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		<title>Adios, Friends: The New Moderate Ends Its 15-Year Run on a Hopeful Note</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2022 05:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I suppose this day was as inevitable as death, taxes and computer malfunctions. After fifteen years of outspokenly moderate musings that seem to have had zero influence (or less) on our dismally divided national politics, I&#8217;ve finally decided to retire The New Moderate as an active monthly blog.&#160; Why? It wasn&#8217;t the lack of recognition, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>R.I.P. Roe v. Wade</title>
		<link>https://newmoderate.com/2022/07/01/r-i-p-roe-v-wade/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Bayan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When the Republican-dominated Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade after nearly half a century as America’s guidepost on abortion rights, you could almost hear the feminists screaming from coast to coast. I don’t make light of their screaming; they had every right to scream. But of course the story is more complicated than the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Angry Young Men with Guns: An American Crisis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Bayan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2022 03:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When an 18-year-old misfit stormed into Robb Elementary School in the sleepy town of Uvalde, Texas, barricaded himself in a fourth-grade classroom and started shooting his young captives, his bloodcurdling act was simply the latest in a long line of bloodcurdling acts by American males armed with guns and a grudge. Of course, a few [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Muskmania: the Twitter Takeover and the Consequences of Free Speech</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Bayan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2022 01:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.” – Bernard Baruch As the world’s richest human swooped in to take control of the world’s loudest opinion forum, he triggered a wave of hand-wringing among our sober intellectual elite. “He’s making the world [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Surreal Times, Real Anger</title>
		<link>https://newmoderate.com/2022/03/31/surreal-times-real-anger/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Bayan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2022 03:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nobody expected, back in March of 2020, that we’d now be entering the third year of our wretched coronavirus pandemic. It’s been a hard and unforgiving life: the constant masking, the avoidance of friends and strangers alike, the ritual cleansing of groceries with disinfectant wipes, the abandonment of indoor public amusements, and the ongoing war [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Putin Pushes His Luck</title>
		<link>https://newmoderate.com/2022/02/28/putin-pushes-his-luck/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Bayan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2022 04:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When Russian supreme boss Vladimir Putin launched his all-out war this past month, trouble had been brewing in Ukraine for at least eight years. Back in 2014, Ukrainians ousted their pro-Russian government and replaced it with one better suited to a sovereign republic. Meanwhile, ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine and the Crimea itched to rejoin [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Where Do We Go from Here?</title>
		<link>https://newmoderate.com/2022/01/31/where-do-we-go-from-here/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Bayan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2022 04:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I vaulted into the blogosphere nearly fifteen years ago, I was brimming with naïve middle-aged bravado. I’d fire the shot that would rouse America’s moderates from their slumber. I’d inflame them with righteous rhetoric like some latter-day Patrick Henry. I’d exhort them to do battle with the extremists to the left and right of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Another Divisive Year Bites the Dust</title>
		<link>https://newmoderate.com/2021/12/31/another-divisive-year-bites-the-dust/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Bayan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2021 14:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As 2020 was wheezing to its close a year ago, most of us were looking forward to a fresh start in 2021. You can hardly blame us. Between the killer coronavirus plague and the often-rancorous “racial reckoning” in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder-by-cop, we were emerging from just possibly the most hellacious year in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The New Moderate Gives Thanks</title>
		<link>https://newmoderate.com/2021/11/24/the-new-moderate-gives-thanks/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Bayan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2021 05:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Even George Orwell couldn’t have concocted a more dystopian society than the America we’ve known for the past few years – and he was the acknowledged master at concocting dystopian societies. Instead of a passive populace dominated by the ever-watchful eye of “Big Brother,” we’re greeted by the spectacle of a once-proud nation split into [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Confessions of an Embattled Moderate</title>
		<link>https://newmoderate.com/2021/10/07/confessions-of-an-embattled-moderate/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Bayan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2021 13:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let’s face it: being an outspoken moderate is a thankless and even hazardous job. I’ve tussled online with warriors from the left and right, and I have to wonder if I’ve ever changed a single wayward opinion. Worse yet, the warriors use moderates like me for target practice. I’ll never forget the time I defended [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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