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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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Who Will Be McCain's Millstone?

By Cernig



No wonder John MCCain, who has had the nomination sewn up for months, is taking his own sweet time about picking a running mate. He's got to have figured out by now that whoever he picks to placate his extremist base is going to be a millstone around his neck in the general. As VP candidates go, it's likely that any choce accepatble to social conservatives and neocons alike will make Dan Qualye and Dick Cheney look like paragons of sanity and moderation by comparison.



The current front runner appears to be sometime-exorcist and intelligent design pusher Bobby Jindal - who my good friend Kyle Moore thinks would be the very best pick...from the Democrats' point of view.



I've got another candidate in mind. Pantswetting idiot Newt Gingrich. He plays well to both the warmongers and the seven-day-Earthers, and he's already backed Jindal so you get a two-fer. He and McCain could run on a platform of fearmongering, spouse-cheating and gaffes together. What's not to like?



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