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- US burglar beaks into Subway, eats food, leaves cash
DES MOINES, Iowa - Police say a burglar broke into a Subway sandwich store, helped himself to a smorgasbord of cold cuts and made sandwiches for the journey home - but left the store's cash behind.Police Sgt. Lori Lavorato says... デモイン、アイオワ州 - 警察強盗は地下鉄のサンドイッチ店に侵入した、コールドカットのバイキングに自分自身を助け、旅の家のためのサンドイッチを作ったと言う - しかし、店の現金behind.Police軍曹を残しました
- Oldest American dies
IOWA CITY, Iowa - An Iowa woman who became the oldest living American less than a month ago has died. Neva Morris of Ames, Iowa, was 114 years, 245 days old.The North Crest Community nursing home says she died on Tuesday with... アイオワシティ、アイオワ州 - 今月最古の生活アメリカより前に死亡したとなったアイオワ州の女性
- The California same-sex ruling | Michael Tomasky
A California judge - a Republican appointee - has overturned that state's voters' decision in 2008 to go against same-sex marriage. At other times I might have fretted about the backlash and so on. Today I say to hell with the backlash.This is the right decision; the civil rights of gay people in California were being violated, period. It's great and historic and moves us closer to making gay marriage legal across the country. People freaked out about this should consult Iowa, where legal gay marriage has had absolutely no impact whatsoever on straight people's marriages.Marc Ambinder has an informative post on Judge Vaughn Walker's 13 findings of fact that will form the basis of future legal arguments as this case heads to the ninth circuit, in San Francisco, and then to the Supreme Court.I usually look at these things politically, thinking about their impact in November. But today I don't even care. Let it have whatever impact it's going to have in November. If it fires up the wingers, so be it. This is history moving in the right direction.On a day when Republicans are trying to declare that some people born here shouldn't be citizens, when a poll comes out showing (as I just saw on TV) that only 42% of Americans are now certain that the president was born in this country, and when some conservatives are trying to say that Michelle Obama's attempt to have admirers sign an electronic birthday card for her husband smacks of Stalinism, one piece of good, decent, rational, fact-based, non-hysterical decision-making, by someone who might well even be a Republican, is to be celebrated.Gay rightsCaliforniaMichael Tomaskyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
カリフォルニア州の裁判官は - 共和党内定 - 2008年には州の有権者の意思決定を同性結婚に反するに覆している
- U.S. dam fails, downstream community evacuated
A dam in the U.S. state of Iowa failed on Saturday, as heavy rain and rising water pushed a gap in its structure. Evacuation of a downstream community was ordered.
The dam is on Lake Delhi, part of the Maquoketa River. Water level in the river has been steadily rising because of torrential rains.
On Saturday, the rising water pushed a 9-meter gap in the berm alongside the dam, according to the National Weather Service. Roads on either side of the dam gave out as a result of the rainfall. T ... アイオワ州のダムは20日、豪雨などの上昇、水に失敗、その構造のギャップを押した
- Anger over billboard linking Obama, Hitler
IOWA - A billboard created by a conservative Iowa political group comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin is being condemned by other activists.The North Iowa Tea Party began displaying the sign in... アイオワ州は - 看板保守アイオワ州の政治団体アドルフヒトラーとレーニンにバラクオバマ大統領を比較することによって作成された他のactivists.Theノースアイオワコーヒー党を非難されている記号関連する情報...表示開始
- US coach killer jailed
IOWA - A judge sentenced a 24-year-old man to life in prison yesterday for killing his former football coach in a high school weight room in front of students.Mark D. Becker will spend the rest of his life in prison without the... アイオワ州は - 裁判官刑務所での生活に昨日students.Markの前に高校のウエイトルームはD.ベッカー氏は、刑務所で残りの人生を過ごすことになります彼の元サッカー監督を殺すのに24歳の男性を宣告された
- Michael Tomasky: Let's talk 2012 already
One of the great tragedy/farce aspects of American politics is our presidential nominating process, which as you will recall from 2007-2008 is about as long as the gestational period of the female elephant, and far less attractive.At least both parties are aware of how ridiculous it has become, so they tinker with reforms. Last time around, they added more early states to compete with Iowa and New Hampshire. Now, reports Dan Balz of the WashPost, they're going a bit further for 2012:Once again [Iowa and New Hampshire] will kick off the 2012 voting, with Nevada and South Carolina to follow. Then all other states will be authorized to hold their contests. But they are expected to hold their events a month later, the first big change agreed upon in both parties. That means the four earliest states will be expected to schedule their contests in February, rather than January.A month may not seem like much, but the later starting date could affect the timing and pace of events in 2011. It was often said that the 2008 campaign was a marathon run at the pace of a sprint. If the early stages of the 2012 cycle are at least at the pace of a jog, candidates and voters could be better served. What happens in March 2012, when other states will be free to set their contests, is not clear. But there are reasons to think a rush to the front of the calendar will not be as attractive as it was in the past.The long and short of it is that the idea here is to try to create a schedule that runs over the course of the spring that maintains the drama - Illinois this week, Missouri the next, Michigan the next, et cetera - and gives more states their moment in the sun.This is good insofar as it seems like a step along the road to regional primaries, which I and many others have long supported. I 1つは、アメリカの政治の/茶番の側面大きな悲劇の場合は、リコールすると2007年から2008年から約限り女性象の妊娠期間として私たちの大統領候補指名のプロセス、およびはるかに少なく、少なくとも、両当事者attractive.Atは知っているどのように馬鹿げては、となっているの改革ので、いじくり回す
- Tea Party movement dips in popularity
Major poll suggests drop in support for anti-establishment rightwing US partyThe popularity of the Tea Party appears to be on the wane after more than a year of upsetting mainstream politicians, according to a Washington Post/ABC poll published today.The poll, the first major one to show support for the Tea Party going into reverse, reported that support for the anti-establishment, rightwing grassroots movement has dropped. The percentage of Americans holding an unfavourable view of the movement jumped by 11 points to 50%.But the poll may turn out to be premature, as the anti-incumbency mood across the US shows little sign of abating. The same poll showed that support for Congress was at an all-time low at 29%.The Tea Party movement, which began last year as a reaction to the high level of public spending and hostility towards Barack Obama, has over the last six months taken a series of political scalps, ousting centrist Republican candidates in a series of primaries. One of its main champions, Rand Paul, won in Kentucky last month.The movement has already forced the Republican party to move its policies to the right, even though its campaign strategists tell the leadership it has to shift into the centre to win back ground.Voters went to cast ballots in primaries in 11 states today ahead of the November mid-term elections, but few of the primaries involve high-profile Tea Party candidates, making it harder to judge whether it has stalled.In South Carolina Nikki Haley emerged as a frontrunner in the Republican primary for governorship after being endorsed by Sarah Palin, a Tea Party favourite. She has increased her popularity in state polls in spite of allegations about her sexual relations. In another governorship race, in Iowa, Palin endorsed the former governor Terry 主な調査では反体制コーヒー党の米国partyThe人気を右派の支持の低下を示唆した後の主流政治家を動揺させるのは1年以上を衰退しつつあることには、ワシントンポスト/ ABCの世論調査today.The世論調査を、公開されてによると最初に表示さ主要な1つは逆に行く、コーヒー党の支持を見るには反体制のサポートが報告、草の根運動を右。減少している
- 2012 US election calendar begins to take shape | Richard Adams
Republicans choose the city of Tampa in Florida as the site of the party's 2012 presidential nominating conventionJust to show that it's never too soon to be thinking about the 2012 presidential elections, the Republican party today named Tampa as the site of its 2012 convention – meaning that the GOP convention will be hot stuff in all senses.The Republican convention will take place in the St Pete Times Forum on the week beginning 27 August. Florida in August? Tampa has an average daytime temperature of a toasty 90 degrees in August, with high humidity. It's also reputed to be the lap-dancing capital of America.Another major contender was Phoenix, Arizona, and the heat there in August is furnace-like, so between that and the immigration law controversy the RNC made a smart call.Conventional wisdom has it that the site of its convention gives that party a boost in that state during the following election, although the evidence is mixed. But Florida remains hugely important in US politics and is a genuine swing state, so it's worth a shot.The Democratic party convention – a far less exciting prospect with a sitting president – is the following week, from 3 September, but the DNC hasn't decided on a venue yet. The contenders are said to be St Louis, Cleveland, Houston and Charlotte, according to various reports. Houston in August would make Tampa seem bracing. Being in Ohio, Cleveland would match Florida in the crucial swing-state stakes.The Republican primary calendar is the one to watch, and the party's sexily-named temporary delegate selection committee is said to be recommending that no contests be held prior to 1 February, and that only Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina be allowed to hold their primaries and caucuses before the start of March. That shou 共和党、フロリダ州の党2012大統領候補指名conventionJustのサイトとして、それは早すぎることはない見るには2012の大統領選挙を考えるするタンパの街を選択すると、共和党は、本日、タンパの2012大会のサイトとして名前 - 意味が共和党大会は、すべてのsenses.The共和党大会で熱いものセントピートタイムズフォーラムの週8月27日からで開催されますされます
- Washington legalises same-sex unions
WASHINGTON, DC - Same-sex marriage became legal in the nation's capital today.The District of Columbia became the sixth place in the country permitting same-sex unions. Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont... ワシントンDC - 同性結婚は、国家の首都today.Theコロンビア特別区の国では、6位の同性婚を許可した法律となった
- Has Nick Clegg experienced his 'Iowa moment'?
Liberal Democrat breakthrough raises prospect that Clegg will win over sympathetic supporters who had feared wasting their vote on an irrelevant partyA handful of Liberal Democrats, who have voiced the hope that Nick Clegg may be Britain's answer to Barack Obama, are clearly getting a little carried away.But here is an interesting thought. Has Clegg experienced an Iowa moment? This idea has been voiced by Tim Shipman, the deputy political editor of the Daily Mail, who covered the 2008 US presidential election for the Sunday Telegraph.Shipman says that Obama achieved a decisive breakthrough when he won the Iowa caucuses in January 2008. This wasn't just because Iowa was the first vote in 2008.The key point for Obama was that he managed to win in a state whose population is almost wholly white. This meant that African-Americans, who had feared that a vote for Obama would be a waste, felt confident about voting for him.Hillary Clinton won the next vote five days later on 8 January - the New Hampshire primary. But Obama scored a decisive victory in the next significant vote on 26 January - in South Carolina - with 55% of the vote, comparedx with 27% for Clinton. And the significance of that? African-Americans comprise a significant proportion of the state's population.Roll forward a few years, cross the Atlantic and here we are in the British general election of 2010. Liberal Democrats have long complained that they are popular but say that natural supporters fear wasting their vote on them.Clegg outlined what could happen if people really believed their vote would count. Speaking at the Lib Dem spring conference last month, long before the recent poll boost, he said:Almost 1 in 4 voters chose the Liberal Democrats at the last election. If that increased to 1 in 3, we could 自由民主党のブレークスルーは、明らかになっているの見通しをクレッグは自民、期待してニッククレッグは、バラクオバマ氏に英国の答えがあります表明しているのは無関係partyA一握りの彼らの投票を無駄に恐れていた思いやりのある支持者に勝つれます発生少し離れて行った
- Teenagers 'find body on egg hunt'
Two US teenagers taking part in an Easter egg hunt in the state of Iowa find a body in a park, police say. 2つの米国の10代の若者は、アイオワ州のイースターエッグハントに参加して公園で死体を発見、警察は言う
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