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"I say let's get rid of the racist-written, purloined, unsingable war-song-question and replace it with the lovely hymn about beauty and brotherhood," Mark Bradley writes.

"This is still our country," Angela Denker writes. "Come and take it."

The double tragedy in the Texas floods.

"While the focus should rightly remain on recovery (or miraculously, rescue) of the victims," columnist John Rash writes, "a thoughtful, thorough investigation is in order."

"With July being UV Safety Awareness Month," Sheree R. Curry writes, "now feels like the perfect time to ask: What if we all, regardless of gender, just kept our shirts on this month in the spirit of gender equity, in addition to skin safety?"

"Melissa was a constant reminder that politics don't have to be mean to be effective," Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth writes. "With her loss, our state lost a leader of deep conviction."

Who named this thing?

Greg Peterson, the internet's 'Machinery Pete,' tracks changes in the farm equipment market.

"Medicaid is the nation's long-term care payment work horse," columnist Jill Burcum writes. "Pulling this much money out of a program is a concern when it is already struggling at current levels of funding to meet the needs of all those it serves."

"Minnesotans have tragic recent evidence that 'assassination culture' is not just a province of the moralistic left," political science professor Steven Schier writes.