Free Republic

Paris Hilton was arrested in Hollywood early Thursday and charged with driving under the influence. TMZ has learned LAPD officers noticed Paris driving her Mercedes McLaren SLR erratically at 12:31 AM and stopped her. They believed she exhibited signs of intoxication. We're told they administered a field sobriety test, and Paris blew a .08. In California, driving with a .08 blood alcohol level is the minimum level for DUI. Paris was arrested and taken to the LAPD Hollywood division, where she was booked. The officers who stopped the car did not know it was Paris Hilton until they approached the...

".S. Army Spc. Mark Wilkerson, right receives a hug from anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan at Camp Casey III Thursday Aug. 31, 2006 near Crawford, Texas. Wilkerson, 22, of Colorado Springs, Colo., plans to surrender to Fort Hood, Texas, authorities later today, a year and a half after going AWOL from the Army post before his unit's second deployment to Iraq." "After being absent without leave for a year and a half, Army Spc. Mark Wilkerson, center, returns to Fort Hood Army Base in Killeen, Texas, on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006. Behind Wilkerson are war protesters Dede Miller, sister of...

CRAWFORD — The growing anti-war movement fueled by last summer’s peace demonstrations in Crawford resurfaces in Washington, D.C., today, but the peace icon who sparked it all won’t be there. Cindy Sheehan says she’s taking a hiatus from her activist role to heal and re-energize herself after a trying and torrid summer. Most of the 100 or so anti-war demonstrators who joined her this year had left her peace camp in Crawford by the close of the Labor Day weekend. However, Sheehan, 49, remained behind, collecting herself after what proved a low-profile protest compared to last year’s massive, monthlong demonstration...

From the Howard Dean paid stooge site, the Daily Kos: Cindy Sheehan and fellow Kos Kid Nancy Pelosi.My Email account disabled By the way.I am being hassled in every small way they can...After I sent my essay out to my email list, my email account was disabled. I have never violated the terms of the account.Encouraging soldiers to resist war is seditious and I could go to prison for it.I also don't pay my fed taxes, which I could go to prison for.But I want to put the legality of this war on trial...I want the real people responsible for...

Paris Hilton is no stranger to self-promotion. But when she asked DJs to play songs from her upcoming debut album, "Paris," last spring, she wasn't so confident. "People go crazy," the 25-year-old socialite/reality TV star/singer says in an interview in the September issue of Blender, on newsstands Tuesday. "They love it. Everyone's like, `Who is this?' I don't tell. Because I don't want someone putting their phone up and recording it and making a ring tone off of it. "I think when people don't know it's me, they won't judge it. But if they know it's me, then they'll be...

It has finally happened. The left is beginning to turn against New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., known far and wide as “Pinch.” It is simple to understand why: the New York Times is becoming a failing business under his stewardship, and the Left needs the NYT. Faithful readers of The American Thinker have known this for over two years, as we have chronicled the journalistic and economic decline of the New York Times Company. We started warning investors that their money was at risk before the common stock lost half its value. We slogged through to SEC...

NASHVILLE - Tennessee has executed only one death row inmate since the Supreme Court decided to allow states to reinstate the death penalty in 1976. But that could change Wednesday with inmates Paul Dennis Reid and Sedley Alley scheduled to be executed by lethal injection within hours of each other. With appeals pending, it still is possible that both men could get a stay, but correction officials are getting ready for a double-execution just in case. "We're going forward as if both executions will happen that day," said Correction Department spokeswoman Dorinda Carter. Even though the death penalty remains politically...

Jamael Hassen has a lot of time to take in the news of the day, every day, behind the wheel of his taxi. But as he waited for a fare outside the Grand Hyatt hotel downtown Friday afternoon, Hassen said he seldom believes what he reads, sees or hears. "The media is liberal," he said. "They don't tell the truth, you know?" He said he was surprised to learn that, just inside the hotel, hundreds of journalists were participating in the annual convention of Investigative Reporters and Editors, a group that promotes watchdog journalism. The convention comes amid efforts at...