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 entire world’s attention has been drawn to the rogue country of North Korea and its young leader Kim Jong-Un, but who is this man, why is he so determined to have nuclear weapons, and why is he threatening the entire Pacific Ocean ...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Conservative political commentator, Tomi Lahren, has been sidelined and silenced by in-house politics involving ultra-right-winger Glenn Beck and his ‘The Blaze’ online news service out of Dallas. She was suspended indefinitely and taken off the air rece...

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 Every time President Donald Trump leaves the White House in Washington for his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, the mainstream media gets all fired up about the taxpayer expenses incurred by such trip. Critics are right in that the...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  With the U.S. Congress out for a 2-week Easter break, President Donald Trump has time to kick some ISIS butt – especially in Egypt – before asking Congress for a declared war against radical Islamic terror in whatever countries it is known to exist. It’s...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  All eyes are on the U.S. Senate’s Judiciary Committee as they are expected to vote Monday on the U.S. Supreme Court nomination of Colorado appeals court Judge Neil Gorsuch which will clear the way for a full Senate vote on Friday in what many are calling a “...

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 Mainstream media is all abuzz about the breaking news late Wednesday that President Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka Trump is officially joining the White House staff as a “special advisor” to her father. Not since former President George W...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Welcome to Washington Mr. President. The never ending World Series of Politics has you on the scoreboard.  The Democrats are claiming victory over the failure of the U.S. House of Representatives to vote last week on the passage of President Trump’s...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  High political drama played out all day Thursday leading to a one-day delay on the vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to pass President Trump’s American Health Care Act of 2017 which would officially replace ‘ObamaCare’. Key lawmakers now say the ...

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 U.S. Senate appointment confirmation hearings begin Monday for Colorado federal appeals court Judge Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. Also Monday, FBI Director James Comey is to appear before the U.S. House in...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  In the face of an estimated 300 FBI terror investigations ongoing within the borders of the United States, President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban involving six Muslim-majority counties in the Middle East has been blocked again by federal judges in...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Democrats across the board are hoping to remove President Trump from office within his first nine months with help from mainstream media who are churning out as many negative news stories about President Trump, his staff and his appointees as they can pr...

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 So far the explainers have yet to explain much about President Donald Trump’s new American Health Care Act to replace President Obama’s Affordable Care Act AKA ObamaCare. The explanations from Republicans are vague and difficult to understand...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Presidential politics these days is getting as surreal as a Salvador Dali painting. Truth and reason have been thrown to the wind. Accusations and counter-accusations of political wrong-doing involving the Russians, possible wiretapping of President Donald ...

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 What the heck just happened? The New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, all openly-liberal publications considered mainstream media, just gave President Donald Trump’s Tuesday ‘address to the nation’ a thumbs ...

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 It’s all about money. That's why investigators always say, “Follow the money.” Politicians follow the money. Criminals follow the money. Wall Street bankers follow the money. Immigrants follow the money. Innovation follows the money...

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 only common sense to think somebody, somewhere is planning a mass-casualty-shooting, bombing or other attack in the United States. Tick tock, tick tock. If the past is any indicator -- look out America. In this day and age protecting the nation ...

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 Saturday’s rally in Florida starring President Donald Trump was 100-percent unprecedented in the history of the United States of America. Never before has a sitting president harnessed public support through social media like this one....

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Politics is now looking through the magnifying glass and seeing your president blown out of logical proportion as if you were Alice in Wonderland standing under a mushroom in a place called Mar-A Lago. Last weekend President Donald Trump and First Lad...

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 Over the weekend anti-President Trump protesters showed up in at least 17 cities across the United States. On Sunday night Hollywood put on yet another display of Trump-bashing during the Grammy Awards for music. The anti-Trump prot...

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 current rage is against President Donald Trump’s executive order to better investigate people attempting to enter the United States of America from seven Muslim-majority counties in the Middle East. At issue is national security,...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  After Sunday night’s thrilling Super Bowl game, the Atlanta Falcons and their fans looked like a bunch of stunned Democrats wondering what the heck just happened to their ‘in the bag’ victory. The parallels between the New England Patriots’ come from behind r...

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 a great time to be living in Costa Rica - far from the maddening politics dividing the United States of America right now. Although only a 3-hour flight from Houston or Orlando, Costa Rica is a world away from President Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi, R...

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 For the past seven days the headlines have screamed “U.S. entry denied for Iraqis,” “Airports engulfed in protests,” “Sanctuary cities threatened,” and “Trump orders extreme vetting from Muslim countries.” President Donald Trump’s first w...

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 walls of the West Wing are bulging outward with the complex personality of one man -- President Donald John Trump. The Oval Office has not seen anything like Trump since the days of presidents Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnso...

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 Kaboom! The world has turned ‘hot-potato’ political. President Trump took office Friday in Washington and the next day women all over the world took to the streets to protest him and support ‘Women’s Rights.’ It’s easier to understand Trump’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 Yep, we're all on this Trump Train whether we like it or not -- bumpy ride and all. Say goodbye to normal, because the new normal is now the controversial, the charismatic, the one-and-only President Donald J. Trump. We can expect the ...

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 “United we stand, divided we fall.” How many times have we heard that one? Politically the United States of America is split with Democrats fighting Republicans at fever pitch. Not much has changed in the U.S. Congress other than th...

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 In a week President-elect Donald Trump will take the oath of office in Washington, DC to become the 45th President of the United States. Before him is the challenge he asked for to ‘Make America Great Again,’ and the voters gave him the ...

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 Why did the alleged shooter at the Fort Lauderdale airport put down his gun, drop to the floor and give up to police unharmed? Did he simply run out of bullets or is there a bigger plan? This mass shooter didn’t shoot himself nor was h...

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 There’s a new gunslinger in town named Tomi Lahren. She delivers machine-gun style conservative political commentary and she’s getting a lot of attention these days. Better put your sunglasses on. Kelly and FOX News announced this w...

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 Obama this week issued executive sanctions against Russia for allegedly “hacking the election.” President-elect Trump is demanding to see proof about why Obama did what he did. But Obama is not saying why he took these action...

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 Mexican-American border wall remains a high priority for President-elect Donald Trump. He continues to talk about it, but without specifics, and he still maintains that Mexico will pay for it in one way or another. What would it...

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 In the United States of America it’s about time police departments nationwide changed their rules of engagement when dealing with an increasingly dangerous and armed public.  Police officers are shot responding to domestic violence ...

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 Kellyanne Conway, Trump's senior counsellor, is the real deal. Who would have thought that a girl from New Jersey who learned about life working on a blueberry farm would land a job as senior counselor to President-elect Dona...

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 (Wikimedia Commons) The Democrats last dying gasp for air collapsed Monday as Electoral College electors sealed the deal for President-elect Donald Trump to receive the oath of office on Jan. 20 thereby taking over the Executive Branch o...

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 Monday the U.S. Electoral College will officially certify the winner of presidential Campaign 2016 Donald J. Trump with a constitutionally required vote of its members who are mostly required to vote according to the will of the voters in t...

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 All you need to do is take one look at Exxon Mobile Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson to know President-elect Donald Trump means ‘business’ with his pick for U.S. Secretary of State. Tillerson is no gloomy, boring career politician turned diplom...

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 Photo for illustrative purposes. So far President-elect Donald Trump has named three retired top military generals to two cabinet positions for Secretary of Defense, four-star Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis; and Homeland Securit...

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 Source: Flick Commons If President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of retired four-star Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis for Defense Secretary is any clue, let’s hope Pro-Life Trump nominates the most hard-nosed-conservative ‘hangin’ judge he can...

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 Obama in a Rolling Stone magazine interview released Tuesday blamed Fox News for Hillary Clinton’s presidential loss to Republican billionaire Donald Trump. The exiting president said Clinton and the Democrats failed to reach wh...