JAMES CAMPION’S REALITY CHECK James Campion July 1, 2020 Columns, Goings-On, Reality Check William Barr's criminal syndicate is illustrative of systemic anarchy in what are likely the final days of Trump. The Justice Department is a sinkhole of criminal activity and another miserable stain on... Read More...
REALITY CHECK: GET OUT THERE AND SAVE THE DAY, AMERICA. James Campion May 18, 2020 Columns, Reality Check It's time for Americans to risk their lives for the good ol' U.S.A. Hey, America! Here’s how it works now. You need to get back out there and save the economy. If you get sick and die, well… it happens.... Read More...
REALITY CHECK: STATES’ RIGHTS REVERSAL IN THE AGE OF MADNESS James Campion April 20, 2020 Features, Interviews A Dangerous National Leadership Vacuum Pushes Us Through the Political Looking Glass In the mid-eighties, during the last true wave of modern conservatism, it was difficult to imagine a time, some thirty-pl... Read More...
REALITY CHECK: TRUMP IS FAILING LATEST CRISIS TEST, JUST AS HE’S FAILED TIME & TIME AGAIN James Campion April 15, 2020 Columns, Reality Check 1 “I alone can fix it.” Donald J. Trump on the 2016 campaign trail The most pressing national crisis since the 2008 economic collapse and maybe even the 9/11 tragedy and we have a game show host in charge.... Read More...
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... Read More...
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... Read More...
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... Read More...
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... Read More...
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... Read More...
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... Read More...
