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, November 30, 2009

Huckabee is Toast

Commentary By Ron Beasley



If Mike Huckabee had any further political aspirations they were probably dashed in a Seattle area coffee shop yesterday when Maurice Clemmons murdered four police officers. 



Maurice Clemmons, man wanted for questioning, has troubling criminal history

Maurice Clemmons, the 37-year-old Tacoma man being sought for
questioning in the killing this morning of four Lakewood police
officers, has a long criminal record punctuated by violence, erratic
behavior and concerns about his mental health.

Nine years ago, then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee granted clemency to
Clemmons, commuting his lengthy prison sentence over the protests of
prosecutors.

"This is the day I've been dreading for a long time," Larry Jegley,
prosecuting attorney for Arkansas' Pulaski County said tonight when
informed that Clemmons was being sought for questioning in connection
with the killings.

Like most Republicans Huckabee refuses to take any responsibility for his actions.

Should he be found to be responsible for this horrible tragedy, it will
be the result of a series of failures in the criminal justice system in
both Arkansas and Washington State. He was recommended for and received a commutation of his original sentence from 1990, this
commutation made him parole eligible and he was then paroled by the
parole board once they determined he met the conditions at that time.
He was arrested later for parole violation and taken back to prison to
serve his full term, but prosecutors dropped the charges that would
have held him. It appears that he has continued to have a string of
criminal and psychotic behavior but was not kept incarcerated by either
state. This is a horrible and tragic event and if found and convicted
the offender should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the
law. Our thoughts and prayers are and should be with the families of
those honorable, brave, and heroic police officers.

On the left Matt Yglesias wonders if he has a point.

60 years for burglary and theft for an eighteen year-old seems
incredibly excessive. In this case, of course, you can�t help but wish
he were in fact still in prison. But it�s hard to see what about a
record of involvement in burglaries would make you think this was a guy
at risk of doing something like this.

While on the right Malkin and the Malkinites are ready to hang Huckabee high.

Only one thing is certain, this is good news for Sarah the wolf killer.



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  1. One FlyNovember 30, 2009 at 3:45 AM

    He should be ---but he's repuglican so I'll believe it when it happens.

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