By Kelly Jad'on Recently, I asked the man who is hailed by a New York Times reporter as someone who has quietly become “one of the most influential people in America,” about his personal history and how it influenced his new best-seller--The Noticer. Andy Andrews is a best-selling novelist and in-demand corporate speaker for the world’s largest organizations. He has spoken at the request of four different U.S. presidents and at military bases worldwide. He is best known as the

Skunk Girl is Sheba Karim’s first novel . It is told from the point of view of 16-year-old Nina Khan, self-described as “a Pakistani Muslim girl” and from a small white town in upstate New York. Although published in 2009, the story is set in approximately 1993. Skunk Girl's cover. Image via Macmillan Publishing. In a fast-paced, entertaining read, Nina narrates her life and drama as the only Pakistani and Muslim girl in her high school. She deals with worries about school and boys,

By Debbie Schlussel A new Pew Research Center survey is disturbing and not for the reasons that it's getting a lot of mainstream media attention. The survey gauges views and opinions of several different age groups in America, and is being touted far and wide for showing that the older the age group, the older they consider the age at which "old age" begins. Well, that's not surprising. And it's not the important part of the survey. This part, below, is the noteworthy part, and it

Rating the Greatest GOP Sex Scandals of the Past 20 Years By Brad Reed, AlterNet From Clarence Thomas to Mark Sanford, the definitive guide to randy Republicans Give this to Republicans: They know how to conduct sex scandals in style. Oh sure, Democrats have their sex scandals, but they're not nearly as interesting. For one thing, most Democrats busted in sex scandals aren't the same type of overbearing moral scolds as your average GOP politician. (The one recent exception was f

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