Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  From Costa Rica to Washington, governments continue to wrestle with issues of undocumented immigrants as people young and old flee situations of despair with dreams of reaching the United States of America. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announce...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Hot-shot political commentator Tomi Lahren has entered the national media arena. So has White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. These two women are making waves in similar ways. Fox News announced Sept. 30 the 25-year-old Lahren will join ...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  President Donald Trump arrived in Corpus Christi, Texas Tuesday morning to see firsthand the devastation inflicted upon southeast Texas when Hurricane Harvey slammed the Gulf Coast Friday night – leveling the popular beach town of Rockport and leaving ...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Whens all eyes focused on Category 4 Hurricane Harvey slamming the Texas Gulf Coast late Friday, wham, President Donald Trump issues his first full presidential pardon. It went to former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio to absolve him of his misdemeanor contem...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  If you loved President Donald Trump before Phoenix, after Phoenix you love him even more. The president’s last campaign-style rally held at the Phoenix Convention Center Tuesday night before 15,000 adoring fans produced a vintage Trump rally complete ...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Monday’s total-solar eclipse has taken over the media’s airwaves. The hearts and minds of Americans weary of toxic politics welcomed the chance to concentrate on the Moon and Sun instead of terrorism, President Donald Trump, North Korea and racial divisi...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  The impromptu take down of a Confederate monument Monday night in downtown Durham, North Carolina, without any police stepping in to stop the destruction shows just how scared local law enforcement is of racial confrontations. What happened Saturday i...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  North Korea! For 70-plus years the situation involving Korea – North and South – has been festering along with plenty of ‘saber-rattling’ as tensions rise and fall like the winds of time. All the past presidents from Truman to Obama had their dealing...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  The establishment republicans, democrats and mainstream media sure seem to be involved in a conspiracy against President Donald Trump and his agenda for America. There is a lot of good going on in the United States these days, but you won’t hear much about it ...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  In a suspense-filled announcement, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared war Friday against the leaking of classified government information to the mainstream media. “These leaks hurt our government … We are taking a stand. This culture of leak...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  There’s a new JFK in the White House. President Trump has appointed retired U.S. Marine General John F. Kelly to be his new White House chief-of-staff replacing Reince Priebus, who resigned after six months. Previously Kelly had been in the president’s c...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Another tweeted bombshell came last week when President Donald Trump advised everyone at the same time – his press staff, the public, the media and the military -- that he is banning transgender individuals from serving in any capacity in all branches of...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Finally the Democrats are talking about something that will get a lot of attention besides Russia Fever – single-payer universal healthcare – just like most of the civilized world already has. “Single-payer is on the table,” said U.S. Sen. Chuck Schum...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  At six months plus one day into the Trump administration, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer called it quits July 21. Spicer has said he will leave at the end of August to allow for a smooth transition for new Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and n...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Traditional politics in the U.S. is all but being chucked out the window. What will the political landscape of America look like in 15 months? If you think the forces that put the controversial, billionaire Donald Trump into the presidency were just a...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Mainstream media’s obsession with the continuing soap-opera-like saga of Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a lawyer from Russia June 9, 2016 at Trump Tower in New York City – President Donald Trump’s home – shows how desperate they are in attempting to fin...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  The U.S. Senate’s long-awaited Judiciary Committee hearings into President Donald Trump’s FBI nominee Christopher Wray began Wednesday morning. Wray’s nomination is perhaps the single most important non-U.S. Supreme Court appointment President Trump w...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Protests during the annual meeting of world leaders is nothing new, but this year it was an all-out war attempting to disrupt the proceedings. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio made a fool of himself by flying to Hamburg and joining the G20 Summit pr...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.    Waiting the wings of Congress are the upcoming U.S. Senate confirmation hearings of FBI Director nominee Christopher Wray for a 10-year term as leader of America’s top law enforcement agency -- the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This subject...

Mr. President, it’s time you learned how to be president of the United States of America. All we have to go on are the histories of 44 past presidents dating back more than 200 years that were stewards of this experiment in democracy. Some were great but most were political duds. But sir, you take the cake. A new-type president with a smart phone connected directly to the American peo...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Is this news story real or fake? For CNN the past week has been a nightmare for the once-great Cable News Network started in 1980 by media-trail-blazer Ted Turner. News icons Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite would be ashamed of today’s mainstream med...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  As the healthcare debate rages in Washington over repeal of the Affordable Healthcare Act and its replacement the American Healthcare Act it’s obvious the new plan proposed by President Donald Trump and U.S. Senate Republicans needs more work – the details...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  For Georgia’s 6th Congressional District Democrats it’s all over but the crying. Their multi-million-dollar-backed candidate 30-year-old political novice Jon Ossoff lost to Republican veteran Karen Handel by 3.8 percentage points. She will become Georgia...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Tuesday’s special Congressional election in Georgia’s Sixth District -- north of Atlanta -- is now the most expensive in the history of the United States House of Representatives, coming in with a whopping estimated price tag of $40 - $50 million, and eclipsing ...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  A lone shooter took aim at the U.S. Government early Wednesday morning in an act described as “political terrorism” injuring Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise -- a high-ranking Republican -- plus a staff member of Texas Rep. Roger Williams and two Capitol Pol...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Taxpaying voters are seeing the real U.S. Congress in action -- stalled out on the tarmac in Washington … sputtering along like a blown engine at a NASCAR race. Even Ray Charles can see it. You don’t have to be blind to see partisan politics is getting nothing...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Fireworks erupted over Washington as Former FBI Director James Comey admitted under oath that he leaked his own memo about White House meetings – through a friend – to Washington Post and New York Times reporters. This high-drama revelation came during Comey’s...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  By Britt Nelson The worldwide uproar over President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the USA out of the United Nations sponsored Paris Climate Accord is mostly due to two reasons – one the loss of trillions of dollars overtime to help other countries c...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  It’s hard to put most people’s first reaction to comedian Kathy Griffin’s -- video and photos of a fake beheaded President Donald Trump -- into words. Who would have known that for a moment satirical Griffin would bring together Democrats, Republicans and her ...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  By Britt Nelson President Donald Trump wrapped up his 9-day trip to cheering sailors at Sigonella U.S. Naval Air Station in Sicily, Italy, on Saturday -- his first trip overseas as president. He started this trip in Saudi Arabia – where he belted out ...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  No sooner had President Donald Trump spoken about the continuing threat of radical Islam in Saudi Arabia – the heart of Islam -- a lone suicide bomber walked right up to a pop-music concert in Manchester, England and blew himself up along with 22 others, mostly ...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  By Britt Nelson On his first trip abroad President Donald Trump sure had the entire world’s attention Sunday, including all the terrorists, when he addressed 55 leaders of Muslim-majority counties, representing more than 1.5 billion Muslims -- at a go...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  By Britt Nelson That leaked ‘memo’ -- supposedly written by former FBI Director James Comey to himself concerning a meeting he had with President Donald Trump in which the subject of fired former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn came up -- may ...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  The swamp is on fire. Flames are spreading throughout the executive and legislative branches of government. There’s not enough water in the Potomac River to put out all the fires engulfing Washington, D.C. ignited by the mainstream media which is fanning the f...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  FBI Director James Comey learned he had been fired by President Donald Trump without warning on Tuesday afternoon first on TV ‘Breaking News’ and then in a phone call while he was at the FBI’s Operations Center in Los Angeles, according to news reports which s...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Just like Hollywood’s Academy Awards for movies or the Tony Awards for theater or the Grammy Awards for music it’s time for the Costa Rican Expat Media Awards -- Roses, Thorns, Prickly Thorns and Magic Mushrooms – are at stake. Roses get a solid-gold nec...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  One small chip from the base, then another and another led to a U.S. House vote against former President Barak Obama’s signature accomplishment -- ‘ObamaCare’ --  when on Thursday Congress narrowly passed the American Health Care Act of 2017, effectively...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  President Donald Trump filled all 11,000 seats in Harrisburg, Pa., Saturday night for a celebration rally of his first 100-days in office while at the same time the annual White House Correspondents Dinner with its liberal comedians and Hollywood actors ...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  There is a growing trend of vulgarity in public statements coming from U.S. Senate Democrats and those representing the Democratic National Committee. This trend toward filthy language is disturbing. Studies show people are cussing more than ever, includ...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  This Saturday is a big day. Four big things will happen on April 29. It’s President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office, it’s the annual White House Correspondent’s Dinner in D.C., it’s the date of the president’s next political rally to be held in Penn...