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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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

The Game Is Not The Match

By John Ballard



Maggie sez...

This is the first game, not the match.



Neither the House nor the Senate bill plans to roll out reform before 2013 (or 2014).



Over the next three years, Congress will revisit the public plan. And Conservatives will try to repeal the stripped-down bill that we have now.




The battle is just beginning.







FWIW, Gordon M. Goldstein sez something like that about the Afghanistan gambit.



Obama seems to have mirrored Kennedy�s approach to national-security decision-making: dispassionate, deliberate, controlling, questioning, and cool. Like it or not, the president�s embrace of an �escalate and exit� strategy in Afghanistan is the product of a rigorous and unrushed process.

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President Obama has conceived of a risky, bold, and creative strategy in Afghanistan. Indeed he has wagered his presidency on its success.

If presidential terms are games (tennis, chess, football), we are still in the fist quarter. 

I find myself in a small and shrinking minority.
Not comfortable, unfortunately, but familiar.
I feel like a Cubs fan.
All we can do now, I suppose, is wait.



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  1. Fraud GuyDecember 16, 2009 at 3:26 AM

    And as a lifelong Cubs fan, I regretfully second your feeling.
    The Chicago Cubs; over a Century of Progress

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