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Margaret Thatcher, the ‘Iron Lady of the Western World,’ Is Dead

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 5:47 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. This was how the UK Evening News quoted Margaret Thatcher, then the Conservative MP for Finchley, turning male chauvinism on its head. No doubt it delighted her audience at the National Council of the Townwomen’s Guilds in… Read more.

Argentina vs. Britain Over the Falklands … Still?!

Friday, February 26, 2010 at 5:04 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

The Falklands are little more than a bleak and desolate cluster of rocks dotting the South Atlantic Ocean, some 8,000 miles from Britain. Therefore, when British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dispatched the Royal Navy there in 1982 to oust Argentine forces, I thought she was acting pursuant to some quixotic, neocolonial notion of extraterritorial sovereignty.… Read more.