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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: In the United Kingdom, following the announcement of the death of Margaret Thatcher, tens of thousands of purely depraved people took to the streets in various enclaves and cities of the United Kingdom to celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher. UK Daily Mail: "Dancing On Maggie's Grave: How The Left 'Celebrated' Baroness Thatcher's Death With Smashed Shops And Anarchy In The Streets. Two women arrested for burglary after being found inside a shop. Barnardos shop front smashed in Brixton, south London. One policeman seriously injured after being pelted with bottles in Bristol. "Hundreds took to the streets...

Revellers in Brixton staged a street party to celebrate Margaret Thatcher's death, culminating in arrests and an attack on a local charity shop.

The character of Margaret Thatcher as reflected in her gracious description of Ronald Reagan in the Youtube video.

LADY WHO REFUSED TO TURN Margaret Thatcher was an icon for free market Regardless of whether one is an ardent supporter or a staunch critic of Margaret Thatcher, whose politics and policies have impacted the Western world like little else has, there is no denying that the controversial British Prime Minister was a trail-blazer in her own right. At a time when politics was an entirely male-dominated field and when she herself had said that Britain would not have a woman Prime Minister in her lifetime, Thatcher not just broke the glass ceiling but shattered it to a million pieces....

With the recent release of "The Iron Lady," Margaret Thatcher is all the rage. It is just over 25 years since Thatcher made her landmark visit to Israel - the first by a serving British prime minister. At the time, in May 1986, Thatcher received a rapturous reception, partly because of her support for the U.S. bombing of Libya a month earlier. The Israelis appreciated her support for what they perceived as an American operation against state-sponsored terrorism. Yet Thatcher's attitude toward Israel was complex. Despite her clearly warm feelings for British Jews, her outspoken support for Soviet Jewry, and...

Margaret Thatcher will receive a ceremonial funeral with full military honors at St Paul’s Cathedral in England, and it will have ‘official’ status, reports London’s Telegraph. Despite calls for a full state funeral, Thatcher's spokesman, Lord Bell, said Thatcher did not think it appropriate for her to lie in state and that a military flyover would be a waste of taxpayer money. A full state funeral would require the approval of Parliament. The last commoner to receive a full state funeral was Winston Churchill in 1965. “She specifically did not want a state funeral and nor did her family,” Lord...

One hundred Russian Jewish notables urged Benjamin Netanyahu to ignore recent pleas by American Jews calling on the Israeli prime minister to cede land for peace. In an open letter from Russia published Tuesday, the Russian Jews wrote that their message was a reaction to the April 3 letter initiated by the dovish Israel Policy Forum by 100 American Jews, including philanthropists Charles Bronfman, Danny Abraham, Lester Crown and Stanley Gold, and former U.S. Undersecretary of Defense Dov Zakheim. Among the signers of the Russian letter were the president of the Russian Jewish Congress, Yuri Kanner, and businessman Mikhail Fridman,...

Hundreds took to the streets as macabre ‘Thatcher death parties’ were held late across the country last night, organised by critics of the 'Iron Lady.'

The last group of Royal Marines in Afghanistan is heading back to the UK after serving for more than a decade in the war-torn country, the Ministry of Defence has announced. Members of 40 Commando Royal Marines will return to their base in Taunton, Somerset. Its members were the first British troops to be deployed to the country in 2001, securing Bagram airfield and going on to patrol the streets of Kabul. Since then the Marines have served in successive deployments in Sangin, Nahr-e Saraj and Musa Qala in Helmand Province. Units from the 7,200-strong Royal Marine Corps have served...

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell delivered an unexpectedly laudatory eulogy for Margaret Thatcher on The Last Word Monday night, but it was not one that many of her Republican admirers would appreciate. While conservative columnist George Will credited Thatcher for helping to “bury socialism as a doctrine of governance” in his tribute to the former British prime minister in The Washington Post, O’Donnell praised her for upholding the “good socialism” that still exists in Britain.“What do you call a person who gets rid of bad socialism and keeps good socialism?” O’Donnell asked. “I call that person a good socialist, like Margaret Thatcher.”...

A Barnado’s charity shop has been forced to close after the front was smashed during a party celebrating the death of Baroness Thatcher. A gaping hole was left in the window of the store in Brixton, south London, where around 150 people gathered for a street party following the news that Lady Thatcher had died of a stroke. Similar celebrations in Bristol left six police officers injured after an anti-Thatcher crowd turned violent and began throwing missiles at police.

Don't get me wrong ... I can appreciate taking any excuse to party, get drunk, and pretend that the world has been set aright in one fell swoop. (I've been waiting 25 years for the Dodgers to win another World Series for that very reason, and 20 for Notre Dame to win a football championship.) But this is truly, truly strange --- and very revealing, in a number of ways: Hundreds took to the streets as macabre ‘Thatcher death parties’ were held late into the night across the country, organised by critics of the "Iron Lady."Smashed shop windows, paint bombs...

Along with Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II, Margaret Thatcher was a giant of our era and, indeed, of history. These three leaders brought about the fall of Soviet communism and the resurgence of political and economic liberty around the world. Like Reagan, Thatcher was one of those rare individuals who was both a movement leader and an effective political leader. It is one thing to have firm ideas, quite another to have the skills to bring them into being and for them to endure after you leave office. The current economic crisis has put Margaret Thatcher’s ideas and...

She was never a politician. At least not in the understanding of the famous American preacher James Freeman Clarke, who in the nineteenth century had noticed that politicians think of the next election, a statesman, of the next generation. (...) Gorbachev never understood the value and the sense of democracy. For him democracy equals with the people’s democracy, Soviet tautology that had been used by Communist regimes as a smokescreen. Although some public figures understood it, not many had courage to admit and even less wanted to correct Mr. Gorbachev in public. Margaret Thatcher did. She understood that alleged Gorbachev’s...

In the past few days a number of hugely misleading reports have circulated in both Britain and the United States alleging that Margaret Thatcher snubbed Sarah Palin. It all began with a blog post in The Guardian claiming the former prime minister had refused to meet with Mrs. Palin on her upcoming visit to London, on the grounds that she was “unworthy of an audience”, and quoting an anonymous “ally” of Lady Thatcher. According to The Guardian, in a piece entitled ‘Margaret Thatcher to Sarah Palin: don’t bother dropping by’: Her (Lady Thatcher’s) allies believe that Palin is a frivolous...

Margaret Thatcher not only broke a glass ceiling; she broke a class ceiling. Today we say goodbye to a towering figure of the 20th century. With the passing of Margaret Thatcher, we’ve sadly lost the last living member of that great triumvirate that included Ronald Reagan and John Paul II — those giants who defeated the evil empire of Soviet Communism and allowed the liberation of its captive nations. We’ve also lost one of the great champions of economic freedom and democratic ideals. Many will focus on the fact that Margaret Thatcher’s career was a collection of “firsts” for women...

President Obama released his official “I, I, I, me, me, me” statement on the death of former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Monday afternoon. The statement, from a President who’s leadership is the antithesis of Thatcher’s, was released on the White House website: With the passing of Baroness Margaret Thatcher, the world has lost one of the great champions of freedom and liberty, and America has lost a true friend. As a grocer’s daughter who rose to become Britain’s first female prime minister, she stands as an example to our daughters that there is no glass ceiling that can’t be...

Hundreds of cheering people have held parties to "celebrate" the death of Baroness Thatcher. A crowd of two or three hundred people assembled in Glasgow's George Square where in 1989 protests to the introduction of Thatcher's poll tax took place. Some wore party hats and launched streamers into the air while a bottle of champagne was opened with a toast to the demise of Baroness Thatcher. Members of various organisations including the Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation, the Communist Party, the Socialist Party, the Socialist Working Party, the International Socialist Group, were joined by members of the public to mark the occasion....

The Left has led sickening celebrations in response to the death of former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

This morning, Margaret Thatcher died at age 87 owing to complications from a stroke. One of the lesser-known accomplishments of Britain's first female prime minister is her role in the creation of soft-serve. Thatcher, an Oxford chemistry grad, supported herself financially in the fifties by working at food manufacturer J. Lyons and Co. There, she became part of a team of chemists that developed key emulsifiers for ice cream. By increasing the amount of air and making it possible to churn soft-serve out of a machine, Thatcher paved the way for Britain's Mr. Whippy trucks. Her work also had financial...