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Arianna Huffington Receives Aenne Burda Award Arianna Huffington, founder and chief-executive editor of the Internet-newspaper The Huffington Post , was honored with the Aenne Burda Award during the last day (January 24) of the international digital conference DLD in Munich. Dr. Maria Furtwängler-Burda consigned the trophy, a statue of Pallas Athene. The award honors successful and creative female entrepreneurs with visionary ideas from the digital world, this year for the seventh time already. Maria Furtwängler pleaded in her laudatory speech for female empowerment as start-up founders. Arianna Huffington could serve as a role model here: “Arianna Huffington experienced backstrokes and was never deterred by them – her fearlessness is a stimulus for women, to get active themselves.” Arianna Huffington, born as Arianna Stassinopoulos in July 1950 in Greece, counts as one of the leading and most influential women of the modern media generation. Still in May 2005, when “Huffington Post” e

"Basically, the two-party system is like a stale marriage. Democrats and Republicans need something to spice it up. They need to go on Craigslist and find a third party." ~ Arianna Huffington 16 Feb 2011 19:07 Africa/Lagos 'America's House Divided' Intelligence Squared Debates Examines America's Two-Party System Arianna Huffington & David Brooks Square Off Against P.J. O'Rourke & Zev Chafets to Debate: America's Two-Party System is Making America Ungovernable Debate to broadcast on NPR stations nationwide and telecast on Bloomberg TV globally beginning February 21 at 9PM EST PR Newswire NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2011 NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The latest round in America's premier debate series, Intelligence Squared Debates, pitted President and Editor-in-Chief of Huffington Post Media Group, Arianna Huffington and New York Times columnist David Brooks, against America's premier political satirist P.J. O'Rourke

One of my favorite segments in Arianna Huffington's new book, "Right is Wrong" , is timed perfectly to the latest polling news: That George W. Bush has officially been crowned the most unpopular president in modern history, with a disapproval rating over 70%. So let's return to her take on the now-infamous Bill Kristol op-ed in The Washington Post last July in which he promised that Bush would end up a "winner." Arianna calls it "the single most deceptive story of the entire war." One wonders if it was actually written by Billy Crystal, not Bill Kristol. ~ Greg Mitchell in Arianna's New Book Cuts Kristol! President George W. Bush may be the most unpopular president in the modern history of America, but not in the world. The most unpopular president in the world today is President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, with a disapproval rating of over 80%. The former president of Nigeria, Chief "the thief" Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasan

Rev. Jeremiah Wright Who pushed the American mainstream media off the wall? Rupert Murdoch or those Arianna Huffington called the lunatic fringe elements? The best news in America is the childish and foolish debate over whether Miley Cyrus posed topless or backless for Vanity Fair magazine and the political nonsense over Rev. Jeremiah Wright 's right to his own opinions. Miley Cyrus Americans want Rev. Jeremiah Wright to give up his life long convictions on calling a spade a spade without apologies or regrets, but he has proved to be a man of principles. Senator Barack Obama cannot dictate to Rev. Jeremiah Wright and make him retract his unpatriotic statements. Rev. Jeremiah Wright is not Barack Obama's Man Friday. Senator Barack Obama is so desperate to win the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party that he ready to even push his spiritual godfather over the cliff. As the American news channels are falling over themselves over Miley Cyrus's photographs in Vanit

Arthur Miller once described a good newspaper as “a nation talking to itself.” If only in this respect, the Huffington Post is a great newspaper. It is not unusual for a short blog post to inspire a thousand posts from readers—posts that go off in their own directions and lead to arguments and conversations unrelated to the topic that inspired them. Occasionally, these comments present original perspectives and arguments, but many resemble the graffiti on a bathroom wall. The notion that the Huffington Post is somehow going to compete with, much less displace, the best traditional newspapers is arguable on other grounds as well. The site’s original-reporting resources are minuscule. The site has no regular sports or book coverage, and its entertainment section is a trashy grab bag of unverified Internet gossip. And, while the Huffington Post has successfully positioned itself as the place where progressive politicians and Hollywood liberal luminaries post their anti-Bush Administration

Ms. Arianna Huffington , I read your "Who Is Maggie Williams?" posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 | 05:49 PM (EST) on your Huffington Post Blog . It was a bad example of Witch Hunt Journalism. Maggie Williams has a questionable past? How about you? 1997 is gone and gone forever. It is all in the past. How would you feel if I dig up what you did in the UK and why you were not married to the man you lived with for years before leaving for the US and got married to Mr. Huffington and other things? Are you not a better person now than your were in the 1980s? Would it be fair to use your past to judge you now? Like using Barack Obama's years of smoking pot and sniffing coke to denounce him now? Hypocrisy comes in different colors and contours. Do you have a conscience? I wonder why you American intellectuals in the news media like taking advantage of the ignorance and gullibility of most of your less informed readers? What will you gain from such political witch-hunting?

"The Kodak Theater gave us a Kodak moment -- a post debate embrace that included beaming smiles -- that transcended the two hours of talking that preceded it. This was the first time the two leading candidates were alone on the stage, and the first time that you could see the two of them running together. The whole evening - save for a pointed exchange on Iraq -- had that vibe." ~ Arianna Huffington Arianna, Thank you for your beautiful and yet truthful analysis of the last Democratic Presidential Debate. Whether Barack Obama was against the war from day one and Hillary Clinton voted for the authorization of the last resort by military action is not the most important question before us. The most important questions is, when are the American troops returning to the safety of their American homeland? It is not who starts the war that matters, but who can end it. Senator Barack Obama has not told us how he is going to end the war. He has not given us any plan on how to end the

Arianna Huffington How To Overthrow The Government What is a hero without love for mankind. ~ Doris Lessing Amazon.com "Our government is no longer serving us," declares Arianna Huffington in How to Overthrow the Government. "[It] is slow, unfair, corrupt, and peopled by politicians living on graft and sinecure." While the political class gloats about unprecedented prosperity, Americans are more turned off by their rulers than ever before: the public holds deeply cynical views about Washington, voter turnout continues to drop, and "modern campaigns ... are so thoroughly dominated by pollsters and consultants that there's no oxygen left for ideas that might challenge the status quo." Politicians have turned a blind eye to America's real problems. "Glad-handing lobbyists" (there are roughly 38 per member of Congress, says Huffington) and "the seductive allure of incumbency" have made lawmakers resistant to necessary reforms. &quo