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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (3378)	7/14/2003 3:01:22 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793756

Full disclosure: I couldn't bring myself to watch it He knew this guy, and couldn't stand to watch him. Of course, he will never get over being dropped from the "Op-Ed" list-I expect him back on it in five years are so, he is too damn good not to be there. Raines' defensiveness was unreal.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (3378)	7/14/2003 9:36:45 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793756

PARAGRAPH OF THE WEEK [John Derbyshire] From Maggie Gallagher on NRO. All right, it's early in the week--but this one will last and last. "The answer to this question [i.e. 'Do we need marriage?'] is, I think, abundantly clear from 40 years of experimentation both here and in Europe. The consequences of our current retreat from marriage is not a flourishing libertarian social order, but a gigantic expansion of state power and a vast increase in social disorder and human suffering. The results of the marriage retreat are not merely personal or religious. When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the first result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result. There is scarcely a dollar that state and federal government spends on social programs that is not driven in large part by family fragmentation: crime, poverty, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems. Even Medicare spending is inflated, as elderly singles spend more of their years in nursing homes nationalreview.com