Sid Miller
Sid Miller, a former Texas House member, won election as state agriculture commissioner in November 2014.
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Garth Brooks played to a “half-empty arena” in Illinois.
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Image shows U.S. National Guard Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester.
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"Confederate veterans were conferred with many of the same benefits of other United States military veterans by Acts of Congress back in 1929 and 1957."
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Says a poll showed 70 percent to 75 percent of people want to see Confederate statues "remain up and not taken down."
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Says actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson wore a T-shirt stating: "We Stand for the flag, we kneel for the fallen."
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Texas A&M University - Commerce "offers counseling, safe spaces for students who are afraid of President-elect Trump."
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Says that since lawmakers acted, "we have 130 new businesses across Texas doing helicopter hog hunts."
Says Barack Obama was happily photographed holding a T-shirt with revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara’s face on it.
"To vote in Mexico every eligible Mexican citizen has to have a tamper-proof photo-ID card with a thumbprint and an embossed hologram."
Texas agriculture is "at 98 percent efficiency" in water use and "just about maxed out as to what we can do on the conservation end…