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: 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: LET’S TALK FILIBUSTER James Campion March 31, 2021 Columns, Reality Check In all cases where justice or the general good might require new laws to be passed, or active measures to be pursued, the fundamental principle of free government would be reversed. It would be no longer the m... Read More...
GOFUNDME “NO BITTER END FOR THE BITTER END” NEARING $100K GOAL Dan Alleva October 2, 2020 Buzz, Features, Goings-On The legendary New York City club has hosted artists like Dylan, Springsteen, and Lady Gaga. Now, a GoFundMe page is trying to help keep the club alive with a little help from its friends. The Bitter E... Read More...
Reality Check–NOT ALL REPUBLICANS ARE FOR TRUMP: Mass Exodus of GOP in Congress Tell a Different Tale James Campion December 11, 2019 Columns, Reality Check I have spent weeks hammering Republicans who have contorted their broken ideologies and done mind-bending about-faces on morality and Russia and free trade and exploding deficits and a ton of other apparently ... Read More...
The Freak Show: Is This The Best We Can Do? Hal B. Selzer April 13, 2012 Columns I’ve had several of my Republican friends make that remark to me recently. The economy is showing signs of improvement, but overall, unemployment is high, there have been concerns over foreign policy, especiall... Read More...
The Freak Show: Have The Oil Companies Bought The Republicans? Hal B. Selzer February 10, 2012 Columns Our country is based on a free press. That’s how the public finds out about issues affecting the country, and decides what the best choices are to handle the problems we are faced with. And even what politician... Read More...
Reality Check: GOP Vacuum James Campion October 5, 2011 Columns 1 In the 6/22/11 submission of this space, “The Courtship Of Chris Christie,” I referred to several members of the New Jersey governor’s staff emphatically repeating the same thing: Under no circumstances wou... Read More...
The Freak Show: The Republican Hypocrisy Hal B. Selzer May 4, 2011 Columns 1 The big mess in Washington this week is over the controversy of whether to raise the debt ceiling. The debt ceiling is a limit set by Congress limiting how much they can spend over what tax revenues and fees br... Read More...
The Freak Show: Time For The Republicans To Put Up Or Shut Up Hal B. Selzer November 17, 2010 Columns 2 The midterm elections are over, and the Republican Party now controls the House of Representatives, and while they don’t control the Senate, they have enough of a presence to help dictate what legislation gets ... Read More...
