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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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Hot Button

Commentary By Ron Beasley




The Republicans should do well this election cycle.  While we have talked about the Democrats being able to grasp defeat from the jaws of victory is it possible that the Republicans about to go down that road? Joe Gandelman suggests the Republicans may have pushed the wrong "hot button."  



Did Arizona conservative Republicans, cheered on by many in the Republican party�s talk radio political culture, push the wrong hot button? It seems like it has energized voters but perhaps some they would prefer not to be motivated to get to the polls in November:

The voters are unhappy with the way things are and so they are unhappy with the party in power, the Democrats.  But are they ready for crazy which is the best description of the Confederate Republican party?

Of course there is a very real problem but the Arizona law does not address it.  Problem number one is NAFTA which put thousands of Mexican farmers out of business -  thank Bill Clinton and the Republicans.  And of course there is the failed war on Drugs which like the prohibition of alcohol has created criminal cartels.  And don't forget the real problem - illegal employers.  If there weren't jobs they wouldn't come.  But the illegal employers are Republicans so there is little interest in that solution.



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