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, March 10, 2011

HCHS is the New HUAC

By John Ballard


The House Un-American Activities  Committee aka HUAC (1938-1975) was reincarnated a few years ago as the House Committee on Homeland Security (2002-     )  By now everyone is aware that today this patriotic outfit is staging a hearing officially tagged �The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community's Response."


By the time this post is found it will be old news, but this video is fresh at the moment and needs to be seen by as many viewers as possible to illustrate the devastating impact of over the top ugliness this official event is having on one of its peers.


THIS SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING IN THIS COUNTRY....AGAIN.



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Question: Is Connecticut's Rep. King working to be heir to the shameful reputation of Senator Joseph McCarthy?


Peter King
Twitter link...



Bomb suspect may have fantasized about race wars


Federal investigators believe the man charged with planting a bomb on the route of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day march in Spokane posted more than a thousand entries talking about a race war and bombs on a racist Internet forum.


Using the pseudonym �Joe Snuffy,� Kevin W. Harpham, 36, wrote in 2009, �I personally think we need a couple thousand pro White psychopaths then maybe we might start getting somewhere with this White Revolution.�


Harpham also wrote on the Vanguard News Network that year, �Who was the person during WW2 that said something like �Those who say you can�t win a war by bombing have never tried.� If you can help me find this speech where he makes this statement it would be appreciated.�


Frank Harrill, senior supervisory resident agent of the Spokane office of the FBI, said information from the Vanguard News Network is likely to be contained as part of the investigation once it�s unsealed.


Harrill wouldn�t comment on the Internet posts or confirm that �Joe Snuffy� is Harpham, but pointed to a March 2008 entry where Harpham was having technical difficulty in his effort to �reestablish Joe Snuffy.�


Mark Potok, the director of the intelligence project that tracks and investigates hate group for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said his organization has �confirmed definitely� that �Joe Snuffy� is Harpham.


�This is chilling material. It shows that Harpham was exactly what he appears to be: a person very much part of the white supremacist movement and someone who talked for years about this kind of violence.�


Potok said racists often use pseudonyms to protect them from backlash at jobs or from others who don�t share their views.


�When you look at someone like Eric Rudolph, you find someone who was in the movement but was very quiet,� Potok said. Rudolph, who was convicted of several bombings across the southern United States including the bombing at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, �was virtually invisible. That obviously is not true of Harpham.�



More at the link. A disgusting amount more.
But this isn't "terrorism" is it?
As Ron said, he's white and not a Muslim.



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