Strictly Speaking

“Of all the Russias” (well, actually NYC-area airports)

From the New York Times: 

The Federal Aviation Administration will also create a ”czar” for New York City air travel, hoping to solve some of the confusion and headaches with a new position. 

Can we please put a moratorium on non-Czar related uses of the word czar?  Whence this trend of calling U.S. government officials “czars”?  Although now that I think about it, the reign of the Bush dynasty in this country does have some parallels to the Tsardom of Russia, e.g. (from the wikipedia article): “Ivan IV was succeeded by his son Fedor, who was mentally deficient.”