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
Muslim persecution will drive Christians out of Bethlehem
This is the story that the mainstream media never covers: Muslim persecution of Christians is the major cause of the dwindling population of Christians in towns like Bethlehem. Now, we are being told that Christians in the Palestinian territories will … Continue reading
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Fuzzy intelligence
The latest NIE reports that Iran has halted its nuclear weapons development and is likely a number of years away from being able to field a nuclear weapon. This estimate is being hailed because it takes the urgency of an … Continue reading
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Annapolis vs. Iran
Michael Oren sees good coming from Annapolis if you’re not looking for peace in Middle East peace through Anxiety After arguing that the conditions for peace don’t exist (or aren’t that strong) Oren writes The inability of the international community … Continue reading
Time to clean out the border
It’s past time that Ehud Barak made good on his promise to clean up Gaza. Four soldiers were lightly injured Sunday evening from a mortar hit on an infirmary in an IDF base adjoining Kibbutz Nahal Oz, next to the … Continue reading
The Palestinian control of Nablus
I’ll go you one better, Elder, than just writing about the reappearance of armed “militants” in Nablus, which is supposed to be fully under PA police control. Here are two incidents that occurred in and near Nablus: Smuggled bombs: Two … Continue reading
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Annapolis: The spin is in
And so it turns out that Annapolis has achieved just about nothing. Well, except cause more media outlets, pundits, and world leaders to put the lion’s share of the blame for any failure on Israel. Reuters has a roundup of … Continue reading
Surprise! Hamas rules Gaza by terror and weapons
This is the gift that keeps on giving: The op-ed from the New York Times by Ismail Haniye’s “political adviser” that declared “Palestinians want, on their terms, the same thing Western societies want: self-determination, modernity, access to markets and their … Continue reading
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The Guardian fails U.S. Civics 101
In an article on Mad Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s offer to be an “observer” (H/T: Hot Air) in the 2008 presidential elections, Robert Tait of the Guardian—and his many layers of fact-checkers and editors—missed a vital fact of the American presidency. How … Continue reading
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An Annapolis quid pro quo?
For the last few months, we’ve been reading article after article about what is coming to be known as the Annapolis folly: The conference where nothing will be accomplished, where the U.S. knows that going in, and where the futility … Continue reading
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All your radar are belong to us
Part of the Israeli attack on Syria included first taking out—via old-fashioned bombing—a critical radar station. And the U.S. helped. The first event in the raid involved Israel’s strike aircraft flying into Syria without alerting Syrian air defenses. The ultimate … Continue reading
Another take on nuclear Iran
Jonathan Spyer in his article An Increasing Possibility: It is not only the scenario of an Iranian nuclear attack that is focusing concerns. Rather, there is concern that a nuclear Iran would use the “immunity” purchased by a nuclear capability … Continue reading
Ressurection of Muhammad Al Durrah?
(An addendum to that excellent compilation by Soccer Dad.) The case of Muhammad Al Durrah, the Gazan boy allegedly killed by IDF during a stone-throwing episode and made into a symbol of Intifada, is slowly unraveling, it seems. The raw … Continue reading
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The beginning of Hamas’ end?
The natives of Gaza are getting very, very tired of Hamas tyranny and brutality. As the mourners sat on a long row of plastic chairs in the alley next to Ibrahim’s home, his father was too distraught to join in … Continue reading
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Terrorist vs. terrorist
Hamas killed seven and wounded 85 in a rally for Yasser Arafat yesterday. Today, they’re making mass arrests. Yeah, that freedom that they promised the Palestinians? Not seeing it yet. Hamas security forces moved swiftly against their Fatah rivals in … Continue reading
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Abbas offers Israel ‘sea of peace’
Thats’ quoting Al-Jazeera: “If peace comes and the occupation comes to an end, Israel will live in a sea of peace,” he said on Tuesday after meeting his Israeli counterpart, Shimon Peres, in the Turkish capital of Ankara. I hope … Continue reading
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