While the charges were announced last March by Attorney General Kathleen Kane with the roar of a high-profile press conference, the case is petering out with the whimper of a series of plea deals.

“Every citizen, I believe, has an obligation in some form or another to build up the positive and reduce the negative forces of our interdependence, because one thing we do know — and it’s the reason I’m, I’ve been so upset about the shape of this immigration debate in America — is, in a world where borders look more like nets than walls, we are interdependent, whether we like it or not,” Clinton said.

“If Hispanics think that we do not want them here,” the report said, “they will close their ears to our policies.”

“We’re going to help get to the bottom of this,” said Dent, a Republican who represents the 15th congressional district, which include parts of Dauphin and Lebanon counties.

The report found the average cyber scored 48.7 on the state’s 100-point performance scale. None reached 70, the score that Dumaresq has said shows a school is moving toward progress…

Some photos of children, under the message headline “men in training,” were emailed among the state employees, Kane’s agency spokeswoman Renee Martin said. But none of that material constitutes child pornography under Pennsylvania criminal law, Martin said…

NEW YORK TIMES: The head of the company whose ferry sank in April, killing more than 300 people in one of South Korea’s worst disasters in decades, was convicted on Thursday of accidental homicide and embezzlement and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

“When I saw them they literally took my breath away,” Kane said. “And they are deplorable: hardcore, graphic, sometimes violent emails that had a string of videos and pictures depicting sometimes children, old women. Some of them involved violent sexual acts against women.”

The error was in stating “2012 ARREST RATE PER 1000 RESIDENTS”. If this were true, almost one in four or one in five would have been arrested over the course of the year.
Preposterous!

Those disparities are easier to measure than they are to explain. They could be a reflection of biased policing; they could just as easily be a byproduct of the vast economic and educational gaps that persist across much of the USA — factors closely tied to crime rates.

USA TODAY: Did Moses influence the Founding Fathers? Is all international terrorism linked to Islamist fundamentalists? Was slavery not a key contributor to the Civil War?

Now the Service wants to conduct its own fund raising, which would compete for and detract from the only funding, apart from the state and other grants, upon which individual libraries rely.

Yesterday evening the wife and I attended a lecture by Ezekiel Emanuel, one of the progentures of the Affordable Care Act, at the Harvard Club in New York City. (No, the publisher is not a Harvard graduate. He married up!)