Senator George LeMieux (R-FL) is starting to feel the heat of pro-migrant voters, specifically Latino voters. Saturday, Univision aired a debate in which current Florida governor and U.S. Senate nominee Charlie Crist came out in support of the DREAM Act. Thursday, Representative Kendrick Meek (D-FL), and also a nominee for U.S. Senate, hand delivered a letter to LeMieux.

Gen. David Petraeus’s new challenge to President Barack Obama’s intention to begin a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in July 2011 is the culmination of a brazen bait and switch maneuver that threatens an greater level of military power over war policy.

Although Jane, Glenn and Digby have already weighed in smartly on this little tantrum from the President, I think it’s worth revisiting.

The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy case grinds along. Their financials sucked, it’s JPMorgan’s fault, and they screwed thousands of Hong Kong residents. No one is responsible for anything.

Christine O’Donnell says she dabbled in witchery and attended a midnight picnic on a Satanic altar. Meanwhile, Kenyan witch-hunter Thomas Muthee prayed over Sarah Palin to “protect her from the spirit of witchcraft,” proving the point that the Tea Party’s cartoon covens want to have their hell-broth and drink it too.

We’ll be having a Boardwalk Empire watch party starting each week at 9pm ET, sponsored by the Just Say now campaign. We’ll have special guests and hosts, contests and a lively discussion in the comments that will hopefully be entertaining even for those who aren’t watching.

It looks like the chances of Democrats taking this open Republicans Senate seat in Ohio are steadily slipping away.

The whole idea behind collecting this information and sharing it with private sector entities like oil drilling lobbyists arose as part of efforts to protect our critical infrastructure from terrorist attack after 9/11.

Avast mateys! Christine “Heave Ho!” O’Donnell pulls out o’ two interviews today. D “Fancy Scallywag!” Day be a guest on Virtually Speak’n. An’ aye, it be Talk Like a Pirate Day once agin. Drink up, me hearties, and pass the rum. Yo ho, yo ho!

The Milky Way. This Academy Award winning Metro Goldwyn Mayer cartoon was released on June 22, 1940.