Dallas police have arrested a local pastor and charged her with breaking into the home of one of her parishioners on Christmas Eve, and then trying to steal thousands dollars worth of personal property. (Dec. 27)
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The Florida International baseball player with a record-setting 56-game hitting streak has been charged with rape in the Bahamas, court officials in the islands’ capital said Monday. (Dec. 27)
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Ivorians unevenly followed a general strike aimed at pressuring their incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo to step down, largely sticking to the same fracture lines that marked the West African nation’s civil war eight years ago. (Dec. 27)
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An Oklahoma farmer is feeling grateful toward a local TV station after the station’s news chopper helped a calf that was stuck on a frozen pond get to safety. (Dec. 27)
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Natalie Portman is pregnant and is engaged, R and B legend Teena Marie dies and Hefner gets engaged to a Playmate again. (Dec. 27)
Continue reading …In Show-Ending Poem, CBS’s Schieffer Spins Christmas Classic Into Critique of Tea Party, AZ Immigration Law
December 27, 2010 No CommentEnding Sunday's “Face the Nation” in poetic fashion, CBS's Bob Schieffer gave a year-end commentary where he portrayed John Boehner as the flustered “orange-faced” leader of a divided House GOP. Schieffer also snidely criticized the Arizona immigration law. “His face was bright orange, a sun-tan hall-of-famer. / I knew in a flash – it must be John Boehner,” spoke Schieffer, painting the soon-to-be Majority Leader as the head of a herd of reindeer, the House Republicans. “He hollered, cajoled, oh how he did plead, / But the deer wouldn't listen, each wanted to lead.” Composing his end-of-show commentary to verse, Schieffer summarized the 2010 political scene and provided some insight of his own as to how the next two years in Washington will unfold. Though Democrats met a bitter fate this November, Schieffer implied a possible downfall for the GOP with a split between Tea Partiers and incumbent Republicans.
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A powerful East Coast blizzard menaced would-be travelers by air, rail and highway, leaving thousands without a way to get home after the holidays and shutting down major airports and rail lines for a second day. (Dec. 27)
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The NFL moved the Vikings-Eagles game from Sunday night to Tuesday because of a blizzard that dumped about a foot of snow on Philadelphia and made travel hazardous. (Dec. 27)
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Under a towering Christmas tree, 2-year-old Pierre Finder Campa giggled in delight amid his train set and his new parents. (Dec. 27)
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Among the cities hard hit by a heavy snowstorm was Boston, where residents Monday were digging out, while travelers were waiting for airline service to be restored. (Dec. 27)
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