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Palin plans UK trip to meet Thatcher
No date has been set for the meeting but they share a love of tax cutting and hostility towards organised labour
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Soccer/football fan, are you? So why do you hate freedom?
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Richard Adams: General David Petraeus, commander of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, passes out during live congressional hearing
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