How Conservatives Are Blowing Their Chance  —  President Obama is on his way to Portsmouth, New Hampshire at this hour for a town hall meeting on health care.  At this same hour last week, several of the President's top political advisers were meeting in a White House conference room to discuss …

Matthews to Obama protester: Why'd you bring a loaded gun to a town hall with the president?  —  Good question, especially given the sign this guy was carrying.  Considering the lengths to which the Secret Service normally goes to investigate threats against the president …

Documents Detail Campaign to Oust U.S. Attorney  —  The dismissal of New Mexico U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias in December 2006 followed extensive communication among lawyers and political aides in the White House who hashed over complaints about his work on public corruption cases against Democrats …

Little girl at Obama town hall has not-so-random political connections  —  As we always like to point out: There are no coincidences in Obama world.  —  Via the Boston Globe: Surprise! … Tons of readers point to this AR15.com post tracking Hall's political footprint, including this Facebook page and photo:

Does Linda Douglass know about this? part 2  —  Barack Obama's denial that he has advocated a “single payer,” Canadian style health care system may not have been the most comic moment of his Portsmouth dog-and-pony show.  He also disputed the notion that adding a government plan to “compete” …

“Send Them Home With a Bullet in the Head”  —  I've gone on the record disagreeing with the term ‘Teabaggers’ and with the use of the word ‘un-American’ - I've done so because despite the astroturfing and the faux-grassroots opposition to health care reform, I place a premium on citizen activism …

It Is Democracy, Not Health-Care Reform, That Is Sick  —  As Josh Marshall says, we've reached a point in the health-care reform discussion where logic has fallen apart.  Consider, for instance, Danielle Allen's op-ed this morning.  Discussing the insistence of some that health-care reform …

FREEDOMWORKS ISSUES ABJECT APOLOGY TO LEFT  —  Free-market organization thanks left-wing groups for instruction on the finer points of intelligent policy debate  —  Washington, DC — Today, FreedomWorks released an apology to leftist political organizations, including MoveOn.org …

Economists Call for Bernanke to Stay, Say Recession Is Over  —  Economists are nearly unanimous that Ben Bernanke should be reappointed to another term as Federal Reserve chairman, and they said there is a 71% chance that President Barack Obama will ask him to stay on, according to a survey.

Santorum dips toes in 2012 Iowa waters  —  Add former Sen. Rick Santorum to the list of potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates.  —  POLITICO has learned Santorum will visit first-in-the-nation Iowa this fall for a series of appearances before the sort of conservative activists …

Let's Just Say It: We're Scared Someone's Going to Try to Kill Barack Obama  —  MSNBC just aired video of a man with a pistol strapped to his leg waiting for Barack Obama to arrive at a townhall in New Hampshire.  —  The man is carrying a sign that says, “It Is Time to Water the Tree of Liberty.”

What Really Happens When You Demand the President Produce His Birth Certificate?  —  You get a bunch of outrageous people — very nice people, mind you, but frustrated enough to believe anything about Obama — storming the offices of the attorney general, the secretary of state, and the FBI.

What's the Point of These Health Care Town Halls?  —  Michael Crowley liked Senator Claire McCaskill's performance at a town hall earlier today: … I agree, but watching McCaskill on TV what I mostly thought of was that I don't understand why members of congress are holding these town halls.

Jesse Griffin: Just Asking Questions  —  The investigation into infamous, expletive-spewing, former assistant kindergarten instructor and anti-Palin blogger, who when not encouraging masturbation on a blog he provided a link to on his MySpace page that any student who knew him by name could have discovered …

Anonymous Group Making Robocalls With Fake Harry Reid Caller ID  —  Congressional staffers have been plagued over the past two days with telephone calls that appear to be coming from Senate Majority Harry Reid's office but are actually from an anonymous organization highly critical of Democrats.