◼ Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister, dead at 87 - Washington Post
◼ Britain's first and only female prime minister Margaret Thatcher dies peacefully at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke. - Sky News ◼ Via Drudge
Lady Thatcher's children Mark and Carol said their mother, who suffered bouts of ill health in recent years, died peacefully on Monday morning.
Downing Street, which joined Buckingham Palace in flying its flags at half mast, said the politician would be given a full ceremonial funeral with honours at St Paul's Cathedral.
Prime Minister David Cameron led tributes from around the world, calling the former Tory leader "a great prime minister, a great leader, a great Briton".
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◼ THATCHER: 'Towering, divisive, revered' - NYT
Margaret Thatcher, the “Iron Lady” of British politics who pulled her country back from 35 years of socialism, 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 Monday. She was 87.
◼ Staunch US ally in Cold War victory - Washington Times
◼ Global champion of free markets - Guardian uk
◼ 'The PM Who Changed the World' (Video, autoplays) - Guardian uk
◼ NO STATE FUNERAL - AP
◼ Tributes pour in: live reaction and updates
◼ "Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the grocer’s daughter whose overpowering personality, bruising political style and free-market views..."
"... transformed Britain and transfixed America through the 1980s, died Monday after a stroke, her spokesman said in a statement. She was 87." - Althouse
◼ The Iron Lady Passes On - Terresa Monroe-Hamilton/New Zeal
It is with a heavy heart and genuine grief that I found out this morning that Maggie Thatcher passed away from a stroke. The world has lost a great, great soul and someone I looked up to. Heaven has gained a warrior and we have lost an angel.
◼ We lost a giant for freedom and human dignity. - Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion
◼ "'Tramp the dirt down': George Galloway's extraordinarily crass tweet...leads the Left’s sickening 'celebration' just minutes after Baroness Thatcher’s death." - Althouse
◼ Although the internet was flooded with tributes to the Iron Lady, it also showcased venom for Britain's first and only female political leader. - Daily Mail.uk
◼ REST IN PEACE, MARGARET THATCHER - David Harsanyi/Human Events @davidharsanyi
◼ Thatcher and “saving” the West - neo-neocon
RIP Margaret Thatcher!Tell Ronnie we miss him!
— Jennifer (@JenKnapp) April 8, 2013
◼ Quotes of the day - Allahpundit/HotAir
...she seemed to be having so much fun. That, I think, is what they never forgave her for. Thatcher laughed at them, mocked them, outwitted and out-debated them. That infuriated the Left: Conservatives aren’t supposed to mock, they are supposed to be mocked. They might be allowed to win a few elections, but they could never be allowed to win the argument, much less to scoff at liberals’ public pieties.
Thatcher won, in no small part because she was her own best case. Her confidence, prudence, good humor, and other virtues were those she sought to encourage in her fellow countrymen…
As we celebrate the remarkable life of Margaret Thatcher, it is fitting that we remember the most important aspect of it: She won, and she deserved to win. Those who opposed her and reviled her were on the wrong side of the most important question of their age, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with tyrants, many of them as guilty as those who manned the gulag watchtowers. And even today, when they make their pilgrimages to sit at the feet of Castro or bury Chávez, when they put leftist terrorists on their payrolls, they know: They lost. What they do not know, because they are incapable of understanding the fact, is that they deserved to lose. We should not allow them to pretend that they were on the right side all along.
