Deal W. Hudson

Stuck with the Lord

Marjorie Campbell, marjorie@marjoriecampbell.com

"Mom, mom!" a tense, tightly curled nine-year-old hissed from the pew in front of me. "Mom, the Lord is stuck in my retainer." My own post-Eucharist prayer expanded, I considered the last time I, too, got stuck with the Lord.

One April morning three years ago, after sending children to school and husband to work, I cashed in my frequent flyer miles for a ticket that afternoon to Rome. En route to the airport, I answered an innocent call from husband Bill, who launched into suggestions for dinner with the four-star general whom -- he forgot to mention -- was visiting that evening. "Honey," I finally interrupted, "there's something I need to tell you . . ."

(Read more here.)

Women I Admire: Wendy Shalit

Marjorie Campbell, marjorie@marjoriecampbell.com

I heard the precocious, witty Wendy Shalit speak some years ago at Commentary's annual dinner.  Impressed, I dashed out, bought and read what ranks now as one of my most favorite books to share, the very funny, poignant A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue. 

So I was extremely pleased to see this year's Independent Women's Forum  "Women Who Make the World Better" award go to Ms. Shalit.  Ms. Shalit's new book, Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good has unleashed another round of vitriol so often directed at these brave young women reasserting their dignity against the "equality is sameness"  legacy still pathetically peddled by the kinky-graying radical feminists of my generation.  "Shalit . . . quotes a feminist lawyer barking: 'I am very suspicious of telling girls they need to be morally good—that’s sexism right there!'” (Read full review) 

What a perverse generational reversal these young women have suffered - losing perhaps for the first time in human history, the protective maternal care of older women in favor of further social experimentation the seniors crave for validation.  As Ms. Shalit points out in her interview with IWF:

So there's a very interesting tension now, where the older generation, they're the ones organizing the co-ed sleepovers; they're the ones renting the hotel rooms for the prom; they're the ones buying the skanky clothing for their "prostitots."

And increasingly it's the younger generation that's saying: You know what? No, we don't want this; this is too much, and we want something more than this. I think that's encouraging; it's really encouraging.

I think it's encouraging too.  Increasingly, I find the women I admire in my daughter's generation.  You go, girls - don't let the old biddies fool you!

I Wanna Have Your Babies: What do you think?

Marjorie Campbell, marjorie@marjoriecampbell.com

Over the big pond, there's been a tongue-wagging, sometimes brutal, deluge of opinion gathered from Natasha Bedingfield's 2007 "I Wanna Have Your Babies" - yet to be released into the US market despite having its very own Wikipedia entry.  First, watch the video here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOAbvaIVp2c.  Then, note the success of Natasha's catchy, hip-hop capture of the age-old tug of interest between young men and women, reaching 7th and 8th on the singles' charts in the UK and Ireland.  Next, glimpse some of the more venomous dissing of the song, video and entire person of Natasha Bedingfield:  "this is an abhorrence you cannot return from unscathed; you will wear a veil of pestilence ‘til your days grow dark."

Now, what do you think of "I Wanna Have Your Babies"?

Catholic Left Beats McCain with the Hagee Stick

Deal Hudson

The Window for March 14, 2007

A new Catholic political organization called Catholics United is not satisfied with McCain's repudiation of Rev. Hagee's anti-Catholicism.  This group wants McCain to "reject" his endorsement.

Read their argument, and why I think they are dead wrong.

Send this to your Loved Ones, PLEASE

Marjorie Campbell, marjorie@marjoriecampbell.com

Here's an article to send to your loved ones, all of them.  A summary can be read at Lifenews.com.   The suppression of information connecting abortion and the use of oral contraceptives with breast cancer is an on-going crime against women - especially our young women who foolishly rely on their Baby Boomer elders.  Last October, I decried the distribution of birth control pills to Middle School girls as a ploy for letting children choose their predators.  As the lethal health implications of oral contraceptives and abortion continue to be withheld, denied and repressed, our sex-is-profitable industry professionals stand idly watching these girls put their health and lives at risk, just as pro-tobacco forces let millions die of lung cancer before aggressive, crusading lawyers and legislators brought them to task.  When will the women who claim to care about women cut their cord to failed social experiments and the lucrative pandering of young girls to the abortion and birth control providers?

Informed patient consent for medical treatment is required by

both law and medical ethics. Yet, both federal agencies and

academicians are participating in the suppression of information

about the heightened risk of breast cancer posed by oral

contraceptives and induced abortion. There is historical

precedent in the long-delayed acknowledgment of the

smoking/lung cancer link.  Read the whole article here.