Lisa Fabrizio column
Lisa Fabrizio is a freelance columnist from Stamford, Connecticut. You may write her at mailbox@lisafab.com.
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September 2, 2010
Most people live on a lonely island,
Lost in the middle of a foggy sea.
Most people long for another island,
One where they know they will like to be.
So . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
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 . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
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 . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 5, 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 . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
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 . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
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 . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
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 . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 2, 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 . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
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 . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 4, 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 . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
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 . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
May 21, 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, . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
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 . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 29, 2010
It's 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 . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
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 we'd seen the flick and . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 18, 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, . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 1, 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, . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 25, 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 . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
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 . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 11, 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 . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
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, . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
February 18, 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 . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
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 . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 28, 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 . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 20, 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 . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 14, 2010
Servant of God, Bishop Fulton Sheen, once said, "There are not more than 100 people in the world who truly hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 7, 2010
Now that the holidays are over, many of us must return to the wintery world of work without the warmth of those lucky enough to holiday in Hawaii. Despite its . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 2, 2010
It seems like only yesterday that old Ross Perot was waving bye-bye and making a beeline into his private bunker to avoid the certain doom that surely awaited . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 24, 2009
If you're like me, you're not at all surprised by the holiday gifts doled out by Harry Reid and friends in order to give the ultimate legacy-saving present to . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 16, 2009
The latest allegations by numerous women involved in the Tiger Woods flap took many folks by surprise, including me. I bought into his external show of . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 10, 2009
When we talk, as we are forced to do every year, about the 'war on Christmas,' we generally focus on the efforts of the ACLU and their ilk to continue their . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 3, 2009
So a man and his wife have some kind of falling out late in the evening after a long and claustrophobic Thanksgiving Day and he, in a pique of frustration, . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
November 25, 2009
Today's world can be quite a confusing place. It was only short decades ago that everyone woke up in the morning and knew exactly who and what they were. If you . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
November 12, 2009
Another week in the life of our nation sweeps by, and with it comes more evidence that the gloom and doom which has enveloped conservatives for the past year . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
November 5, 2009
When the first nip of chill is in the air and the trees become enflamed with the beauty of God's love, one's mind naturally turns to baseball; specifically the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
October 15, 2009
They say you are known by the company you keep and boy, what a rollercoaster ride the past few months have been for President Obama and friends. It started . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
October 8, 2009
One of the few good upshots of the thrashing conservatives took on Election Day 2008 is that we now get to be on offense nearly all the time; to challenge the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
October 1, 2009
Short months ago, the first real taste of warm weather blew gently across the Northeast and the sight of blossoming trees with their explosions of brilliant . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 23, 2009
Last week, former president Jimmy Carter, sounding much like a man desperate to reclaim his relevance in a world that's passed him by, told NBC News: "I think . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 9, 2009
It started decades ago in this country; the hammering away at the notion that ours is a noble and commendable history. From the demonization of Christopher . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 3, 2009
In the wake of the death of Senator Edward Kennedy, many verbal monuments have been erected to his memory. During the days-long outburst of love from a truly . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 27, 2009
It was often said of George W. Bush that he was one of the most polarizing figures in this country. Of course, this was said mostly by his enemies and referred . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 19, 2009
The strange and sad case of Michael Vick got a bit stranger this week when the newly-signed Eagles quarterback appeared on 60 Minutes complete with a . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 13, 2009
It has been difficult to decipher some of the Beltway buzzwords in use now that Democrats are in firm control of our national government. Of course it's . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 5, 2009
News was made last week in the sleepy village of Cooperstown, NY at the annual induction ceremonies at the Baseball Hall of Fame. As the former stars of the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 29, 2009
The news from Washington, DC has not been good for the president and his party this week. With his personal approval numbers dipping below 50 per cent for the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 23, 2009
What faithful, practicing Catholic does not cringe when he hears the Kennedys referred to as "one of the United States' most prominent Roman Catholic families?" . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 16, 2009
Once again, all those who pay attention to national politics turn their eyes to Washington to witness the Senate confirmation hearings of a U.S. Supreme Court . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 9, 2009
Lots of folks were astounded and confounded by Sarah Palin's sudden announcement that she was resigning her post as the Governor of Alaska a year and a half . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 1, 2009
Having concluded my nuptial celebration last week, my new hubby and I embarked on a short but welcome retreat up the Hudson River in New York. We chose a small . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 17, 2009
This past week saw the second round of Interleague baseball and, as usual here in the New York metro area, the sparks as well as the horsehide were flying as . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 10, 2009
Is it all over in America? This is a question which has been asked, I suppose, since its founding. It is reported that when Ben Franklin was asked after the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 3, 2009
Having returned to these fair shores after an overseas trip, the end of which culminated in a total of 13 hours of flight time, it was with a general sense of . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
May 27, 2009
When you're out of the country as I was for the past two weeks, no matter how wonderful your destination or how glorious the sites you visit there, some . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
May 7, 2009
With the coming defection of Arlen Specter to his rightful place in the Democratic Party, all of the talk has centered on how far 'to the right' the Republican . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 30, 2009
Some years ago, a priest friend of mine suggested that the legalization of same-sex marriage might be even more morally harmful to our nation than the scourge . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 23, 2009
Only mere months into the Obama presidency and already my head is spinning. Massive chasms of debt, class warfare in the streets, government takeovers of . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 16, 2009
In the 1960s, the American Catholic Church, like the rest of the nation, underwent a period of tremendous upheaval. Proceeding from, though not limited to, the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 9, 2009
Barack Obama is now in the second week of his second overseas tour in less than a year. Not content with being the President of the United States it seems, the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 1, 2009
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They say it's always darkest just before the dawn and that every cloud . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 26, 2009
In America, those who exude a certain type of attraction or charisma are often christened with the sobriquet of 'rock star.' For those of us who've outgrown the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 19, 2009
Last week I wrote about the bold incursion against the Catholic Church launched by Connecticut lawmakers who sought to wrest parish financial control from the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 11, 2009
The history of the Catholic Church in the state of Connecticut has never been pretty. Until 1818, the Congregational Church was the official religion, and the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 4, 2009
Despite the temporary elation delivered by a Rush Limbaugh pep talk at CPAC, conservative morale is at an all-time low. Painfully aware of the hold that . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
February 18, 2009
In the past few weeks we have been treated to a flurry of national apologies. Foul and foolish deeds of various degrees of severity have been owned-up to across . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
February 12, 2009
In these recessional times, it is often uncomfortable to watch TV or read the newspapers; especially when we recognize that our fellow citizens are too often . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
February 5, 2009
Many folks have pointed out that Barack Obama has been treated by his supporters in and out of the media like a new messiah, the savior, the chosen one. Many . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 29, 2009
Last week, hundreds of thousands of Americans made their way to Washington, DC, thronging its stately streets and avenues with messages of love and hope. They . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 21, 2009
My friend Ken, the innkeeper at my favorite bar is a big movie fan as am I, but while 99% of my favorites were made before 1950, he still forks over big bucks . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 14, 2009
Friends, Americans, conservatives; lend me your ears. I come to praise George W. Bush, not to bury him; I'll leave that to our famously unbiased media. Now that . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 7, 2009
Now that the new year is officially upon us, the time for reflection is over and it behooves us to look ahead. Normally, human nature bids us to do this with . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 31, 2008
One of the many gifts that separate men from animals is that of memory. Not the sort that makes a dog shy away from a chair after being hit on the nose with a . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 25, 2008
With sincerest apologies to Democrats everywhere and, once again, to Clement Clark Moore.
Twas the night before Christmas in 2008,
All the liberals were . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 17, 2008
As the year 2008 winds down and President Bush's days in office draw to a close, liberals all over the world are celebrating the Iraq shoe-throwing incident. . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 10, 2008
I have a friend named Mike who is a very intelligent and sensible man. He is a strong supporter of lower taxes, the rule of law, the military and especially of . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
November 13, 2008
We have just witnessed an historical election to be sure. Not because we have sent a black man to the seat of power, but because a fortuitous confluence of . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
October 30, 2008
I have a brother who revels in an old joke; so that when the gender of a family newborn is announced, he asks: "What does that make me, an aunt or an uncle?" . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
October 22, 2008
For four days it was bliss. Sitting in the window of a 15th Century converted convent every morning, waiting for the sun to rise over a gorgeous valley filled . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
October 1, 2008
Many movie fans consider 1939 the greatest ever in the history of American filmmaking and it would be hard to argue the point. In the days before Hollywood . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 24, 2008
As we head for the home stretch in our political season and each party reins in the votes of its membership, the focus will become those who label themselves as . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 17, 2008
At a small party over the weekend, the subject of our presidential election arose. Living as I do in Connecticut, I was prepared for the typical onslaught a . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 11, 2008
This, to say the least, has been one of the strangest presidential races in years; especially for conservatives. When this marathon began many months ago, our . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 3, 2008
I, like many of you, forced myself to sit through nearly all four long days of the Democratic Convention; albeit with my trusty mute button ever ready for . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 28, 2008
John F. Kennedy was the first presidential candidate to enunciate the idea that Catholicism might somehow be detrimental toward being a good American. In . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 20, 2008
With only a week to go before the donkeys kick up their heels in Denver, the powers that be at the New York Times, acting in their unofficial capacity as mouth . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 14, 2008
Dateline Denver: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 8:00 PM:
Thank you, thank you. Oh, hi there, how are you? Why, thanks so much! Nice to see you again Michelle. . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 7, 2008
As is by now apparent, Barack Obama and his crack team of foreign policy experts have proven themselves totally tone-deaf when it comes to understanding the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 31, 2008
Maybe it's me, but I'm still trying to understand the logic of the Obama campaign's European tour. Don't get me wrong, his obligatory trip to the Middle East . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 24, 2008
Every Sunday night I go out to my favorite club to engage in lively conversation and enjoy some adult companionship. In the summertime, this often includes . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 16, 2008
Poor Barack Obama. In the space of a few short weeks, he has gone from liberal savior with a 15 point lead over John McCain, to a mere mortal in a dead heat in . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 10, 2008
During this past weekend while attending the usual round of holiday cookouts, I continued my custom of wishing family and friends a happy Independence Day and . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 3, 2008
Two thousand years ago, a man told some local leaders; "The truth will set you free." Now, those who have been blessed with religious faith understand exactly . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 26, 2008
We who enjoy baseball are often lectured that today's athletes are among the finest who ever competed and that all but a few of those in ages past could hope to . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 19, 2008
Although much of the country dreads it like the plague, there is a chance that if Barack Obama wins the White House, Democrats would control the Legislative and . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 12, 2008
Now that the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer are here, things are usually slowing down. But as temperatures in the Northeast crept toward the century mark this . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 5, 2008
This past weekend on my annual baseball park tour, some friends and I decided to take a one-hour riverboat excursion on the Mississippi River, which departed . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
May 28, 2008
Years ago, when only a triad of arbiters policed the baseball diamond, enterprising organists were fond of playing "Three Blind Mice" when the men in blue took . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
May 21, 2008
The way things work in this country never ceases to amaze me. Just last week in Israel, President Bush committed what much of our media and all of our leading . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
May 15, 2008
We are lectured daily by our betters in the media and academia on the continuing dissolution of our freedoms under the oppressive reign of George W. Bush and . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
May 8, 2008
It was 1943. We were in the middle of a global conflict that was caused by the predilection of evil men for power. Predictions of doom and gloom abounded. How . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 30, 2008
The Democratic dogfight for the presidential nomination is a gift that keeps on giving. Without it, we would never witness the liberal mainstream media divided . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 24, 2008
"God Bless America." These words began and ended the too-short visit of the true man from Hope, Pope Benedict XVI. Before his arrival, many pundits predicted . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 17, 2008
This week marks the first time that Joseph Ratzinger will visit the United States as Pope Benedict XVI. Many faithful American Catholics have longed for the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 10, 2008
Gilbert Keith Chesterton once famously said, "It's not that Christianity has been tried and found wanting. It's that it has never really being tried." Part of . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 3, 2008
This week marks the beginning of the end of a significant chapter in American sports history: the 83rd and final opening day at New York's Yankee Stadium. . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 26, 2008
With all the heated feelings and rhetoric surrounding the firestorm that is Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a bit of truth telling may be in order. Conservatives have . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 20, 2008
Round about this season of the year, a few friends of mine and I get together to solve some of the weightiest matters of our time; the winners of the NCAA . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 12, 2008
Five years ago, when the smoking ban in restaurants first went into effect in my home state of Connecticut, I told a few folks who were happy about it, that it . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
February 28, 2008
Watching the Oscars Sunday night an indignity I endure solely for the opportunity to engage in conversation with a few friends concerning our nation's . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
February 21, 2008
Word is that Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama snuck down to North Carolina last weekend to meet with John Edwards, possibly to seek his . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
February 13, 2008
How we got here we're not really sure, but the reality seems to be, august Senator, you will be our nominee in the 2008 presidential election. Yes, I was at . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
February 7, 2008
If you're like me, you're probably sitting around somewhere in the dark, trying your best to avoid all forms of media coverage of the 2008 presidential primary . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 30, 2008
As the incessant march for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination continues, probably the most entertaining aspect is watching the mainstream media take . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 24, 2008
This past weekend saw the vocalization of a much hoped-for wish of liberals everywhere: that, as one left-wing blogger put it, "Republicans are a collection of . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 17, 2008
In my ever-frustrating attempts to view TV sports events without having to cover my eyes, plug my ears and empty my brain of all adult moral content, I . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 10, 2008
Things are getting pretty weird out on the campaign trail now that the official voting season is an entire week old. On the Republican side, daily reports of . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 4, 2008
Back in the early days of the 2000 presidential campaign, right after John McCain beat George W. Bush in the New Hampshire primary, there were many dire media . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 20, 2007
With little more than two weeks to go before the 2008 presidential primary voting begins, things are finally heating up. Day after day new tales of mud-slinging . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 12, 2007
Last week saw some candidates in the eternal 2008 presidential campaign trotting out various personalities in order to form a more perfect union between . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 6, 2007
NBC has signed a deal to farm out a two or three hour block of prime-time programming to outside producers. Although this programming will primarily consist of . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
November 29, 2007
Short weeks after receiving the endorsement of the National Right to Life Committee, Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson apparently ran afoul of . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
November 21, 2007
Each year at this time, I devote this space to giving thanks to the Almighty for his various and sundry gifts to the American people; but this year, things are . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
November 14, 2007
This past weekend, the first onset of winter temperatures saw the convening of what I like to call the Unofficial Southwestern Connecticut Caucus & Cocktail . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
November 7, 2007
I'll admit it. As a huge fan of 1930's music and movies, I've always dreamed of being a lyricist, ala Ira Gershwin or Dorothy Fields. These folks produced songs . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
October 31, 2007
You may have been treated to an email containing a list called, "Things you have to believe to be a Republican," that's been wending its way around cyberspace . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
October 25, 2007
One year ago this week I boarded the first of two airplanes that took me to Calcutta, India. I traveled with a dozen or so others to volunteer for two weeks . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
October 3, 2007
It's been a good baseball summer for me. For the last decade or so, instead of going off for a few weeks of rest on some tropical island, I've traipsed around . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 26, 2007
Are you getting your educational money's worth? Are you convinced that the annual cost of sending your child to college probably higher than your first-ever . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 19, 2007
Is it any coincidence that the two entities American liberals probably hate most are organized religion and our military? Liberal groups like Moveon.org run ads . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 12, 2007
So he's back, I suppose; Osama bin Laden. And boy, do we need him for many reasons, not the least being that he helps us draw some interesting comparisons. Many . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 5, 2007
Are you like me? If you are, you're constantly amazed by and grateful for the bountiful opportunities this country affords to anyone willing to work for them. . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 29, 2007
Much-loved by most of the world and nearly all of it prior to her famed condemnation of abortion in her 1979 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech Blessed . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 22, 2007
The recent death of Leona Helmsley calls to mind her reputation as the 'queen of mean' and her famous statement that, "We don't pay taxes. Only the little . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 15, 2007
When I was a kid, I remember watching a B-movie on TV called, They Saved Hitler's Brain. The plot was an incomprehensible mish-mash, but the main idea was that . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 8, 2007
Having spent the last weekend in the beautiful confines of Pittsburgh, PA, I had the occasion to visit the National Aviary, home to more than 500 birds from . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 1, 2007
The big news this week is that leading GOP presidential candidates are prepared to just say no to CNN's September edition of its YouTube debate series. In the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 25, 2007
As Rush Limbaugh frequently says of liberal witch-hunts, it's not whether one is guilty or not that counts; it's the seriousness of the charge. The world of . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 18, 2007
Sir Winston Churchill once said, "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." Although he did indeed write, as well as make much history, it will be . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 11, 2007
Go find a tranquil place, close your eyes and think back. You were much younger than you are now, quite possibly a child. Your mind's eye conjures up what . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 5, 2007
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 27, 2007
I had a cousin who was your typical 60's hippie. As a teenager he hated almost everything. He was disrespectful of his family, his religious heritage and . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 20, 2007
There have been numerous changes to the game of baseball since its inception. No one expects a sport more than a century old to remain forever true to its . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 14, 2007
We all think we know him, or at least we're forever trying. Every Christmas and Easter, documentartians seek to redefine him, or simply to find him; but who is . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
May 30, 2007
Folks in the media and America in general seem confused lately. Some of the confusion stems from the Iraq War and some from recent polling in the 2008 . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
May 23, 2007
By now it's not news that Hillary Clinton has been casting about for a theme song for her campaign to return to the White House in 2008. She's asking her . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
May 10, 2007
What a weekend in sports. At the Kentucky Derby, Street Sense blazed through the field to become the first Juvenile champion in nearly thirty years to capture . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
May 2, 2007
This past week's Democratic debate in South Carolina was a tune-up for 2008's main event: The Denver Derby, where, in August of that year, the party will choose . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 25, 2007
Last week was one of both celebration and sadness for who those who hold innocent life dear. Many tears have been shed for the 32 lives cruelly ended by evil . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 18, 2007
Most conservatives have enjoyed the outcomes of two notable stories in the last week or so. They reveled in the dropping of all charges against three Duke . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 11, 2007
This Sunday, April 15, Major League Baseball will celebrate Jackie Robinson Day by commemorating the 60th anniversary of the breaking of the game's color . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 4, 2007
My father used to dread Columbus Day. As a proud, first-generation American of Italian descent, early each October he would begin to lament the airing of TV . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 29, 2007
If you're are like me, you feel that The Godfather Part II is one of maybe a dozen fine movies to come out of Hollywood in the last 50 years. In it is a scene . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 21, 2007
It seems as though the movement to draft Fred Thompson into the 2008 presidential race is gaining steam. The former Tennessee senator, lawyer and actor's . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 14, 2007
It is not easy to be a Christian. To be perfect, as our heavenly Father is perfect, is a directive which should instill both awe and humility into its hearers. . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
February 28, 2007
I admit it. I watched portions of the Anna Nicole Smith "custody hearing" last week. Not, mind you, because I intended to, but because I'm in the habit of . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
February 21, 2007
Many of the emails I received regarding my recent column on Rudy Giuliani agreed with my premise that his social liberalism outweighs his important stances on . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
February 14, 2007
What's not to like about Rudy Giuliani? After all, he's got charisma, style, name-recognition and now apparently, even sex appeal. He's from New York City, . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
February 7, 2007
After the November elections, while most conservatives were in a dual state of shock and mourning, I advised them to turn their thoughts to the joys of . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 31, 2007
At approximately 6:25 PM EST on Sunday in Miami, an expensively clad foot will meet a prolate spheroid sending it skyward; kicking off the nation's most . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 10, 2007
They say that the Lord works in mysterious ways. Last year's remarks by Pope Benedict XVI when he spoke of the Qur'an's commands to spread Islam by the sword . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 3, 2007
I had the occasion last winter to spend a week in the picturesque Adirondack Mountains. Ostensibly a ski trip, but actually just an excuse to leave the city . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 27, 2006
At this time of the year, awards are generally handed out wherein lists are compiled toting up the greatest song, athlete, movie and even TV show of all time! . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 21, 2006
With sincerest apologies to Democrats everywhere and once again, to Clement Clark Moore
'Twas the night before Christmas, in two-thousand six;
All the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 13, 2006
The other day, I was watching NFL highlights on ESPN where they were showcasing the latest feats of the incomparable LaDainian Tomlinson. Apart from his great . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 6, 2006
"The history of Western civilization shows us that most social and moral progress has been brought about by persons free from religion."
This statement, . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
November 29, 2006
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." This, the 9th Amendment to . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
November 22, 2006
Before the holiday which dare not speak its name commences, we are visited by one that in some ways has retained its original trappings. Thanksgiving Day, whose . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
November 16, 2006
November 7, 2006: Not a good night to remember. As a Republican and especially an American who supports our war efforts, I was devastated; but as a political . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
November 8, 2006
It wasn't the slight poke in the ribs, but the way he said, "Excuse me young lady," that jostled me out of my nap during the long flight home. I looked over at . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
October 18, 2006
The hand-wringing and moaning are as palpable as they have ever been as cowering Beltway Republicans wait for the dreaded Blue Wave of Democratic rule to crash . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
October 11, 2006
As a longtime Yankee fan, my October surprise came early this season, though in the last few years it's become as routine as the revelation of Republican . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
October 4, 2006
It seems as if the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy has come out of the closet. The VRWC, a shadowy entity first discovered by Hillary Clinton in 1998, which . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 20, 2006
This week marked a new chapter in the War on Terror. Events here and around the world have sharpened the differences between those who support American and . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 13, 2006
Are you tired of hearing that 'it's all Bush's fault'? Do you cringe every time you attend a family function, knowing that the liberals at your table will spend . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 6, 2006
Whenever I or other folks write or even talk about the War on Terror, liberals are quick to deliver their favorite line with the obligatory sneer: "Have you . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 30, 2006
Democrats often portray themselves as a beacon to the poor and especially protectors of the sacred American middle class. They are prone at almost any time to . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 25, 2006
Recent remarks by Virginia Senator George Allen may not have broken any bones but they surely bruised the tender sensibilities of some liberal operatives and . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 16, 2006
"What's up with Lieberman?" That question was on the lips of nearly all those I encountered on the first few days of a trip I took last week aboard the Delta . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 3, 2006
Years ago, I knew a man whose knowledge of history stemmed nearly entirely from that which he gained through the viewing of Hollywood movies. Given the breadth . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 27, 2006
Can the Democrats and their liberal wing do us any more favors? In the 2000 presidential race they ran an incumbent vice-president from a southern state and . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 19, 2006
You have often read in this space of the advance in our lives of the tyranny of the nanny state. The methods of the nanny state are many but her intent can be . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 13, 2006
Last week's twin rulings by the states of Georgia and New York against homosexual marriage caused quite a stir. The top courts in both states found that laws . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 6, 2006
Here in Connecticut, we don't often get to make big political news. Oh, once in a while we see some action Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel got twenty-to-life . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 29, 2006
Sports in America are a funny thing. Average Americans who love sports are often dismissed by their betters in academia as rednecks and worse; especially the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 22, 2006
Yes, it's been a great couple of weeks for President Bush and therefore, America. But not for some folks. It seems every time they turn around, Democrats have . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 15, 2006
Well, it looks like that 'culture of corruption' ploy didn't work out too well for Democrats last week in California. But after Brian Bilbray won disgraced Duke . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 8, 2006
Deck the halls with baling wire,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Tis the season that is dire,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Don we now our suits of mourning,
. . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 1, 2006
June is busting out all over and, so it seems, is Democratic interest in erstwhile presidential candidate Albert Gore, Jr. Yes, Al Gore, who in his last quest . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
May 25, 2006
A few years back, Barry Bonds was thinking of a number. Not just any number, but the number 714, the home run total of one George Herman Ruth. Why, you might . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
May 18, 2006
"What is truth?" Such was the question asked by the Roman governor of Judea of a man who stood before him, a man whose death at Rome's hands would signify a . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
May 11, 2006
I remember a phrase my father used to describe certain people. He would occasionally call someone who had done a foolish but well-intended deed, "a good-hearted . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
May 4, 2006
Now that the baseball season is in full bloom it has, unlike the brilliant springtime flora and fauna, spawned much unsightliness in the form of sports-radio . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 27, 2006
Having first dispatched with the notion of private property rights with a "me-too" smoking ban two years ago, followed up by the lollapalooza Kelo v. New London . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 19, 2006
Are we ready for the Flight 93 movie? That's the question on the lips of the liberal media as United 93 nears its release date later this month. I mention the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 13, 2006
One of the favorite terms of endearment employed by the left in pursuit of their return to power, is that their enemies constitute a "culture of corruption." . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 6, 2006
Sometimes it's better to be on the outside looking in. Like those on the left, we on the right are much more effective and much more comfortable on the attack . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 30, 2006
This week marks the anniversary of two notable deaths: those of Terri Schiavo on March 31, and Pope John Paul II on April 2. Their passing led to oceans of . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 23, 2006
It's that time of year when bubbles burst and buzzer beaters ring out across the land. For many, it's an occasion for great elation, for some, bitter . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 17, 2006
The young man walked slowly toward his place of execution. Dressed in a crumpled suit and tie, he faced the firing squad and asked permission to pray. As a . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 2, 2006
All does not seem rosy in the world of those supporting the nascent White House aspirations of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Many have noted the rumblings of some on . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
February 23, 2006
The word 'racism' has been tossed around the past few years like so many used hankies. In nearly all spheres of American life from politics, to the military . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
February 15, 2006
I've been a lifelong sports fan. My first memory was of my father's admiration and awe while watching Gale Sayers, the Kansas Comet, perform feats of gridiron . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
February 9, 2006
The Samuel Alito Supreme Court nomination hearings are now a part of history but snippets of the Democratic Party's accusations and name-calling live on. Dick . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
February 2, 2006
The news from the Middle East this week has, with the exception of the wounding of two members of the media, moved away from Iraq. Attention is now focused on . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 26, 2006
Spurred by plunging approval numbers and his failure to produce for the American people, the president's term will come to an early and untimely end on May 14th . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 19, 2006
Last week's hearings on the nomination of Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court raised many interesting issues, but none more important to certain groups than . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 12, 2006
Sometimes it's hard to find a ray of light in the American judicial system but once in a while the sun comes shining through. In a shocking display of clarity . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 5, 2006
Now that the holiday that dare not speak its name is in our collective rear-view mirror, it's that time of year when the political punditry turns their weary . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 23, 2005
With sincerest apologies to liberals everywhere and once again, to Clement Clark Moore
'Twas the night before Christmas, as in days of yore;
Not a liberal was . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 15, 2005
Armed with their latest polling statistics, liberal Democrats frequently take to the talk shows and editorial pages to proclaim this or that anti-Bushism with . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 8, 2005
The other night on TV, I watched a liberal talking head go ballistic in a discussion of the 'war on Christmas.' He ranted that there is no such war, and even if . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 1, 2005
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas; that is, the mercury is dropping while temperatures are rising due to the war on Christmas waged annually by the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
November 24, 2005
William Jefferson Clinton has been on the receiving end of more magnanimity from George W. Bush than he has any reasonable right to expect. Ignoring the history . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
November 17, 2005
Liberals are racing the clock. Less than a year separates them from realizing their dream of retaking Congress, staying even, or worse, losing more seats to the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
November 10, 2005
In a week that saw a spate of anti-Catholic rumination by the media on the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, others in the political spectrum . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
November 4, 2005
What a difference a week makes. Short days ago, the liberal media were doing the Snoopy dance of joy in advance of what they were sure would be the beginning of . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
October 27, 2005
On the salivation scale, this past week has been a veritable drool-fest for those who inhabit the newsrooms, editorial desks and websites that make up the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
October 20, 2005
The look on Dick Durbin's face said it all. Involuntary muscles drew down the sides of his mouth as he attempted a forced smile but succeeded in producing only . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
October 14, 2005
Conservatives are cranky people by nature. Having walked in the liberal shadow for forty years as the opposition party, finding themselves in control of the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 30, 2005
What do modern war protesters want? In the Viet Nam War era, they clearly favored the Communist way of life to our own not for themselves so much mind you, . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 15, 2005
Now that the victims of Hurricane Katrina have served their purpose for those on the left, senate Democrats happily turned their attention to their favorite . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 9, 2005
You wouldn't know it and you probably haven't heard it, but the American people unlike ninety percent of the media don't blame President Bush for the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 30, 2005
For years, those on the far left have repeatedly maintained that they support the U.S. military while, in reality, they oppose nearly every incidence of its . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 19, 2005
If it's August and the press is languishing in Crawford, Texas, it's time for the annual Bush vacation media bash. This means that unless there's a kidnapping . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 5, 2005
Embryonic stem cell research is once again in the news via Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's revelation that he opposes President Bush on this subject. While . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 29, 2005
The quickly collapsing canard that Islamist rage is reserved only for participants in Operation Iraqi Freedom is still being touted by some on the left here and . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 14, 2005
Certain seasons or events have historically spawned their own lexicons which are unique to those events and used almost exclusively to describe them. Late in . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 1, 2005
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 23, 2005
In what is deliciously being termed 'Durbin Warfare,' another messy debacle played out last week on the floor of the world's greatest deliberative body when a . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 16, 2005
Let's get something straight. There is no justification for a moral equivalency that can possibly compare the unspeakable deaths suffered by 3,000 innocent . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 8, 2005
One year ago the nation paid a fond farewell to its 40th president in a week-long tribute filled with pride, pathos and patriotism. Hundreds of thousands of . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
May 26, 2005
Monday night's deal between fourteen Senate moderates gladdened seven self-important Republicans and a whole lot of Democrats, especially their media wing. . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 28, 2005
Every Catholic on Earth is a sinner. From this writer up to and including the newly installed Pope Benedict XVI. That we have the church to steer us to our . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 15, 2005
When it comes to bashing the Catholic Church and its pope, the New York Times has lots of competition. But it has outdone even itself this week with a little . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 8, 2005
Charismatic and photogenic world traveler, idol of youth, defeater of Communism, great communicator and master politician. Were these descriptions of the late . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 1, 2005
As you read this, Terri Schiavo will most likely be dead. Executed by the state of Florida at the request of noted death advocate George Felos acting in behalf . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 24, 2005
The gnawing in the pit of the stomach will not abate. The feeling that, little by little, we are seeing that which formerly made this country great slip away . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 18, 2005
While attempting to enjoy NCAA conference tournament action this weekend, in between bouts of averting my eyes to avoid the barrage of promos for ESPN's thug . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 11, 2005
Less than four months after the 2004 elections some folks particularly those whose exodus to Canada is temporarily on hold are already slavering over the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 3, 2005
They've done it again. It used be a shadowy penumbra, an ethereal emanation or simply the notion of a living, breathing document that enabled the Supreme Court . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 28, 2005
Sometimes, when a plain man speaks, those who are paid to analyze his words are instead mystified by them. In an elegant inaugural address last week, President . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 18, 2005
This will be a tough week for liberals. Beginning Tuesday, they must find a way to curb their seething disdain for minority conservatives while grilling . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
January 6, 2005
Now that the Winter Solstice and other Pagan celebrations have concluded, it's time to shake off the effects of our annual Bacchanalian rituals and take stock . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 23, 2004
With sincerest apologies to Clement Clark Moore
'Twas the night before Christmas, in 2004,
Not a liberal was stirring, not even Al Gore;
Their prospects were . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 16, 2004
In an effort to assuage their latest electoral pain, some in the far left of the Democratic Party have laid siege to Ohio in hopes of reviving their flagging . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
December 3, 2004
I usually write my own column, but recent events in the Middle East call for voices from that region to be heard among the mainstream media din. Some Muslims . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
November 10, 2004
When I was young, some thousands of my countrymen fled to Canada in order to avoid fighting the evils of Communism in a distant land. More than thirty years . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
October 29, 2004
You know them. You see them every day. They sit next to you on the train, in church or in the cubicle next to yours. Whenever the question of the presidential . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
October 19, 2004
This year's presidential campaign is described by some as one of the most important in our history. Towering above all the issues is that of national security . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
October 7, 2004
As the days dwindle down to a precious few leading up to November second, the big three branches of the Liberal election machine have kicked into high gear. . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 30, 2004
In a further demonstration that George W. Bush is driving the Left further round the bend, this week's Village Voice features a hit-piece by Erik Baard called, . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 22, 2004
A lot has changed since September 11, 2001. There is a 'new' Europe which is largely made up of former Soviet Bloc nations and those on that continent who . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 9, 2004
William J. Clinton lies recuperating in a hospital in New York while John F. Kerry's candidacy continues to hemorrhage out on the hustings, badly in need of a . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
September 1, 2004
The American Civil War is said to have been the most divisive conflict in our nation's history, and in terms of actual battlefield casualties, this is certainly . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 19, 2004
With the advent of the Republican Convention close at hand, much has been made of the various protest groups that will descend on the Big Apple to wreak havoc . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
August 1, 2004
Maybe it was the 'shove it' incident or the NASA bunny suit gaffe preceding the recently concluded Democratic National convention. Maybe it was the four-day . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 29, 2004
Day two of the turkey that is the Democratic National Convention is in the books which now makes it officially half-baked. As of this writing, on the afternoon . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 27, 2004
So the first day of the Democratic convention is in the can, but what to make of it? The show opened with Terry McAuliffe wielding a gavel and trying to look . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 23, 2004
"Hear the Rumor on Cheney? Capital Buzzes, Denials Aside." So blared the headline in last Thursday's New York Times. In its continuing slide toward illegitimacy . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 14, 2004
A few weeks back I received an email from a reader who was concerned that I had failed to comment on reports that Vice President Dick Cheney had hurled a vulgar . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 8, 2004
This past weekend we once again celebrated the anniversary of our nation's birth and the agent of that delivery, the sacred scripture that is the Declaration of . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
July 1, 2004
Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
The left this week has indeed unleashed two of its most caustic canines, both of . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 23, 2004
With the advent of the Bill Clinton book blizzard heralding the arrival of his 900-plus-page biography, I have compiled a handy reference guide for those who . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 17, 2004
The other night as I was readying for bed, I happened to catch the second half of a 1990 Larry King interview with Ronald Reagan. As weary as I was, I sat . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
June 2, 2004
Fifty-one years ago on a bright spring day in a sun-dappled grove, a pair of young lovers rose from slumber, spread their wings and burst into song. For the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
May 19, 2004
This week's bombshell seems an awful lot like last week's and the week before: liberal reporter finds 'evidence' of a shocking story, liberal legislators . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
May 12, 2004
In support of their holy crusade to defeat President Bush, liberals have rolled out the third wave of their three-pronged attack on what they comically perceive . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
May 6, 2004
There's an old saying around these parts: If you bring your business to the bar, it becomes the bar's business. John F. Kerry has, for most of his adult life, . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 29, 2004
At several crucial times in our nation's history, Almighty forces have intervened to aid in the course of events. From the writing of the Declaration of . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 24, 2004
As evidenced by the raking fire laid down by their media division this week, the Democratic Party is launching their Tet Offensive on George W. Bush. From the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 16, 2004
The witch-hunt that is the 9/11 Commission investigation reached its apex last week with the appearance of star witness Condoleezza Rice and the release of the . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
April 10, 2004
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances hath, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 17, 2004
In scenes mixed with equal parts confusion and nauseating carnage, the world got its latest reminder last week that the War on Terror continues. Two hundred men . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 11, 2004
For a man who labels himself as compassionate, George W. Bush is not engendering much of that sentiment from his adversaries, is he? In the past few years he's . . .
Lisa Fabrizio
March 5, 2004
In a few weeks, after the Clintons and/or Democratic primary voters crown John Kerry as their official nominee, the feeding frenzy known as the presidential . . .
