January 28, 2010 Thursday

Lisa wasn’t impressed by President Obama’s State of the Union speech. She thinks he was basically imploring people on both sides of the aisle to get it together. But in the end it’s just words. She thinks the President was trying to do good things but it didn’t happen; he should have just worked on and committed to one or two things and not so many things at once.

Lisa talked about our Constitutional right of free speech; and that money has always been part of corruption in our society. The Supreme Court ruling is giving corporations the right to give people who are running for office campaign money. If the speech is opinion speech we know money corrupts, we saw Mayor Bloomberg buy his way to his office. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor does not like this new decision because it overrules the Austin decision, which she wrote, in which she permitted Congress to restrict certain kinds of corporate political speech. In the 90’s the Austin case reversed much of the Buckley case. Lisa said the solution is more information, not less.

Lisa interviewed Kurt Schneider, a senior at Yale, who has become famous for doing musical productions. His friend Sam Tsui sang some songs that Kurt arranged. He was commissioned by the Dean of Admissions to produce a video for incoming students. His You-tube channel has over 18 million views, and he really hit it big with his version of “Journey” which was played on the TV show “Glee”. This is a star of tomorrow to watch. Lisa advised him to contact the Jon Stewart show which is completely run and written by ex-Yalies.

Lisa said Hillary Clinton is in England trying to buy off the Taliban with $500 million dollars. What are they going to do with the money? Buy more tanks and wage more war? Is that our solution, to use our hard earned tax money in Afghanistan; it reminds Lisa of how Chamberlain dealt with Hitler in 1938 by giving Hitler parts of Czechoslovakia. Mussolini, Hitler and Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact giving away half of Czechoslovakia and that country wasn’t even there at the signing. Chamberlain was happy that he appeased Hitler by giving him half of Czechoslovakia. What are we giving them money for? To make Peace? To educate their women? Fat chance- no one talks about that. Until we educate their women, their society will never progress. The war against the Islamic revolution is a different kind of war. It’s too late for bullets and tanks in Afghanistan. That should have been done on 9/12/2001. This war is about guerilla tactics, special ops and spies who speak Arabic.

Tomorrow Lisa will be on The Fox Strategy Room on Kimberly Guilfoyle’s show bet 11and 12 noon. strategyroom@foxnews.com

The author of Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger died today as did Howard Zinn who wrote an alternative version of history, called The People’s History, that is used in schools. Lisa started chatting about her own favorite books, which included everything ever written by Agatha Christie. “The Good Earth”, by Pearl S Buck, about China, and “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith are two of Lisa’s other great favorites. Also Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “A Secret Garden” and “A Little Princess”.

Lisa will continue to get first person accounts of what’s going on in Haiti. People were using their phones today and at least one person was found and saved. Lisa imagined if Haiti had been able to turn its power on sooner, so many other people could have been saved. In other news, Miramax production company is closing after 30 years.

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