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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Friday, April 23, 2010

What Sully Said

Commentary By Ron Beasley

I was going to do a post on BoBo's latest idiocy but Andrew Sullivan did it for me.

BoBo - what Sully said.

It seems to me that if, as David notes, it is history that has
allowed the perception of Obama's "big liberalism" to take hold, then it
is the duty of moderate conservatives to resist this narrative, not
cave into it. And that means the uncomfortable task for real
conservatives of stoutly defending this president as the best option we
now have. The epistemic closure on the right is how other conservatives
still manage to blind themselves to the pragmatic virtues of this
president's remarkable 15 month record at home and abroad. Our job is to
insist that the debate continue and that criticism of Obama be based on
empirical reality, not ideological fantasy. If we do, we have a
president open-minded enough to listen. But if we give up, the old
divides win.

So buck up, David. And get back to defending Obama
when it is appropriate (which, so far, has almost always been the case).
You'll lose friends; enrage colleagues; alienate long-time allies. And
in the end, you'll enjoy it.



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