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...

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...

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...

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...

The DOW Jones stock market hit 26,000 once again, unemployment remains historically low under 4-percent, China appears to be buckling under to President Donald Trump’s demands for fair trade policies, North Korea eyes an economic renaissance if they dump their nuclear weapons program and Russian President Putin clearly is the biggest threat to world peace. President Trump owns the economy of 20...

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 ...

Jumping ahead of former Vice President Joe Biden – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders – a self-described Democratic Socialist has officially entered the 2020 presidential race in hopes of unseating President Donald Trump. Sanders, 77, if elected would be 79-years-ago upon taking office Jan. 20, 2021. News reports say other mainstream Democrats urged Sanders not to run in 2020, but as usual this rogue ...

Finally a new U.S. Attorney General – William Barr -- was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Thursday Feb 14th and within hours he was sworn in by U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts in an Oval Office ceremony with President Donald Trump looking on. He replaces former Attorney General Jeff Sessions who was fired last year by President Trump. Barr, 68, a Republican, previously served as Deputy Attorney...

Just like that President Donald Trump announced another Trump Rally and 69,000 people signed up on-line for free tickets to attend the rally Monday night in El Paso, Texas. Some 10,000 early arrivals packed the El Paso County Coliseum, while another 25,000 Trump supporters had to watch the rally outside the venue on big screens. Down the street, less than a half-mile away at the Chalio Acosta S...

Good job Virginia! You can’t make this stuff up. All of a sudden the state’s three top elected officials are knee deep in the alligator pit with all eyes watching as swampy Democrats try to devour each other with fake hate. First came the outrage from the comments Gov. Rob Northum made about his support of late-term abortions. Many called for him to resign. He refused. Then came his 1985 medica...

Reaction to President Donald Trump’s second State of the Union speech has been swift. In a surprising ‘instant poll’ of speech watchers conducted by mainstream media giant CBS News 76-percent of viewers approved of what they heard in the president’s speech while 72-percent said they approved of the president’s ideas for immigration reform. This CBS News poll should wake up the obstructionist De...

The Democratic Party is dead. It was aborted this past week in New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) signed into law the country’s most permissive, most liberal and the most disgusting pro-choice abortion ruling -- passed by the New York State Senate -- allowing full, third-trimester abortions right up to the time of natural birth if the mother chooses death over life for her child. Reaction to Ne...

Declared presidential candidate United States Sen. Kamala Harris, 54, a Democrat from liberal entrenched San Francisco, is not talking about this and neither is mainstream media much, but former two-term San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown is talking and his words paint a dark picture of Harris’ unbridled ambition in her rise in California politics. In Brown’s weekly column -- published Jan. 26 in...

Using live bait and a surf rod US Expat Mike Hughes caught this 5-foot Nurse Shark the morning of Sunday January 27th on the beach in the Esterillos-Bejuco area south of Jaco. More than 100 bystanders witnessed the hour-long battle. "The locals were all amazed that I as able to get it to shore. I do have the biggest surf rod in Costa Rica.I was physically beat and for a while I thought I had an...

Hate! It’s all the rage these days. Blind political hate mixed with fake news – a recipe for disaster. Take for example the mainstream media’s blow out last week concerning a bunch of Catholic high school kids from Kentucky attending a school trip to Washington to take part in the ‘March for Life’ in opposition to current abortion laws. These students from Covington Catholic High School had a p...

During a conversation with my good buddy and fellow competitor Merv Low last night, he mentioned how I 'fished blind' because I don’t use any electronics. I jokingly replied "on the contrary Merv, it’s the lack of electronics that makes me fish with my eyes wide open". When you are fishing with no gps and no depth finder you are forced to use every bit of available data such as birds, visible l...

Washington’s Democrats are backed up in a corner with nowhere to go, no escape and no Plan B. It’s kinda like a NASCAR race – all the democratic driver’s know how to do is turn left – far-far left to a foreign land far, far away from the real America. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) continues to say “no” to any border wall funding let alone the $5.7-billion requested by President Donal...

The political play of last week goes to President Donald Trump for yanking military airplane privileges for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and 30 other Democrats for a planned one-week junket to Belgium, Egypt and Afghanistan while the USA’s government remains in partial shutdown mode. Pelosi and the others learned of the flight cancellation one-hour before takeoff leaving them stunned, flus...

Mainstream media has become the ‘enemy of the people’ as they collude with the Democrats in Washington, DC to continue their war upon the Trump Administration in ways that are impossible to deny. Many are saying that honest, fair and unbiased journalism is dead and they are right. Media studies continue to show that media coverage of the Trump Administration remains at 92-percent negative. Othe...

After five days of intense kayak fishing Jaco Beach resident Lance Clinton claimed 3rd place out of a field of 12 finalists selected worldwide to compete in the annual “winner-take-all” Los Buzos Panama International Kayak Fishing World Championship 2019. The 1st place winner – James McBeath of Canada -- took home $10,000. “The tournament was great. Caught some great fish and finished in third,...

There is only one correct way to remove President Donald Trump from office and that’s at the ballot box in November 2020. If he loses, he loses and goes home to his billionaire life. If he wins again, he’s your president until Jan. 20, 2025. All this idyll talk of impeachment in the U.S. House of Representatives with removal from office by the U.S. Senate is pure and utter nonsense. This outcom...

The numbers are staggering and hard to comprehend. During fiscal-year 2018 some 521,000 illegal immigrants were arrested between ports-of-entry all along the Mexico-USA border from California to Texas. That figure averages out to 43,416 arrests per month or 1,427 arrests per day, according to figures released by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Add to that figure another 123,228 arrest...

Welcome to a new world of political quackery, unprecedented “presidential harassment” and wild financial upheavals on Wall Street. As the Democrats line up to take over the U.S. House of Representatives it seems apparent that the year ahead -- in the U.S. Congress -- will get little to nothing accomplished for the American people. Classic gridlock is returning to the nation’s capital. Washingto...

Jaco Beach resident and super kayaker Lance Clinton leaves New Year’s Day for Panama as one of 12 finalists selected worldwide to compete in the annual “winner-take-all” Los Buzos Panama Kayak Fishing World Championship 2019. Clinton, 49, a former stock broker from Seattle, was chosen by the event’s organizers as Costa Rica’s top kayak fisherman. He turned professional four years ago and is spo...

At least we got past Christmas and celebrated again the birth of the baby that changed everything – the one and only King Lord Jesus Christ God Almighty. Armed with faith we shall venture into the future without fear. In this era of extreme soap-opera politics on national TV news and social media, those President Donald Trump haters -- who claim to be Christian -- should change their ways with ...

In 13-minutes of raw live TV broadcast to the world direct from the Oval Office President Donald Trump put the southern border wall controversy on the offense pushing Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer up against the ropes. Yes sir ree -- it was quite a sight to see – the Donald, Nancy and Chucky show. The fallout is gaining speed. At stake is a potential partial United States federal government sh...

Let’s start out this political-opinion column with a challenge. The last column in this space, like many others in the past, has generated a sizable number of comments and replies from readers of The Costa Rica Star. The record to date is over 65 comments and replies on a single column. These comments overtime have been overwhelmingly negative toward the right-of-center writer who – by the way -- ...

Staff changes at the White House, reorganizing the Republican National Committee and Make America Great Again Campaign 2020 taking shape are signs that President Donald Trump is in full-steam-ahead mode to win a second term as President of the United States. The Trump Train is putting the pedal to the metal. President Trump announced last week that White House Chief-of-Staff Gen. John Kelly aft...

2018 will be remembered for three major funerals and their affects will be far reaching. The real America, the real United States of America was on full display – day-after-day on national/worldwide news -- to give respectful farewells to legendary Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, steadfast First Lady Barbara Bush and now the consummate gentleman-statesman President George H.W. Bush. All three...

Air Force One -- back from the G20 Summit of world leaders – arrived Monday October 3rd to Ellison Field near Houston to pick up the body of former President George H.W. Bush died Friday November 30th at his home in Houston surrounded by family and friends. He was 94. Soon after the 41st president passed away it was announced by the White House that President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania...

There is a strong effort underway in the British parliament to remove Prime Minister Theresa May from office and then conduct a second referendum vote on the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? The British people already voted last year to exit the EU, but the pro-EU forces cannot accept the vote and they are fighting tooth and nail to remain in the EU despite th...

Remember all those Democrats running for the U.S. Congress during the recent midterm election that promised again and again they would not support Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to once again serve as Speaker of the House? Now that a sudden dose of reality has set in most of them have turned tail and now say they will support the 78-year-old Pelosi who has been a liberal California Democrat for decades....

In the wake of California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire in that state’s recorded history, political enemies joined hands  as President Donald Trump toured areas in and around Paradise, Ca. – a town of 27,000 residents – that was burnt to a crisp. Homes, businesses, government buildings, fire and police stations, churches, hospitals and schools were all gone with the scorching hot winds...

Among last week’s political developments that received little attention from mainstream media is the “First Step Act” a bipartisan criminal justice reform plan spearheaded by President Donald Trump that offers some convicted criminals a way out of prison with Christian redemption and forgiveness the driving force. According to the International Center for Prison Studies, the United States of Am...

For the next two years a dark and uncertain future awaits the United States of America as a new round of U.S. House and U.S. Senate investigations swamps the swamp in Washington. Just as soon as the new recruits that swung the U.S. House back to Democratic control take the oath of office in January the fireworks will begin on both sides of the isle. For the Democrats their singular goal remains...

Predictably the day after the midterm election President Donald Trump issued walking papers to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions who had become virtually useless after his surprise recusal soon after he took the oath of office. Sessions removed himself from anything related to his participation in the president’s 2016 campaign including Russia/Trump collusion and Hillary Clinton’s numberless leg...

Diversity won at the midterms. More women – conservative and liberal -- will serve in the U.S. Congress than ever before. The results show there will be more ethnic representation in Congress than ever before. There will be less ‘old white men’ running the legislative branch of government than ever before. That’s really the big takeaway from Tuesday’s national midterm election. For the next two ye...

Just as soon as you’d think the midterm election couldn’t get more controversial – wham – ending birthright citizenship gets thrown on the table with a loud echoing thud. This debate over birthright citizenship goes right to the heart of the immigration problems now being encountered at the southern border of USA and Mexico. In an absolute classic -- President Donald Trump move – he’s taking ai...

Let’s start something big -- Pam Bondi for U.S. Attorney General – to replace the more than likely out going U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. There’s been a lot of speculation about who President Donald Trump might nominate for U.S. Senate confirmation to head the U.S. Department of Justice after Sessions bows out with a resignation or gets fired but his demise will happen shortly after the mi...