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“After eight chapters covering the problems of the presidency, the reader has every right to expect the payoff to come in the last installment, in which the author will provide a series of reforms designed to solve he problems he’s outlined.

“After eight chapters covering the problems of the presidency, the reader has every right to expect the payoff to come in the last installment, in which the author will provide a series of reforms designed to solve he problems he’s outlined.

In this month’s issue of Reason magazine is a gem of an article by Gene Healy, author of “The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power”, on which the article is based. Healy has many quotable passages.

Happy hour with Gene Healy April 30th, 2008 by CJ Ciaramella Yesterday OC Ed-in-Chief Ossie and I drove up to Kell’s Irish Pub in Portland to hear Gene Healy of the Cato Institute talk about his new book, The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power.

McCain really lost what little respect I had for him when he started knocking Mitt Romney for not having lived a life of “public service.”  Romney, you see, spent his life in the shameful pursuit of building an honest business, and he succeeded in spades, creating a billion dollar consulting empire.

It appears that the Reverend Al Sharpton and the Cleveland office of the “National Action Network” will ask NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to cancel the August 3rd Hall of Fame Game pitting the Colts against the Redskins in Canton’s Fawcett Stadium.

I’m reading my friend Gene Healy’s great new book, The Cult of the Presidency, and it reminds me why I like him so much. In describing founding-era Pennsylvania Senator William Maclay, Gene could be describing himself: The Maclay that emerges from the journal is a dyspeptic grouch, the sort of personality that too few people properly appreciate.

I’m reading my friend Gene Healy’s great new book, The Cult of the Presidency, and it reminds me why I like him so much. In describing founding-era Pennsylvania Senator William Maclay, Gene could be describing himself: The Maclay that emerges from the journal is a dyspeptic grouch, the sort of personality that too few people properly appreciate.