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…
Category Archives: AP Media Bias
Sunday morning snarks, media bias edition
What a difference an angle makes: Biased AP headline of the morning: Israel police storm holy site to quell protest. Ynet news headline: Riots erupt on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Awesome AFP anti-Israel slant of the month: The Dubai assassination of … Continue reading
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Tagged Hamas, Israel
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Checkpoint “misery” exaggerated by the AP
This get-out-your-hankie story is the latest profile by the AP of the horrors the Palestinians have to go through—all, of course, caused by Israel. This one is an AP correspondent who spent a week (five days, actually) going through the … Continue reading
Pre-Snowpocalypse 2 briefs
Frozen peace: See what peace dividends bring to Egypt? The nation’s journalist’s union punished two editors for having contact with Israel. Ew, Jew cooties! That famous Muslim tolerance for other religions: Egyptian Christians are protesting for the right to build … Continue reading
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AP trying to mainstream “teabagger”
The Associated Press is proud of its reputation. When you go to the AP website, this sentence starts the second paragraph in the “About us” page: AP’s mission is to be the essential global news network, providing distinctive news services … Continue reading
Rachel’s tomb and the protection of Jewish holy sites
Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977. Part IV : Civilian population #Section I — General protection against effects of hostilities … Continue reading
The double standard on Sudanese refugees
So that item in the AP that kept changing its text on the Egyptian border police murdering African migrants trying to sneak into Israel? Well, they changed it again in the latest iteration. But of course, there was the implicit … Continue reading
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Tagged Egypt, Israel, Sudan
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Monday snarks
The Israeli rocket prevention program: Got three “militants” as they were preparing to fire rockets into Israel. One hit, three dead terrorists, no real notice by the AP, since they can’t even pretend these were Palestinian farmers trying to earn … Continue reading
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The fabled Muslim religious tolerance strikes again
A 12-year-old Muslim girl was abducted and raped by a Coptic Christian Egyptian in November. The attacker was arrested. But the rule of law wasn’t enough. First, Muslims murdered Christian shoppers. Attackers in a car raked a crowd of shoppers … Continue reading
A pro-Israel AP spin
Since I have written probably hundreds of posts about the anti-Israel AP spin of articles reporting on events in Israel, here’s one that’s a reverse spin: One that actually, accurately reflects the symbolism of the Neturei Karta nutjobs spending Shabbat … Continue reading
Unspinning the anti-Israel spin
If you read only the wire services, you wouldn’t understand exactly why the IDF killed three terrorists in the West Bank early this morning. Allow me to show you the depths to which the AP falls to justify the murderers, … Continue reading
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The AP spin: Hamas calls for destruction of Israel are “suggestions”
Really, you just can’t make this stuff up. Buried deep inside the whitewashed AP version of Hamas’ anniversary festivities in Gaza is this nugged of wisdom from the AP, which purports to show the moderation of the terrorist group even … Continue reading
The obstacles to peace
Settlements, the conventional wisdom says, are the true obstacles to peace in the Middle East. Not Palestinian intransigence. Not the fact that the Palestinians have been split into two groups—Hamas and the Palestinian Authority—for years. Not the fact that if … Continue reading
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Tuesday SNB
Israeli Double Standard Time: The AP kept using qualifiers like “Israel says” when covering the 500 tons of weapons discovered on a ship headed for Hezbullah. But there’s no problem whatsoever quoting Iranian newspapers as truthful sources when it comes … Continue reading
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The latest Palestinian obfuscation: Unilateralism
Unilateralism is bad when Israel practices it. Go read back a few years to hear the left shrieking about Ariel Sharon withdrawing from Gaza unilaterally, instead of working with the PA (or at least, pretending to work with them so … Continue reading
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