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
The questionable centrality of Palestine
The New York Times asked seven Muslims – from Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Pakistan, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia – what President Obama’s message to the Muslim world should be later this week. I was surprised at the responses. AHMED al-OMRAN (from … Continue reading
Media narrative or floating balloons?
Yesterday the New York Times trumpeted the fact that one of the Obama administration “punishments” for Netanyahu refusing to freeze natural growth of the suburbs of Jerusalem—a.k.a. “settlement growth”—would be a lack of support for Israel in the UN. Today, … Continue reading
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The media’s anti-bibi brigades
One aspect of reporting on ties between Israel and the United States is to look for exaggerations in the extent of the rift between the two countries. We will see a lot of this in the coming years as journalists … Continue reading
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The pro-Palestinian media
A few headlines about the latest red-on-red infighting. The New York Times: 6 Die as Palestinian Authority Forces Clash With Hamas Note the passive voice in the headline. Six were killed, and yet, in the headline, they “die” in a … Continue reading
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Obama, Muslims, and the AP narrative
In an article about how Obama must kowtow to Muslims, several things leap out at me, but this paragraph most of all: If Obama wants to rally Muslim support to rein in Iran, analysts say, he will have to prove … Continue reading
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AP on mortgage foreclosures: Hurricane victims hardest hit
You have got to be kidding me. AP IMPACT: Foreclosures add to hurricane hazards Mike Manikchand points toward his neighbors – a half-dozen empty, foreclosed-upon homes, sitting on weed-strewn yards – and he wonders: What will happen if a hurricane … Continue reading
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A partiality test
See if you can figure out where, and whom, these quotes come from: Palestinians watched with hope this week as President Barack Obama called for an Israeli settlement freeze and spoke about the need to move quickly toward statehood alongside … Continue reading
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UN launching “independent” probe of Gaza war
You have to love the AP. They sure do give us many laughs. The United Nations says a team of independent experts mandated to probe alleged war crimes in Israel and Gaza will leave for the Middle East over the … Continue reading
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Note to AP: Debate is not dialogue
A dialogue is a conversation between two people. A debate is an exercise in rhetoric between opposing viewpoints. But the AP apparently does not have writers or editors knowledgeable enough to tell the difference between the two, nor between a … Continue reading
Mr. Obama and Mr. Netanyahu – the alternative version
There’s a really great editorial at the New York Times that I missed the other day: We’d call this week’s White House meeting between President Obama and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a draw. Mr. Netanyahu promised to promote … Continue reading
If it’s Friday, there must be violent anti-fence protests
Okay, now I’m starting to wonder what’s going on with all these protesters getting hit by tear gas grenade canisters. Anti-fence rallies in Ramallah area lead to violent clashes between Palestinians and security forces once again: A 20-year-old Palestinian was … Continue reading
Roger Cohen – an ominous fellow traveler?
I warmly recommend an excellent article An Ominous Turn in Elite Opinion by Jonathan S. Tobin in the Commentary magazine. Not because I agree with every conclusion about the article main protagonist – Roger Cohen, I have my doubts about … Continue reading
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The sport of Bibi bashing
There’s something tasteless about headlining a “news analysis” Keeping score on Obama vs. Netanyahu (via memeorandum), but I suppose there will be a lot of this over the next three or four years as the media try to score points … Continue reading
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The enema remedy – doing quite well, thank you
Since then, as that ancient Jewish story tells, each time when a Pharaoh gets sick, Jews get the enema. Sorry about that annoying habit of quoting own posts, but the quote is not mine, so… Anyhow, this time it applies … Continue reading
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Kassams still flying, in spite of NY Times interview with Hamas
Funny, I could have sworn Khaled Meshaal told the New York Times that Hamas was no longer firing kassam rockets at Israel. Do you—do you think he was lying? This evening’s rocket, launched from northern Gaza, landed in an open … Continue reading