Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Much to the chagrin of President Donald Trump’s forever critics, the president’s doctor has given him a clean bill of health physically and mentally as he completes his first year in office. At the end of January this president will give his first State-of-the-...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Warning: Beyond this point expect to encounter some “shitholes.” What does it matter if President Donald Trump called a spade-a- spade in describing numerous countries like El Salvador and Haiti as a “shithole?” Some of those in the Oval Office last Thursday sa...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.   Checkmate! Whoever on Team Trump came up with the idea to go live on national TV during Tuesday’s bipartisan congressional White House meeting on immigration with President Donald Trump deserves the Political-Play-of-the-Week award. No one knew. It wa...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. The first big story coming out of this New Year 2018 is last Thursday the Dow Jones Industrial Average blasted past 25,000 for the first time – by Friday closing it landed at 25,295! The Democrats are left standing along the side of the road on this one. The...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. California came on-line with legal recreational-use of marijuana on Jan. 1 -- following the lead of Alaska, Washington, Colorado and other states. Costa Rica is not far behind with possibly approving legal-medical marijuana soon, so recreational weed is inevita...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Let’s think outside the box. There must be a better way to measure public opinion than today’s polling methods conducted by such groups as Gallup, Rasmussen, Reuters, Quinnipiac, Monmouth and Harvard-Harris. Each of these polling organizations practices a varie...

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 does the United Nations vote 128 to 9 objecting to President Donald Trump’s decision to finally recognize Jerusalem as the true capitol of Israel and move the U.S. Embassy there, the president cuts $285-million from the annual UN membership fee of whi...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. The craziest things heard on mainstream media this week were “Patriotism is a perversion” and “It’s our job to control what people think.” So in the eyes of the ultra-weird-liberal-left media a love of God, country, flag and national anthem are now perverted vi...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. On Nov. 6, 2018 voters in the United States will return to the ballot booth for the mid-term elections to cast their votes for the future of America. Will the Democrats regain control of the U.S. Congress by winning back the U.S. House and Senate or will they dim...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Lady Justice is trembling. Recent revelations of favoritism are swirling around the upper management of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and overseer the U.S. Department of Justice. These events appear to show that Lady Justice’s blindfold came off several y...

A four-foot-long Boa constrictor snake encircled itself atop a man’s fishing pole while trying his luck at Bejuco Beach about 10 miles south of Jaco late Tuesday night. Retired U.S. Army veteran Mike Hughes had left his baited fishing pole in its holder on the beach for about 10-mintes and returned to find the snake tightly curled around the end of his fishing pole. “I have never seen anything lik...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Alabama Judge Roy Moore was too hot to handle for voters who handed the U.S. Senate seat to Birmingham attorney and Democrat Doug Jones which reduces the margin of Republicans in the senate by one leaving their slim majority even slimmer at 51 to 49. Jones won ...

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 much to read-between-the-lines with FBI Director Christopher Wray’s testimony before congress centering on the FBI’s special investigation into Trump-Russian connections and Minnesota Sen. Al Franken’s defiant resignation speech before the U....

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.   God bless retired Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz – a staunch Democrat! This 79-year-old high-profile criminal and constitutional law attorney is one of -- if not the best legal mind -- contributing to the public debate concerning everyth...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Last week liberalism suffered a major shock that won’t blow over anytime soon. Kate Steinle’s killer walked away from murder and manslaughter charges in a San Francisco, California courtroom stunning the nation. All of a sudden those “not guilty” verdicts ca...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. At the White House “Merry Christmas” is in while “Happy Holidays” is out. Former President Barack Obama referred to the Christmas season as “Happy Holidays” so not to offend non-Christians in a Christian-majority nation. But that has all changed. No soone...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Since the Democrats really have no message other than ‘Dump Trump’ what is it behind the scenes that they truly want to see happen with traditional American life? Looking down the road a few miles just where does ultra-far-left thinking take you? Where 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. It’s time to read the tea leaves, gaze into a crystal ball and make a prediction that Republican Judge Roy Moore will win big in Alabama’s Dec. 12 special U.S. Senate election that has gained national attention in recent weeks due to repeated, unproven allegati...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. The political ‘Star of the Week’ is Leeann Tweeden who blew the sexual-assault whistle on former Saturday Night Live funny man Minnesota Sen. Al Franken – a far-left Democrat. She claims Franken “forcibly kissed and fondled” her eleven years ago. In present da...

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 back in Washington on Tuesday following g a 12-day Asian tour of Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines, where he met again with the one-and-only, the notorious Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who hosted ...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Filthy-dirty, hard-ball politics are at play in Alabama as former state Supreme Court Chief Judge Roy Moore and current U.S. Senate Republican candidate -- faces last-minute bombshell allegations about sexual misconduct involving a 14-year-old girl from 38-ye...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Two elections were held Tuesday – New Jersey and Virginia – and both resulted in wins for two Democratic incoming governors in what political observers say may be the beginning of their hopes to regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives and t...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Four words from the 1979 movie-war-classic ‘Apocalypse Now’ are ringing out for real from south-central Texas: “The horror! The horror!” On a typically beautiful, peaceful Sunday morning in Sutherland Springs a lone gunman -- dressed all in black -- parked h...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Tuesday afternoon the ugly face of radical Islam screamed again “Allahu Akbar” in New York City claiming eight innocent lives and injuring more than a dozen. Police said the male suspect rented a truck in New Jersey and 65 minutes later plowed down pe...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. “Deny everything. Admit to nothing. Maintain plausible deniability at all times.”  This is the new battle cry for former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, former Hillary Clinton presidential campaign chairman, Jon Podesta,...

Whether you like it or not Jacó Beach, on Costa Rica's Central Pacific coast, is destined to become much bigger. More condos, more homes, more Croc’s casinos, more restaurants, more churches, more shopping, more night clubs and more people spending money: In Jacó the next 10 years will see more development than in the past 37 years combined. There’s much unoccupied, flat, development-prime l...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Fifty-four years ago shots rang out in Dallas claiming the life of beloved U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. To this day questions persist and conspiracy theories run rampant in hundreds of books written by conspiracy theorists. Polls show 62 per...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  There are some things going on in today’s turbulent political world that simply boggle the mind. Such is the case of Florida’s flamboyant U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson and her “set-up” of President Donald Trump as she listened in on a presidential sympat...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Next week the horror of heroin-opioid-related deaths will finally and formally be recognized as a national health emergency by President Donald Trump in response to the fact the families in the United States of America are losing more than 140 of their sons...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Puerto Rico office is investigating numerous complaints of fraud throughout the U.S. Territory involving the distribution and mishandling of relief supplies following the double-barrel blast from Hurricanes Irma and Maria ...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Hidden among hundreds of political stories, liberal and conservative commentaries, newspaper editorials and voter polls on the Real Clear Politics website is this buried headline, “Trump is on track to win reelection,” originally published on the op-ed p...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Today’s late-night TV comedians are no longer funny – none of them. If you laugh along with the likes of Bill Maher, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Chelsea Handler, Seth Myers, Jon Stewart, Kathy Griffin or Stephen Colbert you are not one of us. Every weekd...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Fifty-nine dead with 527 wounded in Las Vegas in the worst mass shooting in the modern history of the United States of America. Some 24 guns – including 12 converted fully-automatic assault rifles -- were recovered by police in the hotel room of Steph...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Puerto Rico is down and out. Hurricane Maria came ashore last week with 155-mph winds, heavy rains, and a storm surge that wiped out this Caribbean island of 3.4 million U.S. citizens, leaving them in the dark, homeless and without access to food, water, gas, ...

For the estimated 70,000 American citizens living in Costa Rica, what will President Donald Trump’s new proposed federal tax cuts for the middle class and corporations mean to them? Will U.S. tax cuts make any difference to the average retiree living on Social Security and perhaps a pension as a Costa Rican resident or perpetual tourist? For these expat retirees, these new proposed tax cuts ...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Rarely do protest boycotts take hold, but this political season they are in style and gaining steam. Politics has its place, but this year anti-Trump, anti-police, anti-flag and anti-USA politics may drive your business out of business -- just ask main s...

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’s first address to the United Nations hit close to home in Costa Rica. Only two countries away -- past Panama and Columbia -- neighboring Venezuela was singled out as a “rogue” nation right alongside North Korea and Iran. The presi...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Slowly but surely Texas, Louisiana and Florida are returning to normal following two hurricanes -- Harvey and Irma – that together caused an estimated over $200 billion in damages to homes, businesses and public infrastructure. Mother nature doled out a ...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Hillary Rodham Clinton’s new book entitled “What Happened” is stirring up a lot of controversy plus it shows an underlying seething anger about losing the 2016 presidential election to New York real estate tycoon Donald Trump -- who had never held an ele...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  The federal emergency management response to both Hurricanes Harvey in Texas/Louisiana and Irma in Florida will seal the fate of President Donald Trump and his team at FEMA. They will be judged on how well they coordinate with state officials on all leve...