Margaret Thatcher

• Prime Minister Mrs. Margaret Thatcher Advancing Gender Equality: Recruitment, Roles, Pay, and Pensions in the Armed Forces

Margaret Thatcher, the United Kingdom 's first female Prime Minister, moved to initiate policy that would see gender equality in recruitment and pay in the armed forces, but not for pensions or combatant roles. In a review of the events and Thatcher's formulation of policy toward women in the armed forces, as a debate on gender equality and social justice, the salient variables and issues taken into consideration include: Thatcher's personal agenda; her ideological position; her policy priorities; her relations with women organizations; the domestic and international political situation in which she lived; and such concerns that she might have entertained, such as appearing to show favoritism toward other women or indeed appearing to be weak. Thatcher, the Member of Parliament, had pref...

• Advancing Women in Leadership
• Nbr. 24, April 2007

• The myth of Margaret Thatcher: conservatives must come to grips with the noble failure of the Iron Lady.

"The Iron Lady," the cruel motion picture about Margaret Thatcher, makes much of her decline into bemused old age. It arouses sympathy for her among t...

• The American Conservative
• March 01, 2012

• Screening the Season

Brad Pitt reinvents baseball, while Kristen Stewart acquires a taste for blood. George Clooney runs for president, while Meryl Streep impersonates Margaret Thatcher. Leonardo DiCaprio puts America under surveillance, while Robert Downey Jr. faces a criminal mastermind. Variety abounds in Hollywood's fall and holiday seasons as studios pack the schedule with Oscar hopefuls, action flicks, comedy and music-themed tales, as well as a family lineup that brings the return of the Muppets, dancing penguins, Alvin and the Chipmunks and Puss in Boots.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• August 19, 2011

• 'There Is No Alternative': Why Margaret Thatcher Matters

Now is the perfect time to take another look at the last woman who succeeded at the very highest levels in world politics. Not many Americans are comparing the feisty governor of Alaska to the Iron Lady, But there are some interesting parallels. As Claire Berlinski reminds us in her excellent look back at Margaret Thatcher's significance, a vitally important part of the story of the grocer's daughter who became Prime Minister is the horror that her lower-middle-class background and values inspired in her political rivals.

• Human Events
• August 28, 2009

• Margaret Thatcher's Revolution ; Springtime After a 'Winter of Discontent' 30 Years Ago

The previous few months had been called the "Winter of Discontent," as per Shakespeare's "Richard III" - and it was grim, very grim indeed. There were pickets at ports, oil refineries and manufacturers of essentials; gas supplies were disrupted and gas stations closed. Ambulance drivers went on strike - not responding to emergency calls in many areas. Hospital support staff (not doctors) decided whom to admit, and if people died, so be it. The trash collectors and gravediggers went on strike, so garbage and coffins piled up.

• The Washington Times
• May 04, 2009

• Text of Baroness Margaret Thatcher's Eulogy

A at the funeral of former President Ronald Ronald: We have lost a great president, a great American, and a great man. And I have lost a dear friend.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• June 11, 2004

• The Big Year-End Movies Are Coming to Town, Ahead of Santa

Only Hollywood could assemble a holiday guest list that ranges from the Muppets, Alvin and the Chipmunks to Margaret Thatcher, Marilyn Monroe and a steed in the trenches of World War I. The latter are among a batch of potential Academy Awards contenders from past winners and nominees:

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• November 25, 2011

• Hillary Clinton Is No Margaret Thatcher

Here's an answer for letter writer Magie Dominic ("If not Hillary, who?" Tuesday) who states, "A woman will be elected president of the United States" and asks: "If not Mrs. Clinton, who? If not now, when?" The answer: when there is a woman of the Margaret Thatcher mold who doesn't use her sex as a political crutch and who wins based on ideas, effectiveness and integrity. Message to women: It isn't the sex (excuse me, the "gender") that impedes, it's the personal integrity and political philosophy of this candidate.

• The Washington Times
• February 09, 2008

• Winning Streep the Legenday Actress Puts an Accent On Memorable Roles

In "The Iron Lady," which opened last week, Meryl Streep plays an aging Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister. The film from Phyllida Lloyd is set as a series of flashbacks. We meet the once formidable world leader in her old age, attended to by her staff, slightly senile, lost at times in memories of her past - both the glory and the pain. For those who remember or study history, the life of the conservative Thatcher is likely to engender differing reactions, depending where your politics lie.

• Los Angeles Daily News
• January 06, 2012

• The Muppets, Marilyn and Puss in Boots

Only Hollywood could assemble a holiday guest list that ranges from the Muppets, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Puss in Boots and dancing penguins to J. Edgar Hoover, Margaret Thatcher, Marilyn Monroe and a steed in the trenches of World War I. The latter are among a batch of potential Academy Awards contenders from past winners and nominees: Leonardo DiCaprio as the FBI boss in director Clint Eastwood's "J. Edgar"; Meryl Streep as former British Prime Minister Thatcher in "The Iron Lady"; Michelle Williams as Monroe in "My Week with Marilyn" and Steven Spielberg directing "War Horse," the Tony Award-winning play that arrives in theaters just days after the U.S. debut of Spielberg's action tale "The Adventures of Tintin.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• October 28, 2011