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Thursday, April 05, 2012 — John Heagney

All right. I'll come right out and say it: I'm in favor of prayer in schools.

Yes, in PUBLIC schools. 

No one has the right to deny prayer to a student seeking divine intervention before a major exam for which no amount of last-minute cramming will produce remotely correct answers. Such prayer has...

Monday, April 02, 2012 — John Heagney

I know of an immigrant couple who, as cliched as it may sound, came to this country seeking the American Dream.

The husband and wife, with third- and sixth-grade educations, arrived and immediately found jobs. He as a bus driver, she as a factory worker. A year after they married, the wife discovered she was pregnant and gave birth to a mentally retarded daughter. Two years after that, their son was born...