FORGOTTEN GUITAR: An Inside Look at the Fender Factory in 1959 (Video).

ALSO BREAKING: Weinstein pleads not guilty to NY rape charges.

LOSING THE PLOT: Miss America scraps swimsuit competition and says women no longer have to wear evening gowns as chairwoman Gretchen Carlson promises contestants won’t be judged on their physical appearance.

Gentlemen, you can’t judge women by their appearance here — this is a beauty pageant!

BREAKING: David Hogg Family Home SWATted.

ENDORSED: Mike Huckabee: ‘Please God, Let Nancy Pelosi Continue to be the Voice of the Democratic Party.’

THE ONION: Bill Clinton Still Waiting For Personal Apology From Monica Lewinsky For Using Power As Intern To Exploit Him Sexually.

Given Clinton’s cringe-worthy performance yesterday, it’s safe to say there might be more than a hint of truth to this satire.

FAKE NEWS: THE EUROPEAN EDITION. Cardiff University professor Richard Sambrook dissects three recent fake stories. The first one is of particular interest, because it alleged the London Evening Standard has been selling favorable news coverage to companies including Uber, and Google for £3m. The allegation is made by a fake news outfit calling themselves “www.opendemocracy.net.”

And who are the major sponsors behind this fake news outfit? George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and the Rockefeller Fund. Hold on…we keep getting told that Fake News is a Russian scheme to keep Trump in power. What gives?

K.C. JOHNSON: The Gross Unfairness of Title IX Goes National.

Two national publications—the New York Times and the Atlantic—have recently reported on procedural abuses in the Title IX system. Both pieces are must-reads, and reminders of how the one-sided nature of campus Title IX tribunals, analyzed for years mostly by smaller media outlets like this one, has at last decisively permeated mainstream media.

About time.

SHITHOLE COUNTRY: As Trump Plans North Korea Summit, Defectors Tell Harrowing Stories. “Torture and starvation in political prison camps, public executions and forced abortions persist.”

Kim Jong Un, the nation’s third-generation dictator, has tightened border controls to prevent escapes since taking power at the end of 2011. Those caught risk prolonged imprisonment. North Korean women sent back from China have been forced to have abortions if the fathers were Chinese, defectors say.

Torture and starvation are routine in a vast network of North Korean prison camps operated since the 1950s with a total land area about 20 times the size of Manhattan. Around 100,000 people are held in five camps, according to the United Nations. Camps in central areas have added new facilities to house more prisoners, satellite images show.

The repression has been largely ignored as Mr. Kim seeks to rehabilitate his international image with a swing to diplomacy. As President Donald Trump prepares for a planned summit meeting with Mr. Kim on June 12—the first between a U.S. and North Korean leader—it isn’t clear whether he will raise the issue of Pyongyang’s human-rights violations, or if doing so would lead to any improvement.

Mr. Trump has indicated that he sees human rights as a major concern, including in a speech to the South Korean legislature in November in which he described prisoners as “enduring torture, starvation, rape and murder on a constant basis.” But at a meeting on Friday with one of Mr. Kim’s top lieutenants, the president said they didn’t discuss human rights.

Unfortunately, three Administrations worth of neglect allowed Pyongyang to develop nuclear weapons and delivery systems dangerous enough to buy themselves a seat at the negotiating table.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Profs say female STEM grades don’t reflect ‘perceived effort.’ You could write an entire book promoting patriarchy based solely on feminist statements about female weakness and gullibility.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: It’s too easy to form a mob today. Where are our protections from online mob ‘justice?’

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: You Decide — Papadopoulos Is an Israeli Spy or a RUSSIAN Colluder, and Much, Much More.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Happy Meal.

A quick test. Can you guess the occupation of the person quoted below?

OK, officially, I now hate white people. I am a white people [sic], for God’s sake, but can we keep them — us — out of my neighborhood?

Yes, once again, via Facebook, an educator speaks. Specifically, Rutgers University history professor James Livingston, following a visit to the Harlem Shake burger restaurant, which was, in his words, “overrun with little Caucasian assholes who know their parents will approve of anything they do.” In this case, the children of unsightly and problematic pallor were sliding on the floor and singing loudly. Activities that no brown-skinned child has ever indulged in, and which, naturally, the professor felt obliged to racialize:

Slide around the floor, you little shithead, sing loudly, you moron. Do what you want, nobody here is gonna restrict your right to be white.

Why are Democrat monopoly institutions such cesspits of racism?

NAVY AIR DEFENSE HOT SHOT: The guided-missile destroyer USS The Sullivans (DDG 68) launches a Standard Missile 2 (SM-2) from a vertical launch cell.

NOT A PIECE OF CAKE: I am of two minds about Masterpiece Cakeshop. On the one hand, I’m sure it’s not comforting for the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop to think that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission might have won if its members had only disguised their contempt for people of faith a bit better. On the other hand, as my colleague Maimon Schwarzschild has written in “Do Religious Exemptions Save?,” the alternative—a Constitutionally-mandated duty to accommodate religion—may not work so well either.

In the end, there is no substitute for living in a country where people (and hence legislators) want to accommodate the sincerely held religious and moral views of others and don’t want to dragoon them into actions to which they have such objections unless it’s really necessary.

MAKE ARMS SALES GREAT AGAIN: Boeing Sees Two-Year Wait for World’s Biggest Fighter Jet Deal.

Boeing is well placed in the race to supply the Indian Air Force with 110 fighter jets, Gene Cunningham, Boeing vice president of global defense sales, told Bloomberg News on Sunday on the sidelines of a security forum in Singapore. The company is a finalist in a separate competition to supply the Indian navy with 57 fighter jets.

“We have gotten to know Indian industry, understand the Indian process,” Cunningham said.

The tender for 110 combat aircraft mandates building at least 85 percent of the order locally. The deal is likely to be at least $15 billion.

Boeing said in April that it would partner with state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. and Mahindra Defense Systems Ltd. to manufacture the F/A-18 Super Hornet in India at a new facility, which can also be used for other requirements. Other companies in the running include Lockheed Martin Corp., Saab AB and BAE Systems Plc.

The Super Hornet is a great jet, and despite its age would be a yuge upgrade from the problematical Russian stuff India has been buying for decades, mostly out of postcolonial pique.

And if that list of suitors is complete, New Delhi isn’t even considering buying Russian jets for once.

ART OF THE DEAL? BMW Looking at Sourcing More Carbonized Iron From U.S.

MARK TAPSCOTT MENTIONED THIS PIECE YESTERDAY, BUT IT’S WORTH FLAGGING AGAIN: POLITICIZING THE FBI: HOW JAMES COMEY SUCCEEDED WHERE RICHARD NIXON FAILED. It’s by the biographer of Mark Felt, the FBI official who was better known as Watergate’s “Deep Throat” source.

DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ seems to be worried about the Imran Awan scandal.

Ex-Democratic National Committee head Debbie Wasserman Schultz said she intervened in a Pakistani land deal involving her then–IT aide Imran Awan, according to two House employees. The dispute came after Awan’s father was charged with fraud in relation to the deal, and the mysterious exertion of political influence resulted in Pakistani authorities instead targeting the elderly alleged victims, according to a local report.

And when a House Office of Inspector General cybersecurity investigation found that Awan made “unauthorized access” to House servers, including the House Democratic Caucus’ shortly before the election, Wasserman Schultz became “frantic, not normal,” “making the rounds” to House officials in an attempt to kill the investigation, one House employee told The Daily Caller News Foundation. . . .

Wasserman Schultz cornered House Chief Administrative Officer Phil Kiko and called him a “fucking Islamophobe,” saying “you will not so much as take away their parking spots,” the two House employees said Kiko told them.

Read the whole thing from Luke Rosiak, whose excellent and unrelenting reporting here has been shamefully ignored by most media folks.

HMM: In Shakeup at Turkish Soccer Club, a Worrisome Sign for Erdogan?

A leadership change at a Turkish sports club has sent a message rife with political undertones, with some seeing the ouster of its longtime chairman as a sign of a tide turning against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, three weeks before he stands for reelection himself.

Ali Koc, the youngest son of Turkey’s richest family, was elected chairman of Fenerbahce, ending Aziz Yildirim’s 20-year tenure. Fenerbahce, one of Turkey’s so-called “big three” soccer clubs, is Erdogan’s favored team and has been at the center of political jockeying by various factions for several years. Koc won in a landslide – the 51-year-old garnered more than 16,000 of the 20,736 votes cast — suggesting that Yildirim supporters turned against him.

“The Fenerbahce family has carried out change, now it’s time for the big change in Turkey,” tweeted Muharrem Ince, the main opposition Republican People’s Party’s candidate for president at elections scheduled for June 24. Temel Karamollaoglu, another opposition candidate, tweeted that nobody could have predicted that the long-time Fenerbahce incumbent would be overthrown by a “deep wave.”

“In my opinion, the same will happen at the elections,” he said.

Stay tuned…

BLUE WAVE? GOP Doubles Number Of Female House Candidates.

This cycle the GOP has 103 female candidates, including incumbents, compared to 48 in 2016.

“We’ve seen an intense level of interest from Republican women in running for Congress this cycle,” said Jesse Hunt, press secretary for the National Republican Congressional Committee. “And some of the strongest candidates we have running currently are females in competitive districts.”

Republicans have not always been this successful. After a disappointing recruiting drive two years ago, the GOP campaign committee asked New York Rep. Elise Stefanik to oversee the effort. The 33-year-old Stefanik was the youngest woman ever elected to the House four years ago. The House GOP caucus currently contains two dozen women.

Meanwhile, the Democrats’ top elected officeholder just went on the record to claim that last week’s “strong employment numbers mean little.”

Nancy Pelosi isn’t exactly surfing that blue wave.

GOP DONORS REALLY NEED TO START FUNDING GLENN’S “WELCOME WAGON” IDEA: Nearly half of Bay Area residents want out, poll shows. The reason why is no surprise.

As Kate of Canada’s Small Dead Animals blog titles her recurring posts on California craziness, “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas, Hear My Prayer.”