Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. A new highly-political movie was released Friday depicting three male childhood friends touring Europe -- who stepped up to the plate and saved a train load of people from certain slaughter by stopping a radical Islamic terrorist attack in Paris in August 2015....

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Mid-Term Campaign 2018 may be all but over for establishment Democrats. Future 30 or 60-second TV campaign ads featuring a fast back-and-forth montage of images from President Donald Trump’s first State-of-the-Union address showing the sour-faced Democrats sitt...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. The brilliance of President Donald J. Trump is shining through. The release of this now infamous 4-page House Intelligence Committee memo shows just how amazing his winning the presidency really was. Not only did Trump run against the Democrats, most Republican...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. All this clamoring over President Donald Trump’s first State-of-the-Union address by stone-faced-sour Democrats and cheering Republicans will soon die down as this much anticipated U.S. House Intelligence Committee’s four-page memo concerning the fake anti-Trum...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. There’s a shiny new Democrat appearing on the national stage Tuesday night to give the official response to President Donald Trump’s first State-of-the-Union speech before a joint-session of the U.S. Congress. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III (D-MA) was selected to g...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Trying to make sense of the craziness going on in Washington, DC these days would drive a sane person to beg for a padded cell in the nearest asylum. In guessing the next big story, now that the Democrat-induced government shutdown lasted only three days, it...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Saturday’s display of Democratic unity was nothing more than a charade as the stars came together to showcase the government shutdown, the Women’s Marches across the country and illegal immigrants in a carefully coordinated circus to discredit 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. 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...

This is a funny list of rules that Ticos follow to truly embrace the concept of Pura Vida in Costa Rica, thank you to Mike Poynton for the guest article. 1. "Yesterday never happened and tomorrow does not exist". Every day is the first day. 2. "I don't know" is NEVER an acceptable answer to a question. If you don't know the answer, pretend like you do. 3. Having more than one family is OK. Re...