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Monday, October 24, 2022

A Liberal Dose, October 20, 2022 "Vote to Support Our Schools, Our Teachers, and Our Kids"

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  A Liberal Dose October 20, 2022 Troy D. Smith “Vote to support our schools, our teachers, and our kids”   Late October, which me...
Sunday, October 16, 2022

A Liberal Dose, October 13, 2022 "We As a Society Need to Put on the Brakes"

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  A Liberal Dose October 13, 2022 Troy D. Smith “We as a society need to put on the brakes”   My wife and I spent last weekend at ...
Tuesday, October 11, 2022

A Liberal Dose, October 6, 2022 "What Are You For? What Matters Most to You?"

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  A Liberal Dose October 6, 2022 Troy D. Smith “What are you for? What matters most to you?” In the last few weeks, I have talked a ...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

A Liberal Dose, September 29 2022, "The Good of the Many or the One: Why Not Both?"

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  A Liberal Dose September 29, 2022 Troy D. Smith “The Good of the Many or the One: Why Not Both?”   Several things have sort of c...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

A Liberal Dose, Sept. 22, 2022 "Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'The American Scholar,' and the Dangers of Fear"

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A Liberal Dose September 22, 2022 Troy D. Smith “Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American Scholar, and the Dangers of Fear”   A few more ...
Friday, September 16, 2022

A Liberal Dose, September 15, 2022 "Don't Let Fear Be Our Downfall: A reflection on 9/11"

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  A Liberal Dose September 15, 2022 Troy D. Smith “Don’t Let Fear Be Our Downfall”   This newspaper is published on Thursdays, but...
Friday, September 9, 2022

A Liberal Dose, Sept. 8, 2022 "The Monsters Are Coming to Maple Street"

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  A Liberal Dose September 8, 2022 Troy D. Smith “The Monsters Are Coming to Maple Street”   Last week President Biden gave a spee...
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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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