Today's Fresh Meat

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It's official: Al Gore has won a Nobel Peace Prize for hisextraordinary efforts to raise consciousness of global warming, the LosAngeles Times reports. The designation has renewed calls for Gore to throw his hat in the ring for the Democratic presidential nomination, a move he continues toshrug off. But of all the existing candidates, none besides BarackObama has the resources to compete with Hillary Clinton inCalifornia—Gore would.

On the Obama note, supporters across California are getting active andaggressive following the opening of his Oakland campaign headquarters,and the LA Times reports he is moving into the next phase of hiscandidacy, which will focus on sharpening his differences with his competitors. But how explicitly is Obama willing to criticize Hillary?

Congresswoman Jane Harman, a Democrat of Los Angeles, is on the frontlines of the U.S. House's bitter saga over whether to pass a billcondemning the mass killings of Armenians in the 1910s as genocide. Inan LA Times opinion piece today, Harman defends her decision to oppose the resolution, which she originally co-sponsored, saying it would jeopardize ourstrategic and military interests in the Middle East and weaken amoderate Turkish government.

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