Ted Cruz birthers are like classic birthers in that they deny reality, which is that the freshman Texas senator meets the constitutional requirements to be president. They are not like classic birthers in that they are not seeking mythical documents that will prove Cruz was born outside America.
A new poll finds that more than one-third of Americans agree with a theory about Obama that falls into the "birther" camp, and an overwhelming amount identify themselves as Republicans.
The most amazingly, entertainingly fake video of a fake Barack Obama being born -- featuring a baby that is all cleaned up and looks about three months old -- to a fake Ann Dunham in a fake Kenyan hospital has been leaked to Vice because, wait for it, the leaker couldn't get in touch with Donald Trump.
Grab your popcorn, get comfortable and tune in during primetime: Harry Reid and Mitt Romney are in the middle of a war of words and it's not going to end any time soon. Taxerism is officially a thing.
Today in Ad Watch: Birthers get their very own TV ad, while a pro-President Obama group takes an Olympic shot at Mitt Romney. Plus: Allen West shows his caring side, and Elizabeth Warren says she's fighting for consumers.
The most important election Tuesday is the vote to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, but the funnest election is the California Republican Senate primary, where birther queen Orly Taitz has some chance of becoming an actual Republican nominee.
Mitt Romney's painless decision to release his birth certificate in response to rumors that he might be a unicorn has given those who love to hate birthers ample opportunity to riff on their flaws.
Mitt Romney's birth certificate was released Tuesday night, and after so many years of scrutinizing the birth certificate of Barack Obama, we couldn't help wondering what they made of the Republican nominee's eligibility to be president.
One theory for why Mitt Romney is holding a big splashy fundraiser with renewed birther Donald Trump Tuesday is that all the money Trump will bring in is worth a few bad headlines. Unfortunately, the Trump-Romney fundraiser happens to be on a very slow news day, so perhaps the campaign is getting a few more headlines than expected.
Every president inspires conspiracy theories, and there is no shortage of crazy stories involving President Obama. But every single one of them is conspicuously boring. Where's the sex? Or, if not sex, drugs? Violence? We'd even accept aliens.
Today in Ad Watch: President Obama's campaign says Mitt Romney's embrace of Donald Trump says something about his character, while Karl Rove's Super PAC says that while Bain Capital might be bad, Obama's "Wall Street games" are worse.
To understand the nature of birtherism, it helps to look at the case of another cultural phenomenon that has far outlasted the climate it evolved from -- Donald Trump.
Birtherism is back! More than a year after Barack Obama definitively settled the question of his birthplace by releasing his Hawaii birth certificate the right-wing blogosphere is focusing in on two typos that, if they were not typos, would suggest that he was born in Kenya. But this time the message is it's all Obama's fault.
Breitbart's senior management appended a long editor's note to their post that "exposes" a promotional booklet from President Obama's literary agency in 1991 that describes him as "born in Kenya," and their justification for running with it is ridiculously thin.
Representative Mike Coffman of Colorado is backing off comments he made last weekend, when he hinted at "birtherism" and said that President Obama is "in his heart... not an American."
Jerome Corsi and Joseph Farah say satirical article damaged books sales
The Obama campaign turns the birther controversy into fundraising merchandise
Stump self-pitying speech in New Hampshire slams media, and praises torture
Support among Republicans drops sharply as Trump complains he's being "hammered"
Plus he offers the Trump Doctrine on Pakistan and gets parodied on Saturday Night Live
Republicans believe President Obama, but they still want more proof
And new poll numbers show two-thirds of Americans don't like him
Now 86 percent of Americans say President Obama was born in America
Plus: the aspiring president's LaToya Jackson diplomacy and Letterman spat
Dana Milbank speaks out on his newspaper's embarrassing courtship of Donald Trump
The majority of coverage of Obama on cable in recent weeks looked at his citizenship
Paging the psychologist...
And Donald Trump is happy to capitalize on it, say critics
The president rankled at being asked about the birther issue amid the budget debate
Today's news raises questions, like what's the German word for "silliness"?
As predicted, Obama's original birth certificate has settled nothing for die-hards
Conservatives who pushed the issue have no shortage of reasons to dislike the president
After years of birther conspiracy theories, Hawaii made an exception to release the form
The birther movement is pushed further to the fringe
He calls Trump "the most exciting candidate in the race," but says he's no birther
Plus: The Apprentice's ratings get stronger; who'll investigate his investigators?
And a top Republican pollster turns down a job on Trump's campaign
Politico and Salon unveil definitive attempts to debunk the conspiracy theories
GOP starts attacking the clowning candidate in their midst
A study posits a link between Machiavellianism and the conspiracy-minded
This time he's got a 9-point lead over second-place Mike Huckabee
The president is confident the birther issue will ultimately hurt the Republican party
The Donald likes to print stories out and scrawl insults in the margins
Meanwhile the White House is rooting for him, since he has "zero chance" of winning
Now that he's got the birther vote locked down, he's now also pro-life
A platform of doubting Obama's birthplace is boosting his poll numbers
Taking a look at Trump's own writings as he questions Obama's
Fanning the flames of birtherism, the mogul releases his own certificate to Newsmax
Also wonders why "no one" has seen the president's baby photos
The potential 2012 candidate made a birther-like comment, but it seems like Huck just didn't know what he was talking about
But still demands to see the president's birth certificate
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