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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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Republicans Wimp Out On Purity Test

By Steve Hynd


What, they don't have the courage to stand by their convictions when it comes to actually winning votes and elections? Quelle suprise!



Facing strong opposition from moderate Republican leaders, a group of conservative Republicans are proposing a watered-down alternative to a resolution that would have required party candidates to agree to at least eight of 10 positions in order to win support from the Republican National Committee.


The new resolution says that the chairman of the Republican National Committee is �empowered to take into account a candidate�s faithfulness to the Republican Party�s conservative principles and public policies� in determining whether a candidate should receive financial support from the party.


...The original resolution demanded that candidates oppose President Obama�s �socialist agenda� and oppose government financing for abortion. Additionally, candidates would have been required to oppose restrictions on gun ownership and awarding amnesty to illegal immigrants.


Wimps. All hat, no cattle.



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