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, October 3, 2009

Overpaying for defense

By Dave Anderson:

Via Andrew Sullivan, I saw this nifty chart from the Economist on per-capita defense spending:

Defense spending

We spend more absolutely and the second most on a per-capita basis, and we have managed to not achieve our strategic goals in both wars we have engaged in this decade.  It just might be time to rethink the US defense budget and our priority set....



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  1. ur kidding rightOctober 3, 2009 at 10:37 AM

    ... and we have managed to not achieve our strategic goals in both wars we have engaged in this decade. It just might be time to rethink the US defense budget and our priority set....
    ur kidding, right ???
    who cares if the usa ever achieves any type of strategic goal or not !?!?!?
    the DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX is making so much $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ it shits dollar bills.
    get over that win / lose crap !!!
    it is the OBSCENE PROFIT motive so ever hard at work here and that is what is WINNING !!!!!
    remember that scene from Michael Moore's Columbine where the pr flack is standing right smack in front of a HUGE ICBM and when asked if the kids growing up in a town totally reliant on DEATH & DESTRUCTION might have had a teensy weensy bit of influence on the killers' actions and the flack sez "We don't see it that way."
    BAWHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
    full disclosure - i own a lot of stock in the Death & Destruction field ( what else is left in the usa ??? ) and it has made me really rich - obscenely rich. especially with amerikans like richard bruce "dick" cheney running things !!! too bad about all of the dead troops and such. collateral damage, if you will.

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