By Ronnie Littlejohn Bill Steber
Over the course of a 70-year career, Bobby Rush has made his mark on America’s legacy of blues music.
He’s been inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame, and Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame. He has won 12 Blues Music Awards and in 2017, at the age of 83, he won his first Grammy Award.
Hailing from Louisiana, Rush got his breakthrough in 1971, when his song
Chicken Heads climbed the Billboard R&B chart and was certified gold. He then had two more gold-certified records with
Sue in 1981 and
Ain’t Studdin’ Ya in 1991.
health insurance plan from someone who had come to depend on it? well, tea party republicans in arkansas are right now threatening to do just that to 100,000 of the state s poorest residents. these are the people currently enrolled in something called the private option, a privatized version of the medicaid expansion crafted by arkansas lawmakers and approved by the white house. the plan, which uses federal money to purchase private insurance for low-income residents, appeased enough conservatives to pass. and it made arkansas one of the few southern states to take the federal money. and that made a massive difference in a state with the tenth highest uninsured rate in the country. the first thing i did was go to my general practitioner and i walked in the room and she looked at me and she said, okay, we have insurance now. where do you want to start? but now taking a page from the ted cruz playbook, arkansas tea party republicans have decided to hold the state s entire m
we love. the polls are all cattywompus, except for ted nugent who everybody thinks is a douche nozzle. and now let s check some news with jacki schechner in the current news room. good morning, jacki. good morning, everyone. republican primary voters are coming around to mitt romney. 54% now say they want him to be the nominee. that s opposed to 30% last march. but not as quick to jump behind him is the republican national committee. according to buzzfeed they are not going to endorse romney just yet. one high profile guy who has endorsed mitt romney is ted nugent who is now being investigated by the secret service. he said if barack obama becomes president next year, he will either be dead or in jail next year. tag rommys tweeted quote, ted nugent endorsed my dad today. ted nugent how cool is that? and one candidate is speaking out about the secret service scandal. he failed to mention that his brother joe is on the secret service detail that was down in columbia, and