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...

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...

Alejandro “Alex” Castillo is on the lamb from the US after being accused of sexual misconduct with minors – something for which he already served one year in prison in 2012 – yet the church welcomed him back, even promoting him to Diocese’s Director of Department of Faith Formation and Evangelization for Oakland, California. He has now been placed on administrative leave while he skips around, one...

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...

Jaco is still reeling from the apparent suicide of one of their favorite local residents and businessmen, Marc Pontbriant. Marc radiated energy and a love for life, and his girlfriend and friends are having difficulty accepting the tragic fact that he is gone. He died on May 3, in his bed in Esterillios, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He left his passport, wallet and contact list a...

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...

Costa Rican authorities, with the help of Interpol, turned Henry de la Hoz over to U.S. Marshals last week to be returned to Miami to serve out a 12-year prison sentence. De la Hoz had been sentenced in absentia for killing retirees Victor and Olga Lisabet on Easter of 2003, as they headed to celebrate Easter mass with fellow worshipers. De la Hoz had spent the night before the tragedy in a sports...

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...

Two drug-chasing boats donated by the United States last November to Costa Rica’s National Coast Guard Service (SNG), have scored a huge victory of drug interdiction recently: six tons of cocaine seized since January of 2019. The boats were donated by the Government of the US via the Office for Counternarcotics, Citizen Security and Justice of the US Embassy. Christopher Harris, Director of th...

The governments of the United States and Costa Rica presented the Aerial Training Specialized Program directed to personnel of the Aerial Surveillance Service in Costa Rica; the program has the objective of strengthening the security and tools for the Ministry of Public Security. The program is part of multiple cooperation agreements between both countries. The presentation took place in Aerial...

It’s a huge wonder that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s tax returns filed year-after-year by President Donald J. Trump before and during his presidency remain a secret. Since the president legally refuses to release his tax filings you’d think that someone somewhere would figure out how to steal or hack Trump’s personal and business tax returns from deep inside the IRS. Just imagine what wo...

The southern border with Mexico is on fire with a humanitarian crisis never seen before. The U.S. Congress is on fire with more demands to release the un-redacted Mueller report on Russia/Trump campaign collusion and more demands for President Trump’s tax returns before he took office. The Democrats’ pants are on fire over everything Trump. There’s a ton of smoke and mirrors going on now in Was...

Fact is, Trump could probably not find Costa Rica on a map. He isn’t so good with geography, though he has pointed out that there are a lot of shit-hole countries in Africa. The White House refers to Puerto Rico as a country, I suppose because it is surrounded by water, BIG water, ocean water. He is claiming that the US has sent 91 billion dollars for reconstruction (in actuality, only 40 billion)...

If anything derails former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential run it’s this little problem he has with being too touchy, feely and kissy with women. Where is the ‘MeToo’ movement when it comes to Mr. Biden? Hidden away in Biden’s closet are incident after incident of him being “creepy” with women and young girls. News reports say Biden will announce his presidential aspirations someti...

Psychological projection is a defense mechanism in which the human ego defends itself against unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others. Some historians have argued that there is an element of psychological projection in conspiracism. This projection, according to the argument, is manifested in the fo...

A 7-year-old boy of name Arden Oliver Fuss, of Rhinebeck, New York, was last seen in his native town on June 19, 2018. According to information given by authorities the child was abducted by his mother, Aleidria Riverson Lichau. The two apparently traveled to Costa Rica and a felony warrant for kidnapping was issued for Lichau on September 13, 2018. The Judiciary Investigative Police (OIJ) and ...

All of a sudden FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller went from good guy to bad guy. His findings in the Trump Campaign/Russia collusion left Washington Democrats dismayed, broken and vowing to carry on Mueller’s Trump/Russia probe despite his findings that leaves President Donald Trump vindicated of any involvement with criminal collusion, conspiracy or obstruction of justice before or after his ele...

Everywhere you look the Washington Democrats – especially the declared presidential candidates -- are making one outlandish statement after another as if they are in some sort of loser contest. Dispirit people say dispirit things. Take for example the latest nonsense coming from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). During a recent town hall meeting in Iowa – sight of the nation’s first presidential ...

What are you, 13 years old? 49 tweets over the weekend ? It’s not just a disgruntle few that are asking these questions. This conduct is erratic and indefensible. The country, the world looks to the president for character and dignity. John McCain, by all measures was a hero. He didn’t hide behind imaginary bone spurs. Sure, he was shot down over Vietnam, and most of us would prefer that it hadn...

Being a political realist these days is the best way to go especially if you are viewing political developments from a foreign country like Costa Rica. Many of us expats are grateful not to be living in the United States of America right now because there’s not much unity to be found back home. Not the left, not the right and not the middle – a realist realizes the reality of President Donald J...

“Restraint of psychiatrists’ comments on political candidates is grounded in APA’s response to an attempt to question Barry Goldwater’s mental health during the 1964 campaign for president”, a quote from the web page of the American Psychiatric Association. Barry Morris Goldwater was a five term senator from Arizona from 1953-1965 and again, 1969-1987. Goldwater was the Republican candidate for t...

Read Part 1 here: Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States from 1969 until 1974 and the only president to resign from the position. Leading up to this and amid the throws of the Watergate Investigation, John Deal, the White House testimony proclaiming a “cancer on the presidency” by the revelation of secret tapes by Alexander Butterfield and Peter W. Rodino Jr, D-NJ, ch...

The world is reeling again after a “white nationalist” gunman opened fire on two Muslim mosques killing 49 worshipers and injuring dozens more in peaceful Christchurch, New Zealand halfway around the globe. News reports say the 49 Muslim homicides outnumber more than all other gun-related murders last year in this country. There is no justification for such blatant and miserable hatred in New Z...

Short of a fatality, this is a complicated process. For the most part, there is little precedent. Yes, Abraham Lincoln became the victim of John Wilkes Booth in Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865 along with John Fitzgerald, our 35th president came to a tragic end on the streets of Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. There are those of us who remember that day and where they were, what they were d...

Anyone with a lick of sense can see the Democratic Party is way off the tracks of reality with their constant bellowing for Universal Healthcare for all, socialism, the Green New Deal, socialism, allowing illegal immigrants to vote in the USA, socialism, expanding sanctuary cities and states, socialism, lowering the voting age to 16 and on and on with more talk of converting the USA to a socialist...

And, another one bites the dust… With little fanfare, after 240 days Bill Shine, an ex Fox News executive has resigned his white house position as Communications Director to become a senior adviser to President Trump's 2020 re-election campaign, according to a White House statement.  People close to the White House described the campaign job as a way to ‘save face’. During the past 24 months, ...

Another week has gone by in the U.S. Congress with nothing accomplished for the American people. House Democrats spent all week trying to decide how to handle newly elected rogue freshman that are going against the grain with anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and anti-Jew rhetoric. Specifically, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn), a Muslim, recently uttered anti-Israel comments that were shocking to say the leas...

Costa Rica has already begun their version of this so-called “Green New Deal” the Washington Democrats are all excited about. This small country in Central America with a population of 5-million is leading the way in dumping dinosaur fuels for renewables. The Costa Rican government is promoting the use of electric cars and trucks through tax incentives, special parking spots with charging stations...

If the Democrats rally behind former Vice President Joe Biden for president in 2020 thinking they will win back blue-collar workers and minorities they are living in a dream world of denial. Sources say Biden, 76, is close to making a decision to run for president or not. Between now and November next year we are all about to witness the most flagrant and downright treasonous last ditch effort ...