Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who claims Jesus spoke to him and chose him as God's Messiah, has already lost $2 billion on his failed Washington Times. And it turns out that maybe $3 billion was the magic number, because the newspaper just gutted its newsroom, a clear indication that the right-wing welfare days at the Times may be over.

But oh, what a glorious conservative jobs program it was for nearly three decades, as Moon created thousands of jobs over the years for a product nobody really wanted--the WashTimes. Now with a new generation of Moon leaders looking at the blood-red books, the Times just fired nearly half the staff and is going to become a free give-away daily.

In other words, the WashTimes has pretty much closed up shop in terms of being an actual, functioning newspaper.

Can't say we're going to miss it. And here's why.

UPDATED: Times leaders insist the future is online and especially the site it recently launched, TheConservatives.com, which, of course, is an odd site to own if you're, y'know, a supposedly professional news organization that doesn't take sides politically, which is the odd claim execs there have always made. But remember how, those same Times leaders said not to fret because they were hard at work on launching a similar liberal site, so it's not like the paper was partisan.

At the time we laughed out loud. And we're pretty sure those guffaws were dead-on, because we can't imagine the Times was ever serious about hosting a liberal site, and now, given the fact that nearly half the company just got pink-slipped, it seems even less likely.