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CHATHAM, Va. — Tomorrow, Jan. 19, is National Popcorn Day. To celebrate, why not appreciate the crop that has silently outperformed tobacco in Pittsylvania County for more than a century? Corn production in Pittsylvania County experienced its first sharp hike in the 1880s, as locally-produced liquor was hard to come by and corn was king crop for liquor production at the time. In one of Chatham's ten taverns on Main Street in the 1880s, corn malt liquor sold for $1 a gallon and sweet mash liquor, or corn drippings, sold for a quarter less, according to a Civil War-era manifesto. Fast f...

You get a conservative blogger yesterday, as well, to endorsing ted cruz those things i think will help a little bit more but this is a race that favors outsiders. i'm not sure endorsements are going to clinch any race for anybody here. >> and how is iowa looking right now? what do you see? >> you know, cruz looks really strong. he's got a lot of momentum. but, of course, it's very hard for someone who opposes ethanol, ethanol subsidies to do well there. we'll see the ethanol the bill people who are supporting corn subsidies are really going hard against cruz. it's going to be a really interes...

People to do whatever -- it is they want about the bee program or the corn subsidies, whatever. they're dangling the poor people over the ledge to get the business people to do what they want them to do. that's the political dynamic going on. >> what is ultra ironic about this, fincher, the one who says the poor will always be with us, is someone who has benefited from farm subsidies. the irony here is incredibly think. i wonder as someone in washington that follows policy and legislation carefully, how do you think the senate version of the farm bill and the house version of the farm bill are...

Low and reach high and you're going to find those better for you cereals, et cetera. >> i do want to talk, there is, i mean there's obviously something consumers can do in terms of being more vigilant. but there's the role that government plays and we'll get into that discussion. first and foremost. there's the money that goes into the corn industry and the money that goes to the sugar industry, in terms of taxpayer subsidies for junk food in the year 2011, 1.over $1 billion went to junk food ingredients, the cheetos are like clouding my mind, since 1995, $18.2 billion was spent on junk food. ...

Rig right/left, and people who come for corn subsidies. there is a big white iron on the left the more that you move personal health care spending and health insurance premiums into the government's fear which is that we. so if you were buying many improvement in. >> you're absolutely right. the best. brit tain has never been healthier before '0.