Lisa Fabrizio's Past Articles

147 articles

To Rise and Not to Rest

published: October 13, 2011

In the news of late are all sorts of accusations concerning hate, prejudice, race-baiting and class warfare. Not surprisingly, these indictments have been hurled from left to right, although some m...

Veepin’

published: October 02, 2011

The vice-presidency of the United States was once infamously compared to “a bucket of warm spit” by the 32nd man to assume that office, John Nance Garner, who served unde...

Blown Away

published: September 03, 2011

How to handle a hurricane? Well, to heed the non-stop advice available via 24/7 TV coverage, I suppose that the order of business at minimum was to stock up on all available comestibles, dash off t...

They Won’t Believe Me

published: August 18, 2011

They Won’t Believe Me was a 1947 Alfred Hitchcock movie starring Robert Young as a charming yet roguish hustler whose duplicitous ways finally lead to personal disaster, both for him and thos...

Red, White & Republican

published: August 05, 2011

Lost in all the debt ceiling hubbub are a few stories which, at first glance seem odd but on further reflection are downright bizarre. One such of these was a report by researchers at Cornell Unive...

Runs, Hits and Errors

published: July 17, 2011

The longest day of the year came and went a few weeks ago and now we are in the midst of its longest week; for baseball fans, that is. And so we are at the All-Star break, with the so-called Mid-Su...

The Bear in the Woods

published: June 25, 2011

Way back in 1984 when the Cold War still raged, the re-election campaign of Ronald Reagan ran an ad that cautioned, “There is a bear in the woods. For some people, the bear is easy to see. Ot...

TV Turnoff

published: June 10, 2011

Now that summer is nearly here, there are some Americans who will be heading off for weeks away in exotic locations or to endless rounds of golf, unburdened by the cares of life. But for those of u...

Sacred Cows

published: May 05, 2011

Quickly eclipsed by the precipitous earthly departure of Osama bin Laden, last week’s big story was the royal wedding between Kate and William of Great Britain, proving that storybook endings...

Why Not Santorum?

published: April 28, 2011

I’ve always subscribed to the notion that, by and large, the leaders most admired by the American people are those who speak plainly; that is, they represent themselves as who they are and wh...

American Mastery

published: April 14, 2011

I’m not the most ardent or knowledgeable golf fan in the world, but my husband is. And so it was that he and his friends were in the unenviable position of watching the last round of the Mast...

Religion Extinction?

published: April 01, 2011

The war on organized religion usually manifests itself in battles around Christian holidays like Christmas and Easter, yet minor skirmishes abound at other times as well. The latest foray emerges o...

Sportsmanship

published: March 10, 2011

I read with interest somewhere that last Tuesday was National Sportsmanship Day, as advanced by a group called the Institute for International Sport, with an eye to “engaging athletes and oth...

Union Blues

published: February 25, 2011

Back in the good old days, if you weren’t a union supporter, you were un-American. Those of a certain age remember movies like Norma Rae, where poor, impoverished Southern women were crushed ...

American Love

published: February 17, 2011

I have a sister who’s around a decade younger than me. One day, a few years ago, we were discussing the presidency of Ronald Reagan when she made a most interesting comment. “When Reaga...

Evicting Jesus?

published: February 04, 2011

I have often written that the reason some folks persist in calling themselves Catholic is to be ready when reporters from the New York Times come to call. Sometimes I think that the Old Gray Lady m...

Gone to the Devil

published: January 20, 2011

In a reading group I belong to, we studied the first monks to go out into the Egyptian desert in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. We read of heroic men and women who performed supernatural feats--like Si...

A Few Grown Men

published: January 15, 2011

Anyone who reads this column knows I am no fan of modern culture with its crudity, inanity and especially the constant noise which blots out the desire for all but the most shallow of pursuits. Th...

Truth or Consequences

published: January 06, 2011

Two thousand years ago, one man said to another, “For this I was born and for this I came into the world; to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.&rdquo...;

A Liberal Carol - (A Ghostly Story in Two Parts) - Part II

published: December 24, 2010

Sometime during the night--he was never sure when, since the clock in his office ever-after remained at twelve midnight--he was awakened by what sounded like music from a tinkling piano. “Wha...

A Liberal Carol - (A Ghostly Story in Two Parts)

published: December 16, 2010

Liberalism was dead; as dead as a doornail. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. The problem was, at least for the occupant of the Ov...

Happy Holydays

published: December 03, 2010

The conclusion of Thanksgiving, originally a day of solemn acknowledgement that all that we have that is good is a gift from God, brings us to the celebration of the greatest gift from our Creator:...

Nothing But Grit

published: November 25, 2010

While watching a football game last week I noticed with interest the PR campaign surrounding the release of the remake of the 1969 classic, True Grit. It was at first, like most intrusions upon my ...

Deo Gratias

published: November 17, 2010

We’ve come to a weird place in the history of our nation. With the advent of the Tea Party movement has come a neo-nascent appreciation for out founding documents; particularly the Constituti...

A Grander Old Party

published: November 11, 2010

Not a day. Not even for one day were conservatives allowed to bask in the glow of the tremendous victory of last Tuesday. No sooner had the Democrats delayed results in two or three contests long e...