Last week, Politico's Melanie Mason tackled the question of why female politicians are so rarely caught with their pants down. Mason starts out with a pretty good theory—"Men far outnumber women in elected office, and statistical probability dictates that if a random politician is caught in a sex scandal, it is overwhelmingly likely that the [...]

Mike Rogers, the gay activist blogger who worked to out Senator Larry Craig, Representative Mark Foley, and Representative Ed Schrock, has a new suspected closeted gay in the cross hairs: Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Rogers heads up "Proud of Who We Are," a project aimed at "Holding Government Officials Accountable for Hiding [...]