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: Middle East
The doctor’s unpleasant medicine
Helena Cobban is shocked: Since when is it okay for a state (or an individual) to set out to kill a person based solely on accusations against him that have never been publicized and have never been tested against even … Continue reading
Signs of separation
Israel will be weaning the Palestinians off the Israeli power grid. A Jordanian official said Monday that the Palestinian Authority will join a regional power grid that so far links Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Libya and Turkey. Israel is … Continue reading
The AP’s lying eyes
Who are you going to trust? The AP bias or your lying eyes? Get a load of this jaw-dropping bias in the lead: Families in this village near the Iraqi border buried loved ones Monday who they said were killed … Continue reading
Syrian strike
The New York Times reports on yesterday’s raid into Syria and concludes: The United States is trying to negotiate a strategic agreement with Iraq that would allow American troops to remain in the country and carry out military operations. The … Continue reading
U.S. Special Forces land in Syria
Take a Sunday afternoon nap, and you wake up to the news that some jihadis on the Syrian/Iraqi border have been taken out. An official Syrian spokesman confirmed reports by the country’s state-run television and witnesses, who said that four … Continue reading
“Moderate” Iranian says: Don’t gloat, guys
The pretend-moderate Iranian cleric (Snoopy’s been on the case here, here, and here) told his fellow America-haters to stop gloating about our financial crisis. Yeah, it really doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that as the West goes, so … Continue reading
In your face, ayatollahs
We’ve been hearing the enemies of America cheering our financial crisis and calling it a punishment from above (or at least, from their version of above, not mine). Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gloated recently that the United States is paying … Continue reading
First blood
Former National Security adviser, Robert MacFarlane wrote about the attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut and its aftermath. Apparently, the United States had a response planned against Hezbollah targets in the Bekaa Valley, but it was aborted. Cabinet officers … Continue reading
Ship of fools going back to Gaza
The Free Gaza morons, not having had their fill of being stuck in Gaza (cf: Lauren Booth, and try hard not to laugh when you think of her being turned back at every Gaza border crossing, shrieking, “But I’m Lauren … Continue reading
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Iranians break up fowl spy ring
The Iranians have captured members of a spy ring that can go anywhere, and see anything, from the air: Pigeons. Iranian media reported on Monday that security forces had seized two ‘spy pigeons’ near the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz … Continue reading
Inviting a crisis
Michael Kinsley said that a gaffe is when a politician speaks the truth. If that’s so, I suppose Sen. Biden’s recent statement about there being an international crisis withing six months of Sen. Obama’s election as president would qualify as … Continue reading
Building the terrorists’ confidence
A possible smuggling tunnel was just discovered under the city of Hebron. Explosives from that tunnel were removed by the PA police who then alerted Israeli officials. That makes it the perfect time to give the PA even more control … Continue reading
Tunnel watch
Interesting story from the Jerusalem Post, but how should I feel about it? Should I be encouraged by this? The 150-meter-long tunnel was discovered by Palestinian Authority security forces on Monday and was immediately reported to the IDF, which sent … Continue reading
Abbas the messenger boy?
Both the Hashmonean and Shira Bat Sarah noted this story in comments. The first mention was in Ha’aretz: U.S. President George W. Bush has apparently offered his Syrian counterpart, Bashar Assad, to press Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights … 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