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I have no problem if these people want to be private - but then they shouldn't be running for office. I wrote a post called "No more 'outing,'" where I pledged to replace the word "outing" with "reporting." To me, "outing" is the indiscriminate revealing of an individual's sexual orientation. I don't do that. I report on hypocrisy. I take it much further. I'm a reporter. I research stories. Like many reporters, the first thing that happens is a tip. Let me tell you how many "tips" I've gotten: "I heard So-and-so is gay, I know he's gay, I've heard it forever, I just don't have the proof." I've probably gotten a hundred e-mails over the years that have said, "Lindsey Graham is gay, I can't believe you're not reporting this, you're a horrible individual." Well, everybody can say they know...
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The State Department and other U.S. agencies are not fully cooperating with lawmakers' efforts to probe the WikiLeaks security breach, according to the Republican likely to be the next chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Rep. Mike Rogers, Michigan Republican and a senior member of the intelligence committee, said government officials seem "more concerned about their department's reputation than the consequences [of the leak], and that is a big problem.
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WASHINGTON, April 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Insurance salespeople are on Capitol Hill today lobbying Congress to support a bill that would gut federal health reform cost-saving rules and increase consumer health insurance premiums to protect brokers' sales commissions. The top three lobby associations representing insurance agents and brokers gave members of Congress $3.18 million in the 2010 election cycle, and two-thirds of those contributions went to Republicans, according to data reported by the Center for Responsive Politics. The sponsors of the legislation on behalf of insurance agents and brokers, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) and Rep. John Barrow (D-GA), received $16,000 and $12,500 respectively from the insurance sales lobby associations in the last election cycle. House Sp...
