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
Things I no longer bother writing about
Well, let’s see. There’s the “Gilad Shalit deal is imminent” stuff. Nope. I don’t bother writing about that, because it’s crap. Israeli reporters know it’s crap, too. Get a load of this lede: A prisoner exchange deal for the release … Continue reading
Gaza briefs
The Palestinian-Egyptian relationships are souring. Angry Palestinian demonstrators stormed the Egyptian embassy in Gaza City on Monday, demanding that Egypt release five Palestinians held in Cairo jails. Palestinian security forces fired shots above the heads of a crowd of protesters … Continue reading
Baby Assad openly proclaims Syria works against the U.S.
It’s gotten so bad that the Dorktator, fresh on the heels of Nancy Pelosi’s visit, now openly declares Syria’s anti-U.S. agenda. In fact, he’s bragging about it. Syrian President Bashar Assad predicted Monday that the US vision for a “new … Continue reading
Open the gates of hell watch
We haven’t had a threat to open the gates of hell in quite some time, so I thought I’d give you the latest one. Anticipating Israeli military action, Hamas gunmen took up positions overnight near Gaza’s border with Israel, covering … Continue reading
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The faux truce
Mahmoud Abbas says there’s no reason for Israel to go into Gaza. The “truce,” he says, is holding. Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday that calm had returned to Gaza and he appealed for Israel to refrain from embarking … Continue reading
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Syria readies for war
The Syrians are building up their arms and army, moving closer to the border, and installing thousands of rockets after the Hizbollah fashion of last year’s Lebanon war. But they want peace, they say. Uh-huh. And of course, the Israelis … Continue reading
“Moderate” Iranian ex-prez curses Israeli reporters
That “moderate” Iranian ex-president, whose speech at Harvard on September 10th last year was titled “Ethics of Tolerance in the Age of Violence” is not a practitioner of what he preaches. Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has called for peaceful … Continue reading
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Gazastan
It is time to name Gaza what it really is: Another lost strip of land filled with terrorists and criminals that are running the show, paying lip service to actually being governed—in part, because those “governing” Gaza are also, for … Continue reading
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Iranian spies: It’s a two-way street
Iran accuses its Jewish community of spying for Israel whenever it feels like threatening its remaining few thousand Jews. Apparently, Iran actually is recruiting Iranian Jews who emigrated to Israel but who return to visit relatives. And by “recruiting” I … Continue reading
Syrians to Israel: Give us peace, or we’ll kill you
Good to know that Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Damascus accomplished something, hey? Yeah, that “road to peace runs through Damascus” bull really works. “If Israel rejects the Arab League peace proposal, resistance will be the only way to liberate the … Continue reading
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The EU grows a spine
Miracle of miracles, the EU has decided that Hamas isn’t fooling anyone. EU Says No to Aiding Palestinian Unity Government New Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayyad has failed to convince the European Union to agree to resume aid to the … Continue reading
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Burying the news
Funny how neither major wire service can manage to spread widely the news that yet another Palestinian internecine firefight has broken out—this time in Nablus, the West Bank—not Gaza. That means the civil war is spreading. I found the story … Continue reading
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More on the British sailors
Okay, I know the Sun is a tabloid, and I know Faye Turney got paid to tell her story, but this is despicable: Earlier it was revealed staff from the Iranian embassy in London phoned Faye’s mother-in-law to try to … Continue reading
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Say, about that quid pro quo
Turns out there was, after all. The White House involvement in the hostages’ release has been confirmed. When the crisis broke, the US and Iraqi governments offered to help. Several initiatives were under way before the release, allowing officials to … Continue reading
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The AP bias strikes again
Rockets into Israel from Gaza? No big deal. On a daily basis? So what. Israel sends a Hellfire up the asses of three terrorists trying to send rockets into Israel from Gaza? Oh. My. God. Stop the presses, it’s a … Continue reading
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