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I checked my alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin, to see if it has a MEChA chapter. Sure enough, it has one. And their web site features the racist and anti-American “El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan,” which includes MEChA’s slogan “For the race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing.” in italicized Spanish. [...]

Tacitus sums up Bustamante’s MEChA dodges to date.

Today was John Kerry’s first Meet the Press appearance since he announced his candidacy on the program. It went pretty much as I expected: Kerry slithered his way out of Tim Russert’s traps and successfully defended his jelly-spined record of flip-flopping on issues. Russert came at Kerry from the left, basically challenging him to explain [...]

Meet Walter Cronkite, kook liberal.

Pat Buchanan has an insightful must-read look at whether the president is beatable. He concludes:
Can Bush be beaten? Assuredly—but absent celestial intervention, maybe not by any of the current crop of Democratic candidates. As Damon Runyon observed, the race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way [...]

Mickey Kaus is all over MEChA and the “mainstream” media’s whitewashing of the group.

Mark Steyn says that Bill Clinton will be partly responsible if Howard Dean gets the Democratic nomination:
In the modern era, governors make the best candidates and senators the worst. The trouble with Bill Clinton’s Democratic Party is that by the end of his personality-cult presidency it had so declined at all other levels that it [...]

Steven Greenhut says we should give MEChA what they want and return California to Mexico.

Yesterday on Fox News’ Weekend Live, Tony Snow gave Cruz Bustamante four opportunities to renounce the MEChA motto “For the race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing.” Bustamante declined to do so all four times. I wonder if the “mainstream” media will pursue this story like Fox News has been doing. Don’t hold your [...]

George Will on Wesley Clark:
As Clark crisscrosses the country listening for a clamor for him (“I expect to have my decision made by Sept. 19,” when he visits Iowa — feel the suspense), he compounds the confusion that began when he said on June 15 that on 9/11 “I got a call at my home” [...]

Adam Nagourney has a must-read piece summarizing the Democratic presidential race.

The Religion of Peace:
The British-based Islamist group Al-Muhajiroun is holding a conference on the second anniversary of September 11 to honor the 19 terrorists who hijacked the commercial jets used in attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
A poster touting the event to be held at four locations in England includes photographs of the [...]

From the San Diego Union-Tribune:
Asked about the MEChA belief that the Southwest was stolen from Mexico and should be reconquered, Bustamante laughed and said: “Well, you know students!”
Yeah, keep talking like that Cruz. All the way to losing the election.

It’s hard to imagine a more politically inept bunch of people than the ones opposing us in Iraq today. First they bomb the UN. Then they bomb a “moderate” Shiite cleric in a holy mosque in a holy city.
President Bush couldn’t have written a better script if he’d tried. The deadenders are doing everything [...]

Poor Terry McAuliffe:
Recipients of recent money appeals by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) have been puzzled by the absence of the customary signature of the party chairman, Terry McAuliffe.
Earlier DNC fund-raising letters this year were signed by former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. The latest appeal, which arrived in the mail last [...]