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MONDO CHARLES BRONSON: HIS MOST UNUSUAL MOVIES

Charles Buchinsky, better known as Charles Bronson, was a World War Two veteran who went on to superstardom as one of the most iconic “tough guys” in film history.

Balladeer’s Blog has reviewed several of his westerns so far, but this time I’ll examine Bronson’s offbeat, uncharacteristic starring roles. 

SOMEONE BEHIND THE DOOR (1971) – This Eurothriller directed by Nicolas Gessner was also released as Two Minds for Murder. Charles Bronson stars as an amnesiac patient of sinister brain-surgeon and psychiatrist Laurence Jeffries (Anthony Perkins himself).

Jeffries knows his wife is cheating on him and subjects Bronson – billed as the Stranger – to unethical psychological programming to make him think the brain surgeon-psychiatrist’s wife is really his wife, then manipulate him into murdering her.

In the role of unfaithful wife Frances Jeffries is Bronson’s wife Jill Ireland, since we’re in the period when Charles dragged her into everything with him like she was Linda McCartney to his Paul. The story isn’t plausible, of course, but artsy Eurothrillers always accentuated atmosphere and “what if” situations over realistic plots. 

Anthony Perkins tones down his twitchiness a bit and Bronson is credible as the manipulated amnesiac thinking he’s met the wife his memory loss wiped from his mind.

To say anything more would give away too many spoilers. Continue reading

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FLASHBACK: ENGLAND’S NICK COHEN ON HOW THE LEFT BECAME APPALLING

From February 17th, 2016. Back when I was still referring to American Democrats as Liberals before I went along with reader requests to just say Democrats instead because they were no longer liberal and were, in fact, very illiberal.

Nick Cohen

“I make no secret of the fact that I’m tired of the outdated Liberal vs Conservative paradigm. I considered myself a Liberal back before the political left became constrictive and totalitarian … I periodically post about fellow former leftists who have also recognized that Liberals throughout the Western World have become everything they pretend to oppose. They’re just better at P.R. than right-wingers are.”

England’s Nick Cohen made plenty of remarks I can relate to:

(A Liberal) cannot break with the pressures that enforce conformity in his left-wing world and accept the real reason why many leave the left. It ought to be obvious. The left is why they leave the left. Never more so than today.”

“The shift of left-wing thought towards movements it would once have denounced as racist, imperialist and fascistic has been building for years. I come from a left-wing family … and I don’t regret any of it. But slowly, too slowly I am ashamed to say, I began to notice that left-wing politics had turned rancid. Continue reading

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NOVEMBER TWELFTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog serves up a mid-week current events roundup.

DEMOCRAT ANTIFA THUGS VIOLENTLY ATTACK PEOPLE ATTENDING A TPUSA FUNCTION AT UC-BERKELEY. More HERE. And HERE.

        It was the final stop on the speaking tour started by free speech martyr Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated back in September.

ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL HARMEET DHILLON STATES THE DOJ IS LOOKING INTO UC-BERKELEY’S POTENTIAL COMPLICITY OR NEGLIGENCE IN THE VIOLENCE AGAINST TPUSA ATTENDEES. More HERE. And HERE.

ONE OF THE VIOLENT DEMOCRAT MOB MEMBERS AT THE UC-BERKELEY ATTACK IDENTIFIED.

DEMOCRAT VIRGINIA DELEGATE CONVICTED OF COVID RELIEF FRAUD.

DEMOCRAT SENATOR SCHUMER ADMITS OBAMACARE LITERALLY FUNDS HEALTHCARE FOR PEOPLE WHO MAKE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. Unreal.

TOP AIDE TO NEW YORK’S DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR HOCHUL ON TRIAL FOR SPYING FOR CHINA AS AN UNREGISTERED AGENT. And earning millions for it!

TRUMP EFFECT: GOODS SEEING PRICE DECREASES COMPARED TO 2024. The greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

PRESIDENT TRUMP PRAISED FOR THE WAY HIS TARIFFS HAVE MADE IT SO U.S. AUTOMAKERS ARE NO LONGER “DISADVANTAGED” FOR MAKING VEHICLES HERE IN THE U.S Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP FOR NOVEMBER TENTH

Here’s a Monday current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog here in an America where, now that the Senate advanced the measure to “reopen” the government on to the House, we’re closer to the period after every shutdown where both political parties claim they “won” that shutdown.

BBC DIRECTOR GENERAL AND THE HEAD OF THEIR “NEWS” DIVISION FORCED TO RESIGN OVER PROPAGANDISTIC AND DECEPTIVE ANTI-TRUMP BROADCAST. Splicing and recutting footage completely distorted Trump’s words and actions. So, business as usual at anti-Trump media outlets, except this time they were held accountable. Trump reacts HERE.

NEW HAMPSHIRE’S CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRAT STACIE LAUGHTON PLEADS GUILTY TO THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN. More HERE. Democrats, can you please leave children alone? If you don’t remember Laughton, he was praised by The Party as “the first openly transgender candidate elected to a state legislature.”  

Nancy Pelosi, whose policies harm the working class and the poor.

DISGRACED, PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER DEMOCRAT NANCY PELOSI FINALLY REMOVES HERSELF FROM CONGRESS. Her disastrous terms as Speaker of the House caused the Democrats to lose their majority two times, but The Party will praise her as she goes out the door, of course. That’s politics!

NANCY PELOSI’S INSIDER TRADING SCANDALS GO BACK MANY YEARS. Yet anti-Trump hypocrites never called for HER to provide several years’ worth of tax returns. And remember how her husband’s business conveniently got awarded lucrative government contracts over the decades? Nancy embodied the Swamp.   

PELOSI’S CORRUPT LEGACY CALLED OUT. She’s now worth two hundred eighty million dollars

BABYLON BEE’S MASTERFUL SATIRE ABOUT PELOSI’S CORRUPTION AND INSIDER TRADING. Some excerpts: “Having long been in the privileged position of using her status as a Washington power player to pad her impressive stock portfolio, Pelosi now faced the the grim reality of having to trade stocks without insider info just like a regular peasant.”  …  “It’ll be the total opposite of what I’m used to,” Pelosi reportedly told her aides. “Once I retire from public office, I’ll be forced to trade stocks blindly, just like the rest of the schmucks and peons I’ve governed for the last four decades. It’s beneath me, honestly. How am I supposed to make millions of dollars off of shady stock trades now?”  Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP FOR NOVEMBER SEVENTH

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog serves up a Friday roundup of current events.

PRESIDENT TRUMP ADDS A FOURTH AND FIFTH PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY TO HIS COALITION TO SUBSTANTIALLY DROP PRICES ON PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. He’s the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime. More HERE. And HERE.  

AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE STEPS IN TO HELP THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS THAT JACK SMITH AND HIS BIDEN REGIME ALLIES ILLEGALLY SPIED ON. Democrat fascism is as ugly as ever.

AND ANOTHER HIGHER COURT SMACKS LOWER COURT WHICH ILLEGALLY RULED AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP. More HERE. Vast implications in where this may go.    SEPARATE CASE: SUPREME COURT GIVES TRUMP ANOTHER WIN. Again we see he’s no “dictator” since he pauses until higher courts okay his actions. But Trump-haters are too deranged to realize that.

IN HOUSTON, ICE ARRESTS OVER ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS GUILTY OF ADDITIONAL CRIMES LIKE MURDER, GANG ACTIVITY AND CHILD RAPE. More HERE. Democrats would probably like to vote for every single one of them.      MORE THAN THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND AMERICANS APPLY TO JOIN PRESIDENT TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION ENFORCERS.

PRESIDENT TRUMP TELLS DEMOCRAT SCHUMER TO STOP PLAYING GAMES WITH PEOPLE’S LIVES AND REOPEN THE GOVERNMENT. Are ugly shutdowns like this going to be the new norm in the Democrats’ repulsive repertoire?    DEMOCRAT SENATOR MURPHY SAYS DEMOCRATS MUST KEEP THE SHUTDOWN GOING FOR THE SAKE OF THE PARTY’S “BRAND.” So incredibly callous.  

HEROIC DHS SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM HELPS ENLIST ECUADOR’S ASSISTANCE IN ENDING DRUG TRAFFICKING FROM THE REGION. Someone who gets things done is always better than worthless man-children who gutlessly sit on the sidelines and impotently make fun of people.

DEMOCRATS VOW TO CONTINUE THEIR SHUTDOWN. Still insisting on undoing what the voters wanted. Will clueless Congressional Republicans preserve the filibuster only to see the Democrats get rid of it the next time they control Congress? They still don’t get the new terms of engagement. Continue reading

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ANNUAL NOVEMBER FIFTH POST: 2025

Che Guevara 2Yes, it’s once again Guy Fawkes Day, the day Balladeer’s Blog celebrates figures who became symbols of the exact opposite things they represented in their actual lives!

Guy Fawkes was a religious fanatic whose face became a symbol of resistance against a fictional theocratic dictatorship thanks to a comic book. Che Guevara was a murderous, homophobic, racist would-be dictator depicted as a symbol of youthful rebellion thanks to the spiteful cluelessness of Left-Wing Archie Bunkers.  

Thank the forever-childish 1960s generation leftists for elevating such a repulsive and barely human creature to such heights. Even at HUFFINGTON POST the truth about blood-soaked animal Che has been written. Click HERE  

Here are some actual quotes from hatemonger Che:

“Go ahead and try them tomorrow morning — but execute them NOW!”

“We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.” 

Viva La Ignorant“Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood.”

“We don’t need proof to execute a man. We only need proof that it’s necessary to execute him. A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.” (Note from Balladeer: Gee, I thought the poseurs and buffoons of the American Left said they’re AGAINST “hate.”)

 “What we affirm is that we must proceed along the path of liberation even if this costs millions of atomic victims.”

Che QuoteRead more of this animal’s own words and you will see what a callous, unfeeling political fanatic this hate-filled scumbag was. He never wanted to overthrow dictatorships to help “the people”, he just wanted to overthrow them to install dictatorships more to his liking.

In other words, dictatorships that would let that bloodthirsty maniac kill as many people as he wanted. Che Guevara was a waste of biomass and was the exact opposite of what delusional and uninformed fools consider him to have been. Continue reading

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NOV FIFTH NEWS: EVERYWHERE DEMOCRATS WON LAST NIGHT WERE AREAS THAT VOTED FOR KAMALA LAST YEAR

Regular readers of Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog may recall that one of the things I laugh about the loudest is the way that both major political parties in America overreact to off-year elections. Last night’s results would be news if places that voted for Trump in 2024 suddenly voted for Democrats. That didn’t happen. Areas that voted for Kamala Harris last year are still voting Democrat.

DEMOCRAT PARTY

DEMOCRAT COUNTY COMMISSIONER WHO RESIGNED OVER STOLEN FUNDS SCANDAL MAY HAVE FLED THE U.S.

ARTICLE: “DEMOCRATS DOUBLE DOWN AS THE PARTY OF CRIME AND CHAOS.” Not to mention the party of threatening violence to others.

ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT FILED AGAINST CORRUPT “JUDGE” JAMES BOASBERG, ONE OF THE “ARCTIC FROST” SCANDAL’S LEADING NAMES.

ANOTHER ITEM EXAMINING HOW BADLY DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS STILL OUTNUMBER REPUBLICAN MEDIA OUTLETS. The Republican establishment STILL fails to keep up with their opponents in the Media Arms Race.

JOHNSON ON SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION IN THE SCHUMER SHUTDOWN.     

EVEN DEMOCRAT CNN POINTS OUT THAT DEMOCRATS ARE THE ONES WHO KEEP VOTING NOT TO END THE SHUTDOWN

ANOTHER ITEM COMPARING PRESIDENT TRUMP TO THE HEROIC FRANK SERPICO. Continue reading

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NOVEMBER 3rd NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog serves up a Monday current events roundup.

CORRUPT DISTRICT JUDGE JAMES BOASBERG’S INVOLVEMENT IN SCANDALS AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL BEHAVIOR LEADS THE REVELATIONS ABOUT THE BIDEN REGIME’S “ARCTIC FROST” VENDETTA AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP.  Jack Smith a close second.  By the way, let’s finally break away from appending the word “gate” to every scandal and now make “Something Frost” or “Arctic Something” the new meme. So tired of the overused “gate”.

A BREAKDOWN OF THE MONUMENTAL CRIMES AGAINST THE NATION COMMITTED IN ARCTIC FROST. More on Boasberg HERE.

SENATOR MARSHA BLACKBURN COURAGEOUSLY BLASTS ARCTIC FROST AS A VIOLATION OF THE FIRST AND FOURTH AMENDMENTS, THE SEPARATION OF POWERS AND THE STORED COMMUNICATIONS ACT.

ANOTHER DEEP DIVE INTO THE COUNTLESS ABUSES BY THE ARCTIC FROST CONSPIRATORS.

LATEST DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS REVEAL MORE ABOUT THE AUTHORITARIANS OF OUR “INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES” BREAKING THE LAW AND CONSTITUTION AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP AND CIVILIAN SUPPORTERS.

JACK SMITH’S INVOLVEMENT COVERED IN MORE DETAIL.

DEMOCRAT SENATOR FETTERMAN COURAGEOUSLY RESTATES THAT THE DEMOCRATS OWN THE SHUTDOWN. Violent 2025 Democrats may seek to harm him. More HERE.

FETTERMAN ALSO APOLOGIZES TO SUFFERING CITIZENS ON BEHALF OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY. Stay safe, John.

UNION PRESIDENT CALLS ON DEMOCRATS TO END THEIR GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN.

CANADIAN PM MARK CARNEY APOLOGIZES FOR AD FRAUDULENTLY ATTACKING PRESIDENT TRUMP.

DEMOCRAT LAWMAKER IN NORTH CAROLINA RESIGNS AFTER GETTING HIT WITH CHILD SEX CHARGES. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

FORMER HOST AT DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET NBC DECLARES TRUMP “THE BEST COMMUNICATOR OF THIS GENERATION.” More HERE.

AND YET ANOTHER STUDY POINTS OUT THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE BECOME THE PARTY OF SELFISH RICH PIGS WHILE TRUMP HAS MADE THE REPUBLICANS THE PARTY OF THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR. The U.K.’s left-wing Guardian recognized this as far back as late 2016, but it still bears repeating. Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP FOR THE THIRTIETH

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

EVEN THE DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET THE WASHINGTON POST’S EDITORIAL BOARD STATES THE DEMOCRATS HAVE “HELD THE GOVERNMENT HOSTAGE” AND SHOULD MAKE A DEAL. More HERE. Absolutely. I will point out again that what the Democrat Party did was mount a government shutdown to try forcing the opposition party to undo legislation that passed Congress because the Republicans won the 2024 elections and had the numbers to constitutionally pass it.

        It sabotages what the voters wanted if one political party will take the government hostage to try to accomplish through human suffering what they could not accomplish at the ballot box. Grow up, Democrats. Our next national elections are NEXT YEAR, not ten years away. Try to do better in ’26 and you won’t need repulsive stunts like this.

CONGRESSMAN SCALISE, SURVIVOR OF A LEFTIST ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT HIMSELF, BLASTED THE DEMOCRATS FOR BRAGGING THAT THEY USE THE SUFFERING OF CITIZENS AS “LEVERAGE.” 

EXPERTS CREDIT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION POLICIES WITH LOWERING RENT AMOUNTS THAT AMERICANS MUST PAY. The greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

PRESIDENT TRUMP BECOMES FIRST U.S. PRESIDENT TO RECEIVE SOUTH KOREA’S HIGHEST HONOR. The leader the world has needed.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE IN ILLINOIS CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING A FEDERAL OFFICER. Continue reading

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OCTOBER TWENTY-NINTH NEWS ROUNDUP

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

CONGRESSIONAL REPORT’S BOMBSHELL EXPOSURES ABOUT THE MANY UNAUTHORIZED USES OF THE PRESIDENTIAL AUTOPEN UNDER THE BIDEN REGIME PROMPT ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDI TO ADDRESS LEGAL ACTIONS. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And HERE. I will point out again that we had unknown, unelected and unaccountable figures illegally “signing” presidential actions as the mentally unfit Joe Biden. 

JAPAN’S PRIME MINISTER SAYS SHE IS “IMPRESSED AND INSPIRED” BY PRESIDENT TRUMP’S MANY, MANY HISTORIC PEACE DEALS. More HERE.

ENTOMOLOGIST NAMES BUTTERFLY SPECIES AFTER IRYNA ZARUTSKA, THE VICTIM OF A KNIFE-WIELDING ANIMAL AND DEMOCRAT “JUDGES“. Say her name.

NEW DOCUMENTS RELEASED ON THE BIDEN REGIME’S WEAPONIZATION OF THE DOJ AGAINST THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN JASMINE CROCKETT EXPOSED IN NEWS STORY ABOUT THE SECRET STOCK PORTFOLIO WHICH SHE DID NOT REPORT IN HER CONGRESSIONAL FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES. More HERE. She was hiding stock holdings in companies whose earnings were affected by her policy votes in Congress.   

MINNESOTA’S TYLER MAXON AVALOS ARRESTED FOR OFFERING FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS TO ANYONE WHO WOULD KILL ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDI. That silence you hear is Democrat bacteria failing to condemn these repeated bounties.

DEMOCRAT PODCASTER UNBELIEVABLY THREATENS VIOLENCE AGAINST DEMOCRAT OFFICE-HOLDERS WHO OBJECT TO DEMOCRAT POLITICAL VIOLENCE.

SENATOR SCHMITT EXPOSES HOW DEMOCRATS AND THEIR MEDIA OUTLETS SLANT STUDIES OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE BY REFUSING TO COUNT VIOLENCE FROM PROTESTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS. Because their party conducts virtually one long, never-ending “protest.”

POLL: SEVENTY PERCENT FEEL THE DEMOCRATS ARE “OUT OF TOUCH.” Continue reading

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