Credit: Brad Gregg The reason, you ask? (Play along here.) Inhofe was one of the “Gang of 17” senators who voted against a bill by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., to remove sexual assault cases from the military chain of command. As a Tulsa World blog recently noted, the advocacy organization is targeting federal lawmakers who […]
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Saluting the ‘Greatest Generation’
It was an effective snapshot regarding the lives, the deeds, the perspective — and the passing — of certain members of what many refer to as “the Greatest Generation.” There could quite possibly be a small percentage of contemporary readers and members of the Tea Party circuit who might say that the cover photo “said […]
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Twilight’s last gleaming
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 […]
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Newspeak
Credit: Brad Gregg And on a completely unrelated note, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe has introduced a bill, the “Military Religious Freedom Act,” that would effectively ban any marriages or “marriage-like ceremonies” on military bases that were not between one man and one woman. Currently, military chaplains are allowed to perform ceremonies that are in accordance […]
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New war, new casualties
Credit: Mark Hancock Afghanistan, 2011: In a war lasting more than 10 years, troops of Oklahoma’s 45th Infantry Brigade, the successors to the storied World War II unit and now a brigade numbering about 3,000, deployed into combat. By their return in March of this year, 14 had died and nearly 1,000 were injured. “The […]
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Act of Valor
SOC Dave (whoever he may be) serves as our marble-mouthed narrator and member of the team led by Lt. Rorke (also whoever he may be). Partly shot in Bruckheimer burnt orange, their missions take them around the globe, first to rescue a comely CIA agent (Roselyn Sanchez, The Game Plan, Rush Hour 2) who’s been […]
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Monkey business
See, during a Dec. 12 speech at the chamber, Inhofe told the audience that the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” did not, as some people might have thought, mean bestiality also was being allowed in the military. The remarks, which some took as a slam against homosexuals, quickly drew fire. The chamber issued a […]
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Monkey business
See, during a Dec. 12 speech at the chamber, Inhofe told the audience that the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” did not, as some people might have thought, mean bestiality also was being allowed in the military. The remarks, which some took as a slam against homosexuals, quickly drew fire. The chamber issued a […]
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Funny farm
That’s when Oklahoma’s senior senator decided to clarify the issue of gays in the military by talking about bestiality. According to the Tulsa World, Inhofe assured the audience that lifting the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy did not, in fact, legalize bestiality in the military — just in case you were wondering. Riding the […]
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Funny farm
That’s when Oklahoma’s senior senator decided to clarify the issue of gays in the military by talking about bestiality. According to the Tulsa World, Inhofe assured the audience that lifting the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy did not, in fact, legalize bestiality in the military — just in case you were wondering. Riding the […]