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This post is cross-posted over at my place. Over at Slate, Emily Bazelon has a good overview of Obama and McCain’s respective positions on executive power.  The short story is that although both senators have promised to step back from the executive overreaches of Bush’s presidency, neither has been completely willing to completely go back to the Read More

The Obamas dapping each other up became the topic of much conversation, as people tried to figure out what it meant (including this Baltimore Sun story that happens to include PostBourgie’s first shout-out — no promo). At first Ia little surprised at all the attention people paid to it. As Ta-Nehisi said, it’s one of Read More