In an interview with the Daily Beast published today, Donald Trump asserts that Obama was born in Kenya, not the United States. Trump told Lloyd Grove, “That’s the way life works… He didn’t know he was running for president, so he told the truth. The literary agent wrote down what he said… He said he was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia… Now they’re saying it was a mistake. Just like his Kenyan grandmother said he was born in Kenya, and she pointed down the road to the hospital, and after people started screaming at her she said, ‘Oh, I mean Hawaii.’ Give me a break.”

Oh. Well, that settles it then. We can all go home. The president was born in Kenya.

Trump, meanwhile, while he’s not busy delivering the stone tablets of birtherism, will be hosting a major fundraiser for Mitt Romney on Tuesday alongside Newt “Kenyan Anti-Colonial” Gingrich.

This should be held around the Romney campaign’s neck.

The agency has been grappling with the case for more than three years amid questions from lawmakers and investors as to whether Lehman misrepresented its financial health before filing the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history in September 2008.

Under a heading reading “Activity in Last Four Weeks,” the undated document reads, “The staff has concluded its investigation and determined that charges will likely not be recommended.”

According to the Republicans, the Obama administration is the most anti-capitalist team since whenever. Right? Right.

The Missouri House “spent more than $1,100 in taxpayer money on a security camera to keep watch over a new bronze bust of conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh.” The small-government conservative talk show-host was inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians during a closed-door ceremony last week. He joined the ranks of “President Harry Truman, Walt Disney and former Cardinals baseball star Stan Musial.”

No wasteful spending there. Nope.

Ironically, the solid bronze bust weighs less than Limbaugh’s actual head.

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Ron Paul suspended his campaign for the presidency, but his lunatic supporters will not be deterred. Because Liberty!

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Yes, that’s Mitt Romney’s signature on the poster of birther Donald Trump asking you for a $3 donation.

As recently as two days ago on May 22nd, Donald Trump tweeted to ask what President Obama’s college applications say about his place of birth. That’s not merely a wink and a nod, it’s an accusation of fraud.

Does this mean birtherism is now an official component of the Romney campaign?

As long as Donald Trump is serving as the “single most significant surrogate” for Governor Romney, as his PR staff asserts, I count this as a defacto endorsement of birtherism.

If you were to draw any amusement out of this situation, it would have to be from the fact that Donald Trump doesn’t really care if Romney wins or not. This is all about The Donald, and Mitt Romney is just along for the ride.

This is Moodys’ projected electoral outcome for the 2012 election based on the improving economies of battleground states, current polling trends in those states, and the results of the 2008 election.

Nine states switched from supporting Republican President George W. Bush in 2004 to Democrat Obama in 2008. Leaving out Indiana, which both sides say is trending toward its Republican tradition, the remaining eight are again shaping up as the central election battleground.

Those eight states — Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia — have a combined 101 electoral votes. Romney must win at least 79 of those electoral votes to prevail if all other states run true to their 2004 and 2008 partisan preferences.

And as Smarty points out, the president could even lose Ohio and still win the election. I find that hard to see happening, however.

This isn’t a case for complacency, however in this election more than perhaps any previous election, it’s more advisable to focus on the situation in electorally-crucial states rather than national polls which have been dubious at best.

Keep this in mind before lighting your hair on fire the next time a pollster assigns a heavy conservative weighting (which doesn’t actually exist) to a poll to produce a desired result. A result that fits their narrative of an “all tied up” horse race.

Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich are headlining an expensive fundraiser for Mitt Romney in Las Vegas next week. Two men who have, at one point or another, been impressively critical of Mitt Romney.

Billionaire real estate investor and television personality Donald Trump is hosting a pricey fundraiser for presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Las Vegas next Tuesday and Newt Gingrich is expected to make an appearance, Yahoo News has learned.

“Newt is expected to be there along with many other well known people,” Michael Cohen, Trump’s special counsel, told Yahoo News.

To co-chair the fundraiser at Trump International Hotel, supporters are required to raise $250,000 on behalf of Romney’s presidential campaign, according to the invitation to the event. A VIP reception with Romney costs $10,000 and the minimum donation to attend is $2,500.

Trump, who officially endorsed Romney in February, will play “a significant role” at the fundraiser, Cohen said.

Donald Trump reignited the latest wave of Birtherism when he sent his private investigators to Hawaii to ascertain the truth about President Obama’s birthplace, and those investigators never reported back so I can only assume they’re still out there somewhere searching. And Trump, who has a good relationship with “the blacks,” also recently encouraged Mitt Romney to hit the president on Reverend Wright.

And Newt Gingrich is Newt Gingrich. He spearheaded the effort to question Romney’s record at Bain Capital before Democrats even had a chance to and spent a significant portion of his campaign calling for child janitors in public schools.

Is this the best Romney has? These men have little to no investment in a Romney presidency. Their sole motivation is remaining relevant and profitable. They’re using Mitt Romney just as much as he’s using them. Maybe they deserve each other for that reason.