Is an Israeli-Iranian war inevitable? How will the Trump administration respond? Email your COMMENTS to editors@thehustings.news and if you lean left, please say so in the subject line so we post your opinions in this column.

Scroll down this column to read contributing pundit Kate McLeod’s reaction to Pundit-at-Large Stephen Macaulay’s commentary on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is in the corresponding right column. You are more than welcome to react as well.

Be sure to scroll down further for comments on the Musk-Trump split by left-column contributing pundits Jerry Lanson, Sharon Lintner, Hugh Hansen, Joel Postman and Jim McCraw. 

Three Lanson commentaries fill out the rest of this column’s page; “Ice’s Menacing Roundups Rachet Up,” “Behind the Headlines” (on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act) and “Who Will Stand? Who Will Lead?”, on what Lanson says is a Trump administration attack on civil rights.