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Maryland isn't the only state with Rorschach test congressional districts, but it's pretty bad. Here are some of the nation's highlights.

Each week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a relatively obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar, another brick to add to the wall of your

In September 2004, as chairman of the Legal Committee for the Association of Boxing Commissions and general counsel to the Association of Ringside Physicians, I was honored and privileged to be invited to testify before a congressional subcommittee at a hearing entitled Examining Professional Boxing: Are Further Reforms Necessary — as was Muhammad Ali.

While likely well-intentioned, pleas for leniency for pedophile Dennis Hastert, the former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, demonstrate an utter lack of knowledge of the damage such a monster causes to his victims. Unfortunately, such ignorance is pervasive in our justice system's handling of child sex abuse cases.

Political ploys — including the prosecution of Tom Delay and claims that voter reforms discriminate — irk Maryland's former governor.

The upheaval in today's Republican Party started after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 but didn't come to the fore until Newt Gingrich's takeover of the House in 1995. Now it has become a real threat to the nation.