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

Quote Of The Day

By Ron Beasley



Juan Cole on the Republican Party:

This decision by the Obama administration demonstrates faith in the
American way of life, and a conviction that even the worst mass
murderers can be dealt justice by democratic institutions.

Predictably,
Republican critics vowed to fight the decision, since they much prefer
to hold people forever without trial while torturing them, sort of the
way some English kings did in North America before there was that pesky
American constitution. In fact, on a whole range of issues, the
contemporary Republican Party is a party of medieval romanticism. Its
disquisitions on when the human person begins are theological in
character and rooted in assumptions even a lot of medievals would have
questioned. Its faith that bankers would never steal from us and so do
not need to be regulated is a form of mysticism that medievals would
have applied to saints. And its fascination with arbitrary arrest and
imprisonment and with torture more recalls the star chambers of yore
than the deliberations at Philadelphia over 200 years ago.



Go read the rest.



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