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…
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Mideast Media Sampler 08/05/2013
Rouhani Roulette On Friday, the soon to be inaugurated President Hassan Rouhani was reported to have made some very un-moderate comments about Israel. But then it turned out that the comments were not as bad as advertised. Here are some … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler – 08/02/2013 – How the Obama administration is playing Israel in the Mainstream Media
1) Targeting Israel in Syria First the sequence: a) Israeli Airstrike in Syria Targets Arms Convoy, U.S. Says by Isabel Kershner and Michael Gordon – January 30, 2013 Israeli warplanes carried out a strike deep inside Syrian territory on Wednesday, … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler 08/01/2013
Will Hamas suck up to Iran to save itself? In The New Republic, Ehud Yaari explains some of the reasons Hamas is in trouble. Its Muslim Brotherhood patrons in Egypt fell from power after it alienated Iran for stopping its … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler 07/30/2013
1) John Kerry rejects a basic premise of the peace process The past two days has seen the reporting on the beginning of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. First there was the reporting on the Israeli concession that made the talks possible. … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler 07/24/2013
In the peace process nothing can be said to be certain, except Israeli confidence measures and blaming Israel for failure I agree with one aspect of Jeffrey Goldberg’s, Kerry’s Mideast Fool’s Errand Ignores Reality. The title. Much of the rest … Continue reading
Mideast Media Sampler 07/23/2013
Europe vs. Hezbollah Yesterday, the European Union’s foreign minsters voted unanimously to designate Hezbollah’s “military wing” a terrorist organization. This will give European nations the authority to disrupt the organization’s finances. The vote required unanimity and it was a long … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler 07/22/2013 *belated*
1) The Executioners Demand Justice Perhaps one of the oddest stories appearing yesterday was Iran’s Mullahs Demand Justice for Trayvon. According to the semi-official Iranian website Press TV: “The acquittal of the murderer of the teenage African American once again … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler 07/21/2013
1) No peace, No justice A decade ago Ahmed Jubarah walked out of jail a free man. Twenty eight years after he killed 13 people and wounded dozens more detonating an explosive laden refrigerator on a crowded Jerusalem street, Israel … Continue reading
Mideast Media Sampler – 07/17/2013
1) The Union Strikes Back The European Union (EU) has just released new regulations governing certain dealings with Israel. Starting in 2014, the EU (as a unit, individual states are not governed by these guidelines) will prohibit any dealings with … Continue reading
Mideast Media Sampler – 07/11/2013
1) Where did Hezbollah get American arms Last month Lee Smith attempted to clarify if the administration had sent army to the Syrian rebels as it said it would, or not. All he (or anyone) got was studied ambiguity: In … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler 07/10/2013
Who shot first? Yesterday’s New York Times ran an editorial, Bloodshed in Egypt: It has been all downhill for Egypt since the military ousted President Mohamed Morsi last week. On Monday, according to reports in The Times, Egyptian soldiers fired … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler 07/09/2013 (belated)
1. The Misadventures of Morsi Commenting on Reuel Marc Gerecht’s thesis that having Islamists take power was probably a necessary step for political liberalization in the Arab world, Ross Douthat writes: As I said two years ago, I have serious … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler – 07/05/2013
1) Debating the coup at the New York Times Much of the editorial opinion and some of the reporting in the mainstream media has opposed the Egyptian military’s forcible removal of Mohammed Morsi as President of Egypt. Actually, surprisingly, there’s … Continue reading
Mideast Media Sampler – 07/03/2013
1) When all else fails focus on Israel I’m not sure that the editors of the New York Times realized how absurd the title of this recent article on the Middle East sounded, Chaos in Middle East Grows as the … Continue reading
Mideast Media Sampler – 07/02/2013
Inspired, not Inspired by the massive outpouring of popular opposition, the Tamarod, to the regime of President Mohammed Morsi of Egypt, the editors of the New York Times issued a call for the President hailing from the Muslim Brotherhood to … Continue reading
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