Perhaps feeling the pain of another Arizona official grabbing the birther spotlight, Sheriff Joe Arpaio dispatched a deputy and a member of his volunteer posse to the Hawaii Department of Health on Monday seeking Obama’s birth certificate.

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UK auction site claims to have for sale a vial that once contained the blood of Ronald Reagan.

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Harry Reid to Senate GOP: Drop your “blind adherence to Tea Party extremism” on tax policy.

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Ken Bennett, the Arizona Secretary of State who is threatening to take President Obama off the state ballot, turns out to be Mitt Romney’s state campaign co-chair. Will he investigate Romney’s birth certificate too?

Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett backs off his birther quest: “If I embarrassed the state, I apologize but that certainly wasn’t my intent.”

Bennett also said that Obama will “be on the ballot as long as he fills out the same paperwork and does the same things that everybody else has.”

Nick Martin has the latest.