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Rand Paul warns Texas could turn blue

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February 10, 2014

Sen. Rand Paul on Saturday predicted that Texas would turn blue within a decade if the Republican Party doesn’t become more inclusive.

“What I do believe is Texas is going to be a Democrat state within 10 years if we don’t change,” Paul (R-Ky.), who grew up in Texas, said at a dinner held by the Harris County GOP. “That means we evolve, it doesn’t mean we give up on what we believe in, but it means we have to be a welcoming party.”

Paul, who is heavily weighing a presidential bid, noted that his assessment was shared by the chairman of the Republican Party of Texas. The Lone Star state, currently the largest Republican bastion in the country, is nearly 40 percent Hispanic — a demographic that has overwhelmingly supported Democrats in recent elections.

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Blue Cross to offer one-year Obamacare reprieve

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By Deena Winter | Nebraska Watchdog

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska announced Monday it will allow policyholders whose individual health insurance was canceled to comply with Obamacare to keep their current plans for one more year.

EXTENSION: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska will give customers who buy their own insurance a one-year reprieve from cancellation due to Obamacare mandates.

The insurance company this fall sent notices to 46,000 Nebraska policyholders informing them that their insurance plans would be canceled at year’s end because they didn’t comply with the federal Affordable Care Act.

Customers were given the option of new policies that included benefits required under the federal health insurance law, or they could shop around on the health insurance exchange on Healthcare.gov. But glitches with the federally run website have made it difficult for people to shop for new coverage.

For that reason, President Obama recently said insurance companies can give people one-year reprieves. Nebraska’s state insurance commissioner, Bruce Ramge, recently ruled that insurers can offer such extensions, and Blue Cross is taking him up on that offer.

Blue Cross said in a news release that individual policyholders who received cancellation notices can keep their current 2013 plan or choose new insurance that complies with Obamacare mandates. Blue Cross’s individual plans will now be effective from Dec. 31, 2013, through Dec. 31, 2014, for customers with coverage in place by year’s end.

A provision in state insurance law allows insurers to set an early renewal date and keep the 2013 policies in force.

“Simply stated, we’re doing this because it’s the right thing to do for our customers,” said Blue Cross President and CEO Steve Martin. “We are glad to have the opportunity to offer customers the choice between their current plans and 2014 plans that comply with the Affordable Care Act.”

Blue Cross customers who had already chosen a new Obamacare-compliant plan will remain on that plan unless they notify the company or work with an agent to revert back to their old plans. People who choose to stay on their 2013 plans won’t qualify for federal tax subsidies available under Obamacare, and likely will see a premium increase.

“Customers will need to process their options quickly,” said Tom Gilsdorf, director of product development for Blue Cross. “We’re working diligently to ensure everyone is covered on the plan of their choice.”

Blue Cross is the state’s largest health insurer, with nearly half the individual market. It’s also one of four companies selling insurance on Nebraska’s health care exchange, which is being run by the federal government.

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‘Blue,’ Through Lesbian Eyes

Of the many things to note about the seven-minute lesbian sex scene in “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” a French drama about a teenage girl who becomes passionately involved with a slightly older woman, is how very long it seems to go on.

While there is little radical about lesbian sexuality on-screen these days (“The Killing of Sister George” led the way in 1968, and by 2010 “The Kids Are All Right” featured a lesbian couple who liked gay male pornography), the sex scene in “Blue” is certainly among the most graphic and physically intense.

It is brightly lit, so we see every crash of flesh against flesh, every pinch and grip. The younger Adele (played by Adèle Exarchopoulos) and Emma (Léa Seydoux) slap each other’s breasts, pull each other’s hair, scissor bodies, mount and dismount.

CNN wondered if it might be the “sexiest film ever.” The IFC Center in Greenwich Village, which is showing the film, has been criticized by a parents group for allowing teenagers into the NC-17 film. (The Flicks art house cinema in Boise, Idaho, has declined to show the film.)

But not everyone, it seems, has been turned on by the movie, including the very people the film aims to depict: lesbians.

Among the loudest critics has been Julie Maroh, the French writer who wrote the graphic novel of the same name, on which this film was based. On her blog in May, she described the sex scene as “a brutal and surgical display” that turned the lovemaking between two women “into porn.”

“It appears to me that this was what was missing on the set: lesbians,” Ms. Maroh wrote. She added that she went to a screening where everyone was giggling during the sex scenes. “The gay and queer people laughed because it was not convincing, and found it ridiculous.” Marcie Bianco, writing on After Ellen, a lesbian pop cultural website, said the two women “scissoring” their bodies was a classic visual trope of lesbian pornography made by men. Jane Czyzselska, editor of Diva, a popular lesbian magazine in Europe, said that “straight men are excluded from lesbian sexuality because of their gender, so perhaps seek to control it by imagining their fantasies on-screen.”

Abdellatif Kechiche, the film’s acclaimed Tunisian-French director, was also accused of abusing his stars. Ms. Seydoux said she felt trapped on the set and disrespected while shooting the sex scenes. (Mr. Kechiche, in response, called her an “arrogant, spoiled child” and intimated he may take legal action against her.)

That a lesbian sex scene is directed by a heterosexual man and portrayed by heterosexual women should come as no surprise to anyone who has ever walked into a video shop that caters to pornography or typed “lesbian porn” into a web browser.

Mark Kernes, senior editor at AVN, a trade magazine for the adult-film industry, said, “Most lesbian porn is made by men for male consumers who like to imagine themselves as part of a threesome.”

This class of pornography does not appear to appeal to most lesbians. That’s the underlying joke of a popular YouTube video called “Real Lesbians React to Lesbian Porn,” in which a half-dozen lesbians in their 20s are videotaped in what looks like a hotel room, watching a lesbian pornography film that features ridiculously long fake nails and stilettos. In addition to lots of “Oh, my Gods,” laughter and shaking of heads, one woman says, “It’s gross and it’s not sexy and it’s not true.”

Sex between women hasn’t been entirely co-opted by the male gaze: lesbian directors have also imagined same-sex desire. Chantal Akerman’s 1976 film, “Je, tu, il, elle,” (“I, You, He, She”) and Donna Deitch’s 1985 film “Desert Hearts” were landmarks. The rise of New Queer Cinema in the 1990s and directors like Rose Troche (“Go Fish,” 1994) ushered in a new generation of sex-confident storytelling that reached a mainstream apotheosis with Showtime’s “The L Word,” a sexy, glossy soap set among Los Angeles lesbians that ran from 2004 to 2009.

Ilene Chaiken, who produced “The L Word,” made the sex scenes explicit, though more conventionally sexy (lots of hands gliding over stomachs, artfully mussed sheets) than the graphic physicality of “Blue.”

If “Blue” stands alone in its big-screen explicitness, among the first companies occupying the small niche of lesbian pornography made by lesbians was Fatale Media, started in 1985 by Nan Kinney in San Rafael, Calif. Ms. Kinney said she was fed up with straight-male produced pornography. “I couldn’t relate to it,” she said. “It wasn’t what I or my friends were doing in bed.”

Fatale videos feature real-life female couples, and popular titles include “Suburban Dykes” from the late 1980s. “All lesbians of a certain age have seen that movie,” Ms. Kinney said, laughing.

Meanwhile, just as Mr. Kechiche faces criticism for exploitation, the adult-film pendulum is swinging in another intriguing direction. Some lesbian feminist producers in San Francisco, like Shine Louise Houston and Jiz Lee, now argue that male directors are capable of making good lesbian pornography, provided they show respect and sensitivity to their performers.

Annie Sprinkle, a former prostitute turned pornography producer, said her favorite lesbian sex scene was in “Bound,” a 1996 feature film starring Gina Gershon and directed by the Wachowski brothers.

Madison Young, a lesbian pornographic film producer, said that the 1997 movie “Chasing Amy” had been her touchstone. She watched it when she was 17, “while my conservative mother slept in her bedroom of our suburban home nestled in the normalcy of southern Ohio,” she said. The film, Ms. Young added, opened her eyes “to what queer sex was, what possibilities existed, the fluidity of sexuality and identity, and all this was achieved as directed by a straight hetero male.”

Indeed, some lesbians have found the sex scene in “Blue” to their liking, judging by the reactions outside the IFC on Monday night.

“The performances are amazing: they transmit everything to you,” said Karina, a 39-year-old who lives in Manhattan, who went to the movie with a friend. “It was the first time I have seen a ‘real’ lesbian sex scene in a movie. For a man, he got the feeling between two women and a woman discovering herself very well.”

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CBS Concedes ObamaCare May Be "Tough Sell" Even in Blue Oregon

On Sunday’s CBS Evening News, Anna Werner surprisingly acknowledged that ObamaCare may be a “tough sell” even among the left-leaning population of Oregon. Werner’s report on a hokey multi-million dollar campaign trying to get young people to sign up for the West Coast state’s health care marketplace came three days after CBS reported that the controversial law’s approval rating is at an all-time low. [video below]

While the correspondent featured two pro-ObamaCare talking heads, she also played soundbites from a 20-year-old who denounced the law: “As much as you can have an ad campaign that, sort of, inspires people, at the end of the day, the government is in Washington, DC, and has never met you.”

Anchor Jeff Glor introduced Werner’s report by echoing colleague Norah O’Donnell’s slanted explanation about the Affordable Care Act’s unpopularity: “Oregon is one of the states trying to clear up widespread confusion about ObamaCare by launching an advertising campaign that is unusual.” The CBS journalist continued by playing a clip of the ad that, in her words, “may look a bit like a college film project, but it’s actually part of a high stakes $ 10 million dollar ad campaign.”

Werner then played three straight clips from a supporter of the Oregon health care marketplace, who trumpeted the program. Before turning to the chief operating officer of the marketplace, the correspondent did feature two clips from Ben Nanke, who “doesn’t like the government forcing him to pay for health insurance, even though he’s about to be bumped off his parents’ health plan.”

Later in the segment, the correspondent pointed out that state-run health care program “may be a tough sell”, and played two more soundbites from Nanke, a “self-described libertarian”, according to a July 23, 2013 report on The Oregonian‘s website.

The full transcript of Anna Werner’s report from Sunday’s CBS Evening News:

JEFF GLOR: On October 1, the marketplace opens for individual policies mandated by the Affordable Care Act. Oregon is one of the states trying to clear up widespread confusion about ObamaCare by launching an advertising campaign that is unusual. Here’s Anna Werner.

ANNA WERNER (voice-over): (clip of “Cover Oregon” ad) This commercial may look a bit like a college film project, but it’s actually part of a high stakes $ 10 million dollar ad campaign, designed to get younger residents to buy health insurance from the state’s new health care marketplace called Cover Oregon.

The catchy tune definitely got the attention of 26-year-old Lillian Karabaic.

LILLIAN KARABAIC: I even posted a video on my Facebook, and a lot of my friends were like, ‘Great! Thanks! I was wondering where I could look up how I could get insurance.’

WERNER: The state aims to sign up many younger people like Karabaic, who don’t have insurance. Her two part-time non-profit jobs don’t offer benefits.

KARABAIC: I work at places that can’t afford to insure me.

WERNER: She went to Cover Oregon’s website, and found she’d pay $ 110 a month.

KARABAIC: Which is actually affordable to me – like, I am totally willing to pay that much for health insurance.

WERNER: Twenty-year-old Ben Nanke saw the ad, too.

BEN NANKE: And I would wake up in the morning and that’d be stuck in my head. I’d be la, la, la, la, la.

WERNER: But he doesn’t like the government forcing him to pay for health insurance, even though he’s about to be bumped off his parents’ health plan.

NANKE: There’s a concern there. But, at the same time, I value my independence.

WERNER: For the health care law to work, the state needs to sign up more than 200,000 people, and enough younger, healthier people to balance out the older, sicker residents in the insurance pool.

TRIZ DE LAS ROSA, COVER OREGON CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER: Everybody’s watching. It’s challenging to be first. It’s challenging to be in the limelight.

WERNER: Cover Oregon chief operating officer Triz de las Rosa.

DE LAS ROSA: Whatever it takes to get them there – so whether it’s a woman – you know, strumming a guitar, or whether it’s a rap. And hopefully, that message is there.

WERNER: It may be a tough sell.

NANKE: As much as you can have an ad campaign that, sort of, inspires people, at the end of the day, the government is in Washington, DC, and has never met you.

WERNER: Although the ad did inspire Nanke to create his own video and song. (clip of Nanke singing)

WERNER: Those who do want to enroll in Oregon’s plan can start doing so October 1. Anna Werner, CBS News.

— Matthew Balan is a news analyst at the Media Research Center. You can follow him on Twitter here.

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