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
UPDATE: The AP media bias
I wrote my 1 p.m. post earlier today and scheduled it. Here’s the lead from the first version of the AP story about Tzipi Livni calling for new elections: Prime Minister-designate Tzipi Livni on Sunday abandoned her efforts to form … Continue reading
AP shocked at Israeli democracy
The AP never fails to disappoint. Now they’re upset that—horrors—an election might give Israelis a chance to elect someone the AP doesn’t agree with. Prime Minister-designate Tzipi Livni on Sunday abandoned her efforts to form a new coalition government and … Continue reading
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The Pravda media
Hot on the heels of Soccer Dad’s post on the media’s anti-John McCain bias I found this little gem. Congress is about to hold hearings on the financial crisis. They want a scapegoat. They will not, of course, hold a … Continue reading
Ya think?
Ad Week recently had a featured article on one of the most successful advertising campaigns in history. But coverage of McCain has been heavily unfavorable—and has become more so over time. In the six weeks following the conventions through the … Continue reading
Palestinian terrorist attack in Jerusalem, again
Another Palestinian murdered another Jew in the City of David. A young Arab man murdered a civilian and injured a police officer in Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood on Thursday morning. The 60-year-old citizen was critically injured and evacuated to the Shaare … Continue reading
Never the “o” word
Earlier this week, the AP reported, Syria and Lebanon Set Up Formal Ties: The initiative by President Bashar al-Assad of Syria ends six decades of nonrecognition and meets a demand by the United States that Syria act to help achieve … Continue reading
Olive libel again
It’s a little early but Elder of Ziyon noted a “news” story: Settlers from the illegal Israeli settlement of Yitzhar in the northern West Bank attacked a Palestinian family collecting olives on Saturday morning, a government official told Ma’an. Mayor … Continue reading
The news, and the truth of the Akko riots
This is what the AP writes about the current riots in Akko/Acre, a mixed Arab and Jewish town in Israel: Police say two Arab-owned apartments were torched in the Israeli town of Acre amid clashes between Jews and Arabs. Police … Continue reading
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Interesting AP note
On the eve of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year, I can find only one AP story referring to it: The one about the Israeli version of “Big Brother” shutting down for the holiday. I have found … Continue reading
The Hamas putsch continues
See if you can find the most interesting viewpoint in this article. Yes, you’ll have to read it through first. But here’s the basics: The AP is detailing how Hamas will refuse to recognize a change to the Palestinina Basic … Continue reading
A 16 year old lie
In an editorial, the Washington Post writes: AFTER ISRAELI Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was voted out of office in 1992, he gave an interview in which he revealed he had never been serious about peace negotiations with the Palestinians. His … Continue reading
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Ehud Olmert and the disregarded doctrines
Some background first. From the The Winograd Commission report: a. The Prime Minister bears supreme and comprehensive responsibility for the decisions of ‘his’ government and the operations of the army. His responsibility for the failures in the initial decisions concerning … Continue reading
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Words of war from Iran
The AP is broadcasting only half of Iran’s ruler, Ayatollah Khameini, in this short wire service story that, unsurprisingly, is not being picked up and distributed widely. At least, not as widely as the AP’s Rosh Hashanah story, which can’t … Continue reading
AP: Finding something to criticizen in all things Israeli
The AP couldn’t manage to write a Rosh Hashana story without criticizing Israel. Because gee, when they write Ramadan stories, the first thing they do is bemoan Muslim terrorist attacks. Oh, wait. No they don’t. Here’s what went ’round the … Continue reading
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The Indy angle
It will be short but sweet: Independent reports on the terror attack in Jerusalem (September 22): Police said the incident was a “terror attack”… A rescue worker said the group of pedestrians was about to cross a road near the … Continue reading
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