Reality Check: CALIFORNIA SCHEMING James Campion September 15, 2021 Columns, Reality Check What the Golden State recall election tells us about national politics. Six weeks ago, California Governor Gavin Newsom was in trouble. The recall election slated for September 14 looked to be hanging ... Read More...
Reality Check: AFGHANISTAN – THE BIG FAIL James Campion August 25, 2021 Columns, Reality Check Success has many fathers; failure is an orphan. Italian proverb Man, I have written a whole lot about Afghanistan over two decades. Not as much as Iraq, but a lot. It has been a long, strange trip, over thr... Read More...
Reality Check: THE OVERRATED CRIME NARRATIVE Debra Kate Schafer July 14, 2021 Columns, Reality Check Backlash To Shitty Policing & Right-Wing Paranoia Fuels Myth Last week I noted the uptick in crime in New York City – mostly violent crime – which has, across the board in the U.S., increased during... Read More...
Reality Check: ERIC ADAMS NEEDS TO BE THE NEXT MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY James Campion June 30, 2021 Columns, Reality Check I need to state first, for the record, that if I haven’t already over the nearly quarter century, I have written this column, that I love New York City more than almost anything. Honestly. My family, sure. Mus... Read More...
Reality Check: THE JOE BIDEN BIPARTISAN FANTASY James Campion June 16, 2021 Columns, Reality Check ...And The Waning Progressive Patience It made perfect sense that Joe Biden would use the kumbaya tactic during his 2020 campaign for president. The divisive atmosphere in Washington D.C. was ratchete... Read More...
Reality Check: IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NOW A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION? James Campion June 9, 2021 Columns, Reality Check This is suddenly a legitimate question. I have been following politics since the early 1970s, covering it since the late 1980s, and paid to comment about it here and elsewhere since the late 1990s. I ha... Read More...
REALITY CHECK: VACCINES, CDC, & THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS James Campion May 19, 2021 Columns, Reality Check So, I’m halfway home. The wife and I got the first Moderna shot a few weeks ago. On the twenty-seventh day of May 2021, we shall be vaccinated. This week the Center of Disease Control and Prevention announced ... Read More...
REALITY CHECK: THE NOT-SO CURIOUS CASE OF LIZ CHENEY James Campion May 12, 2021 Columns, Reality Check Wyoming Congresswoman at The GOP Fault Line You know the deal: Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney of who, along with eight her Republican House colleagues, joined all the Democrats in voting to impeach th... Read More...
Reality Check: BIDEN AT THE CENTURY MARK James Campion May 5, 2021 Columns, Reality Check The First 100 Days in Our National Recovery It is going to be difficult to judge this president without gazing through the dismal lens of the last one. Donald Trump was such an ineffectual, downright mo... Read More...
Reality Check: AMERICA: THE VIOLENCE PROBLEM James Campion April 21, 2021 Columns, Reality Check History, Legacy, Inhumanity & Stupidity We are a nation forged in blood. Violence is our thing. America, as stated here time and again, is the great human experiment. And so far, for the past ... Read More...
