This past week’s escalating violence across the USA from “sea to shining sea” will be the last straw for thousands, perhaps millions of retirees and affluent singles and families sick and tired of the current multi-faceted problems facing America -- they will pull up stakes searching for somewhere else to live and enjoy a peaceful life. High on that list of possibilities is Costa Rica. Without ...

“What bloody business has the USA to do with the Costa Rican immigration policies on border crossings?” - Posted reaction to a recent article published in TCRS (The Costa Rica Star) The answer: Plenty. The Bigger Picture: The issue is not just about border runners seeking to stay under the radar as Perpetual Tourists, or those needing to keep their foreign driver's licenses valid. Those con...

Former Vice President Joe Biden may soon find himself between a rock and a hard place. For some unknown reason he is still the Democratic front runner to receive his party’s nomination for president next year. Every time 76-year-old Sleepy Joe opens his mouth he creates more problems for himself. So why are the Democrats sticking with Biden? Just as sure as Cat-5 Hurricane Dorian tore up the no...

Two familiar faces from the past will be reappearing on the national political-media scene – former Trump administration Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Sanders, 37, was signed by Fox News as a paid contributor of political commentary while McCabe was signed by CNN also as a paid contributor of political commentary. Squeaky clean Sanders s...

Last week mainstream media did all they could to raise fears of a coming recession using the DOW Jones stock market’s nose-dive of 800 points when no evidence of an impending recession exists. Economic indicators show the U.S. economy remains strong -- then why all the chatter about a fake recession? The stock market bounced back amid the ongoing China trade deal and yet the media talking heads...

After watching these 20-plus Democratic presidential candidates attempt to be regular folks -- at the Iowa State Fair -- it’s fair to assume none of these candidates have what it will take to unseat President Donald Trump in 2020. It was hysterical watching news reports coming out of the state fair showing the likes of U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) walking around holding a deep fried corn d...

The fabric holding together the United States of America is literally coming apart at the seams. As of Aug. 4, 2019 -- 251 mass shootings have occurred this year -- resulting in the deaths of 280 people and wounding another 752 innocent souls, according to Wikipedia. Although there is no widely accepted definition of a mass shooting, it is generally thought to encompass incidents involving mult...

Say what you want about the second Democratic debate held July 30-31 in Detroit, Michigan, but there were no winners. All these 20 candidates for president did was bark at each other like a pack of wild dogs. Clearly both CNN and the Democratic National Committee were losers in this debate. The questions asked of the candidates lacked substance. There were no questions about President Donald Tr...

The U.S. Congress is on recess until Sept. 9, but rest assured President Donald Trump will not be taking six weeks off. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-to-4 decision gave the go ahead to the Trump Administration to transfer $2.5-billion in Pentagon military defense spending to continue construction of a barrier wall along the Mexico/U.S. southern border. These funds for President Trump’...

Former FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony on Wednesday before the U.S. House Judiciary and Intelligence committees qualified as high political drama -- broadcast live to the nation -- but there was no new information, no revelations or exploding bombshells. For the Democrats and other anti-Trump forces it was a waste of time. For the Republicans it was a waste of time. Mueller’s 400...

The U.S. Congress isn’t getting much done these days. They are too busy looking at their dang iPhones and tweeting out national policy to get much of anything done for real American citizens. Sure-as-shootin’ our President Donald Trump does a lot tweeting himself, but that’s different. He actually gets things done while Congress does not and they won’t because of the looming Nov. 3, 2020 nation...

Let’s give a round of rowdy cheers and whistles to the Washington Democrats who have seriously alienated Independent voters with their screaming rants about a new Socialist America with free healthcare, free college and a $15/hour minimum wage to flip those burgers. Decades ago the Independent voter represented a small number while the two-party political system in the United States of America ...

The Trump Show made quite a splash on the 4th of July as the United States of America celebrated its 243rd birthday of independence from England. Braking from tradition the nontraditional and controversial President Donald Trump took over this year’s festivity in Washington amid much criticism from the Democrats, the candidates running for president and even the City Council of the District of Col...

It would defy all the laws of gravity for President Donald Trump to lose the White House next year. Everything is up – economy is the best in decades, employment for real Americans is at record highs, the stock market almost hit 27,000 for the first time and the U.S. military -- that protects real American citizens -- is getting stronger every day. Our president is 100-percent responsible for thes...

There were lots of losers with few winners these past weeks in ‘Politics in the USA.’ On everyone’s mind is the two-night display of weird Socialist Democratic policy goals proudly touted to the nation during the first Democratic debate held June 26-27 in Miami, Florida. On the second night, an NBC moderator asked all 10 presidential candidates if they favored extending free healthcare benefits...

Let’s talk about politics and beer. No matter what bar you go into, no matter where it is the subject of ‘Politics in the USA’ pretty much dominates many conversations just like sports and women. These days Pennsylvania bar talk and beyond is all about the popular Yuengling beer and its owner billionaire Dick Yuengling. Last week Mr. Yuengling, 85, took presidential son Eric Trump on a tour of ...

More than likely President Donald Trump backed off striking missile installations in Iran due to the annual G20 Summit  held in Osaka, Japan on June 28-29. The radical Islamic country of Iran shot down an unmanned, unarmed surveillance drone claiming it was flying in Iranian airspace which is in dispute with U.S. military claims that the drone was flying close to Iran but over international waters...

A Fox News presidential poll asking the question ‘Biden or Trump in 2020?’ shows that former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump in a nationwide head-to-head match up. Really Fox News? This poll has been all over mainstream media and the subject of much discussion because it was on Fox News and not CNN, but CNN is using it right along with everyone else. According to Fox News ...

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has two weeks left as President Donald Trump’s leading spokesperson after her boss announced her resignation late last week on Twitter. In doing so, Sanders and the president met with reporters to further explain her departure having served as press secretary for 1.9 years. “This has been the honor of a lifetime,” Sanders said. “I’ve loved ever...

Who cares what John Dean thinks? The former White House Counsel for President Richard Nixon played a pivotal role in the first and only presidential resignation involving the famed Watergate Scandal of 1973-74. Dean appeared before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Monday June 10th. He was asked to appear by committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) to discuss the similarities between the...

The week of June 6 was a study in contrasts -- The 75th anniversary of the World War II D-Day invasion with President Donald Trump standing with surviving heroes in Normandy, France; First Lady Melania Trump hugging and giving high-fives to the D-Day veterans as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi urges “prison” for the president. Nowhere in mainstream media did anyone bother to mention that pres...

The three-day California Democratic Convention held this past weekend in San Francisco – the capitol of Libby Nation – amounted to a huge waste of time. Some 14 Democrats – all presidential light-weight contenders -- went on and on with all the usual rhetoric of bashing President Donald Trump calling him a “racist, a sexist, a homophobe and a religious bigot,” according to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sand...

Washington Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are so consumed with impeaching President Donald Trump they really cannot see beyond their hate for this rogue president who goes about his presidency his own way – not their way – like no president before him. Mainstream media – especially CNN – are straight out calling President Trump a “criminal” which further fuels the fires of impea...

In his Costa Rica Star column of March, 25, Britt Nelson claimed Special Counsel Robert Mueller had “vindicated” Donald Trump and concluded that there was no “collusion” between members of the Trump campaign and agents of the Russian government. I re-read Britt Nelson’s column in the wake of Robert Mueller’s public statements on May, 29, and could only wonder how Mr. Nelson could have come to s...

Just maybe the government of the United States of America has too many secrets. Those that hold the secrets and keep those secrets secret are now on the defensive for their conduct during and after the 2016 national election. Some say these ‘intelligence’ keepers broke laws to keep President Donald Trump out of the White House. “The people who are worried about this are worried about being expo...

The proof is in. Washington Democrats know they can’t beat President Donald Trump on Nov. 3, 2020 so instead of joining hands for the American people they have decided it’s all or nothing to take out the president and continue this ugly fight to the end which will blow up in their faces. Last week U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) repeatedly accused President Trump of taking part in...

Three or four years ago, I wrote a column for Gloucester Daily Times here in Massachusetts in which I described the sordid, bipartisan, history of the United States’ involvement in Latin America generally, and Central America specifically. (Central American Triangle) That letter predated Donald Trump’s election and included some pretty harsh criticisms of administrations of both parties. From  ...

The first of 12 nationally televised Democratic presidential debates will be held over two nights on June 26-27 in Miami Beach, Florida to be broadcast by NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo, according to the uspresidentialelectionnews.com website. The two-night format is due to the large number of candidates seeking the presidency during the national election in November 2020. So far 19 candidates have q...

You can only snicker when commenters on The Costa Rica Star state that ‘opinions’ on American politics have no business being carried as newsworthy to those in Tico land. Sorry folks, but what happens in Costa Rica’s biggest trading partner can not only affect the lives of its citizens and residents but it's future wellbeing…BIG time. We will try and make a complex subject simple. People are se...

Political realist U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) may well be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024. If President Donald Trump wins a second four-year term the Republican Party may throw their support behind Graham who has more experience of the right kind to be elected president than just about any other United States senator or politician in Washington. At 63-years old Graham has spent ...

Dominating the news this week are two issues the Washington Democrats don’t want to talk about – since Jan. 1 some 508,800 apprehensions of illegal immigrants attempting to enter the United States of America through the southern border with Mexico have been recorded and America’s roaring economy. When it comes to the economy the Democratic leadership in the U.S. Congress continues to spew lies ...

President Donald Trump held his 390th political rally Wednesday afternoon in Panama City, Florida at the Aaron Bessatt Park Amphitheater. This outdoor venue was packed to the gills with raucous and enthusiastic supporters who hung on every word spoken by this president of the United States of America – a political rock star. According to Wikipedia, during 2015-16 presidential candidate Donald T...

My goodness the headlines on the Real Clear Politics website are all over the map of liberalism, conservatism and those independents in the middle of the road. For those that don’t know the RCP website is recognized by political observers everywhere to be the most unbiased objective view of American and world politics. It’s all on there somewhere – all the polls and opinion heads. If people are...

Walls are crumbling around the Washington Democrats as the heat of the flames begins to scorch their protected heroes. Fires of revenge are indeed burning within the halls of the U.S. Congress, the White House, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. There is a big dose of reality coming soon live on national TV and smartphones around the world as the Democrats disi...

Former Vice President Joe Biden kicked off his campaign for president Thursday with a boring and uninspired 3-minute social media video that blasted President Donald Trump as a racist – the same old baseless accusations that have been made over and over. He went on to say that Trump if he wins a second term would forever “fundamentally alter” the character of the United States of America. Biden...

Guess who needs to hire defense attorneys -- former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Security James Clapper, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former FBI special agent Peter Strzok, former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former head of the Democratic National Committee and current U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL), former ...

Simultaneously watching U.S. Attorney General William Barr’s press conference Thursday on CNN and FOX News viewers saw CNN’s news anchors and commentators saying just the opposite of what FOX News’ anchors and commentators were saying about the public release of FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia/Trump collusion report. On CNN it was all about Mueller’s report saying President Donald T...

By John McPhaul President Donald Trump has declared that the United States has an emergency on its southern border. In response to the emergency, one of the president's tactics has been to cut off humanitarian and development assistance to the so-called northern triangle -- Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador -- alleging that the counties have done nothing to with the assistance to stem the ...

Newspaper, TV and radio reporters in cities large and small have used the term NIMBY for as long as anyone in the business can remember. It stands for Not In My Back Yard. It often comes up when local, state or federal governments attempt to locate a new garbage landfill, water/sewer treatment plant, airport runway extensions, new highways and other public works projects. We are all for that mu...

It’s about time to have a strong U.S. Attorney General in William Barr who also served as U.S. Attorney General under former President George W. Bush. This new Republican attorney general has the Democrats scrambling to find ways to obstruct and delay this man who dropped a major bomb on the U.S. Congress, mainstream media and the public. Barr appeared before two congressional oversight committ...