Christa Borden’s ‘Empty Bottles’ Leaps Three Spots to #8 on FMQB AC40 Chart While the Confessional Pop Rock Singer-Songwriter Prepares to…
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–This week Christa Borden’s “Empty Bottles” leaps from #11 to #8 on the FMQB AC40 Chart, sharing the Top Ten with some of today’s biggest superstars; Rob Thomas, Train, Lifehouse, Michael Buble, Daughtry and Lady Antebellum as she gears up for the May 4 release of her highly anticipated new album I Rhyme With Orange. I Rhyme With Orange will be available Tuesday, May 4 on iTunes, Amazon, Napster, Rhapsody, and Limewire Store
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Torrid, The Destination For Fashion & Denim, Partners With Timbaland, To Host Nationwide Event
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Torrid, the destination for fashion in sizes 12+, partners with Interscope Records to unveil Timbaland’s third studio album, Shock Value II, the follow-up to his 2007 platinum album Shock Value. To celebrate, Torrid stores nationwide will host listening parties where shoppers can preview and pre-order the album. The first 25 shoppers to arrive at the listening party will also receive a special goodie with their album purchase.
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Torrid, The Destination For Fashion and Denim, Partners With Priscilla Renea, To Host Nationwide Event
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Torrid, the destination for curvy fashion in sizes 12+, Capital Records and Priscilla Renea, are excited to announce the release of Jukebox featuring her the hit single “Dollhouse”.
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Why Doesnt Obama Stop Pretending To Be Listening To Other Ideas On Health Care?
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/03/11…
As part of his drive to overhaul the nation’s health-care system, President Obama has presented himself as a pragmatist who is more interested in creating the best possible plan than in rigidly adhering to a given ideology.
“It’s conceivable that there are other ideas out there that we have not thought of,” he acknowledged at last Thursday’s White House Health Care Summit. “If there is a way of getting this done where we’re driving down costs and people are getting health insurance at an affordable rate and have choice of doctor, have flexibility in terms of their plans, and we could do that entirely through the market, I’d be happy to do it that way. If there was a way of doing it that involved more government regulation and involvement, I’m happy to do it that way as well. I just want to figure out what works.”
President Obama has used events such as community discussion groups and last week’s summit to foster the impression that he is soliciting opinions from all angles of the health care debate, but the reality is a lot different. Obscured by the Administration’s theatrics is the fact that it has kept at bay those who advocate free-market solutions rather than government-run health care.
The guest list to the summit was a telling sign. Despite having representatives from 169 different labor, industry, and policy organizations, the White House did not invite any organizations that advocate a consumer-based free-market approach to health care.
Progressive organizations such as the Center for American Progress, Health Care for America NOW!, and Campaign for America’s Future were represented, but pro-market groups such as the Cato Institute, Consumers for Health Care Choices, the Galen Institute, or the Council for Affordable Health Insurance were not.
“They brought in the health care establishment to basically divvy up the pie, and consumers were left out of it entirely,” lamented Greg Scandlen, president of Consumers for Health Care Choices. “This is all predetermined and orchestrated to get the result they want.”
While the Republican Congressional leadership was on hand, many of the foremost proponents of a patient-focused approach to health care were not.
“I suspect that that can’t be an accident,” Rep. John Shadegg, a Republican who has proposed a number of market-oriented reforms to the U.S. health care system and did not receive an invitation to the summit, said. “I suspect that they don’t want those views expressed.”
Shadegg noted that other lawmakers who weren’t invited included free marketers such as Rep. Paul Ryan, Rep. Tom Price, Sen. Richard Burr, Sen. Jim DeMint, and Obama’s personal friend, Sen. Tom Coburn.
By contrast, Sen. Bernard Sanders and Rep. John Conyers were on hand — both of them advocate a socialized, or single-payer, system.
The Obama administration’s unwillingness to consider free-market views wasn’t limited to the summit. TAS spoke to several professionals who took the Obama transition team up on its call to hold community meetings last December aimed at generating ideas on how to reform the health-care system. But those who came up with ideas focused on a consumer-based approach rather than a government-run one felt that their ideas were ignored.
“They called out for everyone to have all of these town meetings, but if your town meeting didn’t have a conclusion that agreed with theirs, they said ‘thank you very much’ and never came back to you,” said Dr. Marcy Zwelling-Aamot, who participated in a meeting in Long Beach, California, along with a coalition of local lawmakers, hospitals, providers, and concerned residents.
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