SOCIALIST SANDERS’ SON SEEKS SOLON’S SEAT: Yes, it’s true, the crusty Vermont Independent Socialist has a crusty son and he’s a socialist, too. He’s seeking a seat in the House of Representatives. If he wins, Bernie and Levi will be the first-ever Socialist father-son team ever in Congress. And to LifeZette’s Kathryn Blackhurst we now go for the rest of the story.

FORMER AG MICHAEL MUKASEY SAYS FBI ‘VERY IRRESPONSIBLE’ ON FISA APPLICATION: The bureau was “very irresponsible” in not disclosing to the FISA court all of the details about the funding and sourcing of the Steele Dossier, Mukasey told Laura Ingraham on her Talk Radio program.

WHAT’S THIS? CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS REJECT FEINSTEIN’S RE-ELECTION BID: Yes, Dianne Feinstein, the former San Francisco mayor, has been a U.S. Senator from California since Bill Clinton was in the White House, but she’s not sufficiently “progressive” for the Democrats in 2018? Kathryn Blackhurst of LifeZette counts the unexpected numbers.

ABOUT THOSE ‘REPUBLICANS NEED NOT APPLY’ SIGNS ALL OVER SILICON VALLEY: No, they aren’t literally posted anywhere, but an examination of campaign contributions by workers who listed as their employer one of these 15 famous Silicon Valley firms makes clear that somehow, some way Republicans almost never get hired.

If it were just white people or only men getting the job offers, how long do you think it would be before subpoenas were flying from the Department of Justice, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Civil Rights Commission?

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): In California, it’s illegal to retaliate against an employee for “their off-duty participation in politics or political campaigns.” Seems like an opportunity for enterprising lawyers interested in deep-pocketed defendants.

THIS SUPREME COURT CASE COULD BE BAD NEWS FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONS: Or not. LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby looks at an AFSCME case that could give Justice Neil Gorsuch an opportunity to strike a major blow for freedom of speech.

CENSORSHIP IS ALIVE AND WELL AT CNN: That rude and raucous “Town Hall” aired Wednesday night by the cable news network formerly owned by Ted Turner is being exposed by survivors of the Florida school shooting as little more than agit-prop for gun control.

THREE LITTLE WORDS THAT DROVE MSM MAD: It doesn’t take much coming from the lips of President Donald Trump to drive the people playing television journalism up the wall.

IT’S THREE-QUESTION THURSDAY!!! Click the links on this trio of inquiries and you will know three times as much as your buddies. Or at least you will have the answers to three more questions that will enable you to dazzle and befuddle them. Okay, would you believe knowledge is its own reward? So start clickin,’ folks:

1.) True or False? Rev. Billy Graham helped integrate the American South in the 1950s and 1960s?

2.) Is France one of the multiple governments investigating Clinton Foundation corruption?

3.) Who said Jeff Sessions is “a small man in a big moment in history”?

A. Mary Blackshear Sessions

B. GOP Attorney John Jordan

C. Critical Theory Professor Elmer Fudd

CAN SOMEONE TELL SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND $133M IS MORE THAN $54.4M? The numbers are significant because the New York Democrat — who is expected to mount a bid for her party’s 2020 presidential nomination — thinks the NRA has a “chokehold” on Congress that blocks gun control.

In fact, as LifeZette’s Kathryn Blackhurst explains, the NRA spent “only” $54.4 million in contributions to, mostly, Republican congressional incumbents and challengers, while Priorities USA, the liberal PAC created and run by two former Obama campaign veterans, spent $133 million on Democrats, especially Hillary Clinton.

Add the spending totals by three other liberal PACs and NRA was outspent in 2016 $393 million to $54.4 million. So tell us Mrs. Gillibrand, how does $54.4 million buy more of a chokehold in the nation’s capitol than $393 million???

THEY JUST CAN’T LEAVE MELANIA ALONE: Michelle Obama could do no wrong. Melania Trump, it seems, can do nothing right.

THERE’S MORE THAN ONE WAY TO REPEAL AND REPLACE OBAMACARE: Republicans in Congress failed to repeal and replace Obamacare but President Donald Trump is still searching around the dark corners of the federal bureaucracy to root out as much of President Barack Obama’s “signature achievement” as possible.

One significant area is in allowing people to buy short-term health insurance coverage policies when that’s what they need, rather than being forced by Washington bureaucrats to pay unbelievably high premiums for benefits they don’t need. Obama closed off this option in the waning days of his administration. Now Trump is re-opening it. And House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is again predicting apocalypse.

REMEMBER WHEN “FALLING ON YOUR SWORD” MEANT SOMETHING? Former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova is calling for FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign in the wake of multiple revelations that his bureau was warned about Nikolas Cruz but still dropped the ball.

“These 17 young people would be alive today if a bunch of adults had done their jobs. And the fact is, they didn’t,” diGenova said, according to LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby. “You will wait until hell freezes over before he does it. Christopher Wray should be fired. This is an embarrassment. It happened on his watch.”

IF NRA’S BUCKS ARE KEY TO ITS POLITICAL POWER, WHAT ABOUT THESE FOUR LIB GROUPS? Each of them spent more for Democrats in the 2016 campaign than the NRA did for Republicans, so why do we always hear kids are slaughtered in schools because you-know-who controls Congress with its money and blocks passage of new gun control laws that would save lives? Collectively, the four spent more than seven times as much as the NRA!

BAD NEWS FOR COMEY, MCCABE, STRZOK, ET. AL.: Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that the Department of Justice is investigating the FBI’s failure to notify the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court that its warrant application to surveil Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page was based on material paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee. As of noon Monday, this fact appears not to have been reported by either the New York Times or the Washington Post.

THIS VETERAN FBI INVESTIGATOR MAY KNOW KEY DETAILS ON THE CLINTON EMAILS: But he suddenly and unexpectedly retired a few months into it. Some might wonder why. Long-time Clinton Foundation exposer Charles Ortel lays it out in LifeZette.

WILL CORY GARDINER HAND SENATE CONTROL TO SCHUMER AND DURBIN? That’s a question heard with increasing frequency among D.C.’s campaign obsessives. Not a good sign, according to LifeZette’s Jim Stinson.

AND THAT’S THE END OF THE TRUMP-RUSSIA COLLUSION NONSENSE: So says former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova, speaking to LifeZette.

THIS WHITE HOUSE REPORTER WON’T MISS OMAROSA ONE BIT: As Clint Eastwood once said, a man [or quasi-celebrity Apprentice grad) should know his limits. More from LifeZette’s White House correspondent.

BERNIE SANDERS, MEET BERNIE SANDERS: One thing about the Internet, senator, is once you say it, it’s out there forever. LifeZette’s Jim Stinson has the details.

WHATEVER ELSE THE ROB PORTER SCANDAL MIGHT CAUSE: It’s prompted new attention to a huge problem that has been around for decades. Every federal civil servant must clear a comprehensive background check before being allowed to work for the taxpayers. Most of these checks are done by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) National Background Investigations Bureau.

LifeZette’s Jim Stinson reports that Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dan Coats told the Senate yesterday that an estimated 700,000 background checks have yet to be completed. On checks for jobs that require access to classified information, the wait can be a year or more before its completed. These realities may or may not shed light on why former White House staff secretary Rob Porter was able to remain on the job for so long.

When I served at OPM as a Reagan political appointee from November 1982 to June 1985, the backlog was in the thousands and growing despite heroic efforts by political and career employees alike. Things have only gotten worse, much worse. But at least the public now knows of yet another illustration of Big Government getting so big it can’t competently do even the most basic tasks competently and efficiently.

YOU ARE WHITE, HAVE YOU APOLOGIZED YET? Seattle University President Stephen Sundborg calls on all caucasians to admit their “privilege” and begin making up for it by adhering to his “10 Commitments for White America.”

Here’s one them: “All whites must ask themselves, how many black friends do I have? How many times have I been in their homes, enjoyed and relaxed with their families and lives, included them in my life? Friendship is the most essential fulcrum for prying loose white privilege.” Nothing wrong with that, millions of Americans do it routinely. But there’s more. Whites also must support and demonstrate with Black Lives Matter against the police.

Didn’t there use to be something about judging people solely on “the content of their character”? Elizabeth Economou has more at LifeZette.

THERE’S GOING TO BE A SHOWDOWN IN DALLAS IN JUNE: Pitting the aging liberal leaders of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and its younger legions of radically pro-gay and transgender activists, according to Al Mohler. The former still believe the Bible is relevant, if only as a collection of interesting historical myths and moral suggestions. The latter don’t give two hoots in Hell what the Bible says, they demand an end to Baptists being judgmental, unless wealthy white conservatives are under examination.

NANCY PELOSI, MEET NANCY PELOSI: To be honest, shooting fish in a barrel is far more difficult than this.

COMEY IS WRITING A BOOK ON ‘GOOD, ETHICAL LEADERSHIP:’ No, I am not making this up. In fact, the publisher of the former FBI Director’s forthcoming tome is moving up the publication date to take advantage of what the Associated Press calls the “intense scrutiny” Comey is now getting. Here are just two of the many reasons critics and others wonder what this guy could possibly have to say on anything having to do with ethical leadership.

IT NEEDS CONSTANT UPDATES BUT HERE’S PELOSI’S LATEST TOP 10 DUMBEST QUOTES: There are so many to choose from, but somebody has to do it, so LifeZette’s Jim Stinson steps up to the plate.