The latest fit of conservative paranoia is that Barack Obama, the alien in our midst, seeks to transform America into Mother Russia, crafting a new totalitarian state that will be run by his own private army of policy ``czars.'' The lunacy never ends. The Republican right has suddenly discovered the word ``czar'' -- roughly 36 years after it was first used by the press as a nickname for Republican Richard Nixon's in-house energy guy, a Republican named John Love. The word was rarely, if ever, cited as prima facie evidence of a president's evil intent -- until now, naturally. With...