By Todd Lassa

Editors who write for this center column work diligently to be fair and accurate, to provide facts that clearly describe current political news and issues that leave the opinions to the pundits in the left and right columns. 

It’s not an effort to make sure “both sides” of a political issue are evenly described.

Instead, it’s our earnest attempt to give you, the reader, perspectives that are both similar to, and different from, your own. 

Besides offering this range of views from two columns flanking the center-column facts and analysis -- all on the same page -- in order to give you an out-of-the-echo-chamber look at our nation’s politics, another advantage is that the left and right columns can “call out” the center column if the writers in either feel the journalist in the center is swerving out of her or his lane. It’s a kind of check on our balance.

Recently, a constant reader (who follows us assiduously on Twitter @NewsHustings), and not one of the pundits, objected to a sentence in our home page debate on the role of violence in our political system, [https://thehustings.news/does-oppression-justify-political-violence/).

“Most #MAGA Republicans bristle at ‘the pro-MAGA insurrection’ terminology … just as I assume most Democrats aren’t looters and rioters?

“If the reference was just ‘right-wing insurrectionists,” he continued, “that would be fine with me … associating with the #MAGA movement is tainting a lot of peaceful American patriots, IMHO.”

We asked two of our pundits to weigh in on the matter; David Iwinski, our latest addition to our contributors On the Right, and Stephen Macaulay, our pundit-at-large, for the left column.