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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...

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....

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

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

Port Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands, should be renamed Port Margaret as a tribute to Baroness Thatcher, senior figures in the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence are suggesting. The idea is being backed by MPs and is also attracting considerable support on the islands, which Lady Thatcher was responsible for liberating in 1982. The proposal is likely to trigger fury in Argentina, which has been ratcheting up the rhetoric over the sovereignty of the Falklands around the 30th anniversary of the conflict.

'No Gushing Hysteria, Just Quiet, Dignified Respect': The Sombre But Patriotic Mood In Lady Thatcher's Constituency Michael Deacon visits Finchley, where the constituents Margaret Thatcher served for 33 years are paying their respects patriotically but quietly. By Michael Deacon1 09 Apr 2013 The scene in the office of the local Conservative Association said it all. Inside, a large but demure portrait hung on the wall; beneath it, on a shelf, stood a little row of framed photos of her smiling or cutting a cake. At either side of the photos were vases containing little Union flags. Draped beneath the shelf,...

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...

The death of Margaret Thatcher and the suicide of Matthew Warren–the son of Pastor Rick Warren has brought to light the irrational rage that has been simmering in our society for some time.I experienced this when a colleague said in 2008 that any Catholic who knowingly voted for Obama should go to confession. His statement made the national news and his email box was suddenly flooded with hate mail. When he disabled his email they started sending their hate mail to anyone associated with the parish who still had an email box open. Some of it came to me. This...

Margaret Thatcher, one of the most significant leaders of the 20th century, died yesterday at age 87. A model of convictional leadership, Margaret Thatcher became almost universally known as Britain's "Iron Lady." In May 1979, Margaret Thatcher moved into No. 10 Downing Street and changed the course of British history. Beyond this, Lady Thatcher changed the terms of debate on both sides of the Atlantic and left a legacy of leadership that should inspire generations to come. Born October 13, 1925 in the village of Grantham, Margaret Roberts was soon recognized as an unusually bright and forceful child. Her father,...

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. Around 100 hundred people were out on the streets to celebrate the death of former the former prime minister, whose death from a stroke was announced on Monday. A board at the famous Ritzy cinema in Windrush Square was hijacked by partygoers who swapped the letters to read 'Margaret Thatcher's Dead.' Smashed glass was strewn on the street after the window of charity shop Barnardos was kicked in during ugly scenes. Police officers trying to keep order...

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.”...

On a day largely devoted to remembering Margaret Thatcher, leader of the Conservative Party, would it really have been too much for Morning Joe to have had on at least one conservative guest to discuss her legacy? Apparently, yes. Morning Joe's lineup of political guests today leaned 100% left: Jon Meacham, Al Hunt, Cokie Roberts, Mike Allen, Sen. Tim Kaine, former Obama aides Robert Gibbs and Melody Barnes, Tony Blair, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Mayor Michael Nutter, Eugene Robinson, Maureen Orth and Joe Klein. Joe Scarborough sometimes like to boast in such circumstances that his presence more than counterbalances the liberal avalanche....

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.

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...

Mrs. Thatcher’s predecessor as prime minister, the amiable but forgotten Sunny Jim Callaghan, once confided to a friend of mine that he thought Britain’s decline was irreversible and that the government’s job was to manage it as gracefully as possible. By 1979, even this modest aim seemed beyond the capabilities of the British establishment, and the nation turned to a woman who was one of the few even in a supposedly “conservative” party not to subscribe to the Callaghan thesis. She reversed the decline, at home and overseas. The Falklands War, inconsequential in and of itself, had a huge global...

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...

So much for girl power. Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell tweeted out a positive message regarding former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who the singer once dubbed the "first Spice Girl," to honor the late leader's legacy earlier today. Liberal social media users quickly engulfed Halliwell with hateful tweets, using the kind of language normally reserved for the worst of the worst....

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...

For the last 4 hours, MSN has no report on Thatcher's death. They currently report the deaths of (1)Mouseketeer, Annette Funicello (2)"Spanish film star" Sara Montiel (3)"Documentary film maker" Les Blank (4) Roger Ebert's funeral (5)Nevada's murdered state insurance commissioner. The only mention of Thatcher is a parody of her work as a young engineer on DQ ice cream.