Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog does a mid-week current events roundup from an America where Democrats demand Trump denounce insult to Michelle Obama even though they never denounced insulting lies that Melania Trump was an escort.
IRANIAN DISSIDENTS GROUP WELCOMES PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PEACE DEAL, POINTING OUT IT LEAVES THE CURRENT REGIME DISADVANTAGED. Bear that in mind as anti-Trump loons try claiming Trump “surrendered.”
FRANCE’S LEADER MACRON PRAISES PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S IRAN DEAL FOR FIXING “THE NUCLEAR ISSUE. Bear that in mind as anti-Trump loons try claiming Trump “surrendered.” More about that deal HERE.
FIFTEEN MEMBERS OF THE DEMOCRAT BROWNSHIRTS OF ANTIFA (REALLY KLAN-TIFA) CHARGED FOR VIOLENT CONSPIRACY IN MINNESOTA. More HERE.
DEMOCRAT CHRISTINA BOHANNAN REFUSES TO ANSWER WHY SHE MADE IT EASIER FOR SEX OFFENDERS TO HIDE THEIR PAST. Democrats, why are you so in love with sex offenders? Oh, never mind.
ICE AGENTS ARREST ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CONVICTED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING AND OTHERWISE ABUSING CHILDREN AND FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. Democrats, why do you still try to help such men evade ICE?
A VERY PUBLIC REMINDER THAT TRUMP TURNED JEFFREY EPSTEIN IN TO THE AUTHORITIES OVER HIS ACTIVITIES. More HERE.
ILLINOIS: DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER USES TAXPAYER FUNDS TO FINANCE RACIST TRAINING PROGRAM DEPICTING WHITE PEOPLE AND POLICE AS MOSQUITOS SUCKING THE BLOOD FROM PEOPLE OF COLOR. Race hatred is in the DNA of Democrats.
MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE ANTI-TRUMP TERRORISTS AND THEIR THWARTED ATTACK ON THE FREEDOM 250 EVENT AT THE WHITE HOUSE. More HERE. And HERE. CO-CONSPIRATOR BELIEVED SOME OF THE ABSURD LIES ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP PROTECTING ELITES WHO SACRIFICE AND EAT CHILDREN. Which makes him as insane as most Democrat political candidates and celebrities here in 2026.
TRUMP-ENDORSED MIKE COLLINS WINS GEORGIA SENATE RUNOFF.
TRUMP-ENDORSED BARRY MOORE WINS ALABAMA SENATE RUNOFF. Continue reading
THE ADAMS CHRONICLES (1976) – This mini-series of 13 50-minute episodes looked at historical giant John Adams and his descendants from the American Revolution up to the 1890s. Michael Tolan narrated 8 episodes.
EPISODE ONE: JOHN ADAMS, LAWYER (Jan 20th, 1976) – As a young man, John Adams (George Grizzard) suffers setbacks in his career as a lawyer, so he returns to the farm his father left him. His fiery cousin Samuel Adams (W.B. Brydon) tells him he made a mistake and should go back to practicing law. John meets Abigail Smith (Kathryn Walker), daughter of a Reverend (Addison Powell). He marries her and as they raise their children he returns to his career as an attorney.
Yes, it’s the 16th of June, better known to James Joyce geeks like me as Bloom’s Day. The day is named in honor of Leopold Bloom, the advertising sales rep and Freemason who is one of the major characters in Joyce’s novel Ulysses. The novel also brings along Stephen Dedalus, the protagonist of his earlier novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
THE NOSTOI aka THE RETURNS is a neglected epic in the Trojan War cycle. It is attributed to Agias or to Eumelus of Corinth. In the Epic Cycle, The Nostoi comes after 

My, how time flies! It’s already been a year since anti-Donald Trump loons were claiming that celebrating the army’s 250th anniversary was Trump supposedly “acting like a dictator” by having a military event “celebrating his birthday.” It was wrong, of course, like roughly 90% of the shrill accusations against President Trump always turn out to be. Here’s my post from 2025 addressing that situation:
I’m still laughing over the way that anti-Trump fascists are so ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable that they idiotically believed that the parade last weekend was for Trump himself. 
Last weekend was NOT a case of military strength shown off for a national leader but to mark the TWO HUNDRED FIFTIETH birthday of America’s army. Birthdays/ anniversaries being celebrated for the 25th, 50th, 100th, 200th, and 250th time ALWAYS get special celebrations.
Susanna M. Salter was born March 2nd, 1860 in Lamira, Ohio. In 1872 she and her family moved to Kansas, settling near Silver Lake.
THE SHIELD
Powers: The chemical formula that the Shield rubbed onto his skin followed by bombardment with flouroscopic rays endowed him with super-strength plus invulnerability. The Shield also wore an indestructible costume which encased his torso like a shield.
THE PEOPLE OF THE MOON (1895) – Written by Tremlett Carter. An unnamed narrator, a scientist of some sort, sees a glowing 18 inch object floating in the sky. A bird who makes physical contact with the glowing orb is killed by the object’s electric charge.