Today it's appalling: puffed up by Romney's flattery, the preening, orange-haired narcissist doubled down on his idiotic birther claims against the president, telling the Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove: “Look, it’s very simple. A book publisher came out three days ago and said that in his written synopsis of his book, he said he was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia. His mother never spent a day in the hospital.”

If you haven't been following the story, and I tried not to, the addled spawn of Andrew Breitbart found a dusty 20-year-old catalog from Obama's former literary agency that said he was born in Kenya. An assistant quickly said that she wrote down incorrect information. Trump doesn't believe her.

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There were stories, recently, in the usual places, about how Trump was being seriously considered for a major speech at the Republican Convention. I did not dwell on the story much, because I assumed that these rumors were a product of Donald Trump's prodigious vanity and powerful imagination. Ha ha ha, sure, the Republicans will definitely want the stupid make-believe TV mogul who pretends to fire people for a living, at their big party.

Now that "Celebrity Apprentice" is done, Trump is back to pretending to be a major political player. He just announced his intention to start his own super PAC, because he is a weird attention-hungry idiot with a bit of money to burn (though not as much money to burn as he would like you to think he has to burn).

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U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake has everything going for him in his bid for a promotion to the Senate: Tons of money, six high-profile terms on Capitol Hill, and the backing of many Republican leaders, including the seat’s current holder, Sen. Jon Kyl, the Senate’s No. 2  Republican, who is retiring this year. He's also supported by Arizona favorite son John McCain.

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TPM rounds up the news, from the Arizona Republic and the Honolulu Star-Advertiser: A deputy from Arpaio's "threats unit" and "posse" member Michael Zullo arrived at the Hawaii Department of Health Monday demanding proof of the existence of a document we've all now seen a thousand times. From the Star-Advertiser:

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This particular dope -- Ben Shapiro, former boy-pundit Joel Pollak, some guy -- says he is totally not a birther, at all, whatever gave you that idea, but it is very important that this forgotten old publicity pamphlet from a literary agent for a book project that never happened be unearthed and heavily hyped now, because the president was not properly "vetted" in 2008. (The idea that the president is a secret radical whose secret radicalism was not properly explored by the mainstream media is a stupid conspiracy theory that is almost as ridiculous as birtherism, by the way. We have proof that the president is not a secret radical leftist, and it is "his entire political career including his first term as president of the United States.")

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The repellent reality television personality has recorded robo-calls for Romney, because nothing makes a person more excited to vote than the sound of Donald Trump invading your personal space and hectoring you for no reason. Citizens across Michigan can look forward to unsolicited phone calls from a recording of the guy who tells D-list celebrities that they're fired, only instead he will be telling them that the former governor of Massachusetts is "a good man" and former Sen. Rick Santorum is a "career politician."

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A remarkable story has been unfolding in New Hampshire just below the national radar: No fewer than nine state representatives are openly supporting birther Orly Taitz’s effort to get Barack Obama off the ballot because they believe he is not a citizen.

I wrote late last month about a contentious hearing at the New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission featuring lawyer/dentist Taitz and a pair of Republican representatives -- Harry Accornero and  Susan DeLemus -- who were furious when the panel voted to keep Obama’s name on the ballot.

But it turns out that there are at least nine elected Republican reps who have lined up behind Taitz’s effort, signing a Nov. 17 letter attached to an election law complaint against Obama.

I’ve obtained a document from Taitz and posted it in full below. The text above the nine signatures is faded but reads:

“We are greatly concerned in regards to undeniable evidence of Mr. Obama using CT Social Security number 042-68-4425, which was never assigned to him … as well as evidence of forgery in the alleged certified copy of the long form birth certificate of Mr. Obama.”

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The tired ravings of conspiracy theorists wouldn’t be worth noting at this point but for the fact that an element within the Republican Party continues to unashamedly embrace the Birthers.

The latest flare-up was at a New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission hearing this month, during which dentist/perennial Birther litigant Orly Taitz demanded that Obama be removed from the state's presidential ballot.

She got support from state Rep. Harry Accornero, a Republican from Laconia, and a former GOP state representative, Dick Marple.

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Trump still has a regular Monday morning "Fox & Friends" call-in deal? I guess Fox can overlook a regular guest being a loyal employee of a rival media conglomerate -- Trump abandoned his publicity stunt presidential campaign when NBC threatened to find a new "Apprentice" host, remember -- as long as they're willing to spout birtherist bullshit on live television.

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WND has published 113 Cain columns. The site advertises the columns as "exclusive commentary" from Cain, which led Moody to report initially that Cain was writing the columns for WND. Of course, in a very WND twist, it is just making up the "exclusive commentary" thing, because it makes up everything: Cain's columns are syndicated by North Star Writers Group.

But WorldNetDaily considers Cain one of is own. Cain seems to write the columns himself (or at least he did initially, before his campaign took off), unless his ghost is particularly fond of exclamation points. None of them involve birtherism, which for years now has been WND's sole driving concern. (Cain did flirt with bitherism earlier this year, thanks mostly to Donald Trump, but he now believes the president is an American.)

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President Obama released his long-form birth certificate months ago, but leading Birther activist Orly Taitz is still insisting to anyone who will listen that the president is not a natural-born citizen. Last Thursday she traveled to Capitol Hill to make her pitch to staffers for some of the most influential conservative members of Congress, some of whom were apparently quite receptive to her message.

Taitz told me she flew on the red-eye from her home state of California to Washington  for a series of meetings on Thursday with aides to Reps. Steve King (R-IA) and Allen West (R-FL), and Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jim Inhofe (R-OK), among others.

"The ones that were most positive was a meeting with two counsels for Marco Rubio. They read all the pleadings, they are aware of the issues," said Taitz, reached at her Orange County dental office.

She now believes both that the birth certificate Obama released in April is a forgery and also that Obama is committing "clear social security fraud -- for which anybody would be in prison."

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Arpaio told the tea-party leaders that he expects political pressure, but he pointed out that as the chief law enforcement officer of Maricopa County, he's taken an oath to respond to citizens who approach him about enforcing the law.

Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Lt. Justin Griffin confirmed to WND that Arpaio is "waiting to receive all the documentation and all the investigative material from Dr. Jerry Corsi, and then he will look into the matter and compare it to the Arizona revised statutes."

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Adam Weinstein flags the case of the latest member of the military, Staff Sgt. Daryn J. Moran, who has apparently gone AWOL over his belief that Barack Obama was not born in the United States and is therefore not legitimate commander-in-chief.

Moran stopped reporting for work at Ramstein Air Force base in Germany last week because of his belief that Obama is "an enemy and a liar." His recent background in the military includes protesting the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and getting in trouble for assailing Islam in a way that made coworkers uncomfortable.

"I feel like I'm supporting the flag of whatever those Islamic countries are and the rainbow flag, and not the red, white, and blue, you know?" he said on a Birther radio show over the weekend. He also expressed his belief that Obama's long-form birth certificate, released in April, is fake.

The episode points to the remarkable resiliency of Birtherism. And the fact that Moran's case has quickly become a cause celebre online shows that anti-Obama conspiracy theories continue to have a broad appeal.

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President Obama released his birth certificate, and then, a few years later, he released another, longer birth certificate, and basically we have all the evidence it is possible to have, in this pre-time machine age we're all forced to live in, that Barack Obama was born, as his Wikipedia entry says, on August 4, 1961, at Kapi'olani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. On the other hand...

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From Bill Ayers: The manuscript to Obama's next "memoir," "Stimulus: How I Saved the Economy and Put America Back to Work."

From his secret father: A time capsule containing the last will and testament of Malcolm X, leaving his secret book of spells designed to brainwash white liberals to his secret son, Barack Shabazz Muhammed Hussein Obama.

From the Rev. Jeremiah Wright: New dashiki.

From Hamas: A store-bought card but a nice one they clearly put some thought into.

From the United States Social Security Administration: A new, stolen Social Security number, to replace his old, stolen Social Security number.

From Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf: A new Muslim prayer mat, to replace his old, worn-out one.

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The American political and media elite have determined, for whatever reason, that the Constitution's eligibility requirements for the presidency are not important.

That is the only conclusion one can draw from the misinformation, disinformation and disinterest they have shown to the serious questions swirling around not only the unique case of Barack Obama but also to the definition of "natural born citizen" in future presidential elections.

It's not unprecedented that failing republics dumb down eligibility requirements for the presidency. It's not unprecedented that failing republics ignore or obscure eligibility requirements for the presidency. It's not unprecedented that failing republics make tragic mistakes in permitting non-qualified candidates to serve in the presidency.

It happened in 1932 in Germany with a candidate named Adolf Hitler.

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Herman Cain was born in Memphis in 1945 -- when he says he's seen racism, he means he's really seen racism. When he says he doesn't see it in the Republican party, I also believe it, because he is a famous Black Conservative, and the GOP loves its famous black conservatives, and treats them very well. This video captures how very charming and likable Cain is, which is, obviously, a huge part of his appeal. The other part of his appeal is the fact that he'll tell anyone who'll listen that he's blacker than President Obama, and is also living proof that the conservative movement and the Tea Parties aren't racist. He literally tells his mostly-white audiences: "You are not racist!" You can imagine how much old white conservatives enjoy hearing that.

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But Trump told Mother Jones that he did not actually tell Corsi any of these things. In fact, Trump says he did not even read Corsi's book!

This confuses WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah. Is Corsi lying about what Trump said? Did Farah's website just make up some nonsense and publish it because that is what they always do? Or is Trump in league with them?

The answer, obviously, is that Donald Trump is part of the vast conspiracy to make WorldNetDaily look ridiculous. As Farah says:

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Trump's is not the first, and will not be the last political book that was rendered ridiculous or blatantly incorrect before or very shortly after its release. It's not even the only one released this year! Here are some of our favorite sad, wrong books:

"Where's the Birth Certificate?" by Jerome Corsi, 2011

Oh, there it is! Sorry, Jerome Corsi, but you couldn't have realized that your entirely pointless search for the "long-form" birth certificate would end nearly a month before your book's publication.

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