At least two evangelical pastors who are personally supporting Mike Huckabee received anonymous mailings warning that their churches risk sanction by the Internal Revenue Service if they become too involved in politics, Michael Scherer wrote yesterday. In a press conference on Thursday, Huckabee condemned the mailings calling them, ‘a form of voter suppression.’

At their last lunch before the caucuses, Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, along with Hillary’s mom Dorothy Rodham, corralled a room for a group of their supporters at a Des Moines restaurant called Tursi’s Latin King in Des Moines. At their table was a petite blonde woman with brilliant blue eyes who had played a [...]

Time‘s Joel Stein brings his L.A. perspective to the Iowa caucuses: My wife and I play this game called Better, Worse, Same. You see a celebrity in person, you compare her to what she looks like on TV and photographs. For instance: Jenna Elfman: better; Kate Hudson: worse; Will Smith: same. I saw Mitt Romney [...]

We’ve updated our gallery chronicling, and ranking, the best gaffes of the 2008 campaign cycle. Check it out here.

Richard Viguerie, political direct mail pioneer and gray eminence of the conservative movement, fired a volley today at Roger Ailes and Fox News for barring Ron Paul from the channel’s January 6th presidential debate in New Hampshire. Viguerie has been displeased for some time by the GOP, which he accuses of becoming a party of [...]

Hat tip to Marriott bellman Mike, who tells me he was startled to see none other than Bill Clinton coming out the door at my favorite corner of downtown Des Moines. Huckabee folks tell me the former President (and fellow former Arkansas Governor) just happened to be in the neighborhood, and wanted to say hi. [...]