Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Saturday, April 26, 2008

And the race goes on...

By Libby



Standing before a backdrop emblazoned with the repeating slogan, Solutions For A Strong Military, Hillary spoke to a crowd of about 1000 in Jacksonville, NC, several hundred of which were high school students. Accounts conflict, but a couple of the kids got arrested prior to the event for either wearing or waving around Obama tshirts. The commenters section depressingly was supporting the school for quashing their First Amendment rights, but that's no surprise in today's zero tolerance environment. Then they wonder why kids have no respect for authority anymore...



Anyway, I watched about ten minutes of the video and it was a pretty good speech outside of her taunting Obama over doing yet another debate. I really wish she would stop flogging that dead horse. Her reasoning was that there are regional issues of concern to debate, but isn't that really a job for the gubernatorial candidates and why does she need a debate to tell the people what her solutions are to the problems? Why not just tell them while she's standing there already? It strikes me as a losing argument.



Otherwise though she was doing a pretty good job of highlighting her own differences with Republicans and dissing Bush more than Obama. If she keeps up that tenor in her speeches and Obama also follows suit, I won't mind as much if they keep this primary going through June. What the hell, we've come this far, might as well let every state have their moment of relevancy now.



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