
CREDO Mobile Michael Pollan is right. The Nutritional Industrial Complex is a big player in our health care crisis. Check out his Food Rules, including #19: "If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't."
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I set out to collect and formulate some straightforward, memorable, everyday rules for eating, a set of personal policies that would, taken together or even separately, nudge people onto a healthier and happier path.

CREDO Mobile You cannot make this stuff up! Thanks to ThinkProgress for keeping us up to date on what millions of Americans are hearing on the radio dial.
Think Progress » Hate radio host Neal Boortz: Health bill will kill more people than a terrorist att
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Following the failed Christmas Day terrorist attack, many on the right have used the incident as a political football, trying to score partisan points on the issue of terrorism. Hate radio host Neal Boortz ...

CREDO Mobile Opponents of marriage equality want to ban television cameras from a federal challenge to Prop 8. The court has requested public comments. Tell the judge to shine a light on their hateful arguments and we'll hand deliver them Friday morning.
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Supporters of Prop 8 -- which took away the right of same-sex couples to marry in California -- are fighting to keep televisions out of the courtroom when the law is challenged in federal court. The judge is taking public comments. ...

CREDO Mobile With the U.S. Embassy reopening today because two - yes, two - militants were killed 50 miles away, thus rendering the threat moot in the eyes of the State Department, one suspects there is a certain amount of hysteria around Yemen. Matthew Yglesias seems to get it about right.
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It’s just words, but the idea, that instability in Yemen is a “global threat” seems obviously overblown. As I said before the challenge posed by Yemen—a country that, I promise you, no ...

CREDO Mobile It's down to a back room negotiation. Tell the Progressive Caucus to pressure House leadership to keep fighting for real health care reform. This is not over yet.
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Tell the Congressional Progressive Caucus to keep fighting to: 1) hold insurance companies accountable, 2) make sure insurance is affordable and 3) protect reproductive choice.

CREDO Mobile Whether or not Satan is writing the introduction to Dick Cheney's new book, Grayson's right. Cheney is evil.
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On MSNBC, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Florida) posited that Cheney's criticisms are just a scheme to boost book sales for his upcoming book release and tour. "I'm wondering, though, who's doing the introduction to his book? Is it Mephistopheles? I don't know -- maybe it's Sata… n." Grayson has previously won...
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CREDO Mobile This is something we need more of in Washington, D.C. Congressman (and veteran) Eric Massa calls out the conservative senator who continues to block Pres. Obama's nominee to head TSA.
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Watch career military officer-turned congressman, Eric Massa (D-NY), challenge DeMint-- who shirked his Vietnam War era military obligations-- to a televised debate on national security. Massa even offered to debate him on his own home ground: Fox News.

CREDO Mobile Juan Cole at www.juancole.com covers the Middle East like no other. So when he says there is some good news, definitely read on.
Informed Comment: Top Ten Good News Stories from the Muslim World in 2009 that You Never Heard About
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CREDO Mobile TalkingPointsMemo.com reports that if Minnesota loses a House seat in the 2010 census, it's likely to belong to Michelle Bachmann, one of the craziest members of Congress.
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The state of Minnesota could be on the verge of losing a House seat after 2010 -- and interestingly enough, it's been a while since we heard Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) talk about refusing to participate in the Census.

CREDO Mobile Today is Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People Day. Despite the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other MSOP leaders, the people of Nigeria continue to fight Shell for justice.
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January 4 is the day on which the Ogoni people celebrate their victory over the evil forces of marginalization, unconscionable military brutality against defenseless and law-abiding citizens, environmental despoliation, and criminal neglect by the Nigerian state and their corporate agents including ...

CREDO Mobile Happy Birthday to Ned Lamont who turns 54 today. Too bad he's not celebrating his birthday as the junior senator from Connecticut.
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Rachel Maddow talks to former Lieberman political rival Ned Lamont about what is driving Sen. Lieberman to obstruct health reform and threaten to filibuster his own caucus. As Ned notes, it was Republican money that got him elected and he's showing t

CREDO Mobile One of the best Top 10 lists we've seen. Here's to another year of great political comedy (and news!) from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
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Talking Points Memo's Top 10 Political Comedy Videos of 2009.

CREDO Mobile What are your goals for the New Year? Here are Karl Rove's to get you started! CREDO is resolved to defend the Clean Air Act against the coal industry, repeal DOMA, and keep the public option in health reform. Let us know what you hope to accomplish.
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Karl Rove writes in The Wall Street Journal that ambitious Republicans should resolve to run for office next year.

CREDO Mobile Outstanding work by Rachel Maddow. No hypocrisy is too big for Dick Cheney, and Rachel does what the White House won't - fight back hard.
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MADDOW: After days of essentially unanswered Republican political attacks against the Obama administration, finally, today, we got the big kahuna. The white whale of Republican politics, former Vice President Richard Bruce Cheney, involved in this.

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