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Thursday, January 26, 2023

A Liberal Dose, January 26, 2023 “A Few Words About Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”

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  A Liberal Dose January 26, 2023 Troy D. Smith “A Few Words About Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”   Last Thursday (January 19) was t...
Friday, January 20, 2023

A Liberal Dose, January 19, 2022 "In America the King Is Not Law, the Law Is King"

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  A Liberal Dose January 19, 2023 Troy D. Smith “In America the King Is Not Law, the Law Is King” Boy, do we now know more than we eve...
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

A Liberal Dose, January 12, 2022 "Today's News or Yesterday's History, Learn to Read Between the Lines"

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A Liberal Dose January 12, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Today’s news or yesterday’s history, learn to read between the lines”   In recent w...
Saturday, January 7, 2023

What If: An Alternate Imagining of Lonesome Dove

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  I love Lonesome Dove . I read the book when it first came out, when I was in high school. Four years later the miniseries came along, and ...
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Thursday, January 5, 2023

A Liberal Dose, January 5, 2022 "January 6: A Day That Will Forever Live in Infamy"

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  A Liberal Dose January 5, 2023 Troy D. Smith “January 6: A Day That Will Forever Live in Infamy”   Tomorrow marks the second ann...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

A Liberal Dose, Dec. 29, 2022 "9/11 and the Unraveling of Hegemony"

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  Note: this is the 4th in a 4-part series. There are links below to the previous parts. PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE A Liberal Dose Decem...
Friday, December 23, 2022

A Liberal Dose, Dec. 22, 2022 "How America Became the Global Policeman"

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  This is part 3 of a four-part series. Read Part 1  HERE Read Part 2  HERE A Liberal Dose December 22, 2022 Troy D. Smith “How Americ...
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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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