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Pakistan´s loneliest church celebrates
Christmas in Taliban country
Reuters, by Mehreen Zahra-Malik
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Posted By:StormCnter, 12/25/2012 4:50:50 AM
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| SOUTH WAZIRISTAN, Pakistan-This Christmas, pastor Nazir Alam will stoke up a fire, lay a fresh cloth on the altar and welcome parishioners as they arrive at his church in Waziristan, a Pakistani tribal area known as an al-Qaeda haven. "The lights are all up, and the choir boys are ready. The church is looking its best," said 60-year-old Alam, a former missionary who has celebrated his last ten Christmases there. "There´s not much left to do but to pray and rejoice." Outsiders might see little cause for joy. Pakistan is the sixth most dangerous country in the world for minorities,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
MrYules, 12/25/2012 9:14:00 AM (No. 9082898)
Pastor Alam and his parishioners are courageous people. God bless them and keep them this Christmas and beyond. Merry Christmas.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
berthabutt, 12/25/2012 5:19:52 PM (No. 9083348)
Amen!
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20 years after fire, David
Koresh´s tragic spell lingers
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Star-Telegram [Ft. Worth, TX], by Tim Madigan
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/14/2013 8:39:12 AM
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WACO -- Clive Doyle is a pleasant-looking man of 72, with wavy graying hair. Australia lingers in his accent. He wore a leather jacket on the chilly recent afternoon when we spent more than an hour together at a picnic table in a Waco park. He was soft-spoken, articulate and seemingly very sane. Yet 20 years ago this Friday, this same man was one of only nine Branch Davidians to survive the internationally televised inferno on the Texas prairie. Killed that day near Waco were cult leader David Koresh and 73 followers,
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Ex-justice of peace is prime
suspect in Kaufman DA slayings
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Dallas Morning News, by Tanya Eiserer & Jana J. Pruet
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/14/2013 7:21:05 AM
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Authorities on Saturday searched Seagoville storage units as they focused their investigation into the slayings of the Kaufman County district attorney, his wife and a top prosecutor on a former justice of the peace. Eric Lyle Williams is now the prime suspect in the murder of District Attorney Mike McLelland, his wife, Cynthia, and Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, law enforcement authorities say. (Snip) Whatever authorities saw inside the home allowed them to go to a judge and secure search warrants for Williams’ home. Dozens of investigators scoured the home beginning Friday afternoon.
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Has Obama Already Given
Up on Climate Change?
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New Yorker, by Ryan Lizza
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/14/2013 6:18:58 AM
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The budget released this week by the White House is by far Obama’s most ambitious statement of his legislative priorities since 2009, when, as a newly elected President, he produced a plan brimming over with initiatives like Obamacare, education reform, new spending to aid the depressed economy, and a cap-and-trade régime to curb carbon pollution. Obama’s 2009 budget presaged two years in office that were so legislatively far-reaching that, in Washington policy circles, the document was sometimes called the Big Bang. This new budget approaches the ambitions of 2009—with one glaring omission.
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Why Aren’t More People
Repelled by the Left?
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/14/2013 6:12:20 AM
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Here is something I don’t understand: liberals are often revealed as vile, vulgar hatemongers–not all of them, of course, but far too many–yet they never seem to pay a penalty at the polls. Why is that? Margaret Thatcher’s death has been the latest occasion for the Left to show its true stripes. All across the U.K., there have been demonstrations–vulgar at best, and violent at worst. In Bristol, lefties celebrating a Thatcher “death street party” started fires, destroyed property and battled police: This evening in Trafalgar Square, liberals have turned out for a long-planned celebration of Thatcher’s death:
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Virginia doesn´t need Terry
McAuliffe´s brand of crony capitalism
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Washington Examiner, by Editorial
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/14/2013 5:53:35 AM
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How did Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic Party´s choice to run for governor in Virginia in 2013, get so rich? His first job out of college was with President Carter´s 1980 re-election campaign where he rose to be national finance director at the age of 22. Then, after graduating from law school, McAuliffe helped found the Federal City National Bank in 1985. Three short years later, the bank´s board elected McAuliffe chairman, making him the youngest elected chairman of a federally chartered bank in the history of the United States. Now why would a tiny young bank elect a campaign-worker-turned-law student
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Love, Love Them. Do.
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New York Times, by Frank Bruni
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/14/2013 5:48:32 AM
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HE was a darling of the cable news shows, which indulged his appetite for attention so frequently that he carried his own makeup kit, to be ready and pretty at a moment’s notice. But the lights and the cameras weren’t enough. (Snip) Last week, at long last, Anthony Weiner provided a detailed accounting of how he ended up involved, over Twitter and Facebook and e-mail and phone, with a half-dozen women he didn’t really know, and of what preceded and prompted the crotch shot seen round the world.
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Carnival won´t reimburse U.S. for
Triumph cruise ship rescue costs
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/14/2013 5:41:40 AM
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MIAMI — Carnival Corp. says all maritime interests must assist without question those in trouble at sea, a duty that would not include reimbursing the U.S. government nearly $780,000 for costs associated with the rescue of the crippled Triumph cruise ship. Carnival released letters Friday replying to an inquiry by U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat who chairs the Senate Commerce Committee, about the Triumph stranding and the cruise line’s overall safety record. Among Rockefeller’s questions was whether Carnival would repay the government for Coast Guard costs in the Triumph case as well as
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Beauty and the beast
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Washington Post, by Kathleen Parker
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/14/2013 5:38:11 AM
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The recent kerfuffle over a secret recording of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s campaign strategy meeting, which focused on opposition research about a likely opponent, actress Ashley Judd, has divided observers into two groups. One consists of those disturbed by the bugging of a private conversation. The other consists of people who were mostly offended by the content of the conversation, which concerned Judd’s emotional problems, and laughter about certain odd comments she has made over time. First, welcome to reality. Nothing about this episode, first exposed by Mother Jones magazine, is novel or especially outrageous, except for the allegedly illegal activity.
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9/11 death ‘toll’
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New York Post, by Kate Briquelet
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/14/2013 5:19:52 AM
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The 9/11 Memorial foundation, funded to the tune of $830 million, has begun nickel-and-diming visitors for ticket reservations. Even though the nonprofit has long vowed admission to the sacred site would be free, it is now demanding $2 per ticket for all advance reservations made online or by phone. Officials quietly rolled out the fee on March 1 — but it did not escape the notice of some outraged families of Sept. 11 victims. “I don’t want the American public to have to pay a dime to pay respects to my son,” said Sally Regenhard, whose firefighter son, Christian,
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The Hillary standard
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New York Post, by Editorial
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/14/2013 5:17:10 AM
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When Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed by Libyan terrorists in Benghazi last September, it had been 33 years since an American diplomat had been killed in the line of duty. But it took just seven months for yet another American envoy to die violently. Her name was Anne Smedinghoff. A 25-year-old Foreign Service officer at the US Embassy in Kabul, she was one of the five Americans killed this month by a terrorist bomb as they were delivering donated textbooks to Afghan children. The other Americans killed with her were a Defense Department translator and three US soldiers.
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Salon.com shouts “Look, Squirrel!”
to deflect #Gosnell outrage
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Legal Insurrection, by William A. Jacobson
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/14/2013 5:12:17 AM
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As noted yesterday, the widespread attention to the mainstream media’s news blackout on the Kermit Gosnell trial evoked a pushback at Salon.com with the claim that “feminist” writers had written about the horrors, and therefore according to Irin Carmon, There is no Gosnell coverup. That gave rise to pushback no. 2 by Alex Seitz-Wald – On Gosnell, where were conservatives before this week? Those are straw man arguments and non-sequiturs. Assuming, for the sake of argument, that ”feminist” writers did write about Gosnell and that conservatives did not, that would not change the fact that the mainstream media
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Inside the world of Kim Jong Un:
North Korea´s strange hermit king
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The Week, by Staff
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/14/2013 5:05:39 AM
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W hat do we know about Kim? He´s the third and youngest son of former North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, the "Dear Leader" who died in 2011. Because of the secretive nature of the regime, no one outside of Pyongyang´s ruling elite knows the young Kim´s precise birth date — experts think he is 29 or 30 years old — or his mother´s true identity. Some reports suggest she was Ko Yong Hui, a former dancer and mistress of Kim Jong Il who served as the country´s First Lady until her death in 2004.
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The Golf World Is Outraged That
Tiger Woods Didn´t Get Disqualified
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Business Insider, by Tony Manfred
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Posted By: SoCalGal- 4/13/2013 1:56:27 PM
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Pro golfers, golf writers, and TV commentators are up in arms that Tiger Woods was only given a 2-stroke penalty for his illegal drop on the 15th hole yesterday. Tiger said last night that he dropped his ball two yards behind his previous spot, clearly violating the rule that you must drop "as nearly as possible" to your original spot. Golf people are not happy about it. They say that the new rule is B.S. (or it´s at least being misinterpreted), and Tiger should DQ himself to save the integrity of the game.
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From Dehumanizing Word
Games to Gosnell
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National Review Online, by Andrew C. McCarthy
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/13/2013 6:07:01 AM
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In Philadelphia, at a human abattoir on Lancaster Avenue, is where it ends, not where it starts. It starts with the perversion of language. It starts when the icons of a dissipated culture reduce a baby to a “fetus.” From there, Yeats’s blood-dimmed tide rolls rapidly in. Before long, a baby is not a person but a punishment, as President Barack Obama framed the matter in his familiar off-the-cuff iciness. Of course, to describe newborn children in their boundless possibilities and wonder would be to acknowledge, foremost, their humanity. That is why, instead, abortion enthusiasts must grope for words
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Obamacare Architect: Affordable
Care Act ´Beyond Comprehension´
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/12/2013 9:51:16 PM
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), one of the architects of the Affordable Care Act, said on Tuesday that the healthcare law, set to go into full effect in less than eight months, is “probably the most complex piece of legislation ever passed by the United States Congress” and “is just beyond comprehension.” Rockefeller said he is concerned that early missteps with implementing the healthcare overhaul may cascade into confusion and chaos. The law, said Rockefeller, is “so complicated and if it isn’t done right the first time, it will just simply get worse.” Rockefeller’s consternation echoes comments made earlier this
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Philly Abortion Clinic
Workers Saw Few Options
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Associated Press, by Maryclaire Dale
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/12/2013 7:28:32 PM
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They say they were just doing what the boss trained them to do. But eight former employees of a run-down West Philadelphia abortion clinic now face prison time for the work they did for Dr. Kermit Gosnell. Three have pleaded guilty to third-degree murder. And Gosnell, 72, is on trial in the deaths of a patient and seven babies allegedly born alive. In testimony at the capital murder trial this past month, an unlicensed doctor and untrained aides described long, chaotic days at the clinic. They said they performed grueling, often gruesome work for little more than minimum wage,
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The Decline of Obama
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Weekly Standard, by Fred Barnes
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/13/2013 5:13:17 AM
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With President Obama, there’s always a catch. In the 2014 budget he announced last week, Obama proposed a more accurate way of calculating the inflation rate for annual cost-of-living increases in Social Security. It’s a technical change in pursuit of honesty and good government. And if adopted, it would cause benefits to grow more slowly, though almost imperceptibly so. Republican leaders in Congress ought to be delighted since they had “championed”—Obama’s word—the idea in the first place. Then came the catch. The president’s price for adopting this gentle reform was hundreds of billions in new tax increases.
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1,500 Page Immigration Bill to Drop
One Day Before Only Hearing?
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Breitbart Big Government, by Matthew Boyle
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/13/2013 4:29:08 PM
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According to an ABC News report, senators from the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” pushing immigration reform are expected to drop their bill, estimated at around 1,500 pages, on Tuesday, mere hours before the only scheduled Senate hearing on the topic. “A bipartisan group of senators plans to introduce its long-awaited immigration bill on Tuesday, Senate sources confirmed to ABC News,” Jim Avila and Jordan Fabian wrote on Friday. “Four Democrats and four Republicans, known as the ´Gang of Eight,´ wrapped up months of hard-fought negotiations this week and will put forth a bill that includes a pathway
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Tip Line: Did Your Editor Spike
Kermit Gosnell Coverage?
Report It Here Anonymously
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PJ Media, by Staff
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/13/2013 11:58:10 PM
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Few Americans can not answer this question: who is the worst domestic mass murderer in United States’ history? Due to the United States media, most are aware that Timothy McVeigh slaughtered 168 people with a bomb in 1995. Most Americans also know the names of our three most monstrous serial killers: “The Green River Killer” Gary Ridgeway, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy. The U.S. media is again responsible for the general awareness of these men; these stories deserved — and received — national attention due to our common interest in personal safety, the rule of law
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Senate plan would make clogging
left lane a ticketable offense
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Tampa Tribune, by Bill Cotterell
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Posted By: Hazymac- 4/13/2013 11:04:13 AM
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TALLAHASSEE - Picture this: You´re in the left lane of the interstate, driving a little below the speed limit, when some guy zips up behind you and swerves past you on the right. Then you notice the blue lights flashing. You´re savoring the satisfaction of seeing a trooper actually nab an aggressive driver — until you realize it´s you he´s pulling over. This could happen, if not very often, under a major transportation package expected to be taken up in the Senate Appropriations Committee next week. Introduced by Sen. Jeff Brandes, a St. Petersburg Republican, the bill is a 173-page
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Why Aren’t More People
Repelled by the Left?
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/14/2013 6:12:20 AM
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Here is something I don’t understand: liberals are often revealed as vile, vulgar hatemongers–not all of them, of course, but far too many–yet they never seem to pay a penalty at the polls. Why is that? Margaret Thatcher’s death has been the latest occasion for the Left to show its true stripes. All across the U.K., there have been demonstrations–vulgar at best, and violent at worst. In Bristol, lefties celebrating a Thatcher “death street party” started fires, destroyed property and battled police: This evening in Trafalgar Square, liberals have turned out for a long-planned celebration of Thatcher’s death:
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Mark Levin: ‘Fascist’ GOP
congressman is trying to
have his show pulled off air
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Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/14/2013 9:22:21 AM
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On his Friday show, syndicated talk show host Mark Levin said that a Republican congressman is attempting to persuade one of his affiliates to remove his show from the airwaves. Although Levin would not offer the congressman’s name on air, he has been a vocal critic of various members of the House Republican leadership in the past. But Levin called the situation “fascism.” “Well, it has come to my attention that there is a Republican congressman out there who doesn’t like what I’ve been saying,” Levin said. “It has come to my attention that there is a
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Thatcher thought Britain
was worth fighting for
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Orange County Register (Ca), by Mark Steyn
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/12/2013 5:58:55 PM
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A few hours after Margaret Thatcher´s death on Monday, the snarling deadbeats of the British underclass were gleefully rampaging through the streets of Brixton in South London, scaling the marquee of the local fleapit and hanging a banner announcing, "THE B@&$! IS DEAD." Amazingly, they managed to spell all four words correctly. By Friday, "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead," from "The Wizard of Oz," was the No. 1 download at Amazon UK. Mrs. Thatcher would have enjoyed all this. Her former speechwriter John O´Sullivan recalls how, some years after leaving office, she
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