Isn’t this just the nicest picture of Hillary you’ve ever seen?  She’s still in total shellshock arriving at the party she held for her donors at The Plaza hotel last night (12/15).

Today it was announced that FBI Director James Comey has declared there is no evidence Russians hacked the US election.

Comey noted that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper agreed with the FBI’s assessment, while the only intelligence official pushing the Russian Hack Fake News story was the CIA’s John Brennan, who, Comey said, “takes his marching orders from President Obama.”  Ouch.

In response, Bitter John Podesta wrote a screed in the WaPo this morning (12/16) about the FBI being broken.  Maybe, John, but you and Hillary and every other Dem losing schmuck in the country are still residing along that river in Egypt.  You can stay there and stew in your bile for as long as you want.

Meanwhile, 72 hours from now, Donald J. Trump will officially and legally be President-elect of the United States.  This Watermelon Recount Russian Hack Fake News CIA Attempted Coup d’état Farce will be over.  Flipping Electors is a Dem hallucination.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, perpetrator of 9/11

“When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will like the strong horse.”

This was the justification of Osama bin Laden’s 9/11 attack on America, thinking it would demonstrate Al Qaeda was the horse for the world to follow, not that of a weak America.

He expected the U.S. to treat 9/11 as a law enforcement matter, as President Clinton had al Qaeda’s attacks on our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the USS Cole.  And indeed, that’s exactly what would have happened if his vice-president had been president in September 2001.

Thus Osama and his henchmen got the greatest shock of their lives when the American president turned out to be the opposite of a pussy like Algore.  As Osama’s 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, told his CIA interrogator James Mitchell:

“How was I supposed to know that cowboy George Bush would announce he wanted us ‘dead or alive’ and then invade Afghanistan to hunt us down?”

For the last eight years, we’ve had a weak horse in the White House.  America will now have a president who understands, as Niccolo Machiavelli counseled a half millennium ago (in 1513), that “It is better for the prince to be feared than loved.”

Do you want tax reform? Now, for the difficult questions: What is your definition of tax reform? And what will be the consequences of each of your proposals?

One impediment to constructive tax reform is the very rules under which Congress operates.

Without getting into the complexities of the so-called budget “reconciliation” process, tax reform is limited by a requirement that tax reductions be “paid for” by other tax increases or spending cuts.

For decades, many of us have been in the battle to use “dynamic scoring” rather than “static scoring” in determining the “costs” of tax reduction.

Dynamic scoring is the attempt to look at the feedback effects of tax changes, such as the number of new jobs and, hence, taxable wages that would be created.

Getting tired of winning yet?  Hope not, ‘cause the show is just getting started. 

This morning (12/09), the Daily Mail reports in detail how Trump is exactly right in claiming Boeing’s cost for the new Air Force One is over $4 billion. 

Even CNBC News had to admit:  Trump’s Air Force One Tweet Was A Brilliant Move.

When I called Jack Kelly to thank him for the great HFR he wrote in my absence last week, he told me something I didn’t know – that Marine General and Defense Secretary-designate James “Mad Dog” Mattis has a huge bear rug lying in his living room.

“The thing is,” Jack tells me, “is that the bear isn’t dead – he’s just afraid to move.”

OK – we’re off!  The HFR is packed this week with good news you need to know.  Plus there’s a very important announcement at the end – and there’s the HFR Hero of the Year.  Here we go…