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Saturday, July 31, 2021

A Liberal Dose, July 29, 2021 "When White County Was Blue, Part 2"

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  A Liberal Dose July 29, 2021 Troy D. Smith “When White County Was Blue, part 2”   Last week I shared statistics about presidenti...
Friday, July 23, 2021

A Liberal Dose, July 22, 2021 "When White County Was Blue, Part 1"

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  A Liberal Dose July 22, 2021 Troy D. Smith “When White County Was Blue, part 1”   For the last several weeks, I have been talkin...
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Friday, July 16, 2021

Slide from Reality- Part 3, "Fear and Truthiness"

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  A Liberal Dose July 15, 2021 Troy D. Smith “Slide from Reality, Part 3: Fear and Truthiness” If you haven't already, you might w...
Thursday, July 8, 2021

A Liberal Dose, July 8, 2021 "Slide from Reality, Part 2- Climate Change"

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  A Liberal Dose July 8, 2021 Troy D. Smith “Slide from Reality, Part 2: Climate Change”   Last Week  I talked about some of the f...
Thursday, July 1, 2021

A Liberal Dose, July 1, 2021 "The Gradual Conservative Slide from Reality- Part 1"

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  A Liberal Dose July 1, 2021 Troy D. Smith “The Gradual Conservative Slide from Reality, Part 1” Last week I addressed a question r...
Thursday, June 24, 2021

A Liberal Dose, June 24, 2021 "Why Do So Many Southerners Not Trust Science?"

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  A Liberal Dose June 24, 2021 Troy D. Smith “Why Do So Many Southerners Not Trust Science?”     A reader who moved into the are...
Thursday, June 17, 2021

A Liberal Dose, June 17, 2021 "Orwell Said It Best: The New Lost Cause Ideology"

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  A Liberal Dose, June 17, 2021 Troy D. Smith "Orwell Said It Best: The New Lost Cause Ideology" This is the conclusion of a three...
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Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. He writes in a variety of genres, achieving his earliest successes with westerns -his first published short story appeared in 1995 in Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he won the Spur Award in 2001 for the novel Bound for the Promise-Land and in 2017 for the short story "Odell's Bones" (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois, and is currently a history professor at Tennessee Tech.
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