July 24, 2026 · 10:48 am

JULY TWENTY-FOURTH NEWS ROUNDUP

 Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog ends the week with this current events roundup.

SEVENTIETH GUILTY PLEA IN MINNESOTA’S TWO HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION DOLLAR BENEFIT FRAUD RING.

DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES UNHAPPY THAT THE WAR HAS ENDED IRAN’S ABILITY TO FUND INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM.

NON-CITIZENS ON VOTING ROLLS SCANDAL, THIS TIME IN PENNSYLVANIA, IN THE NEWS AGAIN.

HOUSE SPEAKER JOHNSON PUTS UP WIN AFTER WIN WHILE SENATOR THUNE DOES NOTHING BUT FAIL. More Thune buffoonery HERE. White House criticizes Thune HERE.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES FUELING THE AMERICAN MANUFACTURING RESURGENCE. More HERE.

ENERGY MINISTER OF CYPRUS SAYS TRUMP’S ENERGY SECURITY ENGAGEMENT IS “VITAL TO THE FUTURE OF THE WEST.”

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY STATE” VIRGINIA CHARGED WITH SEXUALLY ASSAULTING AND KILLING A TWO-YEAR-OLD GIRL. More HERE. And HERE. As usual, victims get no “sanctuary” from the Democrats, only the perpetrators do.

OBAMA-RELEASED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT KILLS THREE.

FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS RULES ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CASES. Continue reading →

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July 23, 2026 · 7:15 pm

THE CIMARRON ROSE: LADY OUTLAW? FACT AND LEGEND FIGHT IT OUT OVER ROSE DUNN

Frontierado falls on Friday, August 7th this year. As always, the Frontierado holiday is about the myth of the Old West, not the grinding reality. 

CIMARRON ROSE DUNN – Poco wrote a song about her. She appears in a 1915 Silent Film about Oklahoma Outlaws. She’s often mistakenly believed to be the subject of the 1952 western The Rose of Cimarron. And it’s not even certain if that’s really her in one of the alleged surviving photos of her. Rose Dunn may embody the embellishments that fight with the truth when it comes to various figures from the Old West.

Even today, online entries and articles about this woman tend to fall into one of two categories. 1. Rose Dunn was an outlaw ally of the Doolin Gang in their rustling and bank & train robbing antics, and she later become a bounty hunter alongside her brothers. Or 2. Rose Dunn was involved in a couple actions with the Doolin Gang but otherwise was as innocent as an angel.

Dunn lived well into the 20th Century but refused to discuss her past, either to avoid notoriety or because there was nothing to tell, take your pick. Still, iconic Old West lawman Bill Tilghman wrote about her criminal career in his supposedly non-fiction book Oklahoma Outlaws.  

The future Rose of Cimarron was born September 5th, 1878 in either Winfield or Cowley, Kansas (sources vary). She had two sisters and seven brothers. Growing up with so many older brothers, Rose could ride and shoot better than some men. When Rose’s father William Dunn died, her mother later remarried to a physician known as Dr. Call and at some point moved to Ingalls, Oklahoma near the Cimarron River. Continue reading →

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July 23, 2026 · 10:57 am

FOOL KILLER PART SEVENTY-ONE: MAY 1914

Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the many facets of Fool Killer lore. FOR PART ONE, INCLUDING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT IN THE 1850s, CLICK HERE.

PART 71 – Some of the Fool Killer’s targets on both sides of the aisle in the May 1914 edition of James Larkin Pearson’s version of the folk figure:

*** President Woodrow Wilson, for his economic policies which Pearson and his Fool Killer blamed for bringing back the anti-working class (Grover) Cleveland Times.

*** The Government Printing Office which the Fool Killer deemed not worth the money spent on it because all they print is the Congressional Record and what amounts to tiresome government pronouncements.

      (How slow a news month must it be to bother going after the Government Printing Office? Too bad the National Egg Council wasn’t around yet.)

*** Bootleggers who were hurriedly transporting as much whiskey as they could from Virginia into North Carolina, where booze was now illegal. They did this because they could charge much more for liquor in a state where it was officially banned. 

*** Pompous High Society members who looked down their noses at farmers.

*** Readers who demanded Pearson work only with printers who belonged to a union, even though he lived in a part of North Carolina where none were available.  Continue reading →

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July 22, 2026 · 4:21 pm

2 B-MOVIE HOSTESSES FROM “SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE PARTY” (1962-1965)

SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE PARTY (1962-1965) was also called simply SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE and PAT’S SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE in the tantalizingly few surviving pieces of information available about this cult Movie Hostess show. SFMP aired Saturday nights at 10:30 (one ad says 10:20) on KMTV in Omaha, Nebraska from September 1962 to the end of summer 1965.   

From 1962-1964 the program was hosted by “Science Fiction Pat” real name Pat Jones and from Summer 1964-Summer 1965 by Ronnie Bounds and her Siamese cat Yatchie. I’ll examine each hostess momentarily, but for the full context of what made Science Fiction Movie Party stand out it’s important to credit the contribution of KMTV’s Program Director Lou Jeffery.

Mr. Jeffery assumed that position in 1961 and by September of 1962 he had carefully assembled campy and low-budget science fiction films that weren’t exclusive to any of the nationwide syndication packages of the time. Lou’s work in securing such a custom package of flicks would have been a big advantage for Science Fiction Movie Party from the show’s outset.

SCIENCE FICTION PAT – Patricia Jones was a multi-talented woman enrolled at the University of Nebraska. On the side she played guitar, sang and recited beat poetry in Omaha coffee houses of the period. On SFMP Pat wrote her own material and designed various mostly black outfits for herself to wear during her Host Segments.

Guitar in hand, Jones would engage in the time-honored tradition of Bad Movie Shows by sarcastically commenting on the bizarre and low-budget nature of the So Bad They’re Good films shown on SFMP. Her sense of humor was versatile enough that she even composed and performed occasional beatnik poems about the schlockers she presented, including Robot Monster (1953), that staple of Bad Movie Shows for decades. Continue reading →

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July 22, 2026 · 8:15 am

NEWS ROUNDUP: JULY TWENTY-SECOND

It’s a mid-week current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog from an America where the Democrat Party is torn between those who openly call for socialism and communism and those who want to keep lying that The Party does not support socialism and communism.

COURT REJECTS UNFIT AND ILLEGIT JOE BIDEN’S BID TO PREVENT THE RELEASE OF INTERROGATION TAPES FURTHER PROVING HOW MENTALLY INCAPABLE HE IS. But we still need to address the issue that while Biden was being paraded before the cameras as a figurehead unelected and still unidentified figures were unconstitutionally wielding presidential power INCLUDING PARDONS. More HERE. And HERE.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SBA HEAD KELLY LOEFFLER TOUTS AMERICA HITTING ALL-TIME RECORD IN BUSINESS FORMATION UNDER TRUMP’S POLICIES.

DEMOCRAT SLUSH FUND SCANDAL CONTINUES TO SPREAD. 

NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR MIKIE SHERRILL (D) ADMITS PRESIDENT TRUMP IS RIGHT AS THOUSANDS OF ILLEGALS ARE ON THE VOTER ROLLS IN THE STATE. Everyone familiar with the Democrat Lie Spiral will not be surprised to learn that The Party has moved on from insisting something “doesn’t happen” to insisting “it happens but it’s no big deal.” More HERE. And HERE.

SENATOR JOHN FETTERMAN COURAGEOUSLY CONSIDERS LEAVING THE INCREASINGLY UNHINGED DEMOCRAT PARTY. Join so many of us, Senator, and do it.

RINGLEADER OF MEDICARE FRAUD OPERATION ARRESTED AFTER FLEEING THE COUNTRY.

BIDEN-RELEASED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT PLEADS GUILTY TO KILLING TWO PEOPLE IN ALABAMA. “If it saves even one life” isn’t it worth it to enforce our immigration laws?

AND YET ANOTHER BIDEN-RELEASED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED WITH KILLING IN UTAH.

ROBERT F. KENNEDY PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP’S “ENCYCLOPEDIC MIND AND RIDICULES CELEBRITY TDS.  

FLASHBACK: OBAMA’S WHITE HOUSE PAYS WOMEN MUCH LESS THAN IT PAYS MEN. Hypocrite.

ANOTHER FORMER DEMOCRAT DISCUSSES HOW REPULSIVE THAT POLITICAL PARTY HAS BECOME.

SCANDAL OVER PHILADELPHIA’S DEMOCRAT D.A. THREATENING PROSECUTORS IN COVERUP. Continue reading →

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July 21, 2026 · 4:43 pm

JOHNNY RINGO (1959-1960) FORGOTTEN TELEVISION

JOHNNY RINGO (1959) – Don Durant starred as the one and only Johnny Ringo, the real-life gunslinger. The fictional setting of this program takes place between Johnny’s original rise to fame during the Mason County War in Texas and his final years in Arizona as part of the Clanton-McLaury Crime Faction led by Curly Bill Brocius. Aaron Spelling was the producer.

Ringo is depicted being weary of his life as a gunfighter, so he tries to turn over a new leaf by becoming the Sheriff of the fictional town of Velardi in Arizona Territory. An odd gimmick of the Johnny Ringo television series was the fact that Johnny wielded a special seven-shot pistol designed by the real-life gunmaker Jean LeMat.

Other regular cast members were Mark Goddard as William Cully aka Kid Adonis, Ringo’s deputy; Karen Sharpe as Laura Thomas and Thomas Mitchell as Laura’s father Case Thomas, town drunk turned sheriff’s deputy. Johnny Ringo ran for one pilot episode followed by 38 regular season half-hour episodes. Star Don Durant wrote and sang the theme song.   

THE EPISODES: Continue reading →

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July 21, 2026 · 7:45 am

THE OZIDI SAGA OF NIGERIA: PART THREE

FOR PART ONE CLICK HERE. FOR PART TWO CLICK HERE.

PART THREE: When we left off, our hero Ozidi the Younger had just finished slaying the first of his father’s murderers and Ozidi reminded his mentally unfit uncle, King Temugedege, that he is having to take care of the family business that he is incapable of. When all of the killers of Ozidi the Elder have been dealt with, his father’s spirit will be free from the deadlands limbo in which it currently dwells. 

Azezabife the Half Man (also called Kemepara), another of his father’s murderers, is the next to confront Ozidi. The narrative makes it clear that despite his bluster and his graphic description of the way he intends to kill our hero, Azezabife is frightened deep down.   

This figure is called the Half Man because one half of his body is normal while the other half is hideous and monstrous. Azezabife was spawned by the deadlands and in that limbo there is another of him whose body is human on the half where the living Azezafife is monstrous and vice versa. Continue reading →

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July 20, 2026 · 3:51 pm

MY TOP FOUR WESTERNS BASED ON REAL-LIFE FIGURES

butch cassidy and the sundance kid 2We all know that in real life the celebrated “heroes” of the old west were a pack of corrupt and/or outrightly criminal thugs who would have had a pretty odd worldview. And let’s face it, by our standards their personal hygiene habits would have been pretty disgusting.

But since the Frontierado holiday is all about celebrating the myth of the West and not the grinding reality of it here’s my list of the Top Four Westerns Based on Real-Life Figures. Coming up with lists like this is one of the perks of being the international commissioner of Frontierado (along with the seven-figure income and a staff of three hundred people).

butch cassidy and the sundance kid1. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969) – Redford and Newman set the standard for the “buddy western” with this magnificent movie. Newman once described this flick by saying “It’s a Continue reading →

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July 20, 2026 · 6:59 am

JULY TWENTIETH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is here with a Monday current events roundup from an America where Democrats are okay with Ukraine’s war with Russia going on forever and threatening oil exports but oppose America’s war with Iran and similar threats to oil exports.

HOMICIDE DETECTIVES INVESTIGATING DEAD BODY FOUND AT DEMOCRAT AYANNA PRESSLEY’S HOME. More HERE.

STATELY MCDANIEL MANOR ON THE LATE VILLAIN JACK SMITH’S ILLEGAL SPYING ON CONGRESS ATROCITY.

NEW BOMBSHELLS ABOUT THEN-FBI AGENT NIKKI FLORIS SECRETLY RUNNING SABOTAGE OPERATIONS AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP IN 2020.

ADDITIONAL REVELATIONS ABOUT JOE BIDEN BEING IN CHINA’S POCKET. As I’ve said countless times over the years, Joe Biden was the best investment China’s government ever made.

TRUMP IS RIGHT ABOUT VOTING MACHINES: OBAMA-APPOINTED JUDGE AMY TOTENBERG (SISTER OF NINA) LAID OUT THE UNRELIABILITY OF VOTING MACHINES. But since the Democrat judge’s written opinion and order helped The Party in one particular electoral race Democrat hypocrites applauded it. I guess to Democrats voting machines are only unreliable if it’s The Party saying so.

DO-NOTHING REPUBLICAN SENATOR THUNE SUBJECTED TO EVEN MORE RIDICULE FOR FAILING ON THE SAVE ACT AS IT IS POINTED OUT THAT EVEN OLIVE GARDEN REQUIRES PHOTO I.D. FOR THEIR “PASTA PASS.” Are Democrats going to claim that somehow prevents people of color from getting Pasta Passes? And never stop reminding Democrats that their idols in Europe require Voter I.D. Plus, always remember that in 2024 Kamala Harris only won states which do NOT require Voter I.D. 

U.K. – MOTHER OF HENRY NOWAK’S MURDERER SENTENCED FOR HER ROLE IN HIDING THE MURDER WEAPON.

SOME REMINDERS ABOUT THE IRREGULARITIES IN THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Like I’ve been saying since back then, the 2020 election was as corrupt and tainted as the ones in 1876 and 2000. Continue reading →

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July 19, 2026 · 9:21 pm

IRISH NELLIE CASHMAN: A FRONTIERADO LOOK

The Frontierado Holiday falls on Friday, August 7th this year. As always, the holiday is about the myth of the Old West, not the grinding reality. For looks at female gunslingers of the West click HERE. For looks at other women and men of the Far North Gold Rushes click HERE.

IRISH NELLIE CASHMAN – Nellie Cashman was born Ellen O’Kissane in 1845. Sometime between 185o and 1852 her family moved to Boston, where the ambitious young woman was later working as a bellhop at Boston hotels. During the U.S. Civil War Nellie did some spying for the Union cause, following which she and her family moved to San Francisco in 1866.

Irish Nellie worked at various legal professions in Virginia City, NV and Pioche, NV before heading North to British Columbia in Canada during the 1870s Gold Rush. Cashman established a boarding house for gold miners at Telegraph Creek. The savvy businesswoman made money from that venture as well as investing in the gold claims of some of her boarders.

Irish Nellie used part of her growing fortune to finance the Sisters of Saint Anne. When snowstorms trapped dozens of gold seekers in the Cassiar Mountains in a series of avalanches, Irish Nellie heard that Canadian authorities were advising against rescue attempts due to how dangerous the Cassiars were.

That kind of talk was the proverbial music to Nellie’s ears, and soon she took charge of a half-dozen men and led them to the rescue of the trapped gold seekers, many of whom were already dead. She brought food and medicine to them. Cashman herself was briefly buried in one of the series of avalanches but managed to dig herself out. The “Angel of the Cassiars” saved the lives of around 75 people.   Continue reading →

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