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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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Krugman on Fuel Economy and the New G.O.P. Contract with America

By John Ballard



Krugman's Thursday column is a fun read. He's shooting fish in a barrel.



Once upon a time, a Latin American political party promised to help motorists save money on gasoline. How? By building highways that ran only downhill.


I�ve always liked that story, but the truth is that the party received hardly any votes. And that means that the joke is really on us. For these days one of America�s two great political parties routinely makes equally nonsensical promises. Never mind the war on terror, the party�s main concern seems to be the war on arithmetic. And this party has a better than even chance of retaking at least one house of Congress this November.


Banana republic, here we come.


Better than Frappacino on a hot afternoon.

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  1. Shalom Patrick HamouSeptember 25, 2010 at 3:34 AM

    An Innovative Credit Free, Free Market, Post Crash Economy
    A Tract on Monetary Reform
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    Yo, Shalom Patrick Hamou, I'm leaving your links but see no reason to turn our comments thread into a forum for your sales pitch.
    Interesting ideas, but they strike me as even more far out than some of my own.
    I do like that "Bailout Man" video at your site.
    Thanks for stopping by.
    JB

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