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DECEMBER NINETEENTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog closes this week with another current events roundup.

PRESIDENT TRUMP DELIVERS EVEN MORE DROPS IN PRESCRIPTION MEDICINE PRICES. The greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

LATEST INFLATION FIGURES: PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SUCCESS IN FIGHTING INFLATION LEAVES HIS CRITICS EMBARRASSED.   INFLATION FALLS TO LOWEST LEVEL IN YEARS.

WIDBURG STATES TRUMP’S SPEECH WAS “BOMBASTIC BUT ACCURATE.” Trump does have a certain Theodore Roosevelt quality. More HERE.   MARGOLIS PRAISES TRUMP’S ECONOMIC TURNAROUND FROM BIDEN’S DISASTROUS YEARS

H.U.D. SECRETARY SCOTT TURNER REVEALS THAT FIFTY-NINE PERCENT OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE ON ONE OR MORE WELFARE PROGRAMS.

KENNEDY CENTER BOARD UNANIMOUSLY VOTES TO RENAME THE KENNEDY CENTER “THE DONALD J. TRUMP AND JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS”. More HERE.

CONGRESSMAN AUGUST PFLUGER IS THE LATEST TO CALL OUT THE WAY OBAMACARE GIVES A BLANK CHECK TO GREEDY INSURANCE COMPANIES TO JACK UP PREMIUMS. We all knew this years ago. Obamacare was a unilateral favor to insurance companies that donated heavily to Democrats. Remember, Obamacare passed without one Republican vote in Congress.

JUDGE HANNAH DUGAN FOUND GUILT OF FELONY OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE BY TRYING TO HELP AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN HER COURTROOM ESCAPE IMMIGRATION LAW ENFORCERS. More HERE. Many more of America’s judges need to pay for their abuses.

REAL CLEAR POLITICS SHOWS TRUMP IS STILL AT A HIGHER APPROVAL RATING THAN EITHER BIDEN OR OBAMA WERE AT THE SAME POINT IN THEIR PRESIDENCIES.    Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP: DECEMBER SEVENTEENTH

Time for a midweek current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

NOVEMBER’S JOBS REPORT SHOWS PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES CONTINUE TO INCREASE JOBS AND DECREASE UNEMPLOYMENT. Have I ever mentioned that Trump is the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime?

TRUMP EFFECT: APARTMENT RENT PRICES DROP COMPARED TO LAST YEAR. Have I ever mentioned … oh, yeah, I have.

CHRISTMAS GAS PRICES LOOK TO DROP TO LOWEST LEVEL IN FIVE YEARS.

KASH PATEL’S FBI THWARTS PLANNED NEW YEAR’S EVE TERRORIST ATTACKS BY LEFTIST GROUPS. More HERE. And HERE.

LAST WEEK’S LIE ABOUT DHS SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM DISPROVEN.

VIDEO OF PRIVILEGED WHITE DEMOCRAT KAREN HARASSING 72-YEAR-OLD TARGET EMPLOYEE IS THE LATEST REMINDER THAT 2025 DEMOCRATS ARE INTOLERANT GARBAGE. Luckily the people have her back.

ANOTHER CALL FOR TIM WALZ TO RESIGN OVER HIS EXPLODING SCANDALS. More HERE. This time over student loan fraud. Walz’s Minnesota apparently never met fraud it didn’t like. More HERE.

MAINE’S DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR MILLS PROVIDES MORE PROTECTION FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. “Illegal immigrants uber alles” is still The Party’s motto.

AND ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF DEMOCRATS PROVIDING TAX-PAYER FUNDED HEALTHCARE TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.   Continue reading

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BEST OF MAY 2025

Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end of year retrospective continues with this look at May’s best.

MINNIE’S BOYS (1970) – My review of the original production of this stage show about the hilarious comedy team the Marx Brothers. Click HERE.

FORGOTTEN TELEVISION – Frontier Circus (1961-1962) about a circus traveling the wild old west HERE; The Great Adventure (1963-1964) dramatizations of historical action HERE; Everglades (1961-1962) about a law enforcement ranger whose beat is the Florida Everglades HERE; and Together We Stand (1986-1987) starring Dee Wallace, “Short Round” and Elliott Gould HERE.

THE MICHIGAN BRIGADE – A Memorial Day look at this Union Army Cavalry unit from the Civil War. Click HERE.

JOHN DEREK: HIS SWASHBUCKLER FILMS – The man who married Bo Derek, Ursula Andress, Linda Evans & Pati Behrs also starred in swashbuckler movies like Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950), The Sword of Monte Cristo (1951), Prince of Pirates (1953) and The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954). Click HERE.

ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION – A Trip to the Moon by Mr. Murtagh McDermot (1728) a clever man encounters various life-forms on the moon HERE; The Mad Scientist (1908) about the title character and his inventions unleashing an incredible war in the U.S. HERE; and Wonderworlds (1911) an Earth crew explores our solar system and then the Alpha Centauri system HERE.

THE SILENT FILMS OF ALICE GUY-BLACHE – This pioneering woman was for a time the only female director in the industry. I reviewed her works from the 1890s to 1920, including comedies, dramas, westerns, black cast movies, love stories and horror movies like Esmeralda (1905) – the first known film adapting The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Click HERE.   

APOCALYPSE CULTURE (1987) – Before the internet there were books like this collecting some of the most daring, iconoclastic, demented and just plain perverse writings of the late 20th Century. Click HERE Continue reading

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DECEMBER FIFTEENTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog makes with a Monday current events roundup.

ANOTHER ANTI-TRUMP FAIL: DEMOCRATS EXPOSED FOR THEIR LATEST FRAUDULENT ATTEMPT TO TIE PRESIDENT TRUMP TO ANTICS ON EPSTEIN ISLAND. More HERE. That picture of Trump posing for the photo with several Hawaiian Tropic models is from a 1986 event at Mar-a-Lago. It wasn’t Epstein Island and the models were all legal age AND it’s the kind of public celebration photo that was fairly common in the 1980s.

        Some legal experts in the media are saying this attempt to smear Trump was so blatant that he may have grounds for another lawsuit against his hysterical, overreaching haters. Democrats sinisterly blacked out part of the faces of the models to make the photo look incriminating. The full photo has been published and the ladies are known.

HEROIC MARIA CORINA MACHADO CONTINUES TO DAZZLE THE WORLD. More HERE. Haters, meanwhile, are outraged that her white pantsuit resembles the kind favored by Tulsi Gabbard.

INTERNATIONAL ROLE MODEL MARIA CORINA MACHADO ALSO SAYS “I ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S STRATEGY” ON VENEZUELA.   

DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR TIM WALZ CONTINUES TO TWIST IN THE WIND OVER MINNESOTA’S MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR MEDICAID FRAUD SCANDAL.

A LOOK AT THE FOUR HUNDRED WORST ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WITH ADDITIONAL CRIMES ARRESTED BY ICE IN TIM WALZ’S “SANCTUARY STATE” MINNESOTA. Continue reading

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FLASHBACK: THE REAL DIVIDE IN AMERICA – DEMOCRATS VS THE REST OF US

democrat platform hatredFROM MAY 3rd, 2021 – Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog comes to you once again from an America divided by the Democrats’ hatred and racism. It’s no secret that in the United States the REAL division is not black people vs white people or gay people vs straight people or women vs men – it’s DEMOCRATS VS EVERYBODY ELSE.

Yes, people of all colors or religions, etc., can discuss anything calmly and reasonably and without hatred as long as none of them are Democrats. They may not agree, but the debates can be civil and free of vituperative accusations. However, when one or more Democrats enter the conversation, hate-filled hysteria replaces facts and logic. What had been an exchange of ideas degenerates into vitriol and sanctimonious drivel.

It doesn’t help that pompous, hypocritical and snobbish Democrats actually believe in “Democrat Exceptionalism.”

*** Remember, the people who call others White Supremacists do not speak for all black people, they speak for DEMOCRATS, some of whom happen to be black.

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NO DEMOCRAT WOULD ALLOW THIS SIGN IN A CLASSROOM OR OFFICE.

*** People who push for “Defunding (and/or firing) The Police” do not speak for all people of color, they speak for DEMOCRATS, some of whom happen to be people of color.

*** People who insist other people must lose their jobs and/or be driven from an entire profession for expressing opinions that supposedly “offend” or “marginalize” entire groups do not speak for those entire groups, they speak only for DEMOCRATS.

*** People who oppose voter i.d. do not represent all people of color, they represent DEMOCRATS.

*** People who pretend to represent educators do not represent all educators, they represent DEMOCRATS in the education field. Democrats file complaints about or otherwise harass anyone who expresses dissenting opinions. Continue reading

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BEST OF APRIL 2025

Balladeer’s Blog’s annual retrospective continues with this look at April’s best.

SCREAMBOOK (1984) – This low, low budget horror anthology film was written, produced and directed by THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD Joseph Zaso.

He went on to a still-going career in Psychotronic filmmaking, but this debut effort saw him directing (mostly) his fellow teens, even in the adult and elderly roles. Sort of a Bugsy Mallone feel. Click HERE.   

AIHEC: COOL NAMED TEAMS AND LOGOS – A look at 21 cool-named sports teams and their logos from the American Indian Higher Education Consortium. Meet the Turtle Mountain College Mighty Mikinocks, the Red Lake Nation College Migizi, the Leech Lake College Leech Lakers and more. Click HERE.

WINK MARTINDALE, RIP: HE DID MORE THAN JUST GAME SHOWS – I reviewed some of Mr. Martindale’s other productions, like his role on the sci-fi series Mars Patrol (1953-1955), the Rock and Roll movie Let’s Rock (1958), the 26-minute short about life in the future titled 1999 A.D., and the PureFlix series Hilton Head Island. Click HERE.

VAL KILMER, RIP: TOP SECRET (1984) – Click HERE.

FOR APRIL 1st, THE THIRD FOOL KILLER LETTER – From June 28th, 1861.

The folk figure created by Charles Napoleon Bonaparte Evans in the 1850s expressed his disgust with the fools who brought on the Civil War. Click HERE.

FORGOTTEN TELEVISION – Bracken’s World (1969-1970) Leslie Nielsen as the head of a Hollywood studio with as many stars as The Love Boat. Click HERE.   The Engelbert Humperdinck Show (1969-1970) – Singing and comedy sketches with celebrity guests. Click HERE.   Empire (1962-1963) Ryan O’Neal, Charles Bronson and Richard Egan starred in this modern ranching drama HERE.   

ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION – Consolations in Travel (1830) A journey to see the alien life-forms on the Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and on comets HERE. The Guardian of Mystery Island (1896) Hemp that grants long lifespans and a large man-eating tree with tentacles for branches. Click HERE. A Story of the Year 2236 (1900) – A war between Earth’s interstellar empire and a hostile alien empire from Sirius. Click HERE.   

ARGENTINA’S SUPERHEROES – I examined the country’s male and female heroes like Caballero Rojo, Cybersix, Sonoman, El Cazador, Alien Girl, Arana Negra and many more. Click HERE.

BAD MOVIES – A look at Werewolves on Wheels (1971), Psychomania (1973), Black Angels (1970), Bigfoot (1970), She-Devils on Wheels and several more HERE.   

THE SUCCESSOR (1965) – Forgotten drama which fictionalized the College of Cardinals’ process for their selection of a new Pope. Click HERE. Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP FOR DECEMBER TWELFTH

Here’s a Friday current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

TRUMP EFFECT: PAYCHECKS CONTINUE TO OUTPACE INFLATION. The greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

EVEN THE DEMOCRATS AT CNBC ADMIT NOW THAT JOE BIDEN CAUSED THE “AFFORDABILITY CRISIS” THEY TALK ABOUT. Points for honesty, I guess.

NOBEL LAUREATE MARIA CORINA MACHADO CREDITS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WITH HELPING HER ESCAPE VENEZUELA

DEMOCRAT GOVERNORS OF COLORADO, ILLINOIS AND NEW YORK MOVE TO DEPRIVE THEIR CITIZENS OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S NO TAX ON TIPS BENEFIT JUST BECAUSE TRUMP DID IT. Anti-Trump hysteria and Trump Derangement Syndrome sink to new depths. How do service personnel in those states feel about The Party continuing to tax their tips? More HERE.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES HAVE ALREADY LOWERED AMERICA’S TRADE DEFICIT BY TEN POINT NINE PERCENT. Meanwhile, Congressional Republicans accomplish nothing. 

THE INDIANA LEGISLATURE FAILS TO KEEP UP WITH THE DEMOCRATS. More HERE. One side wants it more. Outside of Trump and his allies elected Republicans are worthless.

SOME OF TRUMP’S SUCCESSES IN BRINGING DOWN VIOLENT CRIME NUMBERS.

MINNESOTA’S GROTESQUE MISHANDLING OF MULTIPLE RAPIST ADBIMAHAT BILLE MOHAMED.

BUSH CRIME FAMILY: NEIL BUSH (REMEMBER HIM FROM THE SAVINGS & LOAN SCANDALS A FEW DECADES AGO?) IS NOW CLIMBING INTO BED WITH CHINA. How much more damage will that family do to the U.S.?

BBC EXPOSED FOR LYING ABOUT PRESDENT TRUMP YET AGAIN. Yet they still pretend to be a “news” organization.

TRUMP’S DOJ IS SUING MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS OVER THEIR RACIST AND SEXIST POLICIES Continue reading

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HOORAY FOR SANTA CLAUS: SEVEN VERSIONS

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Yes, it’s the song from that notoriously bad movie Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Decades ago The Christmas Martian supplanted that flick in my Bad Movie Lover heart but Hooray for Santa Claus is still a butt-kicking song.

Starting us off is the Psychotronic movie version of the song by the poor man’s Skitch Henderson – Milton De Lugg – and The Little Eskimos.

And here’s the version by Al “Green Hornet Theme” Hirt: Continue reading

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DECEMBER TENTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is here with a Wednesday current events roundup.

DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER HAS RELEASED TO THE STREETS OVER ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO ARE ALSO GUILTY OF MURDER, ASSAULT AND SEX CRIMES SINCE JANUARY.

        Once again, we see that Democrat “sanctuary” policies never provide sanctuary for innocent victims, just for perpetrators. More of Pritzker’s protection for illegals HERE.  

TRUMP EFFECT: AVERAGE AMERICAN GAS PRICES DROP BELOW THREE DOLLARS PER GALLON. Have I mentioned that Trump is the greatest American president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime?

PRESIDENT TRUMP ANNOUNCES HE IS USING ELEVEN BILLION DOLLARS IN TARIFF REVENUE TO AID AMERICAN FARMERS.

ANOTHER REVELATION IN THE SCANDAL ABOUT DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR TIM WALZ REDIRECTING TAXPAYER MONEY. As if his multi-billion-dollar Medicaid fraud disaster wasn’t bad enough.

MAINE NOW HAS ITS OWN SOMALI FRAUD SCANDAL AS MILLIONS DIVERTED FROM THE TAXPAYERS TO SOMALI MILITARISTS. More HERE. And HERE. Unreal. 

TWO NEW JERSEY BROTHERS ARRESTED FOR THREATENING TO TORTURE AND HANG DHS OFFICIAL TRICIA MCLAUGHLIN. More HERE.

DHS LAUNCHES SITE REGARDING THE OTHER CRIMINAL OFFENSES OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS THEY HAVE ARRESTED Continue reading

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BEST OF MARCH 2025

Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end of year retrospective continues with this look at March’s best.

SEAN FLYNN: ERROL’S SON IN MOVIES – The son of swashbuckler Errol Flynn and Lili Damita starred in several overlooked films, among them The Son of Captain Blood, The Sign of Zorro, and Temple of the White Elephant (think Indiana Jones adventures).

He was also the star of a few Spaghetti Westerns and a few Swinging 60s spy movies, too. Click HERE.

FAILED PREDICTIONS FROM PSYCHICS AND SCIENTISTS: SUPERCUT – Dozens of wildly inaccurate predictions from psychics and scientists over the decades. Click HERE.

CUBA’S SILENT FILMS FROM 1897 to 1907 – Click HERE.

FORGOTTEN TELEVISION – The Blue Palace (1974-1976): A German sci-fi series that was like a cross between Doomwatch and The X-Files. Click HERE.   Beacon Hill (1975): A drama about wealthy Irish Americans and very poor Irish Americans in Boston right after World War One. Click HERE.   Amy Prentiss (1974-1975): Long before she was Archer’s mother, Jessica Walter played Chief of Detectives Amy Prentiss in San Francisco. Click HERE.   

MARIE WALCAMP: THE DAREDEVIL OF SILENT MOVIES – Forgotten by everybody except us Silent Film geeks, Marie did most of her own stunts and from 1913 to 1920 starred in adventure serials like The Lion’s Claws, Liberty: A Daughter of the USA, and the Fu Manchu-inspired The Dragon’s Net.   She also did jungle adventures like The Jungle Queen, A Daughter of the Jungle, and Cast Adrift in the South Seas.  Plus westerns like The Red Ace and her 9 flicks as female gunslinger Tempest Cody. Click HERE

ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION – Omegon (1915), about a high-tech war between America on one side and China, Mexico and Japan on the other. Click HERE.   A Prophetic Romance (1896), about a Martian ambassador to Earth of “the future” (1990s). Click HERE.   A Trip to the North Pole (1903) – Mormon explorers discover the Lost Tribes of Israel running a futuristic civilization at the North Pole. Dinosaurs and high-tech weaponry are there, too. Click HERE.   

I WAS A TEENAGE TIME LORD – Young me and Bad Movies like Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, From Hell It Came, The Creeping Terror, Robot Monster, Teenagers from Outer Space and more HERE.

BLACK RAIN (1977) – A neglected horror/ sci-fi hybrid film starring Richard Chamberlin as a lawyer in Australia who gets caught up in supernatural events leading to the end of the world. Click HERE. Continue reading

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