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, June 3, 2011

#Palin History

By John Ballard



Don't miss Twitter hashtag #PalinHistory





  • The Cold War was not due to climate change

  • Sarah Palin says soldiers were thankful for Spanx during The Battle of the Bulge 

  • The Continental Army, from France, gave us the Statute of Liberty.

  • Paul Revere rode to Lexington to tell Ronald Reagan to kill the socialist Brits.

  • Dolly Madison never forgave Hostess for stealing her Twinkie recipe from the burnt out ruins of the White House

  • Roe vs Wade was abt the best way for Washington and troops to cross the river.

  • There's no need to fund high speed rails; the African Americans did it very cheaply with the underground railroad.

  • The Colonists smoked Salems to get rid of the Witches

  • The Aunt Geneva Convention is known for its lovely breakfasts where refudiation is abductated.

  • The Civil War began when Frances Scotch Key fired upon Fort Somethin'

  • Custard's last stand caused a pudding shortage that strained the US economy.

  • Sarah Palin explains the history of Soviet Space program http://is.gd/lucA09



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