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‘Tramp the dirt down’: George Galloway's extraordinarily crass tweet leads the Left's sickening ‘celebration’ just minutes after Baroness Thatcher's death — George Galloway has provoked criticism after writing a ‘distasteful’ comment following the death of former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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The Moderate Voice, Twitchy, Telegraph, National Review, The Gateway Pundit, Business Insider, The Other McCain and American Power
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Margaret Thatcher dies — Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died “peacefully” at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke, her family has announced. — David Cameron called her a “great Briton” and the Queen spoke of her sadness at the death. — Lady Thatcher was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990.
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TalkLeft, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, The Moderate Voice, Shakesville, BizPac Review, Mediaite, The Mental Recession and FP Passport


Why The Modern Republican Party Would Reject Margaret Thatcher — Margaret Thatcher, the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom, died on Monday, leaving behind her a legacy of conservative values that American politicians still cite to this day. Upon learning of her death …
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CNN, The National Memo, Wonkblog and Applesauce


Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette — The dictate that one ‘not speak ill of the dead’ is (at best) appropriate for private individuals, not influential public figures — News of Margaret Thatcher's death this morning instantly and predictably gave rise to righteous sermons on the evils of speaking ill of her.
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Margaret Thatcher dies: live reaction and updates — Sort by: — 7.02pm BST — Before Lady Thatcher died there were predictions that, in some parts of the country, the news would be greeted with dancing in the street. — I haven't seen much evidence of that so far …


Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Who Reforged Britain, Dies — Margaret Thatcher, the “Iron Lady” of British politics, who turned her country in a sharply conservative direction, led it to victory in the Falklands war and helped guide the United States and the Soviet Union through the cold war's difficult last years, died on Monday.
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BBC, The Caucus, New Republic, Guardian, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, The Week, Spectator and The Hugh Hewitt Show

Three Who Saved the West — And now the last of them is gone. Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and Pope John Paul II—three who won the Cold War and, it isn't too much to say, saved the West (at least for a while!)—are no longer with us. Their examples remain.
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Washington Monthly and Power Line

Stockman: Thatcher would want us to ‘fight on, fight to win’ and crush liberalism
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Roll Call, Business Insider and msnbc.com

Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female PM, dead at 87
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ABCNEWS, Global Public Square, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Moderate Voice, Hot Air, Applesauce, Feministing and Associated Press

Statement from the President on the Passing of Baroness Margaret Thatcher
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Washington Wire, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Weasel Zippers, BizPac Review, New York Magazine and Fox News Insider

Associated Press: Praise Chavez, Grouse About Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher Dies After Stroke
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The Spectacle Blog, Taylor Marsh, americanthinker.com, The PJ Tatler and Vox Popoli

The Anti-Declinist — Mrs Thatcher's predecessor as Prime Minister …
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Washington Monthly, Esquire, NewsBusters blogs and Ed Driscoll

Margaret Thatcher vs. Pop Culture
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msnbc.com, BuzzFeed and Hullabaloo

Margaret Thatcher Sounded the Alarm on Climate Change
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Taylor Marsh

Margaret Thatcher dead at 87 following stroke
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Hill holds Obama's legacy in its hands — It's now or never for the White House. — President Barack Obama's second-term agenda is in doubt as Congress returns to Washington this week for a spring and summer stretch that could go a long way to define the scope of Obama's legacy.
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Reid Threatens Filibuster Reform With Nuclear Option
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Daily Kos and The Plum Line

Gun legislation's prospects improve
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Washington Monthly, The Hill and Prairie Weather

Obama to bring some Sandy Hook families on AF1
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Weasel Zippers, Associated Press and Daily Kos


Westboro Baptist Church to Picket Roger Ebert's Funeral — The anti-gay group says it will protest outside the movie critic's memorial service Monday in Chicago. — Leaders of Kansas' Westboro Baptist Church, notorious for picketing at the funerals of soldiers and gay teenagers …
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Taylor Marsh, The Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Scared Monkeys, Guardian, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth and Mashable


Chelsea Clinton opens door to run — Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton said Monday she would consider running for office if she could make a “meaningful” impact on the country. — “Right now, I'm grateful to live in a city and a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor …
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CNN, The Hinterland Gazette and Ballot Box

Insurance and Freedom — President Obama will soon release a new budget, and the commentary is already flowing fast and furious. Progressives are angry (with good reason) over proposed cuts to Social Security; conservatives are denouncing the call for more revenues. But it's all Kabuki.
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Prairie Weather and The Mahablog

Americans' Concerns About Global Warming on the Rise — Majority believe global warming is happening, but many still say it's exaggerated — PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. worry about global warming is heading back up after several years of expanded public skepticism.
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Firedoglake, E2-Wire, Post Politics and Politico


Texas Turns Battleground as Cowboy Boots Win Hispanics — Alex Steele begins his pitch on how to turn Texas into a Democratic state like any good politician, with the story of how he got to this place. — It begins in California's Central Valley, where he grew up: his father working …
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Public Sector Unions Reeling In Wisconsin — Sean Higgins of the Washington Examiner had this story on Friday, but for some reason I haven't seen it widely reported or commented on. Since Wisconsin stopped forcing public employees to pay union dues against their will, union membership in that state has plummeted:
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Special ops veterans' group calls for select probe of Benghazi attack — More than 700 Special Operations veterans are urging members of Congress to back a select committee to investigate last year's Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a letter first obtained by Fox News.
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Right Wing News, americanthinker.com, BizPac Review and NO QUARTER USA NET