4/9/13

I have mixed feelings about Maggie Thatcher, but, you have to admit, she was a real fighter



The above video captures the spirit of the Iron Lady in her strength and arrogance.

She voted to decriminalize sodomy but passed a law to prohibit the teaching about homosexuality in UK public schools.  On this and many other subjects, she had a complicated record, the results of which are open to debate. But make no mistake, this woman changed the course of her country.

Maybe Andrew Sullivan put it best:

She made some serious mistakes – the poll tax, opposition to German unification, insisting that Nelson Mandela was a terrorist – but few doubt she altered her country permanently, re-establishing the core basics of a free society and a free economy that Britain had intellectually bequeathed to the world and yet somehow lost in its own class-ridden, envy-choked socialist detour to immiseration.

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