MODERATE GOPERS CHASING HISPANIC VOTE ILLUSION: Former Washington Times desk editor Peter Parisi lands a devastating barrage on the perennial notion that caving on basic immigration issues will win Republicans millions of new Hispanic supporters.

WE WILL ALL MISS CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: A personal tribute.

SMUGGLERS LEAVE 6-YEAR-OLD BOY IN DESERT, BORDER PATROL SAVES HIM: So will that story be given anywhere near the same prominence in the MSM as the weeping little Honduran girl? Both are tragic, both say something important about the issues at hand, but where’s the fairness and balance in coverage?

JUDGE DOLLY GEE HOLDS FATE OF TRUMP EO IN HER HANDS: That’s the consensus among legal experts interviewed by LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby. Seems Trump and aides purposely designed the executive order to require Gee’s agreement to change a 1997 court settlement. If she refuses, the illegal immigrant kids stay in the dog cages and it’s her fault now. If she agrees, she may reopen a rotten can of worms as the ACLU and other units of the Left’s Revolution by Litigation Army files new lawsuits.

REMEMBER PETER FONDA ON HIS CHOPPER? Whatever you think of that particular enduring contribution to popular culture, Fonda got himself into hot water with an especially disgusting tweet advocating violence against the First Family. The Secret Service had some questions for him, according to LifeZette’s Zachary Leeman.

AND HERE’S FOUR IMMIGRATION FACTS THE MSM WON’T TELL YOU: No, Trump didn’t create those detention centers just to throw the children of illegal immigrants into dog cages. Who did? Can you spell O-B-A-M-A?  And three more.

DRAINING THE SWAMP STARTS WITH STOPPING THE REVOLVING DOOR: That’s the advice of Rep. Ron DeSantis in an interview with LifeZette’s Connor Wolf. Here’s a multiple choice question for you: How many former senators and representatives are now working Congress as lobbyists? 25 percent? 51 percent? 73 percent? 100 percent? This is not a trick question.

DID TRUMP OR ARGENTINA DEFEAT SOUTH CAROLINA’S REP. MARK SANFORD? Sanford was the butt of countless jokes when his affair with a woman in Argentina became a national topic of discussion a few years ago. He kept to a solidly conservative line in Congress, so between his voting record and his personal history, Sanford was far from the most visible Republican member of the House of Representatives.

So how to account for Sanford’s primary loss last Tuesday? “I’d spoken out as I had with regard to the president, and it cost me,” Sanford told “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd Sunday. Sanford was referring to his harsh criticism of Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, according to LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby. Actually, that’s only part of the story, Kirby reports.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Link was bad before. Fixed now.

JEFF BEZOS BENEFITTING FROM CRONYISM IN DOD CONTRACTING? That’s the contention of Mona Salama in LifeZette this morning. And it’s not just on any contract, but rather a 10 year, $10 Billion award to put the Pentagon in the Cloud. If things go as expected on the award, there will also be a serious national security issue concerning China’s access to U.S. digital defenses.

THOSE “OLD SCHOOL DADS” ARE MORE VIP TODAY THAN EVER: LifeZette’s Deirdre Reilly has a moving tribute to her great father. Do not miss the video compilation of classic TV Dads giving good advice to their kids. And speaking of, Happy Father’s Day to the best father I know these days, my amazing son, Marcus McFarland Tapscott, who, with Morgan, has given me and Claudia the two most wonderful grandsons, Tyler and Brooks, and grandaughter, Beckett, ever. By the way, they had to go all the way to China to get little Beckett!

BUILD THAT WALL OR SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT? That’s former Trump chief strategist Stephen Bannon’s advice on the Sunday morning news shows circuit. Give Congress till September to take credible concrete action and if they fail, close Uncle Sugar’s doors and let voters decide in November. What do you think?

NO BIAS IN THE FBI’S HILLARY EMAIL PROBE? YOU’RE KIDDING, RIGHT? There is a basic problem at the heart of the report of the Department of Justice Inspector General on the FBI’s 2016 investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and address to conduct official U.S. diplomatic business.

The report provides reams of evidence that the key FBI executives running the email probe were extremely prejudiced, nay, obsessively biased against President Donald Trump and for Clinton. But the report offers zero logical explanation for why those reams don’t provide the most likely explanation for the fact the FBI gave Clinton a free pass after she demonstrated gross negligence in handling hundreds of the country’s most sensitive national security secrets.

And that’s why come Monday, IG Michael Horowitz is likely to have a very rough time of it before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And no matter how bruised and battered he may be at the day, he’ll have to face it all over again before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.

HERE’S WHY MASTERPIECE DECISION IS A BIG WIN FOR FIRST AMENDMENT: Kristen Waggoner led the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) team of lawyers to took Colorado baker Jack Phillips’ case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and won. So she knows her way around the precedents and principles.

Writing in LifeZette today, Waggoner points to three key things about the decision that have hugely significant ramifications far beyond the confines of Phillips’ Lakewood, Colorado establishment, beginning with the court’s declaration that religious and philosophical objections to gay marriage are constitutionally protected.

If that was all the decision said, it would still be a big deal. But the other two elements to which Waggoner points are of even greater importance. Go here to find out why.

BILL, PLEASE JUST APOLOGIZE TO HER FACE AND THEN, FOR GOD’S SAKE, SHUT UP: That’s the growing chorus among worried Democrats, according to LifeZette’s Kathryn Blackhurst. Wonder what Nina Burleigh thinks about all this now?

STARBUCKS PREZ HAS LATTE LUST FOR WHITE HOUSE: It appears Starbucks luminary Howard Schultz is leaving the omnipresent java proprietor after 36 years and hinting of a possible run for president, according to LifeZette’s Zachary Leeman. But maybe there’s another explanation, something having to do with distracting attention from the firm’s recent controversy over racial sensitivity training as a yet-unreported backlash gathers steam? Keep an eye on upcoming corporate quarterly reports. Just sayin.’

HOW JAMES COMEY SUCCEEDED WHERE NIXON FAILED: John D. O’Connor is the attorney who revealed to America the answer to the biggest secret of Watergate – former FBI senior executive Mark Felt was Deep Throat to the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

Today, O’Connor has a lengthy and detailed oped on the Daily Caller that shows how Comey avoided the mistakes Nixon made in his politically fatal attempt to politicize the FBI. If you read nothing else today, this is the one with which to sit down and spend some quality time.

HOLD ON! THERE’S MORE TO THE PAIGE PATTERSON STORY: Bible-thumping reactionary or aging icon victimized by the liberal media? Regardless which side of the controversy surrounding now-former Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Paige Patterson you stand on, it looks very much like another illustration of drive-by journalism. 

FIVE HOLLYWOOD LIBS WHO HAVE BECOME BOX-OFFICE POISON: Robert “Raging Bull” DeNiro can’t seem to open his mouth these days without insulting President Donald Trump. The formerly-funny Jim Carrey has been transformed in the Trump era into a creator of disturbing art. These are two of five such entertainment industry liberals whose often-loudly proclaimed politics have done them no favors at the box office.

SURPRISED? LIBERALS SEE EVIL MOTIVE BEHIND TRUMP D’SOUZA PARDON: No, of course you’re not surprised. Except perhaps by the utter illogic expressed when they explain why.

WALSH HANDED OVAL OFFICE TO BUBBA, MUELLER CAN GIVE HOUSE TO PELOSI: Remember that time when Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh indicted Casper Weinberger right before the 1992 presidential election and stopped George H.W. Bush’s comeback dead in its tracks?

LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby says Bill Clinton can thank Walsh for his 1992 defeat of an incumbent chief executive. I would say Walsh, gadfly Independent Ross Perot and the Bush betrayal of his famous “Read My Lips, No New Taxes” promise.

BEE GETS STINGING BACKLASH FOR VILE IVANKA INSULT: Trump enthusiast Roseanne Barr does an obscenely racist tweet and is fired despite having a hugely popular sitcom. Trump resister Samantha Bee flings an obscenely unfunny insult at Ivanka Trump and … crickets? Well, as LifeZette’s Michele Blood reports, there is a backlash and it is growing. Stay tuned.

WHEN IS ‘IMPLICIT BIAS’ TRAINING DISCRIMINATORY? How about when it assumes all white men are actually KKK bigots just waiting to jump out? That’s why Starbucks’ three-hour sessions Tuesday for an estimated 175,000 employees may have violated the 1964 Civil Rights Act, contends Project 21’s Horace Cooper, according to LifeZette’s Connor Wolf.

U.S. DEPORTED HER HUSBAND BUT THIS WOMAN SAYS THE LAW COMES FIRST: Cindy Garcia may look somehow familiar because she was the gallery guest of Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich) during the State of the Union address in January. Dingell hosted Garcia as part of the campaign to gain amnesty for illegal immigrants brought to America when they were children by their parents, as Garcia’s husband was 30 years ago.

But CNN host Brooke Baldwin was shocked Tuesday when she asked Cindy Garcia about President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Perhaps Baldwin expected a tirade against Trump but what she got was anything but. LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby will tell you the rest right here.

DOES KIM SEE TRUMP AS HIS SAVIOR? No previous North Korean dictator has viewed any American president as anything but a lethal threat to his survival. Now Kim Jong-un is openly telling the world Trump must provide security guarantees for the North Korean regime as a condition of any denuclearization agreement.

Does that qualify as Kim turning massive U.S. military force from threat to assurance of his power? Maybe Rocket Man is more clever than he’s heretofore been given credit. Former Army Vice Chief of Staff Jack Keane provides the perspective required to put the opening query in proper context.

IS TODAY THE CLINTONS’ LAST PRE-INDICTMENT MEMORIAL DAY? Yes, there are grounds for skepticism about whether the Clintons will ever face the music, but, as Charles Ortel points out today in LifeZette, the evidence is rapidly becoming overwhelming.