Mike Kelly
Columnist at The Record (Bergen County)
Columnist for @northjersey / The Record. Author of The Bus on Jaffa Road (2014) Color Lines (1995) + Fresh Jersey (2000) Email: [email protected]
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1 month ago |
northjersey.com | Mike Kelly
Democrats are in trouble. It’s been nearly seven months since their party’s debacle last November and Democrats are still searching for a message and a way to define themselves. If you want to understand how difficult that hunt for the right message has become, take a look at New Jersey. In November, the Garden State is one of just two states — Virginia is the other — to hold a statewide election for governor this year.
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1 month ago |
poconorecord.com | Mike Kelly
4-minute readIt’s the nasty political problem that keeps on ticking. But it’s not the economy. Or mass shootings. Or Ukraine. Or China. Or any of the other chronic dilemmas facing America. No, this is worse in some ways. It’s the rising tide of evidence that Saudi Arabian officials helped carry out the deadliest act of terrorism in America on Sept. 11, 2001. The nation’s political leaders know this — or should know it. But they refuse to act.
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2 months ago |
goerie.com | Mike Kelly
Mike KellyYour TurnRep. Mike Kelly argues that the U.S. national debt, now at $36 trillion, is a major threat. He praises the Trump administration's efforts to cut spending and renegotiate trade deals. He criticizes past trade agreements like NAFTA for hurting American jobs and supports Trump's tariffs. There's a famous line from the 1992 movie "A Few Good Men" during a tense courtroom exchange between Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson, a line that has transcended pop culture for decades.
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2 months ago |
northjersey.com | Mike Kelly
Sometimes small episodes tell us much about really big people. Such was my first glimpse of Pope Francis. It was just after dawn — around 7 a.m. — on a Sunday morning in September 2015. On assignment for my New Jersey newspaper, I stood in the middle of the “Plaza de la Revolucion” atop a hill overlooking Havana, Cuba. Pope Francis wasn’t scheduled to show up until 9 a.m. for an outdoor mass on the 18-acre Plaza. So I had time to kill — and some mixed messages to take in.
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2 months ago |
northjersey.com | Mike Kelly
The long and tragic list of the dead from the seemingly endless Israeli-Palestinian war has a new face. His name is Amer Mohammed Saada Rabee. He was born in America, the son of Palestinian immigrants. He spent his first years in the Bergen County township of Saddle Brook before his parents returned to the West Bank. In other words, Amer has roots in the Middle East. But he is also an American citizen. Several relatives still live in New Jersey.
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Yet more evidence that the 9/11 hijackers received help here in America -- not just from the Saudis but others. https://t.co/iioTJ0NbAa
Did Trump @POTUS45 blow his publicity @LIVGolfInv scheme with the Saudis at his golf club? Here's my column: https://t.co/sXUyQPrWc3
I played skunk at Trump's Saudi-financed @POTUS45 golf tourney. @LIVGolfInv Not fun. Lots of questions about 9/11.@911Justice1 No answers. Here's my column: https://t.co/iQJc6nFLQm