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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Monday, March 21, 2011

Libya Tweets

By Steve Hynd


I don't have a lot of time today so I'm going to take a page from John's book and offer a selection of today's most interesting Libya tweets.


AlArabiya_Eng: 'US policy that #Gaddafi needs to go': #Obama http://goo.gl/rtkPd #Libya #Feb17 #Coalition


NewStatesman: Miliband embraces liberal interventionism and backs Cameron on Libya http://bit.ly/fZtAoT


mattyglesias: Kristol: "Libya will be America's fifth war of Muslim liberation." http://ygl.as/eyvTzo #unpersuasive


allisonkilkenny: RT @thenation: With Libya, once again the US is involved in war that has neither been debated nor declared by Congress http://bit.ly/hSm97D


ASLANmedia: #LIBYA: #Gaddafi's forces pull back from #Benghazi following #coalition air strikes, rebels push toward #Ajdabiya. http://ow.ly/4iROo #feb17


AdamSerwer: Are you a Libyan civilian? Depends on how heavily armed you are http://ampro.me/fHq3Yx


drjjoyner: Quarrel between France and Turkey blocking NATO agreement http://bit.ly/hZBaZE | Things keep getting better


StripesBaron: PENTAGON: Libyan bombing slows, but coalition leadership hand-off still undecided http://1.usa.gov/gHPxYk


ggreenwald: Just like for Afghanistan, Republicans are more likely than Dems or independents to support the air strikes in Libya: http://is.gd/ibtfeN


evanchill: Talking to AJE, British foreign office spokesman refuses to rule out targeting Gaddafi himself, says coalition would decide on targets


abumuqawama: To clarify: If this thing does not transfer to NATO command rapidamente, the Italians are pulling their bases: 


Anand_Gopal_: The first day of airstrikes on Libya cost over $100 million http://bit.ly/hrXPMv



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