“Here’s a dirty secret about the federal government many Americans are just learning:

Instapundit - It’s run by Democrats, even when voters elect Republicans. 

THE CIVIL SERVICE’S PARTISANSHIP PROBLEM: 

“Here’s a dirty secret about the federal government many Americans are just learning: It’s run by Democrats, even when voters elect Republicans. 

Presidents come and go, but the permanent federal bureaucracy remains the same, and it has a distinct partisan tilt. 

• When Americans send a Republican to the Oval Office, they get a government still administered mostly by the other party. 
• Yes, that makes a sham of democracy. 

But no president before Donald Trump was prepared to confront the problem.”

• Solution: Abolish the civil service. - Glenn Reynolds

Fans of Best of the Web Today | Facebook

Fans of Best of the Web Today | Facebook - Marilyn Glazier 

Hillel Fuld - Israel had a bomb squad check the coffins of the four dead hostages to make sure that Hamas did not lace them with explosives.
This is the level of sickness that we’re dealing with.

• Oh, you think that’s a bit much? You think Israel is just being paranoid?

How about this? 

• Hamas handed over the coffins along with keys that don’t open the coffins. 

You know, just to get a little more psychological torture in while they still can.
You still don’t get it, huh?
Here is what they wrote on Shiri Bibas’ coffin. It reads “Date of arrest: October 7th.”
Sick sick individuals.

'Diversity trumped skill': Delta Air Lines under fire for championing DEI amid spectacular crash * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

'Diversity trumped skill': Delta Air Lines under fire for championing DEI amid spectacular crash * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs: 

Delta Air Lines is coming under severe criticism for doubling down on its push for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, or DEI, just days before Monday's spectacular crash involving a Minneapolis-to-Toronto flight that flipped one of its planes upside down during landing.

California’s FAIR Plan Goes Broke—Now Homeowners Are Forced to Pay the P...

Republican Senate and House all voted "NO"!-----Zeldin EPA discovers $2 billion Biden admin stashed away for Stacey Abrams-linked climate group

“It’s extremely concerning that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin told the outlet, referring to Power Forward Communities latest tax filings. - Victor Nava 

The funds were set aside at an outside financial institution – Citibank – before Biden left office and part of a larger, $20 billion pot of money the former president’s EPA received through the Inflation Reduction Act to dole out to climate groups.
“It’s extremely concerning that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin told the outlet, referring to Power Forward Communities latest tax filings. 

“That’s 20 million times the organization’s reported revenue.”Zeldin claims the Biden administration “parked” the money at an outside bank to keep the Trump administration from clawing it back.
Last week, Zeldin revealed that he located the $20 billion his EPA predecessors squirreled away in an apparent attempt to prevent the Trump administration from clawing back the money and to obscure the various groups that Power Forward Communities, and seven other entities, decide to distribute the funds to...

Lunch video-----Vance‘s Warning to Globalists in Munich: This Won’t End Well for You

Noon-toon

 

Biden's $500 million student loan giveaway collapses under court's ruling | Blaze Media

Biden's $500 million student loan giveaway collapses under court's ruling | Blaze Media: 

The United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday to put an end to the Biden administration's student loan giveaway plan that was estimated to cost taxpayers up to $500 million.

Who is she!??!!

 

DOGE Investigating Feds Whose Net Worths Have Exploded After Samantha Power Bombshell | ZeroHedge

DOGE Investigating Feds Whose Net Worths Have Exploded After Samantha Power Bombshell | ZeroHedge - by Tyler Durden
The announcement - which came after President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling on federal agencies to work with DOGE, follows a bombshell report that Samantha Power, former head of USAID, saw her net worth explode to $30 million despite an annual salary under $250,000.

"We don't know why. Where did it come from? I think the reality is that they're getting wealthy at the taxpayer expense," Musk said on Tuesday.

• Power, a former ambassador to the United Nations under President Obama, and was sworn in as head of USAID in May of 2021, reported a net worth between $6.7 million-$16.5 million in January of 2021 on a disclosure form. Her net worth is now estimated as high as $30 million, according to the website Biden's Basement.

"Direct correlation"!

 

How Biden Traded Transformers for Heat Pumps

In America’s race to electrify everything from cars to manufacturing, it has started to run out of transformers.  - Charles Yang 

These critical components, which regulate voltage throughout our power grid, now have multi-year wait times and prices that have nearly doubled since 2020.
We shouldn't be in this situation. 

• Back in 2022, the Biden administration had an opportunity to use Defense Production Act (DPA) funding to boost domestic transformer manufacturing capacity. 
• Instead, it chose to direct its $250 million in DPA authority towards heat pump production. 

This was a disastrous misstep — and now the U.S. is stuck playing catch-up...
A Primer on Transformers

• Transformers are the backbone of the U.S. power grid...
• So — how did we get here?...
• Biden’s Misstep...
• What To Do...

#1 This day 1978-----Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive (Official Music Video)

Yes, the CDC Lies About Flu Deaths. (Just Like COVID.)

Yes, the CDC Lies About Flu Deaths. (Just Like COVID.) - Jessica Hockett
By now, Americans—and much of the world—know that the CDC lies about a lot of things.
One of the agency’s long-standing deceptions, which only grew worse in the years leading up to 2020, is the exaggerated “estimated” number of deaths caused by or “related to” influenza...
My chief interest in flu concerns the “disappearance” of positive flu tests in 2020—an event I argue was

• intentional, not accidental, and not the result of viral interference or non-pharmaceutical interventions,
•  and a key component of the COVID-19 event, which I believe was, in part, an operation designed to off-ramp problematic flu shot technologies, obscure related morbidity and mortality issues, and sustain decades of deception about influenza and respiratory illness...

I'm no longer convinced that deaths can truly be caused by an influenza virus. 

Instead, there are deaths from pneumonia or complications involving pneumonia, with a portion conveniently “pinned” on influenza—thanks to testing...

Remember who is making them RICH!

 

Trump's EPA Chief: We Have Found the 'Gold Bars' Biden's Team Hid - $20 Billion Set Aside to Thwart Trump

Trump's EPA Chief: We Have Found the 'Gold Bars' Biden's Team Hid - $20 Billion Set Aside to Thwart Trump: 

“The American public deserves a more transparent and accountable government than what transpired these past four years.”

This stash of “gold bars” from the EPA is merely one of several slush funds that have been discovered within less than a month of Trump taking office.

Europe wants America to fund the Ukraine war indefinitely, which costs us hundreds of billions of dollars while offering us no benefit.

Naturally, countries like Germany, that have howled about Putin being the next Hitler who must be stopped at all costs, are now flinching from the idea of doing anything themselves to keep the peace.
Charlie Kirk@charliekirk11 

But now that Trump has proposed a peace deal that would end the fighting, and be maintained by stationing European but not U.S. troops along the ceasefire line. 

Naturally, countries like Germany, that have howled about Putin being the next Hitler who must be stopped at all costs, are now flinching from the idea of doing anything themselves to keep the peace.

This is a continent of freeloaders. 

Torsten Prochnow@TorstenProchnow - Charlie Kirk is absolutely right. 

For years, European leaders—especially Germany—have screamed that Putin is the biggest threat since Hitler and that Ukraine must be defended “at all costs.” 

But the moment President Trump proposes a real solution—one that actually requires Europe to take responsibility—they suddenly aren’t so interested. 

Germany in particular has been one of the loudest voices demanding endless U.S. funding for Ukraine, yet it won’t even meet its own NATO defense commitments, let alone step up to secure peace...

AM Fruitcake-----Let's take a look!

 

History for February 20

History for February 20 - On-This-Day.com 

Charles Barkley 1963 - Basketball player

• 1792 - U.S. President George Washington signed the Postal Service Act that created the U.S. Post Office.
• 1809 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the power of the federal government was greater than that of any individual state.
• 1872 - Luther Crowell received a patent for a machine that manufactured paper bags.
• 1962 - John Glenn made space history when he orbited the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. He was the first American to orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule. Glenn witnessed the Devil's Cigarette Lighter while in flight.
• 1965 - Ranger 8 crashed on the moon after sending back thousands of pictures of its surface.
• 1998 - American Tara Lipinski, at age 15, became the youngest gold medalist in winter Olympics history when she won the ladies' figure skating title at Nagano, Japan.

Elon Musk bombshell: 'This might be the biggest fraud in history' * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Elon Musk bombshell: 'This might be the biggest fraud in history' * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

Maybe there are vampires after all. And they're collecting Social Security. That stunning conclusion comes from Elon Musk, chief of President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, and is a result of DOGE's initial review of the nation's Social Security, its payouts, and more specifically, those getting the benefits.

The way we were-----Bob Newhart Stand Up Comedy - "Air Traffic Controller" 60's TV

USAID's Ties to the Leftist Groups That Controlled the Biden Admin

J.D. Vance's Speech in Munich - by Matt Taibbi

The Vice President excoriates Europe for suppressing electoral results, delegitimizing political constituencies, and censorship. The full decontextualized speech - Matt Taibbi

One of the things that I wanted to talk about today is, of course, our shared values. 

And, you know, it’s great to be back in Germany. 

As you heard earlier, I was here last year as United States senator. 

 saw Foreign Secretary David Lammy, and joked that both of us last year had different jobs than we have now. 

But now it’s time for all of our countries, for all of us who have been fortunate enough to be given political power by our respective peoples, to use it wisely to improve their lives...

 

 

The "system" is a MESS!-----Elon Musk cries 'fraud' on 20 million in Social Security database over age 100

— here’s why they’re listed and don’t get benefits - Josh Christenson 

Tesla and X CEO-turned-special government employee Elon Musk claimed to have uncovered “the biggest fraud in history” when he stumbled across more than 20 million people listed in the Social Security database as over 100 years old...

• “We believe it likely SSA did not receive or record most of the 18.9 million individuals’ death information primarily because the individuals died decades ago — before the use of electronic death reporting,” the report states...
• The audits, however, did reveal that around 531 million unique Social Security numbers are in circulation — and that “thousands” may be in use to commit identity fraud.
• The 2015 audit showed about $3.1 billion in earnings reported by employers or self-employed individuals who were not the actual Social Security number holder...