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If you have any doubt about what Democrats think of their keynote speaker tonight, San Antonio mayor Julian Castro, take a gander at this cover image from the San Antonio Current, one of the alternative weeklies out there: Beside the C in the style of the Obama logo, in case you can’t read the small print at the bottom, it says, “CASTRO FOR (insert here)”.When convention organizers announced Castro would be their keynote speaker, I took a look at his record . . . and found little to cheer about in his three years as mayor: When Democrats announced that...

THREE RIVERS — Thirteen years in federal lockups, most of them in maximum security at Leavenworth in Kansas, have left Ramsey Muñiz with a creaky hip and a Web site that proclaims him to be a "Mexicano political prisoner." The former Raza Unida Party gubernatorial candidate, whose strong third-place showing in 1972 denied Democrat Dolph Briscoe a majority, recently was transferred to the medium-security prison here. Muñiz, 64, is doing life without parole for three convictions for dealing large amounts of drugs. In a Monday interview, he continued to vaguely assert his innocence — but he won't talk about his...