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: Media
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
Posted in AP Media Bias, Gaza, Israel 3 Comments
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
Sunday snarks
I know you are, but what am I? A spoiled rich Saudi prince calls Israel a spoiled child. Really. Irony is apparently not a part of the Arab world. Priceless: Number of non-Israeli newspapers carrying Israel’s strike on Gaza tunnels: … Continue reading
Things you won’t see in the AP coverage
Regarding the terror attack last week that killed an Israeli father of seven, and the IDF raids that killed three terrorists suspected of carrying out the attack, well, it’s official: One of the dead terrorists owned the rifle that killed … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Media Bias, Terrorism 1 Comment
What’s there to debate?
The headline and tone of this “news analysis,” Tough Military Stance Stirs Little Debate in Israel the New York Times is baffling. What is there to debate? If the doctrine is effective it’s working. The idea that an idea must … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time, Media Bias 2 Comments
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
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israel, Terrorism 3 Comments
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
Snarkly
Of course he’s claiming the insanity defense: The Seattle JCC shooter who proclaimed he was a soldier of Islam when he was on his way to murdering one and wounding five others, is trying the insanity defense. The jury is … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Media Bias, News Briefs, Religion 5 Comments
The problem with pundits
One thing nearly all [anti-]Israel pundits have in common is the sheer inability to access reality. The only villain in the inability to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians is Israel, generally due to settlements, and as a result … 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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Passively described aggression
In some ways there’s little to quibble with in Howard Schneider’s To two faiths, a holy patch of land; to the world, a powder keg in the Washington Post. It begins: It is one of the most watched pieces of … Continue reading
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
Posted in AP Media Bias, Iran, Israel 4 Comments
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
Posted in AP Media Bias 3 Comments
Roger Cohen: about hinges and lack thereof
I have no doubt that all of you followed with bated breath the Iranian odyssey of the NYT grand vizier Roger Cohen. Well, if you didn’t, here is a reminder. So enamored was our jolly Roger with the regime, that … Continue reading
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