Credit: Mark Hancock When the battle for Okinawa ended, 12,500 Americans had been killed or lost. The Japanese lost more than 100,000. Fenwick, hailing from southeastern Oklahoma, was a U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman, an advanced kind of medical personnel who landed with the Marines. He almost didn’t make the battle when his first landing craft […]
Hitler
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Iron Sky
The Nazis mistake the landing as a prelude to an invasion, so the Third Reich prepares to strike the earth before the earth can strike it. Iron Sky has all the makings of a big batch of poor taste. Instead, it’s an inspired goof of a spoof that bridges the worlds of highbrow and lowbrow […]
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Lisztomania
Almost a year after his death, Warner Archive brings one of his wildest — and that’s saying something — to a long-overdue American DVD release with 1975’s Lisztomania. Based loosely — in every sense of the word — on the life of Franz Liszt, it’s a musical comedy horror sex fantasy unlike any you’ve ever seen. […]
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‘Stop yelling, start listening’
While illustrating how wrong it was to attempt to link progressives to what I referred to as history’s biggest mass murderer, Marty corrects my error by indicating that Joseph Stalin held that title, and that he (Stalin) is “admired by some progressives even today.” Do I need to point out the irony of that statement, […]
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The right facts
He says liberals are moving forward a state of complete equality as seen in the landmark New York gay marriage decision. In response to enactment of this law, Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, expressed “grave disappointment with the (New York) […]
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Reader: ‘Hitler was a progressive’
First, Kurt Hochenauer (Commentary, “Not fit for fitness”), English professor at the University of Central Oklahoma, is worried because a fitness report recently ranked the Oklahoma City area as “dead last.” Could the problem be that many in OKC eat too much and exercise too little? Of course not. The problem is our lack of […]
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‘McVay is correct’
McVay is correct. If we couldn’t use words like “Hitler” (and “Nazi”) and “mean-spirited” and “Fascist,” how could we quote the things Glenn Beck says about people during prime time almost every night? —Matt Atkinson Oklahoma City