MOSES CLEAVELAND (1754-1806) – With the 4th of July fast approaching, here’s a seasonal post about this Revolutionary War veteran and founder of Cleveland, OH despite the difference in spelling.
Born and raised in Connecticut, Moses went to Yale and was a lawyer when the Revolutionary War broke out. By around April 3rd, 1777 Cleaveland was commissioned as a subaltern in the 2nd Connecticut Regiment of the Continental Army. Continue reading
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Another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.
LOS ANGELES POLICE CHIEF STATES THE DEMOCRAT VIOLENCE IS ESCALATING, DESPITE DEMOCRATS SCHIFF, BASS AND GOVERNOR NEWSOM’S CLAIMS OTHERWISE. But hey, Schiff, Bass and Newsom don’t care about the safety of the people, they care only about “owning” Trump by demanding he call off the National Guard to handle the riots. Can Democrats make ANY decisions not based on their monomaniacal hatred of one man?
DEMOCRAT CITY COUNCIL MEMBER IN LOS ANGELES ENCOURAGES RIOTERS TO ESCALATE THEIR ATTACKS. No surprise. The office-holders who still call themselves Democrats in 2025 are not rational.
SBA ADMINISTRATOR SAYS THEY ARE MOVING THEIR REGIONAL OFFICE OUT OF LOS ANGELES SINCE THE CITY “WON’T PROTECT ITS PEOPLE” BY COOPERATING WITH ICE. Democrats in office are indefensible at this point.
KARINA LIPSMAN: CANDIDATE IN THE SPECIAL ELECTION IN VIRGINIA’S ELEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
PAKISTANI DELEGATION SAYS “TRUMP IS NOT BEING CELEBRATED ENOUGH” FOR THE CEASEFIRE WITH INDIA.
POLL: SEVENTY-FOUR PERCENT OF CALIFORNIANS WANT TO END SANCTUARY CITIES. But Democrats never care what the voters want despite their endless bluster about “defending democracy.”
ANCHORMAN AT DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET IN LOS ANGELES ACTUALLY REFERS TO THE RIOTERS AS “HAVING FUN” AND WARNS ABOUT AUTHORITIES COMING IN “THE WRONG WAY.” And an idiotic British news outlet claims Trump is “bullying” the violent rioters.
NEW GAZA AID HEAD PRAISES TRUMP’S HUMANITARIAN BREAKTHROUGH THERE. Yes, making sure the people receive the aid and not letting it be hijacked by Hamas is an improvement. Continue reading
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DEMOCRATS RIOT IN LOS ANGELES IN VIOLENT ATTEMPTS TO INTERFERE WITH ICE ENFORCING IMMIGRATION LAWS. Democrat mob even besieges federal center HERE. More HERE. And HERE. I WILL ASK DEMOCRATS ONCE AGAIN – GIVEN HOW YOU CLAIM WE LIVE IN A DYSTOPIAN HELLSCAPE UNDER TRUMP, ARE THERE ANY SUFFERING U.S. CITIZENS YOU WOULD CHAMPION INSTEAD OF ONLY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO HAVE COMMITTED ADDITIONAL CRIMES?
DEMOCRATS CALLED OUT AGAIN AS “THE PARTY THAT EMBRACES VIOLENCE.”
AS USUAL, THE DEMOCRATS GET VIOLENT IN LOS ANGELES AND NEW YORK, WHERE THEY KNOW THEY’LL GET SOFT TREATMENT FROM THE DEMOCRAT AUTHORITIES. The usual gutlessness from the Party. San Francisco, Boston, San Antonio, Seattle and Portland are probably up next.
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DEMOCRATS UNWILLING TO SIDE WITH THE U.S. EVEN IN THE CHINESE NATIONALS SMUGGLING IN BIOWARFARE AGENTS CASE. But if their actions had endangered Hamas you’d certainly hear Democrats speak out.
ARIZONA’S DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR KATIE HOBBS VETOES A BILL BLOCKING ENTITIES CONNECTED WITH CHINA’S COMMUNIST PARTY FROM BUYING FARMLAND, LAND NEAR AMERICAN FARMS, MILITARY BASES, ETC. The bill was introduced long ago to deal with growing concerns about such purchases, even before the recent biowarfare incident.
PRESIDENT TRUMP VOWS YET AGAIN TO PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE AND MEDICAID. He’s the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime. He’s been the new FDR going back to his first term.
UNSTABLE ELON MUSK ALREADY BACKING OFF HIS WILD ATTACKS ON PRESIDENT TRUMP. The bizarre incidents seem to have been triggered by Musk not getting his way on policies that would have favored his personal business interests. Elon has blown his credibility with his unhinged threats and tantrums. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. Continue reading
As we all observe the June 6th anniversary of the 1944 Allied landing at Normandy during World War II, Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at the events from other June 6ths in history.
1775 – In New York City, 100 Sons of Liberty rebels attacked British soldiers who were escorting five wagonloads of arms and other supplies. The Sons of Liberty won and seized the supplies. Lt. Col Marinus Willett led the Americans.
1780 – Hessian General Wilhelm Von Knyphausen’s 6,000 British-allied troops boarded boats in preparation for the next day’s attack on American forces in New Jersey for the indecisive Battle of Connecticut Farms.
1782 – In the Ohio Country, American Rebel Colonel William Crawford’s 500 men were defeated in the wilderness by 750 British, Shawnee, Ojibwe and Potawatomi troops as the Revolutionary War continued despite Cornwallis’ surrender the previous October.
1787 – Franklin College, now part of Franklin & Marshall College, was founded in Lancaster, PA.
1813 – As the War of 1812 continued, British forces learned the password for the American troops at Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada. That password, “Wil-Hen-Har”, as in the name of General (and later President) William Henry Harrison, enabled the British to take the Americans by surprise and win the battle in a rout.
1816 – The eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Tambora volcano earlier in the year spread so much ash and smoke into the atmosphere that this became known as “the year without a summer.” On June 6th, TEN INCHES OF SNOW fell in New England. Continue reading
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Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.
SENATOR HAWLEY OFFERS REMINDER THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP WANTS NO CUTS IN MEDICAID BENEFITS.
CHINESE NATIONALS CHARGED WITH SMUGGLING AGRO-TERRORISM BIOLOGICAL WEAPON INTO THE U.S. More HERE.
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS A HIGHER AVERAGE JOB APPROVAL RATING THAN EITHER BARACK OBAMA OR GEORGE W. BUSH. More HERE.
MORE ABOUT BIDEN’S WHITE HOUSE PHYSICIAN AND THE COVERUP OF JOE’S UNFITNESS. An enormous Constitutional Crisis. Kamala Harris supporters should be outraged that the Biden Crime Family robbed her of her opportunity to rise to the presidency, as she SHOULD have at the time.
“CRIMINAL EVIDENCE” OF IMPERSONATING THE PRESIDENT EXPOSED IN BIDEN REGIME’S AUTOPEN SCANDALS.
BIDEN REGIME LACKEYS BLAST KARINE JEAN-PIERRE, JOE’S WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY, FOR LEAVING THE DEMOCRAT PARTY TO BECOME AN INDEPENDENT. She also describes “a broken White House” in her new book.
DON SURBER ON HOW TRUMP’S ECONOMIC POLICIES MAKE WAGES RISE AND GROW THE ECONOMY.
SENATE HEARINGS ON JUDICIAL OVERREACH AND NATIONWIDE INJUNCTIONS. Senator Kennedy asks probing questions HERE.
PRICE OF EGGS DOWN SIXTY-ONE PERCENT SINCE TRUMP’S RETURN TO OFFICE. Continue reading
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COLORADO TERRORIST ATTACK SUSPECT IS IN CUSTODY AND IS YET ANOTHER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FROM THE BIDEN-HARRIS REGIME’S CATASTROPHIC POLICIES. More HERE. Aftermath of the horrendous attack on people involved with a march calling on Hamas to free hostages HERE. More HERE. Assailant reportedly shouted “Free Palestine” rhetoric.
SANTELLI AT DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET CNBC CREDITS PRESIDENT TRUMP WITH THE PERSONAL INCOME OF REGULAR AMERICANS NEARLY TRIPLING IN RECENT MONTHS AND THE TRADE DEFICIT BEING CUT IN HALF. More HERE. Trump remains the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.
TRUMP EFFECT: CORE INFLATION FALLS TO LOWEST IN FOUR YEARS.
KENTUCKY STATE SENATOR ROBIN WEBB BECOMES THE LATEST DEMOCRAT TO LEAVE THAT PARTY TO JOIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Like so many of us former Democrats she cited how the increasingly unhinged Democrats “increasingly alienated rural Democrats like her.” She also cited the Democrats’ “hyperfocus on policies that hurt workforce and economic development” and added that “It has become untenable and counterproductive to the best interests of my constituents for me to remain a Democrat.”
SENATOR MARSHA BLACKBURN CALLS FOR DOJ INVESTIGATION INTO NASHVILLE MAYOR FREDDIE O’CONNELL FOR DOXING ICE AGENTS AND ATTEMPTING TO BLOCK THEIR ENFORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LAWS. Democrat crimes in support of illegal immigration have exploded into an epidemic.
PITTSBURGH STEELER LEGENDS INCLUDING ROCKY BLEIER JOIN CURRENT PLAYERS IN NAMING PRESIDENT TRUMP AN “HONORARY STEELER” AT EVENT. Appropriately it happened at a Steel Workers gathering.
ASSISTANT AG HARMEET DHILLON PRAISED FOR UNDOING BIDEN REGIME POLICIES THAT MADE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY “AN IMMEDIATE HORROR STORY FOR LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS.” Meanwhile, Democrats pander to illegal immigrants who commit additional crimes. Continue reading
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*** NEW TODAY – APPEALS COURT REINSTATES THE TRUMP TARIFFS. And the fighting goes on …
LATEST REVELATIONS IN THE DEMOCRAT SCANDAL OVER WHO WAS USING THE AUTOPEN TO SIGN WHATEVER THEY WANTED TO PRETEND JOE BIDEN HAD SIGNED. More HERE. A monumental scandal for which the Party deserves no forgiveness considering their incessant bluster about “democracy.”
FURTHER SCANDALS ABOUT WHO WAS REALLY RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY.
OUTGOING SENATE DEMOCRAT MICHAEL BENNET CALLS OUT THE PARTY FOR ITS “RECORD LOW POPULARITY NOW.” He also stated “I don’t think nationally the Democratic brand helps very much anyway…anywhere.”
ICE ARRESTS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ON CHILD SEX CRIMES, DRUGS AND GUN CHARGES. No wonder AOC is calling to abolish ICE. Democrats are the Party of child sex crimes especially. More HERE.
YET ANOTHER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT RAPIST ARRESTED IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” MARYLAND. Are Democrats accomplices to these crimes?
DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS CONTINUE TO GET HUMILIATED OVER THEIR COVERUP OF JOE BIDEN’S UNFITNESS. Anyone paying attention knew he was unfit during his 2020 “hide away” political campaign.
POLL: RECORD HIGH NUMBER OF PEOPLE BELIEVE THE U.S. IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION JUST ENDED EVEN MORE OF THE CRUEL GOVERNMENT ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS.
CONGRESSWOMAN MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE COURAGEOUSLY SPEAKS OUT ON THE DEEP STATE’S LATEST ANTICS AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP. Continue reading
Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog presents another current events roundup from an America where anti-Trump loons still pretend he’s “a dictator” and “a strong man” just so they can pretend that their hysterical hatred of him is courageous.
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY: CORRUPT JOE BIDEN’S NINETY-THREE BILLION DOLLAR THEFT DURING HIS FINAL MONTHS IN OFFICE. The RICO Enterprise that was the Biden-Harris Regime needs investigated down to their molecules.
OBAMA AIDE ADMITS TRUMP ATTRACTED THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S FORMER BASE AMONG THE WORKING CLASS, THE POOR AND MINORITIES. The Democrats showed them nothing but contempt, so naturally they gravitated to President Trump.
U.S. CONSUMER CONFIDENCE SEES BIGGEST BOOST IN FOUR YEARS.
ED MARTIN WITH MORE ABOUT THE INVALID NATURE OF JOE BIDEN’S LAST-MINUTE PARDONS PER WHISTLEBLOWER.
OBAMA AIDE JOINS THE LIST OF DEMOCRATS ADMITTING THEY KNEW JOE BIDEN WAS UNFIT BUT LIED TO THE PUBLIC ANYWAY. The Party needs to keep answering for this for the next several decades at least.
NEW YORK’S DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR COMPLAINS THAT SHE MAY HAVE TO CUT BENEFITS AND SERVICES FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Even now, “Illegal immigrants uber alles” is the Democrat slogan. Democrats, are there ANY citizens you care about?
DEMOCRAT RAHM EMANUEL DECLARES THE PARTY “TOXIC, WEAK AND WOKE.”
TRUMP’S POLL NUMBERS STILL RISING. Ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable people outraged.
CHARLTON ALLEN: A LIST OF DEMOCRAT LIES REGARDING BIDEN AND MORE. Continue reading
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY! Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at the Union Army’s Michigan Brigade of Volunteers – nicknamed the Wolverines – from the U.S. Civil War. I’m focusing on them because, though not unknown, increasing numbers of people have taken to ignoring their contributions to the Union victory just because of the post-Civil War career of the Brigade’s commander – General George Armstrong Custer.
I’m no Custer fan myself, but the men who served under him in the Civil War don’t deserve to be thrown a figurative cold shoulder because of the ugliness later associated with the man leading them. The soldiers of the 1st, 5th, 6th and 7th Michigan Cavalry plus Artillery Battery M, the units in the Michigan Brigade, were crucial to victory.
The brigade was first being formed in December, 1862 and on June 29th, 1863 newly promoted General Custer assumed command.
BATTLE OF HANOVER – On June 30th the Michigan Brigade took part in this battle set in Hanover, PA. It was part of the leadup to the Battle of Gettysburg. The Union thwarted Confederate Cavalry General J.E.B. Stuart’s attempt to link up with the main Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee.
HUNTERSTOWN – With the Battle of Gettysburg having started the previous day, the Brigade fought in this July 2nd, 1863 clash along Beaverdam Creek near Hunterstown, PA. They forced Confederate General Wade Hampton’s cavalry to withdraw. Continue reading
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Balladeer’s Blog hopes all of you are having a respectful Memorial Day weekend. I’ll have a brand new Memorial Day blog post tomorrow, but for another seasonal post here are some of my Memorial Day offerings from years past.
I’ve always looked at neglected conflicts or battles. The military members who died in those actions are sometimes overlooked in the big picture.
2012 – THE TOP FOUR FORGOTTEN CONFLICTS IN U.S. HISTORY – A look at the forgotten Revolutionary War battles after Yorktown (1781-1782), the Mexican War (1846-1848), the Nicaraguan Conflict (1926-1928), and the Philippine War (1899-1902).
2013 – FORGOTTEN U.S. NAVAL BATTLES OF WORLD WAR ONE – There were clashes between German U-Boats and the U.S. Navy ships transporting the American Expeditionary Force to Europe, the years-long underwater mining campaign, the German attack on Orleans, MA, the attack on Austria-Hungary’s naval base at Durazzo, Albania and much more.
2013 – THE TOP FOUR FORGOTTEN MILITARY UNITS FROM AMERICAN WARS – Looking at the Oneida Indians First Allies Unit from the Revolutionary War, Doniphan’s Thousand from the Mexican War, the “Yankee Samurai” (Nissei Battalion of 2,000 Japanese-Americans) from World War 2, and the racially integrated 1st Rhode Island Regiment from the Revolutionary War.
2014 – SOME MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS FROM THE PHILIPPINE WAR OF 1899-1902 – Servicemen from various branches of the armed forces were honored for their heroism during this conflict, including some from Young’s Scouts. Medals were issued for actions at the Sohotan River, Samar, Bayong, San Ysidro, Loac and Catubig. Continue reading
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