{"id":1313090,"date":"2019-08-01T17:42:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T23:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=985305"},"modified":"2019-08-01T17:42:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T23:42:13","slug":"letter-from-the-mouth-of-ronnies-babe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/letter-from-the-mouth-of-ronnies-babe\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: From the mouth of Ronnie\u2019s babe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually, when I read Mike Reagan\u2019s column, I\u2019m reminded the apple, like a thick brick, doesn\u2019t fall too far from the tree. However, in his July 8 epistle on immigration told mostly in his father\u2019s words, Mikey showed the light of Lady Liberty\u2019s torch.<\/p>\n<p>According to Reagan the younger, the Great Communicator said things like, \u201cYou can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American,\u201d and, \u201cIf we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As if to refute Trump\u2019s charge the \u201cSquad\u201d (Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley) hated America, Mike quoted his father as saying, \u201cThose who became American citizens love this country even more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I wish the son would broadcast the father\u2019s words into two giant woofer speakers on each side of Trump\u2019s ears. Message: Republicans don\u2019t hafta be cruel.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Malo Jr.<br \/>Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/opinion\/letter-from-the-mouth-of-ronnies-babe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually, when I read Mike Reagan\u2019s column, I\u2019m reminded the apple, like a thick brick, doesn\u2019t fall too far from the tree. However, in his July 8 epistle on immigration told mostly in his father\u2019s words, Mikey showed the light of Lady Liberty\u2019s torch. According to Reagan the younger, the Great Communicator said things like, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1313090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 15:58:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}