Reality Check—Coronavirus: Donald Trump’s Katrina James Campion March 24, 2020 Columns, Reality Check Stop me if you heard this before: Unpopular Republican president that citizens generally view as incompetent is confronted with a crisis and bungles it… badly. Yeah, 2005, August, George W. Bush. Hurricane Kat...
Reality Check–Reader Responses James Campion March 3, 2020 Reality Check I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you again to all the people who reached out to send condolences and kind words about my late father, James Vincent Campion, who died last October. When I began wr...
Reality Check–Reader Responses James Campion October 16, 2019 Columns, Reality Check Thank you, James for your honest reprisal of the NFL and the brutal game of football in general. (HOW LONG FOOTBALL? – Issue: 9/11/19) What parents don’t know about the long-term and in some cases short-term n...
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 – CAVEAT EMPTOR: Or How Facebook, Russia And The American Voter Equal Freedom James Campion October 18, 2017 Columns Except for the president of the United States and a few FOX News shut-ins, it has been long established that the Russian government had an effect on the 2016 presidential election. Whether this included the Don...
Thomas Earl Petty: 1950 – 2017 Arts Weekly October 11, 2017 Interviews by James Campion Comedian Marc Maron has a bit in his most recent Netflix special in which he struggles with bridging the gap between Trump voters and Trump haters which centers on the universal appeal o...
Reality Check – NFL Patriotic Nonsense Has Two Sides, Corporate Con Comes Home to Roost James Campion October 4, 2017 Columns The National Football League has done a magnificent job these last few decades conflating patriotism with its product; a product, by the way, run by despots, played by a disturbing number of criminals, and whos...
Reality Check – Jimmy Kimmel & The New Age Of Celebrity Politics James Campion September 27, 2017 Columns The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet. – Mark Twain We have a steadfast rule around here that makes it easy to base all of ...
Reality Check – The Hillary Delusion: Loser’s Lament (A Commentary) James Campion September 20, 2017 Columns Guess who has a new book out? Guess what it’s called? Hillary Clinton’s, What Happened, has hit the shelves (or hit the Amazon shipping boxes since bookstores are disappearing daily) and it provides us wi...
Reality Check: Readers’ Responses James Campion September 6, 2017 Columns James, This was one fantastic piece. (THE SUMMER OF ANNIE HALL AT 40 – Issue: 7/19/17) Annie Hall has gone from an underrated classic that was showered with awards and accolades and put Woody Allen on the ma...
