The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Author Archives: Soccerdad
4 + 1 on President Bush in the Middle East
Bush’s last year: The best, one hopes, is yet to come by Barry Rubin The gap between the real Middle East and how it is perceived by all too many people in Washington and in the academic-journalistic elite is far … Continue reading
No gaza = more terror
I generally like Max Boot. (In fact I even have relatives who like reading him.)However his take on the withdrawal from Gaza, More on the decline of Terror is mistaken for a number of reasons. Boot writes: I wrote in … Continue reading
Insecure security
I wondered how secure the President’s security detail felt with the Palestinain police and who knows how many other “security” organizations in charge of making Ramallah safe. (Shira bat Sarah wondered too.) Well apparently, the Secret Service felt that the … Continue reading
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Well intentioned damage
At the end of 1998, then-President Clinton visited Gaza to oversee the fictional revocation of the clauses in the Palestinian Charter that call for the destruction of Israel. It’s not surprising that on the eve of President Bush’s to the … Continue reading
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Psst, buddy want a tip
Israel’s economic classification is due to change this year and is expected to be included as a developed market rather than an emerging market. Times Online writes: “British investors have tended to ignore Israel, but its stock market will be … Continue reading
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Think tanks
Following on Backspin’s recent listing of the 18 Most Asked About Israeli Sites let’s go over some of the best pro-Israel think tanks out there. (Before I get to the think tanks, here’s one more Israeli government site that’s probably … Continue reading
Some myths and facts about Israel
Israel Matzav has a nice roundup of links demonstrating the Palestinian culpability in their own misfortune in 1948. (See also the American Thinker. Both via memeorandum.)For a relevant article see Benny Morris’s Reign of Error by Efraim Karsh. Dennis Mansfield … Continue reading
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Sometimes the middle of the road is just roadkill
I’m sure that my friend Snoopy is going to hit me back hard for this, because he’s a fan of Burston. But I gotta say this. Bradley Burston’s Here’s to the ’67 borders, the new middle of the road is … Continue reading
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Stated concerns
Today we are treated to a lecture by Prof. Madeleine K. Albright, “Confidence in America.” Dr. Albright, whose most famous exploits as Secretary of State were chasing after Yasser Arafat and officially changing the designation of “rogue states” to “states … Continue reading
President Bush’s assumed risk
From the Washington Post Friday, “With President Bush coming so soon, one would hope to see positive steps toward the Palestinian people, but instead we see the opposite,” said Jamal al-Muhaisen, governor of Nablus. While Nablus has long been considered … Continue reading
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The smuggling muddle
Headlines tell us so much. First from the Washington Post. Israeli Operations Kill 9 in Gaza Israeli forces launched military operations in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank early Thursday, hours before a Katyusha rocket fired from Gaza crashed … Continue reading
Crossing Rafah
Egypt Opens Crossing So Palestinians Can Return Egypt opened its main crossing into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday to allow more than 2,000 Palestinian pilgrims — including at least one official of the armed Hamas movement — to return to … Continue reading
“Occupied” ashkelon
Rocket lands near hotel in Ashkelon Rocket fired by Palestinians in northern Gaza Strip lands near hotel on Ashkelon’s beach; no injuries or damage reported in attack. Police bomb squad says rocket might have been a Katyusha, as area is … Continue reading
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Getting a “Clue”
Trying to find out what happened in the Middle East is often difficult. Israelly Cool! shows us again. Snapped Shot likens it to a game of Clue. The other day I noticed that a Palestinian woman had been killed. The … Continue reading
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Arab regimes vs. bloggers round 1392
Dissident Saudi Blogger Is Arrested Farhan’s is the first arrest of a blogger in Saudi Arabia. Two Egyptian bloggers and one Tunisian are currently behind bars, according to Sami ben Gharbia, advocacy director for Global Voices, an international research group … Continue reading
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