HILLARY’S HEALTHCARE STRATEGY: Scapegoat Drug Companies For ObamaCare Cost Increases.

NBC: OUR OMERTÀ IS SHOWING! Brian Williams returns to television, riding out his contract with NBC on its little-watched cable subsidiary, MSNBC. “There was no mention of the media scandal that galvanized the nation in February and cost Williams his prestigious post at NBC,” USA Today reports:

It was as if nothing had happened, as if Williams hadn’t been off the air for nearly two-thirds of a year after an episode that led to an embarrassing demotion and a substantial pay cut. Williams will now anchor breaking news for MSNBC, NBC”s sister cable news network where Williams used to work, and will have no regular time slot.  He also will occasionally anchor special reports on NBC.

It had been telegraphed that Williams won’t speak further about the scandal and will not subject himself to interviews about it.

How does that work exactly? Are conversations with Williams only approved with the caveat that the interviewer not bring up how he wrecked his career? Will any interviewer attempt to get Williams on the record, ideally with cameras rolling, on this topic? Do politicians get carve-outs on embarrassing issues before they go on a live NBC or MSNBC show?

I mean, besides Hillary, Obama, and other Democrats, of course.

HMM: Clock controversy risks backfiring for Obama as critics cast doubt on narrative.

Is this going to turn out to be another Balloon Boy Hoax?

Related: Stand with Ahmed? Then challenge the zero-tolerance mania.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: ‘There’s no stigma’: why so many Danish women are opting to become single mothers.

GEE, WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Richard Gere: De Blasio ‘Doesn’t Appear to Have the Solutions’ Everyone Thought.

PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: Donald Trump Campaign Denies Credentials to Huffington Post Reporter in Iowa. “Why did it happen? Perhaps because the Huffington Post has been publishing Trump coverage in its entertainment vertical rather than under politics, much to the chagrin of the campaign.”

Trump treats the MSM how many Democrats treat Fox News; this has to be playing well to his base.

RIP YOGI BERRA, AGE 90. “His wife once asked Berra where he wanted to be buried, in St. Louis, New York or Montclair. ‘I don’t know,’ he said. ‘Why don’t you surprise me?'”

WE’VE SPOTTED THAT TOO: The Continuing Moral Decline of the Political Left.

YOUR FEELGOOD STORY OF THE NIGHT: Newborn cry stirs dying mother from coma.

ANTIDOTE NEEDED: The Poisonous Obama Years.

IT’S STARTING TO LOOK THAT WAY: 14 year-old kid makes Obama his dupe.

NOT UNLIKE WRITING: Photographing Dolphins.

THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF OBAMA: The Deal With Iran.

BRAD TORGERSEN: Racers of the Night.

WE COULD DO WORSE (AND PROBABLY WILL): Defining Fiorina.

KINDA EXPLODES THE AMERICA BAD NARRATIVE: A fascinating map of the world’s most and least racially tolerant countries.

HEY, IT WAS EITHER THAT OR TRY TO CONVINCE PEOPLE THAT HILLARY’S A REAL PERSON: DNC Mocked for Attempt to Portray Marco Rubio Donor as Nazi.

AT AMAZON, bestsellers in Military History.

Also, deals galore in the Amazon Outlet Store.

ALSO, THE REASONING SKILLS: DHS Officials Often Lack ‘Information Necessary to Make Sound Decisions,’ Chairman Says.

YOU CAN NOW SING HAPPY BIRTHDAY WITHOUT PAYING A FEE. And I suspect that a lot of people who paid royalties should really get refunds.

NOT EVERYONE WOULD REGARD THIS AS A CATASTROPHE IF IT HAPPENED HERE: “Essentially, Japan’s government just ordered all of the country’s public universities to end education in the social sciences, the humanities and law.”

UH OH: “Another apparent discrepancy has arisen in what Hillary Clinton has said about her emails. When The Des Moines Register asked her about the latest twist in the private server saga on Tuesday, she said she had no new answers.”

HONESTLY, IT’S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD IF YOU CAN’T: iPhone 6s Plus: Don’t worry, you’ll be able to buy one on Friday.

WELL, THAT’S A RELIEF: Super blood moon on Sunday will not usher in the end of the world.

ACADEMICS THINK CAPITALISM IS CORRUPT BECAUSE THAT’S HOW ACADEMIA IS: Antitrust Suit Charges Collusion Between Duke, UNC:

Colleges and universities lure top faculty members away from competitor institutions all the time, and the practice is (generally speaking) entirely legal. But while some relish it, others consider faculty poaching, or actively recruiting faculty members from competitors, bad form and try to avoid doing it regularly — especially to institutions in the same geographic area.

A new antitrust lawsuit alleges much more than a neighborly understanding between Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, however. The suit, brought against Duke by a medical faculty member there, rather alleges a binding no-hire agreement between the two Research Triangle institutions prevented her from getting a job at Carolina that otherwise would have been hers. The faculty member alleges there are others like her, and she’s proposed a class action.

Danielle Seaman, an assistant professor of radiology at Duke, says she’s been trying to get a job at Carolina for three years. She allegedly interviewed and was told by Carolina’s chief of cardiothoracic imaging in 2015 that her otherwise strong chance had been rejected because the respective deans of the medical schools at Carolina and Duke had a few years earlier formally agreed to not hire faculty members between institutions at the same rank, in order to control faculty salaries.

The emails are pretty damning.