Texas, the home of Sheila Jackson-Lee, George W. Bush and Michael Irvin, never fails to disappoint. Silly me, I thought that all Americans older than the age of 18 had the right to vote.

However, those wacky Texan good ole boys feel that the right to vote is being abused, and by God, they are going to nip this issue right in the bud.

Republican legislators in the Texas House have once again proved they are the bastion of backward thinking by voting 101-48 late Wednesday for a bill requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls.

Republicans have long-sought to enact this legislation, saying that their constituents had demanded this change to ensure election integrity. Republican governor Rick Perry declared the bill one of several emergency items on the agenda.

This is one of those "child-asked-to-play-a-slave" stories that people seem to get outraged about every year around Black History Month. Frankly, though, after reading the facts of the case, I don't see what the big deal is.

In fact, I am glad to know that white-majority school districts are tackling the very difficult topic of slavery in America, but the Mother of an Ohio fifth grader at Chapel Field Elementary School disagrees.

Though most of us know her as that black congresswoman with the beehive, Sheila Jackson Lee is actually a well-known Democrat representing Texas's 18th Congressional District in the House of Representatives.

Since her election victory in 1995, Lee has been an outspoken politician leading the charge on issues relating to minorities and civil rights in this country. She has been an ardent supporter of affirmative action, immigrant and women's rights, attacking any legislation that she feels disenfranchises vulnerable minority communities.

However, according to a recent expose in The Daily Caller, Lee's fiercest attacks have apparently been against the members of her own staff. The congresswoman is, reportedly, meaner than James Evans after working a long August day at the car wash. Former staffers report she's like Sho-nuff, Eviline and the mean lieutenant in Beverly Hills Cop, all wrapped into one.

Normally, Congress is meant to be a bastion of good breeding and gentility where civil discourse trumps nasty rhetoric and name calling. However, Lee must have missed that part of Freshman Orientation.

Over a 10 year span, Lee has one of the highest staff turnover rates in Washington, with at least 39 staffers leaving within one year. Over that time, Lee has employed at least nine chiefs of staff, eight legislative directors, and 18 schedulers or executive assistants, according to records of federal disclosure forms published by the website Legistorm. Nine staffers left within two months, 25 within 6 months.

When I saw this video (you can watch the clip after the jump), I was hesitant to write about it because in some ways it's just another embarrassing example of the disaster some of our children are growing up to be.

Besides, watching the Egyptians make a first step toward true democracy and freedom was so inspirational -- why tarnish this moment with a bunch of ignorant foolishness from some potty-mouth tweens?

It dawned on me, however, that the awe and inspiration our country felt as we witnessed the Egyptian people scratch and scrape for basic freedoms is EXACTLY why I should write about this video.

Nadin Khoury (pictured), a 13-year-old son of Liberian immigrants living in Philadelphia, was viciously attacked, beaten and terrorized by a group of seven young men while on his way home from school.

He was jumped, kicked, punched, stuffed in a tree and ultimately hung from a fence outside of his apartment complex, and as often happens these days, one of the alleged attackers filmed the assualt and later posted the incident on YouTube.

In the video, the attackers can be heard laughing at him as he desperately tries to get away.

"It's bullying. It's bullying in America at its worst," said Michael Chitwood, superintendent of police in Upper Darby Township, Pa.

Khoury was not seriously injured in the beating, but he has been unable to go to school because of the threats he and his family have received since the attack. He said the teens, who range in age from 15 to 17, had bothered him before and his family will likely have to move to a different town.

Unfortunately, videos of young people engaging in violence is all too common, yet this video seems to also showcase the failure of the community in a way words never could.

The Mysterious Unknown Black Man has struck again!! This time he raped a nun in New York City. This guy sure gets around.

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The New York Daily News is reporting that a Brooklyn nun called police last week claiming she had been sexually assaulted by a 6'4", 250 pound black man who was around 40... no wait 50, yeah that's the ticket, he was 50 years old.

The 26-year-old white woman claimed she was headed back to her convent (pictured above), just minding her own business, when a hulking black man ambushed her, choked her and then dragged her eight blocks (all while in her full nun's habit), before raping her and leaving her unconscious in a snow bank. In New York, it's been snowing a lot!

She said that when she woke up, her underwear was down and her breasts were exposed for all of God's children to see. She called the police and told them all about what this mean black man had done to her.

Police released a sketch and put out an alert asking for the public's help in locating this sinister, black nun-raper. The sketch looked a lot like Satan!

However, police became suspicious, finding it very hard to believe that some big black dude carrying a white unconscious nun in a full habit, would have gone unnoticed for eight blocks. Even in New York.

Meanwhile, the victim was treated at a local hospital and ultimately returned to her convent to seek counsel from her Mother Superior.

Straight from the "crazy cat lady file" is a story that has captured the nation's attention. It's the story of one nutty woman battling one powerful man in show business -- and her quest for justice. No, not Mary Harvey, but Valerie Joyce Wilson Turks.

Who is that, you may ask? And why does she have four names?

Well, Turks is a 31-year-old woman who has recently filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against Diddy for ... (wait for it) ... one trillion dollars! That's a lot!

Generally, a comb doesn't cause a lot of problems. Sure, there are times where it gets tangled up in your weave tracks and you have to yank it out, or for those who are affectionately deemed "tender-headed," it can become an instrument of torture in the hands of the wrong comber. But, you never hear of a comb actually being used to threaten anyone or inflicting any real damage on a person.

Until now!

In a news day dominated by hundreds of colorfully named wise guys being nabbed by the Feds, a crime story where the weapon of choice was a metal comb was nearly lost on America.

In New York City, a 13-year-old middle-schooler named Antwanise Richardson (pictured) was arrested after being accused of having an awful name stabbing her teacher in the hand ... with a comb.

We've heard a lot recently about the war on obesity. We have all been inundated with the health dangers associated with being overweight.

But what about the upside of obesity?

What about the positive uses for 100 pounds of fat around your abdomen? There is one!

A Minnesota woman decided to show Ms. Fancy Pants Michelle Obama a thing or two about why fat can be fabulous.

This fat soldier used her ample girth to hide a stolen mink coat in her underwear ... while she was in jail for three days.

This story would actually be pretty funny if it wasn't so sad and racist.

It all started in a suburb of Chicago, when a butt dial went horribly wrong.

The wife of a Winnetka school employee called out the SWAT Team, because she feared her husband had been kidnapped and was being held hostage.

Why did she think this terrible thing?

Because she received a call from her husband's cell phone, but no one was there and all she could here was the sound of hip-hop music playing in the background.

"You know how when you sit on your phone when it's in your back pocket and it calls the last number that was dialed? His wife was the last number he'd dialed," said Winnetka police Chief Joseph De Lopez. Apparently,what she heard led her to believe there was someone holding him hostage so she called the police.

This makes sense!