John Cassidy on Paul Ryan’s speech at the Republican National Convention: http://nyr.kr/Txym7r

TAMPA (The Borowitz Report)—In his speech to the Republican National Convention last night, Vice-Presidential nominee Paul Ryan test-drove what the Romney-Ryan campaign says will be a major theme for the 2012 Republican campaign: “lying about everything.”: http://nyr.kr/Q3Syz9

In today’s Daily Comment, Steve Coll looks at two keynote speeches: why Obama succeeded, and Chris Christie failed: http://nyr.kr/OucYQ2

Photograph of Obama at the 2004 Democratic National Convention by Lucian Perkins/TWP/Getty Images.