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, June 25, 2011

Sunday Morning Finger Food

Commentary By Ron Beasley


The quote of the week comes from Steve Chapman at  Real Clear Politics:



The Republican presidential field looks less like an assemblage of candidates than a collection of fatal mistakes and irreparable flaws, with occasional embodiments of one or more of the Seven Deadly Sins.



He says this is why someone like Rick Perry could be taken as a serious candidate.


From Charles Johnson at LGF we have this -


Actual News Headlines vs. FOX News Headlines


Headline
Well FOX does know how to get it's viewers attention.


 



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  1. John BallardJune 25, 2011 at 11:30 PM

    Good post, Ron.
    Finger food. I love it.
    I don't recall a time when the party out of power feared a president so much they were willing to behave self-destructively to defeat him. So far any Republican who is not batshit crazy seems afraid to point to the madness around him and call it what it is -- self-destructive, delusional madness. The collective result is a game of chicken as the economy crashes and burns.

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