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 16, 2009

Quote Of The day

By Ron Beasley

Daniel Larison has another great Palin post but the quote of the day comes from commenter nomakesense who makes a lot of sense.

The current direction of the Republican party is, quite frankly,
horrifying. Policy is being directed by people who are essentially
entertainers. I don�t believe that Palin has any intention of ever
running for public office again. She will join the ranks of Limbaugh,
Beck and Hannity � individuals who use their position as
�conservatives� for their own profit without ever having to subject
their ideas to the harsh verdict of voters and the difficulty of
translating ideas into legislation.

Amen



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2 comments:

  1. M. BouffantNovember 16, 2009 at 3:40 PM

    And this is a bad thing in what way?

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  2. Ron BeasleyNovember 16, 2009 at 4:16 PM

    It's probably a bad thing if you are a partisan Republican. If not the future is a long ways away. While it might appear the Republican Party is doing the suicide thing don't underestimate the Democrat's ability to do the same.

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