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Don Quixote gets the Spanglish treatment Fri Dec 30, 1:22 PM ET MADRID (AFP) - With Spain having spent 2005 celebrating four centuries since its most celebrated author Cervantes wrote his emblematic work Don Quixote, it was only a matter of time before linguistic trends caught up with the work. So popular that it has already been translated into Esperanto, Braille and Gaelic, as well as three dozen other languages, a version in Spanglish is now to hit the bookshelves. Mexican author Ilan Stavans is behind the work in a mixture of Spanish and English which would frighten linguistic traditionalists...

Sec. Ridge will hold a briefing at 3:30 PM EST.Nothing follows.

I have some explaining to do people. There was no kitty thread last week. I was sick with the flu most of last week so decided to give the kitty thread the week off. Sorry about the mix-up last week. The big news over the weekend was obvious. Saddam Hussein has been captured. Time to rejoice and celebrate for the moment. While there are other facets of the war on terror yet to complete (location of WMD and OBL among them) the capture of Saddam represents a big milestone victory for the “coalition of the willing”. Regarding the interrogation of...

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world. A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in...

OK, let's create one master reference thread for our favorite classic political pictures. I keep seeing requests inside of threads for particular pictures, so how about we post our favorites here, and then if someone still can't find what they are looking for they can request it in a post here. Bookmark for future reference. Here are some of my favorites to start things off: Anyone got the version where his ears are wiggling? And my all-time favorite Bush photo

A little lunch time humor break to brighten your Monday. This picture is courtesy of a Houston Freeper (Allegra). This is her cat, and the cat's name is NOT Monica.