Trump was elected vowing to eliminate DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) " progressives won't give up. Their race-obsessed thinking reduces America to intersectional classifications of oppressed and oppressor. This addled concept is a self-defeating dialectic in which no amount of progress on race relations is ever enough " or even acknowledged. Despite enormous advances, with the possible exception of Palestinians and transgender people, no group is seen as more oppressed and deserving of preferences than African Americans Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:01:54 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/294081/dei-refuses-die#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294081 discussion, 0.5 daily 294081 https://drudge.com/news/293734/homeless-shelter-drove-me-away https://www.city-journal.org/article/macarthur-park-la-homeless-shelter-left?skip=1 In 2021, I hit a breaking point. I was tired of working sales jobs, chasing money, and feeling that none of it mattered. I wanted to do something genuinely good, something difficult that I thought might actually help people. I found what I thought was my answer through a temp agency listing for a night-shift position at a downtown Los Angeles homeless shelter. The pay was $16 an hour, and the listing said, "urgently hiring." I was an adult with a pulse willing to do the job for that wage, so I was hired. Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:58:00 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/293734/homeless-shelter-drove-me-away#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.293734 discussion, 0.5 daily 293734 https://drudge.com/news/293596/pleading-5th-wont-spare-fauci https://www.thefp.com/p/anthony-fauci-senate-hearing?utm_campaign=realclearpolitics The anti-Trump resistance has settled on its Anthony Fauci narrative. The Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing Wednesday was a witch hunt. Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who deeply influenced the restrictive guidelines during the Covid pandemic, had no choice. The good doctor had to invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself. It's a nice story, but the camera doesn't lie. More than an hour into the proceedings, Senator Bernie Moreno, a Republican from Ohio, exposed the stone wall strategy. He requested those in the audience to stand up if they had paid a professional, legal, or personal price for dissenting from Covid orthodoxies during the pandemic. The senator then asked Fauci to turn around and look at them. Fauci refused. Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:35:49 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/293596/pleading-5th-wont-spare-fauci#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.293596 discussion, 0.5 daily 293596 https://drudge.com/news/293528/6600-non-citizens-registered-vote-new https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/07/lawmakers-heard-warnings-as-6600-noncitizens-registered-to-vote/ As early as October 2024, New Jersey lawmakers heard that some noncitizens were registering to vote through state Motor Vehicle Commission offices. The issue, county election officials said at a public hearing, appeared to be tied to the state "motor-voter" system, which can add residents to votor rolls when they do vehicle-related transactions. The commission offices' computer system asked in English whether users were U.S. citizens and eligible to cast ballots, and some people did not appear to speak or read the language well. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:27:59 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/293528/6600-non-citizens-registered-vote-new#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.293528 discussion, 0.5 daily 293528 https://drudge.com/news/293389/interview-exposed-academias https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/07/19/higher-education-is-losing-publics-trust/ It can't have been fun for the anthropologists when their discipline was singled out as a hive of political groupthink. In fact, they got very angry about the "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences," commissioned by Vanderbilt and Washington University in St. Louis. What will happen in the 2026 midterms? Sign up for Margin of Victory The 10 scholars who authored the report, which was released in June, offered anthropology as an example of a field where "we see a widespread deterioration in scholarly standards ... together with a toxic intellectual climate in which reasonable dissent on politically charged topics is routinely suppressed and punished." For instance: The American Anthropological Association canceled a 2023 conference panel on the relevance of biological sex to anthropology. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:39:43 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/293389/interview-exposed-academias#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.293389 discussion, 0.5 daily 293389 https://drudge.com/news/292674/dems-unbridled-pursuit-power-cant https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/06/15/dems_unbridled_pursuit_of_power_cant_be_airbrushed_away_154222.html The Democrats' disquieting quest for power at the cost of our democratic principles cannot credibly be denied or rebutted by inapt whataboutisms. During the 40 years from John Kennedy's inauguration in 1961, four Republicans served a total of 22 years as president and a like number of Democrats served for 18 years. Democrats dominated other elective offices, however, controlling the Senate for 28 years, the House for 34 years, and adjusting for time in office, governorships by 57% to 43%, and state legislatures by 73% to 27%. Then, the pendulum swung. For the last 25 years, Republicans (13 years) and Democrats (12 years) each elected two presidents, and Republicans gained control of the Senate for 13 years, the House for 17 years, governorships, 55% to 45%, and state legislatures, 59% to 41% Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:08:57 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/292674/dems-unbridled-pursuit-power-cant#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.292674 discussion, 0.5 daily 292674