Due to a technical issue regarding our domain, The Hustings was incommunicado from Friday morning, May 29, to Monday evening, June 1. For the record, our domain is not for sale. 

But the outage affected our email as well, so if you submitted a comment to editors@thehustings.news between May 29 and June 1 please submit it again. 

If you didn’t, there’s still plenty for you to discuss in the right or left column. 

Big question today outlined in the center column on the US-Israel war on Iran is whether Iran just might be winning this war, despite the Trump administration’s claims. 

Scroll down that center column for the Trump administration backing off its $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Act – for now – and a bipartisan bill that would make sure it doesn’t happen.

Don’t miss Pundit-at-Large Stephen Macaulay’s parsing of Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll results for President Trump, in today’s right column.

There’s also the withdrawal of country music star Martina McBride, hip-hop artist Young MC, half of Milli Vanilli, the Commodores and others from Freedom 250, the Trump administration’s celebration of the semi-sesquincentennial because those artists say they did not know they were being tapped to participate in a “partisan” event. President “Number One Attraction anywhere in the world” Trump will headline instead, with a campaign rally-style kickoff of the celebration. --Editors