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

Quote Of The Day

By Ron Beasley

I'm with John Cole here:


I have nothing but bad feelings about the
addition of 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Watching Michael
O�Hanlon on the evening news was like a punch to the gut- we�ve been
down this road before.

At what point are O�Hanlon and
Pollack every going to be discredited enough that their expert advice
is no longer solicited? Why are they even on tv anymore? How long
before they have an op-ed in the NY Times pushing for more troops, more money, more of their favorite wars?

The reality is O'Hanlon and Pollack are saying exactly what the corporate media wants them to say.  It's the media that is bringing fascism to America.  See Corporatocracy aka fascism.






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  1. KevinHaydenNovember 30, 2009 at 4:21 PM

    It is unfortunate that Obama is too young to remember Vietnam. Beyond that, however, his refusal to listen to Bill Moyers and numerous others with direct experience in past quagmires indicates a willingness to see many more US troops dead while he takes the trial and error approach.
    What he inherited no longer takes precedence. He's taking ownership of this war with this escalation. And his on-the-job training is going to be paid for with someone else's blood.
    He is a callous and ignorant man.

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