NRO Digest: Hugo Chávez left the world a more brutal place

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March 6, 2013

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THE EDITORS: Hugo Chávez left the world a more brutal place. Death of a Caudillo.

JOHN FUND: The Left has already started the whitewashing of Hugo Chávez's record Don't Cry for Hugo.

RAY WALSER: The Post-Chávez era has begun. Cry for Me, Venezuela.

CHARLES C. W. COOKE: A progressive journal shouldn't have to warn its friends not to lionize a dictator. Chávez, ThinkProgress, and the Usual Suspects.

THE EDITORS: Conservatives were right about the sequester. Sequestered.

JONAH GOLDBERG: Reality isn't playing out according to the media script. Obamacare's Predictable Problems.

STANLEY KURTZ: At Harvard these days, Green is the new Crimson. Fossil-Fuel Divestment -- Part 3.

JILLIAN KAY MELCHIOR: A new private-public partnership succeeds where government has failed. Battling Urban Blight.

MICHAEL TANNER: Obama's sequester proposal may reduce the deficit, but it doesn't address the size of government. Treating the Symptoms.

THOMAS SOWELL: We should be concerned with the economic fate of people, not statistical brackets. How to Measure Social Mobility.

DENNIS PRAGER: "The Left now seems to have reverence for fanatics." Denmark's Salman Rushdie.

MICHELLE MALKIN: Oberlin has been a hotbed of dubious hate-crime claims since the '80s. The Coddling of College Hate-Crime Hoaxers.

LETTERS: Repealing the historic law would make us less economically and militarily secure.Why We Need the Jones Act.

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