Pope Benedict’s Regensburg address generated much controversy last September. On October 13, 2006, 38 Muslim scholars, intellectuals and clerics responded with an Open Letter to Pope Benedict. One year later, they have issued a second letter. The first letter was an attempt to point out Pope Benedict’s alleged misconceptions about Islam. That letter was a [...]

Republican Bobby Jindal was elected Governor of Louisiana, long a stronghold of the Democrat Party, on Saturday, October 20, 2007. It looks like the attempted mischaracterizations and smears by the Louisiana Democrat Party backfired badly. Oswald Sobrino, a Louisiana native, observes: Let it be clear: many of those from Louisiana knew right off the bat [...]

I’ve managed to move my blog from Typepad to a self-hosted WordPress blog. The move has been fairly painless. I expected the transfer process to be much more complicated than it turned out to be. So much so that I completely missed what was obviously easy. Why move? Typepad’s customer service could have been better [...]