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, November 14, 2009

Haven't we had enough of this?

Commentary By Ron Beasley



David Broder proves beyond all doubt that he is not just a senile old fool but a dangerous one at that.  In Enough Afghan debate he channels Dick Cheney and says:


The more President Obama examines our options in Afghanistan, the less
he likes the choices he sees. But, as the old saying goes, to govern is
to choose -- and he has stretched the internal debate to the breaking
point.

It is evident from the length of this deliberative process and from
the flood of leaks that have emerged from Kabul and Washington that the
perfect course of action does not exist. Given that reality, the urgent
necessity is to make a decision -- whether or not it is right.

Mr Broder - have you forgotten that making decisions whether they were right or wrong is how we got into the position where there are no good choices? I guess not.  Making decisions based on the rumblings in George W. Bush's gut and Dick Cheney's paranoid psychopathic mind hasn't  worked out very well - maybe some serious deliberation will work out better.  We can hope so anyway.

H/T to DougJ at Balloon Juice



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