PBC News & Comment: Mr. Williams, Your Pants Are on Fire!

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a liar, pants on fire, fights losing battle to repair credibility--will Clapper defend him?....
--Vaxxer orthodoxy reaches a new level of groupthink, political correctness
--Alabama’s Ten Commandments judge, Roy Moore, fails in last-ditch effort to block gay marriage
--Sen. Boxer’s tax break for corporations with $2 trillion stashed overseas—to pay for our rotting infrastructure—is a very bad idea
--Obama and Merkel meet at White House to talk about Ukraine and other issues
--after IS immolated its captured pilot, Jordan goes ferocious, with 56 air strikes against Daesh, some in Iraq for first time
--Shiite Badr brigade takes up the fight against IS in Iraq, putting Iran on the spot
--Pando defends its reporter Yasha Levine from online attacks by top Tor staffer
--Adnan Syed, the central figure in NPR’s Serial podcast, gets an appeal hearing in Maryland