the madness of king george

From that illustrious list of the Most E-mailed on nytimes.com comes Adam Cohen's excellent editorial, "Just What the Founders Feared: An Imperial President Goes to War."

Here's some James Madison wisdom from the same:

“In war, the honors and emoluments of office are to be multiplied; and it is the executive patronage under which they are to be enjoyed. It is in war, finally, that laurels are to be gathered; and it is the executive brow they are to encircle.”