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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Monday, September 14, 2009

The Republican House Of Crazy

Commentary By Ron Beasley



The headline reads: Election trouble brewing for House Dems in 2010. Color me not too worried.  Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse the Republicans have a new leader - Glen Beck.  House Republican members listen to Beck more than they listen to their own Republican leaders.


House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio and other Republicans also privately asked Wilson to make an apology on the floor, but he wouldn�t comply, according to GOP insiders.





While some Republicans are concerned about all that remains of the party are the Glen Beck cultists. These are the same lunatics who will decide the winner of the primaries - you won't see many moderate Republicans that independents might consider voting for.



This is the modern Republican party:




ATTENDEE: Barack was the name of the horse that Mohammed rode to heaven, alright a white horse.



Q: What does the white baby represent?



ATTENDEE: White America, because I do believe our President is a racist [...] But I think it�s mainly communism that he�s going to want to tell us what to wear, what to do, have his little red book like Mao because he really is a communist.



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