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, December 11, 2010

The Wisdom Of Crazy Old Men

Commentary By Ron Beasley


The New York Times reports that the man who wants to drown the FED, Ron Paul, will be the chairman of the subcommittee that oversees the Fed.  This is good news - while he may not be able to drown it he will certainly be shining some light in dark corners.


But when I followed a link at Memeorandum I found this from Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis which I found even more interesting - Ron Paul's take on Wikileaks:











Here are Paul's excellent questions in print:



Number 1: Do the America People deserve know the truth regarding the ongoing wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen?


Number 2: Could a larger question be how can an army private access so much secret information?


Number 3: Why is the hostility directed at Assange, the publisher, and not at our governments failure to protect classified information?


Number 4: Are we getting our moneys worth of the 80 Billion dollars per year spent on intelligence gathering?


Number 5: Which has resulted in the greatest number of deaths: lying us into war or Wikileaks revelations or the release of the Pentagon Papers?


Number 6: If Assange can be convicted of a crime for publishing information that he did not steal, what does this say about the future of the first amendment and the independence of the internet?


Number 7: Could it be that the real reason for the near universal attacks on Wikileaks is more about secretly maintaining a seriously flawed foreign policy of empire than it is about national security?


Number 8: Is there not a huge difference between releasing secret information to help the enemy in a time of declared war, which is treason, and the releasing of information to expose our government lies that promote secret wars, death and corruption?


Number 9: Was it not once considered patriotic to stand up to our government when it is wrong?


Thomas Jefferson had it right when he advised 'Let the eyes of vigilance never be closed'



When I disagree with Ron Paul I really disagree but when I agree I find myself in complete agreement.



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  1. John BallardDecember 11, 2010 at 10:57 PM

    Good for Ron Paul.
    Like you, I may not agree with him much but he doesn't shy away from speaking truth when those around him stand mute. Intelligent questions like these clarify an otherwise messy narrative.
    I caught another of his lucid moments during the primary debates in 2007.

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