Twenty-three days ago, Malaysian Flight 370 disappeared. At first, aircraft and ships from several neighborhood countries and the United States searched for the Boeing 777 in the area northeast of Malaysia in the South China Sea—the proposed track for this flight—to no avail. Based on technical date, the searchers changed directions to the west and […]
Monthly Archives: March 2014
Malaysian Flight # 370 Disappearance: What Happened to Flight 370?
Malaysian Flight # 370 Disappearance S. Martin Shelton Today’s date 23 March 2014 Let’s review the hard facts about the mysterious disappearance of Flight # 370. Malaysia Flight # 370 originated at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and its destination was Beijing, People’s Republic of China—about 2,700 miles to the northeast. On board were 228 passenger and […]
Putin, Chamberlain, and Hitler
On 2 March 2014, President of Russia, Vladimir Putin ordered Russian motorized infantry to invade the Ukraine’s CrimeanPeninsula. Such a military incursion violates international treaties and specifically the Soviet Union’s/Ukraine’s treaty of 1954. The Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, deeded the Crimea to the Ukraine as a gesture […]
Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics by Charles Krauthammer Book Review
Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics Book Review S. Martin Shelton Charles Krauthammer, Crown Forum, New York, 2013, 388 pp. Table of Contents. Acknowledgements, and an Index. Krauthammer includes ninety plus columns, quips, and screeds on topics that matter to him and ought to matter to us. His comments were previously […]