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 New JournoList spin on the IRS
That’s funny. Two different articles, one in Mother Jones, one in the WaPo, yet they’re running the exact same explanation as to why the IRS targeted conservative groups filing for tax exemptions. From Ezra Klein’s Wonkblog: The context for all … Continue reading
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The AP: Working hard to not tell the truth, much
Even the AP can’t hide the hate anymore, but don’t worry, they’re working hard on trying. Remember all that bullshit about the Muslim Brotherhood “moderating”? The media has decided to be honest about the Israel hatred in Egypt these days. … Continue reading
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The unbiased media circles the wagons
The IRS targeted groups for their political ideology when deciding whether or not to give them tax-exempt status. The New York Times barely covered the story when it broke, downplaying it as an apology for a few lower-down echelons in … Continue reading
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Terrorist, journalist, what’s the difference?
UPDATE: The Newseum is “re-evaluating“. The Newseum is a museum in Washington that covers, well, the news business. Journalism, both print and television, is its focus. I’ve been mildly interested in visting it. They advertise heavily on WTOP in the … Continue reading
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Anti-Israel bias on Jerusalem Day? Yeah, we’ve got that.
Israeli police detained the mufti of Jerusalem to interrogate him about a riot by Palestinians on the Temple Mount the day before. Western press is breathlessly reporting every moment; I could barely find the story in the Israeli papers. But … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler – 05/08/2013
1) Guess the source A) In its efforts to stop amateur rockets from nagging the residents of some of its southern cities, Israel appears to have given new life to the fledging Islamic movement in Palestine. For two years, the … Continue reading
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But let’s concentrate on Israel’s attack on Syria
Sunni Muslims are fleeing Alawite death squads in Syria, which are targeting entire cities. Sunni Muslims sought safety after a second village in two days was destroyed by death squads apparently bent on ethnic cleansing. Relatives of the dead in … Continue reading
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Attack on Syria
Israel bombed Syria twice in the last few days. The last time took out a huge weapons depot, reportedly long-range missiles that were going to be transferred to Hezbollah. There are many videos on YouTube of the secondary explosions.J.E. Dyer … Continue reading
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Thursday briefs
What media bias? Say, did you know that the Palestinian terrorist who murdered a father of five in the West Bank wasn’t imprisoned just for stone-throwing? That he actually was a terrorist trying to kill Israeli soldiers? If you read … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler – 05/01/2013 – New York Times Op-Ed Index for April, 2013
1) A Turkey-Israel Opening – Soli Ozel and Charles A. Kupchan – April 1, 2013 For the better part of a decade, Turkey and Israel have been growing apart politically. Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party has Islamist leanings; confrontation with … Continue reading
News and not-news
You know what’s news? The reaction of an Israeli town to one of their members being stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist. You know what’s not news? The killing (by stabbing to death) of an Israeli “settler” by a … Continue reading
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Tuesday morning briefs
Rocket attacker, attacked by rocket: The IDF took out the rocketeer behind the last few attacks on Israel. Best news? He was a rocket builder as well as a rocketeer. Hamas’ Health Ministry identified the terrorist as Haytham Almishal, 24, … Continue reading
The AP: There was no anti-Muslim backlash, but there COULD have been
I read this AP analysis the other day and tried to figure out exactly why it bothered me. Then I realized: The theme of the article is that there is no big anti-Muslim backlash after the Boston bombers turned out … Continue reading
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The myth of Islamophobia and the reality of Jew-hatred
Brendan O’Neill, a columnist for the London Telegraph, points out that there was no mob of anti-Muslim fanatics roaming the streets after the Boston bombers were found to be Muslim jihadis. He goes on to note that those who accused … Continue reading
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Monday briefs
Israel’s Memorial Day: The AP, for a change, has no spin at all in this description of Israel today. It’s a miracle! Israel at 65: The AP is back to its old anti-Israel self with this article. Read it all … Continue reading
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