If you wondered about those "Birther" fruitcakes...

Ron Paul and his anti-Semitic legions aside, here's a brief account of the facts concerning another chronic embarrassment to conservatives: the lunatic fringe group known as "birthers," who are the the Right's equivalent to the "Truther" nut jobs who claim that George W. Bush was responsible for 9/11.

Key to their dementia is their inability to grasp the simple concept that another term for the "Certificate of Live Birth" issued by the State of Hawaii for one "Barack Hussein Obama II" is a "birth certificate." Yes, Virginia. The President has indeed produced his birth certificate. And it proves that he was born in Hawaii.

There is another birth certificate out there that purports to prove that he was born in Kenya. That one, by contrast, has been proven to be a forgery.