The Huffington Post is a group weblog and news site started by Arianna Huffington on May 9, 2005. The first use of the term weblog. ... Arianna Huffington talks to the media while campaigning for governor of California at UC Berkeley on September 11, 2003. ... May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (130th in leap years). ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...

It is notable because many celebrities contribute to it, although there are also many other posters who have achieved neither fame nor notoriety.

Although the blog tilts to the left (and is very American-centric in coverage), there is some representation from the right as well. Similarly, though the general tenor of the blog has been strongly anti-Iraq War there is some neo-conservative opinion as well. This article deals with the post-invasion period in Iraq and its occupation. ...

Some critics contend that Huffington was missing the point of a blog. Celebrities, they said, already have many venues through which to express their opinions.

Bloggers

Celebrity bloggers include the following names.

Politicians

Jerry Brown, John Conyers, Jon Corzine, Gary Hart, Ed Markey, Mike McCurry, Bill Press, Joe Scarborough. Jerry Brown in the 1970s Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. ... John Conyers John Conyers, Jr. ... Jon Stevens Corzine (born January 1, 1947) is an American politician and businessman. ... Gary Hart Gary Warren Hart (born Gary Hartpence on November 28, 1936) is a politician and lawyer from the state of Colorado. ... Edward John Markey (born July 11, 1946), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1976, representing the 7th District of Massachusetts. ... Mike McCurry , born 21 December 1954 in Blackwell, Oklahoma, and educated at Princeton and Georgetown, is an American politician, lobbyist, theologian, and educator. ... Bill Press is the former party chief for the California Democratic Party, a former CNN and MSNBC political commentator, and an accomplished liberal author. ... Joe Scarborough Charles Joseph Scarborough (born April 9, 1963) is the host of the program Scarborough Country on MSNBC and served in the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2001 as a Republican from Florida. ...

Journalists & authors

Peter Bart, Tina Brown, Marc Cooper, David Corn, Danielle Crittenden, Walter Cronkite, Harold Evans, Paul Feig, David Frum, Larry Gelbart, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Isikoff, Simon Jenkins, David Kirby, Paul Krassner, Roger Lowenstein, Bill Maher, Norman Mailer, Irshad Manji, Dennis Prager, Roger L. Simon, Elizabeth Warren, Lizz Winstead, Byron York. Peter Bart, an American born July 24, 1932, has been the editor-in-chief of Variety since 1989. ... Tina Brown (born November 21, 1953 in Maidenhead, England) is a British-born American magazine editor, columnist, and talk-show host. ... David Corn is a political correspondent for The Nation. ... Danielle Crittenden (1963-) is a Canadian author and journalist. ... Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. ... Sir Harold Matthew Evans (born 1928) is a British-born journalist and writer. ... Paul Feig is a director and author. ... David Frum (born 1960) is a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, and the author of the first insider book about the Bush presidency. ... Larry Gelbart (b. ... Christopher Hitchens Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949, England) is a journalist, author, critic, and self-proclaimed political gadfly. ... Michael Isikoff is an investigative journalist for the US-based magazine Newsweek. ... Sir Simon Jenkins (1943- ) is a British newspaper columnist currently associated with The Guardian after fifteen years with News International titles. ... David Kirby is an investigative journalist based in Brooklyn, New York, a regular contributor to the New York Times since 1998, and author of the 2005 book Evidence of Harm - Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy. ... Paul Krassner (born April 9, 1932) was editor and frequent contributor to the Freethought magazine The Realist, which, first published in 1958, is a very early example of the underground countercultural press in the US. The Realist was published intermittently until 2001. ... Roger Lowenstein, a financial journalist, reported for the Wall Street Journal for more than a decade, including two years writing its Heard on the Street column, 1989 to 1991. ... William Bill Maher Jr. ... Norman Mailer, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American writer and innovator of the nonfictional novel. ... Irshad Manji (born 1969) is a Canadian author, journalist, and activist. ... Dennis Mark Prager (born August 2, 1948) is a syndicated radio host, columnist and public speaker in the United States. ... Roger L. Simon is a successful mystery author and screenwriter living in California. ... Elizabeth Warren is the author of The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke (ISBN 0465090826) An article in Time magazine by Maryanna Murray Buechner was entitled Parent Trap Want to go bust? Have a kid. ... Lizz Winstead (born August 5, 1961) is a Minnesota-born comedian who was co-creator of The Daily Show along with Madeleine Smithberg, and served as head writer. ... Byron York is a conservative American author and journalist who lives in Washington, D.C.. He is a White House correspondent for National Review magazine and a columnist for The Hill. ...

Actors/Actresses or directors/producers

Lawrence Bender, Bruce Cohen, John Cusack, Larry David, Ellen DeGeneres, Sandy Frank, Robert Greenwald, Brad Hall, Marshall Herskovitz, Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Christine Lahti, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David Mamet, Adam McKay, Mike Nichols, Rob Reiner, Tim Robbins, Haim Saban, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Harry Shearer. Lawrence Bender Lawrence Bender (born 1958) is a film producer and occasional actor. ... Bruce Cohen is the Academy Award winning director of American Beauty. ... John Cusack as Ed in Identity John Paul Cusack (born June 28, 1966) is an American film actor, born in Evanston, Illinois. ... Larry David (born July 2, 1947) is an American actor, writer, producer and film director from Brooklyn, New York. ... Ellen DeGeneres, on her talk show. ... Sanderson Sandy Frank (birthdate unknown) is a television producer and distributor. ... Robert Greenwald is a left wing documentary filmmaker who has tackled some of the biggest subjects of the day; war (in Iraq) and media (on Rupert Murdoch/Fox News). ... Brad Hall (born March 21, 1958, Santa Barbara, California) is an American actor, best known as a Saturday Night News news anchor on Saturday Night Live (SNL). ... Marshall Herskovitz (-) is an American film director. ... Quincy Delight Jones II (born March 14, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois) is an African-American record, television and film producer, musician and songwriter. ... Diane Keaton from Annie Hall along with Woody Allen. ... Christine Lahti (born April 4, 1950) is an American actress. ... Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes on Seinfeld, the role she is most well known for, despite an impressive resumé of other roles. ... David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, director and poet born in Flossmoor, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. ... Adam McKay is a writer and film director. ... Mike Nichols (born Michael Igor Peschkowsky) is an Academy Award winning movie director. ... Rob Reiner (born March 6, 1947) is an American actor, director, producer, and writer. ... Tim Robbins winning the 2004 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor Mr Causer(born October 16, 1958, also Timothy Causer) is an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. ... Haim Saban (born March 26, 1944, Alexandria, Egypt) is a television producer who is perhaps best known for bringing the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers to the United States of America. ... Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ... Harry Julius Shearer (born December 23, 1943, Los Angeles, California) is an American comedic actor and writer who began his career as a child actor in 1950s movies (The Robe) and television (The Jack Benny Program). ...

Business people

Joan Blades, Christie Hefner, Hilary Rosen. Joan Blades (b. ... Christie Hefner was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1954, to Millie Williams and Hugh Hefner. ... Hilary B. Rosen was the chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America from 1998 to 2003. ...

Other

James Boyce, Kristen Breitweiser, Stephen Elliott, Richard Dawkins, Al Franken, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Marty Kaplan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., David Rees, Josh Silver, Russell Simmons, David Sirota, Tavis Smiley, Andy Stern, Eugene Volokh, John Zogby James Boyce (September 6, 1947 - January 25, 1994), known as Jimmy Boyce, was a British Labour politician. ... Kristin Breitweiser is a lawyer and one of the Jersey Girls, four women from New Jersey who were widowed when their husbands were killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks and subsequently researched the policy and intelligence failures that led up to the attacks. ... Stephen Elliott (born 6th January, 1984 in Dublin) is an Irish international football centre forward. ... Dawkins is the holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. ... A recent photograph of Al Franken (credit: Bill Hayward) Al Franken (born May 21, 1951) is an American satirist, comedian, bestselling author, and radio host with a predominantly liberal point of view. ... Marty Kaplan is Associate Dean for Programs and Planning of the USC Annenberg school of communication and director of the Norman Lear Center for the study of entertainment. ... Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Josh Silver is a keyboardist for the band Type O Negative. ... Entrepreneur Russell Simmons aka Rush born (Oct 4, 1957) in Queens, NY, is the co-founder, with Rick Rubin, of the pioneering hip-hop label Def Jam. ... David Sirota, a self-proclaimed progressive populist, is a fellow at the Center for American Progress and was the author of its The Progress Report. ... Tavis Smiley is a former radio show host on National Public Radio in the United States. ... Andrew Andy L. Stern (born 1950) is the president of the Service Employees International Union, the largest and fastest-growing union in the United States and Canada. ... Eugene Volokh (born 1968) is a American legal commentator and law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. ... John Zogby (born 1948) is a noted American political pollster. ...

Advance publicity also promised many more names.

Warren Beatty, Tony Blankley, Andrew Breitbart, Albert Brooks, Barry Diller, Nora Ephron, James Fallows, Tom Freston, David Geffen, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Michael Medved, Gwyneth Paltrow, Paul Reiser, Liev Schreiber, Jann Wenner, Mort Zuckerman, Ari Emanuel, Paul Goldberger, Alex Keyssar, Kenneth B. Lerer, David O. Russell, and Jim Wiatt. Warren Beatty Henry Warren Beaty (born March 30, 1937 in Richmond, Virginia), now known as Warren Beatty, is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. ... Tony Blankley is the editorial page editor of, and a weekly columnist for, The Washington Times. ... Andrew Breitbart is a contributor for the popular U.S.-based Drudge Report website, one time author, and occasional guest commentator for political news programs. ... Albert Brooks (born July 22, 1947) is an actor, comedian, and director. ... Barry Diller (born February 2, 1942 in San Francisco, California) is an American media executive responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company. ... Nora Ephron (born May 19, 1941) is an American film director, producer and screenplay writer. ... James Fallows is an American print and radio journalist who has been associated with The Atlantic Monthly for many years and has written seven books. ... Tom Freston is an American television executive. ... David Geffen (born February 21, 1943 in New York City, New York) is an American record executive, film and theatrical producer, and philanthropist. ... Maggie Gyllenhaal (born November 16, 1977), is an American film actress. ... ... Michael Medved (born October 1948) is a United States nationally syndicated conservative talk radio show host, film critic, and author. ... Gwyneth Paltrow in Shallow Hal Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 28, 1972) is an American actress. ... Paul Reiser (born March 30, 1957) is an American actor. ... Isaac Liev Schreiber (born October 4, 1967) is an American actor, born in San Francisco, California. ... Jann Wenner (born 7 January 1946) is the editor of the American pop music biweekly Rolling Stone. ... Mortimer Benjamin Zuckerman (born 1937) is a U.S. (Canadian-born) magazine editor, publisher, and real estate businessman. ... Paul Goldberger is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic, currently on staff at The New Yorker. ...

External links

• The Huffington Post website (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/)
• Huffington Post discussion group (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Huffington-Post?hl=en)
• First-week index (http://www.robotwisdom.com/sites/huffpo.html)