LITTLE ROCK — Ted Nugent, the rocker turned-gun rights activist who was the subject of a Secret Service investigation last year after remarks about President Obama, will attend today’s State of the Union address as the guest of Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas. Stockman said he was “excited to have a patriot” like Nugent join him in the House chamber, and that afterward he’s sure “Ted will have plenty to say.” It was Nugent’s remarks at the National Rifle Association convention in 2012 that sparked a Secret Service investigation. Nugent, who endorsed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, said that if Obama were to win re-election he “will either be dead or in jail” and called on conservatives to “ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off.” The Secret Service met with Nugent soon afterward. Nugent later called it a “good, solid, professional meeting” and said the agency concluded “that I have never made any threats of violence towards anyone.” Stockman, who served a single term in themid-1990s before returning to Congress this year, has already attracted attention as an outspoken critic of Obama. He announced Friday that he would live-Tweet the president’s speech using the hashtag “youlie,” borrowing the 2009 outburst of South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson.
A cast member of the MTV reality show Buckwildis facing a drug charge in West Virginia. Salwa Amin, 24, was arraigned Monday in Nicholas County Magistrate Court on felony charges of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. She’s being held at the Central Regional jail on $200,000 bond. State police said a multi-agency task force arrested Amin and two others late Sunday at a home in Summersville after receiving a tip from an informant. Officers said they found oxycodone pills and heroin. MTV spokesman Candice Ashton said the network doesn’t have any comment.
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