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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Thursday, September 24, 2009

We're still safe even if we use warrants....

By Dave Anderson:


Oh my, the US government has reduced the amount of torture that we are directly doing (not going to comment about any out-sourcing/extra-ordinary renditions)....


Oh my, the US government is using warrants to conduct surveillance....


Oh my, the US government is following the law...


Let me shit the bed as we are doomed, the TERRORISTS WILL WIN!


Whoops....


The FBI is rolling up a home-grown ring of alleged urban bombers....


A lone wolf in Illinois wanted to bomb a federal courthouse with a one ton truck bomb IED.  His "accomplices" were federal agents acting undercover and within the law....


Another lone wolf who wanted to bomb a Dallas skyscraper was also foiled despite the federal agents following the law....


Wow, it is almost like the legal/criminal justice system is fairly robust in providing security against both lone wolf and home grown conspiracies.  Who would have thunk that....



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  1. is that you timmySeptember 25, 2009 at 6:28 AM

    and just as a reminder, not all terrorists / bombers are 'darkies' / non white - some are actually caucasian christians - take a look at the linked stories below
    US terror suspects accused of targeting Marine base
    http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE58N6YT20090924?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews
    Feds: NC terror suspects targeted US military
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090924/ap_on_re_us/us_nc_terror_arrests

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