Lisa Fabrizio's Past Articles

91 articles

The Islands of Lost Boys

published: September 01, 2010

Most people live on a lonely island, Lost in the middle of a foggy sea.   So begins the haunting tune from Rogers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, which sings of fulfilling one's inner hope...

Advice from the Ledge

published: August 26, 2010

It’s really not a great time to be a Democrat. The economy remains, for the most part, as depressed as the millions of Americans who cannot find work, while scandal has engulfed the Party, wi...

What’s Broken

published: August 12, 2010

For those of you who can idly pass these dog days of summer contentedly dozing on a beach, letting the soft hot breezes flip the pages of the book beside you while the weeks roll leisurely by, cons...

Created Equal

published: August 06, 2010

As the winds of prevailing opinion blow, I would seem to be a pretty vile individual. I am a faithful Catholic which, in the eyes of most liberals, makes me a bitter homophobe. I am a woman who cel...

A Paean to the Printed Page

published: July 29, 2010

When you are a child, little things make a big impression on you. One of the first things I can remember as a little girl was huge. My father was always surrounded by a great pile of books that see...

How to Party in November

published: July 22, 2010

It had to happen. The Tea Partiers--a term which covers a whole range of folks from conservatives to libertarians whose uniting commonality is a biting aversion to big government and bigger taxes--...

Hot Fun in the Summertime

published: July 15, 2010

Summertime means many things to many people. For some it’s time for a few days to get together with family and friends to beat the heat; to others it represents an opportunity to travel and u...

War of Words

published: July 02, 2010

As we know, the world of political journalism has radically changed in the post-WWII decades. The methods, the tone and the very role of media have morphed over time, although they have always been...

The World's Game, But Not Mine

published: June 17, 2010

Now I'm not one to complain, but right in the middle of a fine baseball season, one replete with triple plays, perfect games and a heckuva start by the defending champion New York Yankees, somebody...

The Reagan Days

published: June 03, 2010

When I wrote last week that I was encouraged by recent events in the Northeast--particularly the potential purpling of some of the truest, bluest states--some readers accused me of promoting gradua...

A Tale of Three States

published: May 27, 2010

Folks outside of the Northeast have long been perplexed by an apparent electoral anomaly; for years, these states that consistently send liberals to congress have chosen Republicans as their govern...

The Blame Game

published: May 20, 2010

Regardless of what you may read in the papers or see on TV, these are not the best of days for Barack Obama and his administration; double digit unemployment, nuclear tensions emanating from our ev...

Speaking of Sports

published: May 13, 2010

The late Howard Cosell is reported to once have opined that “Sports is the toy department of life;” meaning that watching sports was a way to slip into a simpler world, untouched by the...

Return to Hollywood

published: April 29, 2010

Itís not often that I write a column in answer to feedback from a previous one, but last week's piece on Hollywood generated a great deal of criticism. And surprisingly, much of it came from...

All About Hollywood

published: April 23, 2010

The other day, a friend of mine asked if I had seen a recent broadcast of All About Eve on TV. We laughed as we recalled how many times weíd seen the flick and how we admired the tremendous ...

The View from the Left

published: April 17, 2010

We find ourselves in the midst of the latest leftist media attempt to explain to us exactly who and what we conservatives are. You know the drill; racist, homophobic, bitter, gun-slingin’, bi...

Fear Itself

published: March 31, 2010

So, mean right-winger Tea Partiers are hurting the feelings of our sainted elected officials in Washington. There are rumors of intimidation, death threats and, horror of horrors, inappropriate lan...

Vive La Différence

published: March 24, 2010

I’m so confused. Whenever I’ve entered the voting booth, I foolishly believed that I was in there in order to elect a representative to conduct the business of a constitutional republic...

Aborting Healthcare Reform

published: March 18, 2010

And so it comes down to this: President Obama wants his signature healthcare reform bill passed this week, no matter what; whether or not the American people want it and whether or not his own part...

The Gales of November

published: March 13, 2010

As each day goes by, the ink of the headlines themselves seem to grow darker in bold desperation; “The Time to Debate Healthcare is Over,” declares President Obama. But what, you may as...

The Perils of Progress

published: February 24, 2010

For months we’ve been bombarded from both sides of the political aisle with the idea that when it comes to healthcare, and nearly anything else in Washington, that our most pressing need is t...

The Summer Game

published: February 19, 2010

Now that the NFL season is thankfully behind us with all of its macho violence and general inanity, we can finally look forward to the end of winter. While I was surprised at the number of folks wh...

Super Bowl Beefs

published: February 11, 2010

I’m as big a sports fan as the next person when it comes to my favorite teams. And I’ve had some good luck rooting for the Yankees and my homestate Huskies of UCONN. On the other hand, ...

Who Are These People?

published: January 28, 2010

Short months ago, on that historic night in November 2008, liberals dared to dream that their intention to reshape the country in the image of the modern Democratic Party would soon come to fruitio...

Are Some Americans More Equal Than Others?

published: January 21, 2010

All men are created equal. This was the noble sentiment expressed by our founders at the birth of our nation; a statement of a religious truth yes, but also a profound hope that it might someday be...