Reality Check: Trump vs. Kim II: This Time, It’s Even More Stupid and Just as Meaningless James Campion March 6, 2019 Columns, Reality Check I know much should not be expected from a game show host posing as president, but this one takes the cake—even for The Donald. How he has been twice-suckered by the North Korean dictator is beyond comprehension...
Reality Check: Where We Are on Weed James Campion February 27, 2019 Columns, Reality Check NJ Finally Poised to Vote to Legalize, Tax, and Regulate Recreational Marijuana You know you’re close to actual legislation when committees are being formed with fancy titles, taxation has numbers to it, and...
Reality Check: National Emergency Fallout (Or, The Political Price For Betting On Fantasies) James Campion February 20, 2019 Columns, Reality Check NATIONAL EMERGENCY FALLOUT (Or, The Political Price For Betting On Fantasies) Let me reiterate what I wrote here nearly one month ago to the day: President Trump has every legal right to declare a national e...
Reality Check: The New Left & The Dawn of Generation Progressive James Campion February 13, 2019 Columns, Reality Check The abysmally erratic first two years of our Game Show President unleashed an explosion of women into the U.S. Congress this year, most notably a 29-year-old no-nonsense balls-out Bronx kid named Alexandria Oca...
Reality Check – The Dishonest Artist James Campion January 30, 2019 Reality Check This week I turn over this space over to a guest columnist for only the third or fourth time in my nearly 22 years of Reality Check. Seán Barna is a wonderfully honest singer-songwriter that I have personally i...
Reality Check – Readers’ Responses James Campion January 23, 2019 Columns, Reality Check I am shocked this has not gotten more traction than it has. (ALT RIGHT UNDERGROUND – A PERSPECTIVE – Issue: 10/31/18) To think random lunatics -- even if it is one dumbass Trump guy in a propaganda van o...
Reality Check – The Delusion Factor: Or How to Get Out of a Political Impasse 101 James Campion January 16, 2019 Columns, Reality Check Not that he is inclined to take any advice, quite obviously, but I have some for the president of the United States to get him out of this political corner he has painted himself into. As discussed in this s...
Reality Check – The Wall: A Surrealist Perspective James Campion January 2, 2019 Columns, Reality Check “Existence is illusory and it is eternal.” - Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays “Don't know what I want, But I know how to get it.” - Sex Pist...
Reality Check – RESURRECTING LENNY: In Praise of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel & The Spirit of the Great Lenny Bruce James Campion December 19, 2018 Columns, Reality Check 2 I probably should have penned this piece last year after the first season of Amazon Prime’s magnificent series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel written and directed by the brilliant Amy Sherman-Palladino, whose work I...
Reality Check – GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH – [1924-2018] James Campion December 12, 2018 Columns, Reality Check “George Bush is guiltier than all of them.” Hunter S. Thompson, Portland, Oregon's First Congregational Church, 1988 A mostly ineffectual one-term president, whose political and persona...
