Wednesday’s release by the White House of President Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate signals several dispiriting things about the state of our politics and the lingering poison of racism therein. As Baratunde Thurston so poignantly illustrated in his video, that Obama felt the need to do so bears the echos of the days of poll taxes and literacy tests, when African Americans were made to go through the motions of passing an ever-rising bar to prove their worthiness to exercise rights that were already theirs on paper, only to be deprived one more time by an obstacle newly concocted once they had surmounted the last one.

From hereon, Trump’s presidential ambitions are gone. He gambled on the birther issue and he lost. No one except the wackos on the right will take him seriously any more. Trump is a racist fraud and so is the, “white-power” birther movement.

   By: Crispy KaheruPresident Museveni’s call for political dialogue with the opposition party’ leaders which hit the headlines of most local Ugandan media outlets this week reminded me of Winston Churchill’s famous quote: “Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities.” Putting this in perspective, Ugandans too [...]

USA TODAY: President Obama released copies of his birth certificate today, hoping to silence questions about his Aug. 4, 1961 birth, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Obama himself plans to make a statement about the so-called “birther issue” at 9:45 a.m. The release is a response to Donald Trump and other critics who have questioned whether Obama [...]

Yet another tremblingly wrong prognostication by Dick! According to Dick Morris, Trump — a charlatan of monstrous proportions — is shaking up the 2012 race …and he is for real! Mark my words, Trump will not run in 2012, and now that his “Birther” nonsense has lost steam, and as he faces the prospect of [...]