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June 5, 2026 · 3:48 pm

THE HOME STRETCH TOWARD AMERICA’S TWO HUNDRED FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY

We are less than a month away from America’s 250th birthday! I’ll be making additional seasonal posts between now and then but let’s open up the home stretch with some of the top neglected historical moments in U.S. history.

THE PENOBSCOT CAMPAIGN: AMERICA’S REVOLUTIONARY WAR TRAGEDY. The largest land and sea offensive launched by the U.S. during the war.

AND EVEN MORE NEGLECTED BATTLES OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. AND MORE HERE.

THE PETTICOAT REVOLUTION OF DECEMBER 5th, 1916. The most fascinating female maneuvering this side of the Aristophanes comedy The Assemblywomen (Ecclesiazusae).

NEGLECTED REVOLUTIONARY WAR BATTLES: LATE 1781.

NEGLECTED REVOLUTIONARY WAR BATTLES: MARCH 1777. The title says it all.

THE GREAT ADVENTURE (1963-1964). Dramatizations of fascinating moments in American history.

FIVE NATURAL DISASTERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY: 1811-1937.

D-DAY AND OTHER JUNE SIXTHS IN HISTORY.

THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS: BLACK WARRIORS OF THE OLD WEST.

GOVERNOR BENT ASSASSINATED: JANUARY NINETEENTH, 1847. Continue reading →

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June 5, 2026 · 7:06 am

NEWS ROUNDUP FOR JUNE FIFTH

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

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S JOBS BOOM CONTINUES WITH ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-TWO THOUSAND NEW JOBS CREATED IN MAY. Nearly twice as many as predicted! Have I ever mentioned that he’s the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime?

EVEN THE DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET THE NEW YORK TIMES HAS NOW REVEALED GRAHAM “NAZI TATTOO” PLATNER’S ABUSIVE TREATMENT OF WOMEN HE HAS BEEN INVOLVED WITH. (And yes, I know there are Republican media outlets, too, but the New York Times is practically a Democrat Party newsletter so when even THEY realize how awful Platner is it says a lot.)

DESPITE NEW JERSEY’S DEMOCRAT ATTEMPTS TO KEEP THEM AT LARGE, ICE ARRESTS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CONVICTED OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, MANSLAUGHTER AND BURGLARY. Democrats, why do you NEVER make this much effort to help law-abiding citizens? Why is it always and only illegal immigrants guilty of additional crimes?

ICE ARRESTS VIOLENT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMINAL RELEASED BY DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY CITY” CHICAGO.

DEMOCRAT SENATOR RON WYDEN LEFT SPUTTERING WHEN SCOTT BESSENT MENTIONS WYDEN’S SON BEING IN BED WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN. 

ANTI-TRUMPER JOHN BOLTON PLEADS GUILTY IN CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS CASE. 

AN ITEM EXAMINING REPUBLICANS WHO REFUSED TO PUSH BACK ON THE INCREASING INTOLERANCE AND CALLS TO VIOLENCE BY DEMOCRATS.

VOTER REGISTRATION FRAUD IN DEMOCRAT-HELD NEW YORK: ONE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTY THOUSAND INSTANCES FOUND. Notice how it’s always Democrats who oppose fighting vote fraud?

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June 3, 2026 · 7:14 am

JUNE THIRD NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is here with a mid-week current events roundup.

DR. MEHMET OZ DISCUSSES THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S PRESERVATION OF MEDICAID AGAINST ALL THREATS. The greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime. Among Dr. Oz’s remarks: “Medicaid was built for vulnerable Americans, not illegal immigrants, state bookkeeping tricks, and political generosity charged to people who had no say in the bill.”

DR. OZ ALSO ANNOUNCES ONE HUNDRED SIXTY MORE PRESCRIPTION MEDICINES ARE BEING ADDED FOR LOWER PRICES ON THE TRUMPRx SITE. 

IN DEMOCRAT-HELD “SANCTUARY STATE” CALIFORNIA, AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IS CHARGED WITH MURDERING AN INFANT PLUS THE INFANT’S MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER. No “sanctuary” is ever provided for victims, only for the perpetrators and Democrats fight to keep those perpetrators in the country at all costs.

ENGLAND’S HENRY NOWAK TRAGEDY.  

VIRGINIA’S DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR SPANBERGER STILL PROTECTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED WITH RAPING A GIRL UNDER FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE.

PRO-TRUMP ASHLEY HINSON WINS SENATE PRIMARY ELECTION IN IOWA. 

SOUTH CAROLINA POLICE OFFICERS RESCUE UNCONSCIOUS DRIVER FROM THEIR SINKING VEHICLE IN WATER. Remember, you will NEVER see anti-police “activists” risking their lives like this to save someone else.

BERNIE SANDERS DOUBLES DOWN ON HIS SUPPORT FOR GRAHAM PLATNER, THE DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE WITH THE NAZI TATTOO, A SCAT FETISH, AGGRESSIVE SEX TEXTS TO WOMEN BESIDES HIS WIFE AND EVEN WORSE. Overseas people who bizarrely support Bernie may want to take note of what he has become in recent years.

INTOLERANT DEMOCRATS ON CAMPUS FILING COMPLAINTS AGAINST PEOPLE FOR USING THE WORD “MOTHERS” INSTEAD OF SAYING “LACTATING INDIVIDUALS.” More HERE. Democrats hate reality and love using their political watchdogs to make people less free, even in casual everyday conversations.  Continue reading →

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June 1, 2026 · 8:02 am

NEWS ROUNDUP: JUNE FIRST

If it’s Monday, it’s time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog here in an America where the detestable Biden Crime Family continues trying to distract from the fact that Joe Biden was an unfit and illegit figurehead paraded before the cameras for four years while unelected figures in his regime massively damaged the U.S.

MAINE DEMOCRAT SENATE CANDIDATE GRAHAM “NAZI TATTOO” PLATNER STRUGGLES WITH SCANDALS REGARDING HIM AND A CHILD PREDATOR SITE, HIS GROTESQUE FETISH FOR PORT-O-JOHNS, MENACING SEXUAL TEXTS AND MORE. He’s the epitome of the 2026 Democrat Party. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And HERE. 

BIDEN-HARRIS REGIME NOW EXPOSED FOR TRYNG TO COVER UP TWO HUNDRED BILLION – WITH A “B” – DOLLARS IN FRAUDULENT PPP LOANS. A new chapter in the long and sordid saga of the Biden Crime Family’s atrocities.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE IN HAWAII STORMS GOVERNMENT BUILDING AND THREATENS TO USE THEIR GUN. And 2026 Democrats are so far gone they will likely STILL vote for this terrorist.

DEMOCRAT MOB VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN NEW JERSEY AS DO THREATS ON THE LIVES OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THEIR FAMILIES. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE.

DEMOCRAT MOB VIOLENCE AGAINST THE MEDIA IN NEW JERSEY. More HERE. Continue reading →

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May 30, 2026 · 3:56 pm

FLASHBACK: CROW INDIAN TRIBE AND BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS ENDORSE PRESIDENT TRUMP OVER BIDEN

FROM OCTOBER 30th, 2020: 

Alvin Not Afraid JrWhile Joe Biden hides in his bunker from the Biden Family Corruption Scandal, Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog notes that yet ANOTHER Native American Tribe has endorsed de facto Third Party President Donald Trump. In the endorsement, Alvin Not Afraid, Jr (the best name imaginable) called attention to President Trump’s policy of letting the tribe assign and grant permits on THEIR OWN mineral rights, unlike so many previous administrations. (link below)

As Chairman Not Afraid, Jr explained, the “Trump administration has helped the Crow Tribe in amending the Tribal Employment Rights Ordinance” to bring that about.

“Today I stand before you to endorse, as well as support, President Trump, Vice President Pence,” Not Afraid, Jr. said.

Maurice DavisMeanwhile, Martin Luther King Person of Courage Maurice Davis, the Democrat VP of the Flint City Council announced he is crossing party lines to support President Trump:

“Let me tell you something, the Democrats are full of hate. I have been a democrat all my life, 64 years. The last four years I voted for Hillary Clinton. This year I decided to go with President Trump. I am not a bootlicker, I am not an Uncle Tom.”

Earlier he had addressed the Democrat riots across the country: “Riots, they ain’t no damn protest, they’re riots … tearing up your own neighborhoods … ‘We hate Donald Trump’ … but yet, we didn’t hate the $1,200 he sent us,” Davis said on a Facebook video.

rev william owensCIVIL RIGHTS LEADER REV WILLIAM OWENS also mentioned his support for Trump, praising the president’s policies which have helped communities of color.

“President Trump did something that few other politicians do,” Owens said. “He sought out the opinion of a variety of African American leaders and he listened to what we had to say. Then he supported policies and programs that have real potential to help Black families.”

Owens continued: “What’s more, his new Platinum plan looks to invest millions in Black businesses and communities,” the civil rights leader observed. “This is a president who believes in giving a hand-up, not a hand-out in order to help our community thrive.”

“While Mr. Biden and the Democrats continue to take the Black vote for granted, offering nothing more than empty promises and more government dependency, President Trump is offering hope and a real plan to help African Americans,” Owens continued.

“Four years ago, President Trump asked us to give him a chance and we gave him one,” he said. “What he did with that chance shows that he deserves another four years in office. This year, President Trump has my vote.” Continue reading →

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May 29, 2026 · 3:02 pm

RICHARD TODD’S SWASHBUCKLER MOVIES

Richard Todd enjoyed a long career during which he played nearly every type of role imaginable. Among those were a few swashbucklers.

ROB ROY: THE HIGHLAND ROGUE (1953) – Accurate history has no place in this Disney film in which Richard Todd stars as Scottish Clan leader and legendary outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor. The film begins in 1715 as Clan MacGregor is among the Scottish forces fighting against King George the First of England in the Jacobite Uprising.

The Duke of Argyll (James Robertson Justice) leads troops loyal to the king and defeats the rebellious clans despite his grudging admiration for them, especially Rob Roy MacGregor. By 1717, Argyll’s rival the Duke of Montrose is placed in charge of the Scottish Highlands and is much harsher than the Duke of Argyll was.

Montrose pardons all the Jacobite Clans except the MacGregors, who are forbidden to even use their surname, hence their leader being renowned as simply Rob Roy. Our hero is imprisoned by Montrose but escapes and leads his kinsmen and loyalists in rustling Montrose’s cattle and looting his estates.   

And so the film goes, with the Duke of Montrose used as a Prince John in Robin Hood figure and his underling Killearn serving as a Sheriff of Nottingham type. Rob Roy and his men thwart the bad guys at every turn, and ultimately the Duke of Argyll arranges a truce between Rob Roy’s clan and the king.

Glynis Johns co-stars as Rob’s wife Helen Mary MacGregor with Michael Gough portraying the villainous Montrose. 81 minutes. Continue reading →

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May 28, 2026 · 6:13 am

MAY TWENTY-EIGHTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is here with yet another current events roundup.

ICE AGENTS ARREST ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT KILLERS, CHILD SEX CRIMINALS, DRUG TRAFFICKERS AND MORE IN NEW JERSEY. Meanwhile, Democrats attempt to impede their efforts and want an ICE facility shut down. 

DEMOCRAT GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE TOM STEYER VOWS TO ARREST ICE AGENTS IF HE WINS. He forgot to add “No matter how many illegal immigrant killers, rapists, child sexual assailants and other violent criminals are left at large to endanger the public”, but Democrat voters heard that dog whistle anyway. It’s pretty much their Party platform these days.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT SENTENCED TO TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN PRISON FOR RAPING AND IMPREGNATING A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD. Never forget that if Democrats had their way this rapist would still be at large.

PRESIDENT TRUMP PRAISED FOR BRINGING HOME RECORD NUMBER OF AMERICAN HOSTAGES – ONE HUNDRED SIX – IN JUST THE PAST FIFTEEN MONTHS. 

CORRUPT JOE BIDEN, KNOWN FOR BEING UNFIT AND ILLEGIT, SUES TO TRY PREVENTING THE RELEASE OF EVEN FURTHER TAPES PROVING HOW MENTALLY UNFIT HE WAS YEARS AGO. More HERE. And all the while the Democrats and their media outlets were insisting Biden was “sharp as a tack”, etc.

MAINE’S DEMOCRAT NOMINEE FOR SENATE JAKE AUCHINCLOSS COURAGEOUSLY CALLS MAINE’S DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE GRAHAM PLATNER’S NAZI TATTOO “DISQUALIFYING.” Too bad The Party’s bigwigs still back Platner.

MINNEAPOLIS’S DEMOCRAT POLICE CHIEF RESIGNS IN DISGRACE AMID SCANDAL. He was pretty useless a few months ago during the city’s attempts to obstruct ICE, too.

TRUMP-ENDORSED KEN PAXTON CRUSHED OBSTRUCTIONIST JOHN CORNYN BY MORE THAN TWENTY-SEVEN PERCENT. More HERE. The clueless and out of date Republican Party anti-Trumpers lost again HERE!

DONOHEW ON PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SELFLESS SERVICE.  Continue reading →

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May 26, 2026 · 5:21 am

NEWS ROUNDUP: MAY TWENTY-SIXTH

Time for another currrent events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

OIL PRICES TUMBLE UPON WORD THAT END TO IRAN CONFLICT IS CLOSE.

DEMOCRATS CALLING FOR DNC CHAIRMAN TO RESIGN FOLLOWING RELEASE DETAILING WHAT A DEBACLE KAMALA HARRIS’ CAMPAIGN WAS.

BOLT CEO SLASHES ENTIRE H.R. TEAM, POINTING OUT THAT “THEY WERE CREATING PROBLEMS THAT DIDN’T EXIST“. Like so many other H.R. staffs in other companies working as Commissars for Democrat political opinions rather than doing their jobs resulted in “a culture of not getting things done and complaining a lot.”

      Among his other remarks: “there is “a sense of entitlement that had festered across the company, and people who felt empowered, felt entitled — but weren’t actually working hard.” … And this is the number one thing that I had to battle. Ultimately, most of those people just had to be let go,” Breslow stated.

      Also, in place of a full HR department, Bolt has since set up a smaller “people operations team” to handle new employee onboarding and training. “We have a team a quarter of the size, who are much more junior, who work a lot harder, who have better energy,” Breslow said at the event. “And our customers are telling us, ‘We haven’t had this type of attention in four years.‘

SENATOR MARSHA BLACKBURN REMINDS THE PUBLIC THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS ENDING A WAR THAT IRAN HAS BEEN WAGING AGAINST THE U.S. FOR FORTY-SEVEN YEARS.

EVEN DEMOCRAT SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH COURAGEOUSLY ADDED HER VOICE TO SHAMING THE DEMOCRAT NATIONAL COMMITTEE INTO DELETING THEIR GROTESQUE POST USING MEMORIAL DAY AS A PARTISAN ANTI-TRUMP ANKLE BITE. Trump Derangement Syndrome continues. Continue reading →

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May 22, 2026 · 11:58 am

MAY TWENTY-SECOND NEWS ROUNDUP

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

DEMOCRAT OPERATIVE SENTENCED TO OVER FORTY-ONE YEARS IN PRISON FOR LEADING A TWO HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION DOLLAR FRAUD SCAM IN TIM WALZ’S MINNESOTA. More HERE. Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

MULTI-MILLION-DOLLAR MINNESOTA MEDICAID FRAUDSTER MUHAMMAD ABDULQADIR OMAR FLEES AUTHORITIES. 

DEMOCRAT DAs ANNOUNCE NEW PLANS TO ARREST ICE AGENTS.

AND YET ANOTHER BIDEN-RELEASED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT SENTENCED TO FIFTY YEARS FOR MAKING CHILD PORN WITH HIS EIGHT-YEAR-OLD NIECE AND NEPHEW. The Democrat Party ideal.

AUSTIN SPREE SHOOTER IS AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT. “If it saves even one life” isn’t it worth it to enforce immigration laws?

BRIVAL LE POGAM APOLOGIZES ON BEHALF OF THE FRENCH FOR THE WAY “FRENCH THEORY” LED TO “THE WORST OF ALL IDEOLOGICAL MONSTROSITIES: WOKISM.”

PRESIDENT TRUMP MAKES GROCERY PRICES LOWER. 

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS SUCCESSFULLY CUTTING COLLEGE COSTS. Continue reading →

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May 20, 2026 · 4:38 pm

THE SWASHBUCKLER MOVIES OF PAUL HENREID

Paul Henreid, perhaps best known as Victor Laszlo in Casablanca, also starred in a few swashbuckler films in the 1940s and 1950s.

THE SPANISH MAIN (1945) – In the 1600s, Dutch Captain Laurent van Horn (Paul Henreid) is using his ship to transport refugees from the current war in Holland to safety in the Carolina Colonies. Storms and other misfortunes cause the ship to go wildly off course, ultimately wrecking near Cartagena. Spanish Colonial Governor Don Juan Alvarado (Walter Slezak) imprisons Laurent and his crew, sentencing them to hang.

Captain van Horn leads his men in escaping the prison and stealing a ship they rechristen the Barracuda. Over the next five years they thrive as pirates preying on Spanish shipping and thumbing their noses at villainous Governor Alvarado every chance they get.

One day they seize the Spanish Galleon taking Contessa Francesca (Maureen O’Hara) to Cartagena to marry Alvarado. Feisty Francesca impresses Laurent with her spirit and her beauty, so when she offers him her hand in marriage if he spares the lives of her escorts he gladly accepts.

Captain van Horn and his crew take the Contessa to the port where the Barracuda and other pirate vessels hide out. A very inaccurate rendition of pirate Anne Bonny (Binnie Barnes) is jealous that Francesca has taken her man Laurent. She joins forces with pirate captains who resent van Horn’s leadership to deliver Francesca to Alvarado.

The bad guys and gals also capture Laurent and offer to turn him over to Alvarado for a big payday. Naturally, the pirate captain and the Contessa manage to defeat the villains and cement their romance. 100 minutes.  Continue reading →

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