God-o-Meter caught up the other day with Charmaine Yoest, the Family Research Council VP of communications who left her post last year to become a senior advisor to Mike Huckabee. Yoest returned to FRC last month, when Huckabee’s cash flow got too tight, but she had this interesting insight in what keeps Huckabee going in…

God-o-Meter can’t believe it missed this Slate story several days back. Douglas W. Kmiec, the Catholic legal scholar who chaired Mitt Romney’s Committee on the Constitution, makes the Catholic case for Barack Obama. Given that Kmiec is a big deal in GOP circles–he was Ronald Reagan’s constitutional lawyer–and how politically scandalous his warm feelings for…

At a rally in Steubenville, Ohio last night, Bill Clinton shouted down a gaggle of pro-life hecklers. Yes, Clinton challenged the pro-live movement’s position for criminalizing doctors and expectant mothers. But he also claimed to be more pro-life than them, arguing that his policies as president actually helped reduce demand for abortion. That line of…

God-o-Meter carried an item last week about the IRS investigating a California pastor who endorsed Mike Huckabee on church letterhead, an apparent violation of IRS rules against church politicking. Now that pastor, Wiley S. Drake, is striking back. He’s calling on his flock to pray for the demise of Americans United for Separation of Church…

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