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March 15, 2026 · 10:52 pm

FLASHBACK: SOME OF THE PREVIOUS TIMES THAT ANTI-TRUMP FOOLS FELL TO PIECES AND PRETENDED HIS ACTIONS WERE THE END OF THE WORLD

The lying, ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable zealots who spend their every waking moment hating President Donald Trump haven’t changed. They still exaggerate everything into Apocalypse of the Week stories like they did during his first term. And like all these previous lies, time will no doubt prove this week’s anti-Trump lies wrong, too. 

FLASHBACKS

JANUARY 31st, 2017 – DEMOCRATS HYSTERICALLY OVERREACT TO PRESIDENT TRUMP’S NINETY-DAY IMMIGRATION HALT FROM SEVEN NATIONS.

JANUARY 24th, 2017 – DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS CAUGHT LYING BY CLAIMING THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP REMOVED A WHITE HOUSE BUST OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

JANUARY 23rd, 2017 – ANTI-TRUMP LOONS CLAIM PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL DO THINGS THAT ARE FAR BEYOND ANY PRESIDENT’S ACTUAL POWERS. Trump-haters are brainwashed enough that they would probably believe he might invalidate the law of gravity if media outlets told them to.

JANUARY 7th, 2017 – DEMOCRATS STILL PUSHING ABSURD RUSSIAN COLLUSION CLAIMS ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP. Continue reading →

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March 13, 2026 · 10:28 am

MARCH THIRTEENTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is here with another current events roundup in a world where Democrats and war criminal Vlad Putin have both expressed their “unwavering support for Tehran” and its regime of Mad Mullahs. (Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s invitation to Putin for a small incursion into Ukraine caused a war that has been going on since 2022.)

DEMOCRAT SENATOR JOHN FETTERMAN COURAGEOUSLY SPEAKS OUT ON HOW THE DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET THE NEW YORK TIMES PROVIDES DISTORTED IRAN COVERAGE.

MARLOW ON DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET CNN’S BLATANTLY FALSE STORIES DEFENDING IRAN-ALLIGNED TERRORISTS. More HERE.

EVEN THIS FORMER CLINTON OFFICIAL ADMITS THAT THE “IRAN THREAT WAS GROWING. OTHER PRESIDENTS DIDN’T DO ENOUGH.” 

DR. DONELL HARVIN, FORMER D.C. INTELLIGENCE CHIEF, STATES TRUMP IS RIGHT ABOUT HOW AT LEAST ONE THOUSAND SIX-HUNDRED UNACCOUNTED FOR IRANIANS CROSSED THE BORDER UNDER JOE BIDEN’S REFUSAL TO ENFORCE IT.

POLL: EIGHTY-SIX PERCENT OF REPUBLICANS SUPPORT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S IRAN ACTIONS DESPITE DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS CLAIMING TRUMP LOST THEIR SUPPORT.

MELANIA DOCUMENTARY DEBUTS ON AMAZON PRIME AS THE NUMBER ONE MOVIE IN AMERICA.

PRESIDENT TRUMP HOSTS CELEBRATION OF WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH.

TRUMP Rx PROVIDES THE PHARMACEUTICAL REFORM NEEDED BY THE WORKING CLASS BUT ANTI-TRUMP PSYCHOPATHS AVOID USING IT. Trump Derangement Syndrome is pathetic.

OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY SHOOTER MOHAMED JALLOH WAS PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED OF SUPPORT FOR ISLAMIC TERRORISM.

UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES THE U.S. TRADE DEFICIT HAS DROPPED BY FIFTY-SEVEN POINT SIX PERCENT. Continue reading →

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March 11, 2026 · 4:58 pm

THE ADVENTURES OF LIEUTENANT PETROSINO (1912) SILENT FILM ABOUT THE REAL-LIFE DETECTIVE

THE ADVENTURES OF LIEUTENANT PETROSINO (1912) – This 47-minute silent movie was a rushed look at the career of New York City Police Detective Joseph Petrosino, who specialized in fighting organized crime. I meant to cover Petrosino years ago, but other topics kept taking priority.

Petrosino has become all but forgotten here in 2026, but he was once so popular that hundreds of thousands attended his funeral, which was declared a holiday in New York. He was murdered by organized crime in 1909, and his posthumous fame made him the hero of Dime Novels like old west figures Buffalo Bill Cody and others.

I’ll do more detailed examinations of Joseph Petrosino in the near future, but for now I will review this 1912 flick while peppering in a few notes about the man’s real-life saga which was far too broadly presented on the big screen.   

THE REEL PETROSINO – Still in uniform, Joseph has made a name for himself as a tough cop capable of dealing with Italian gangs like the Black Hand, the Mafia and the Camorra. When Mafia bank robbers humiliate a pair of policemen who try taking them in, the storied Petrosino is sent for.

     He quickly finds the gang, subdues them and drags two of them in to be booked as the others flee. The arrested criminals rat out their colleagues. That night at the dinner table, Joe brags to his wife Adelina about his exploits. 

THE REAL PETROSINO – Born in 1860, Joseph Petrosino joined the New York City Police Department as a uniformed cop in 1883. He made excellent use of his fluency in Italian to solve crimes in Italian-American neighborhoods that were easy prey for organized gangs from the Old Country. Continue reading →

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March 11, 2026 · 6:32 am

NEWS ROUNDUP FOR MARCH ELEVENTH

It’s a mid-week current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

IRAN EXPERT LISA DAFTARI ADDS HER VOICE TO THOSE POINTING OUT THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP DID NOT START A NEW WAR, HE IS ENDING THE WAR IRAN STARTED. Aaron Flint agreed HERE. 

URBAN WARFARE SCHOLAR STATES THAT IRAN CONFLICT IS NOT A “FOREVER WAR” LIKE IRAQ BECAME UNDER THE REPULSIVE GEORGE W. BUSH.

MUSIC VIDEO: DEATH TO KHAMENEI.

EVEN MORE FIGURES ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S TAX CUTS PRODUCING LARGER TAX REFUNDS FOR WORKING CLASS VOTERS. Just like during his first term, but anti-Trump loons ignored the facts then and now to lie that the tax cuts only help “the rich.”

NBC POLL: ICE HAS HIGHER APPROVAL RATING THAN DEMOCRAT PARTY, AS DOES PRESIDENT TRUMP OVER AOC, KAMALA HARRIS AND OTHER DEMOCRATS. More HERE. And HERE.

DR. MEHMET OZ EXPOSES EVEN MORE OBAMACARE FRAUD.

DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLED OUT FOR “IGNORING MILLIONS OF IRANIANS THRILLED WITH THE DEATH OF KHAMENEI” SO THEY CAN PUSH THEIR ANTI-TRUMP BIAS.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT JOSE MARTELL-ARIAGA ARRESTED FOR FIFTY-SIX CHILD SEX CRIMES GETS BOOKED IN DEMOCRAT-RUN CHARLOTTE AREA AS A “WHITE MALE” SO DEMOCRATS CAN CONTINUE TRYING TO SKEW CRIME STATISTICS TO MATCH THEIR POLITICAL PARTY’S DISTORTIONS. 

DEMOCRAT PARTY

PRIVILEGED WHITE DEMOCRAT WOMEN FORM GROUP TO TARGET ICE AGENTS.

DEMOCRAT-RUN CHICAGO TEACHER’S UNION PRIORITIZES THEIR POLITICAL DEMONSTRATIONS OVER ACTUALLY TEACHING THEIR STUDENTS TO READ. Democrat politicization of the “educational system” (LMAO) continues. Continue reading →

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March 9, 2026 · 8:28 am

MARCH NINTH NEWS ROUNDUP

 Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is back with another current events roundup from an America where Ukrainiacs are still trying to pretend that the regime in Iran isn’t at least as bad as crazed war criminal Vlad Putin’s regime.

FORMER IRANIAN POLITICAL PRISONER KIAN TAJBAKHSH POINTS OUT THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS WORKING TO END THE WAR THAT IRAN HAS BEEN WAGING AGAINST AMERICA SINCE 1979. More HERE.      TAJBAKHSH ALSO DISCUSSES HOW THE MONEY THAT OBAMA SUBSERVIENTLY PAID TO IRAN FINANCED TERRORISM. 

DEMOCRAT HENRY CUELLAR COURAGEOUSLY AGREES THAT IRAN HAS BEEN AT WAR WITH AMERICA SINCE 1979 AND IT WAS TIME TO STRIKE BACK.

IRANIAN OPERATIVE ASIF MERCHANT FOUND GUILTY OF PLOTTING TO KILL AMERICAN OFFICIALS INCLUDING PRESIDENT TRUMP.

ALFREDO ORTIZ AMONG THOSE PROMOTING TRUMP’S WORKING CLASS FAMILIES TAX CUTS. The greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime. 

ICE ARRESTS MORE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FOR MURDER, CHILD RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULTS ON WOMEN.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN IDAHO ARRESTED FOR TRAFFICKING CHILDREN FOR SLAVE LABOR AND POSSIBLY MORE. People who are like Renee Good and Alex Pretti support that over ICE. 

IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY STATE” MARYLAND, FOUR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT MEMBERS OF MS13 INDICTED FOR MURDERING FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD. As always, victims get no “sanctuary” under Democrats – only the perpetrators do.

NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS UPHOLDS TRUMP’S PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY TO SUSPEND RESETTLEMENT.           SEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT SMACKS DOWN ANOTHER LOWER COURT JUDGE WHO RULED AGAINST ICE. Continue reading →

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March 7, 2026 · 8:31 pm

FLASHBACK: HEROIC WOMEN FIGHTING MUSLIM OPPRESSION

Given all the heroic women in Iran and elsewhere who are defying theocratic oppression while shaming the cowardly white Democrat women of America who think cosplaying in Handmaid’s Tale outfits is “daring”, here are several women who demonstrate REAL courage. 

FROM SEPTEMBER FIFTH, 2019 – 

NATASHA FATAH

And we have more members of the real-life League of Extraordinary Women! Reporter NATASHA FATAH, who covers stories that privileged white Western leftists refuse to cover. ALINEJAD MASIH, the woman behind the #WhiteWednesdays campaign for Iranian women’s rights. And SABA KORD AFSHARI, who was sentenced to 24 years in prison by Iran for removing her hijab in public. You know … those same hijabs that condescending white leftist women LOVE to wear to pretend they’re showing solidarity with Muslim women.

FOR THE LINK TO THEIR STORY PLUS MANY OTHER COURAGEOUS WOMEN HEROICALLY FIGHTING MUSLIM MISOGNY AND OPPRESSION SEE BELOW:

For Natasha, Alinejad and Saba click HERE 

For Raheel Raza click HERE

For Shams Bandar click HERE

For Asra Nomani click HERE

For Nadine al Budair click HERE

For Anni Cyrus click HERE

For Nonie Darwish click HERE

For Qanta Ahmed click HERE Continue reading →

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March 6, 2026 · 11:43 am

NEWS ROUNDUP: MARCH SIXTH

It’s another Friday current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog here in an America where hypocritical Democrats still can’t get enough death and destruction in Ukraine but are feigning outrage on behalf of Iran’s thuggish theocracy.

        One of the ways that Democrat Media Outlets still outdo Republican Media Outlets is the way that Ukraine was and is treated like a just war against a vile regime, but Democrats pretend that Iran isn’t as repulsive a dictatorship as the one run by war criminal Vlad Putin.    

MASIH ALINEJAD, WHO HAS SURVIVED MULTIPLE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS BY IRANIAN THEOCRATS, SLAPS DOWN KAMALA HARRIS FOR CRITICIZING TRUMP ABOUT IRAN STRIKES.

PRESIDENT TRUMP GETS SEVEN MAJOR TECH COMPANIES TO SIGN PLEDGE TO COVER THE ENERGY COSTS FOR THEIR OWN DATA CENTERS SO THAT TAXPAYERS DON’T HAVE TO.

VIDEO: JUBILANT IRANIANS DO NEW DANCE THANKING PRESIDENT TRUMP, THIS TIME BY DOING HIS YMCA DANCE. More HERE.

DON SURBER’S EXCELLENT PIECE ON PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SECOND TERM STRATEGY AND PERFORMANCE.

POLICE WARNED DEMOCRAT D.A. LAST NOVEMBER ABOUT HOW THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ARRESTED FOR KILLING STEPHANIE MINTER WAS ON THE VERGE OF COMMITTING MURDER, BUT THE D.A. FAILED TO ACT ON THAT. And now Democrat Governor Spanberger is fighting on the illegal’s side against ICE.

DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR TIM WALZ PUBLICLY GRILLED AGAIN OVER HIS STATE’S CORRUPTION. Congresswoman Nancy Mace destroys him HERE.

PRO-TRUMP CONGRESSWOMAN ANNA PAULINA LUNA BLASTS BOTH PARTIES IN CONGRESS FOR USING TAXPAYER MONEY TO FINANCE THEIR SLUSH FUNDS THAT PAY OFF SEX ASSAULT CASES AGAINST THEM.

SOMALI FRAUDSTER IN MINNESOTA SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS FOR TRYING TO BRIBE A JUROR WITH A SIX-FIGURE AMOUNT. Continue reading →

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March 4, 2026 · 7:30 pm

THE FIRST TARZAN MOVIE AND MORE: ELMO LINCOLN’S SILENT FILMS

For Balladeer’s Blog’s latest look at a silent movie star I will cover Elmo Lincoln, who is best known as the big screen’s very first Tarzan but also starred in other films outside the Tarzan series.

TARZAN OF THE APES (1918) – Though Elmo had been appearing as an extra or in small supporting roles since 1913, his portrayal of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan in this movie put him on the map. For nitpickers, Gordon Griffith of silent Tom Sawyer fame played the very young Tarzan when his parents died early in this film, but Elmo Lincoln was the first adult Tarzan performer in movie history.

Surviving prints of Tarzan of the Apes run 61 minutes and cover the basics of the original novel’s opening half in workmanlike if not spectacular fashion. Lord Greystoke and his wife perish after becoming shipwrecked in Africa and their surviving heir is raised by apes.

The boy’s discovery of his late father’s knife among the shipwreck ruins enables him to rise to dominance among the apes by killing off rivals. As he matures, Tarzan becomes a legend in the jungle as he wars on tribes which kill apes plus frees slaves captured by Muslim slavers.

Binns the sailor realizes Tarzan is the long-lost Greystoke heir and an expedition heads to Africa, headed by Professor Porter. The professor’s daughter Jane Porter (Enid Markey) accompanies her father’s expedition and winds up abducted by a villain only to be saved by our King of the Jungle.

Jane uses gentleness to calm down the horny Tarzan when he gets too pushy. Her line “Tarzan is a man, and men do not force the love of women” conveys what we need to know without getting graphic. Charmed by the Ape Man, she eventually canoodles with him willingly.    Continue reading →

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March 4, 2026 · 8:24 am

MARCH FOURTH NEWS ROUNDUP

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

EVEN BILL CLINTON – IN HIS JEFFREY EPSTEIN DEPOSITION – ADMITS TWICE THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD NO INVOLVEMENT WITH EPSTEIN’S ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES. And if ever a person had reasons to want to lie about it, it’s Bill in this situation.

PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLS OUT IRAN FOR ATTACKING NEUTRAL NATIONS. That silence you hear is pro-terrorist Democrats refusing to do the same.

IRANIANS DO “THE TRUMP DANCE” TO THANK HIM FOR TAKING OUT KHAMENEI.  

IN TEXAS, SETH TOTH SCORES A DOUBLE-DIGIT PRIMARY VICTORY OVER ANTI-TRUMP DAN CRENSHAW.

DEMOCRAT JASMINE CROCKETT HEAVILY LOSES TEXAS SENATE PRIMARY. And she doesn’t even have her old House seat to go back to. She’s out when the next session begins. More HERE.

CBS REPORTER IN AUSTIN COURAGEOUSLY IGNORES ORDERS NOT TO COVER THE TRUTH ABOUT IRANIAN-AMERICANS THANKING TRUMP FOR HIS IRAN STRIKES. 

SUPREME COURT HANDS DEMOCRATS A DEFEAT ON REDISTRICTING BATTLE IN NEW YORK.

PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER DEMOCRAT NANCY PELOSI TAUNTED WITH HER OWN REMARKS WHEN SHE STATED OBAMA DID NOT NEED CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL TO TAKE DOWN MOAMAR QADAFFI IN LIBYA. More HERE. And remember Hillary’s remark “We came, we saw, he died.”

MELANIA TRUMP, WHO SPEAKS MORE LANGUAGES THAN BOTH OBAMAS AND BOTH BIDENS COMBINED, MAKES HISTORY AS THE FIRST U.S. FIRST LADY TO CHAIR A U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING. A terrific positive role model for women!

VIRGINIA’S DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR SPANBERGER REFUSES TO COOPERATE WITH ICE REGARDING THE KILLER OF STEPHANIE MINTER. And never forget Spanberger’s career with the criminals at the CIA before running for public office.

PRESIDENT TRUMP AND NETANYAHU PRAISED AS THE MODERN DAY ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL. Continue reading →

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March 2, 2026 · 8:10 am

NEWS ROUNDUP: MARCH SECOND

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

IRANIANS AROUND THE WORLD CELEBRATING THE DEATH OF GENOCIDAL MANIAC KHAMENAI. And yes, anti-Trump fascists, Khamenai was an actual genocidal maniac.

DEMOCRATS CALLED OUT FOR NOT CARING ABOUT WHAT THE IRANIAN PEOPLE SUFFERED UNDER KHAMENAI AND HIS ALLIES.

DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET THE NEW YORK TIMES PRAISES KHAMENAI IN THEIR OBITUARY FOR HIM. No surprise.

MORE IRANIANS AROUND THE GLOBE CELEBRATING KHAMENEI’S DEATH.

DEMOCRATS STILL MIRED IN THEIR ANTI-DONALD TRUMP HYSTERIA.

ARTICLE PRAISING PRESIDENT TRUMP AND BASHING THE REPULSIVE GEORGE W. BUSH.

PINSKER ON THE U.S.-ISRAELI STRIKES ON KHAMENEI’S REGIME.

SAUDI ARABIA, QATAR AND BAHRAIN CONDEMN IRAN.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN DON DAVIS JOINS SENATOR JOHN FETTERMAN IN SUPPORTING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S STRIKES ON IRAN.

COURAGEOUS DEMOCRAT SENATOR JOHN FETTERMAN CALLS CRITICS OF THE STRIKES ON IRAN “BIZARRE.” More HERE. I hope Fetterman stays safe given what violent fascists 2026 Democrats are.

IRANIAN-AMERICAN WOMAN MOJ MADHARA SHAMES DEMOCRATS FOR LETTING THEIR HATRED OF TRUMP BLIND THEM TO KHAMENEI’S ATROCITIES. More HERE. Among her remarks “I am a Democrat. I’ve been a huge Democrat, and I am incredibly disappointed with my party”. She also stated her fellow Democrats need to “WAKE UP” and get past their feelings about President Trump.

IRAN STRIKES PREVENTED A MASSACRE BY KHAMENEI’S REGIME.

SBA’S KELLY LOEFFLER PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP’S TAX CUTS FOR WORKING FAMILIES SAVING THEM FOUR TO SIX TRILLION DOLLARS. The greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

BONO’S VERY OWN EPSTEIN SCANDAL

TRUMP EFFECT: MAKARY POINTS OUT THE U.S NOW HAS THE LOWEST PRICES IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD FOR MANY PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. Continue reading →

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