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Friday, November 24, 2023

A Liberal Dose, November 22, 2023 "Tennessee Wants to Reject 1.8 Billion Dollars in Education Funding"

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  A Liberal Dose November 22, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Tennessee Wants to Reject $1.8 Billion of Education Funding”     Tennessee -...
Friday, November 17, 2023

A Liberal Dose, November 16, 2023 "Civic Virtue, Duty, and Honor: The Sad Decline of the Republican Party"

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  A Liberal Dose November 16, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Civic Virtue, Duty, and Honor: The Sad Decline of the Republican Party”   I wr...
Friday, November 10, 2023

A Liberal Dose, November 9, 2023 "The Republican Party Is Eating Itself Alive"

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  A Liberal Dose November 9, 2023 Troy D. Smith “The Republican Party Is Eating Itself Alive”   Before I go to my main topic, I ...
Saturday, November 4, 2023

A Liberal Dose, November 2, 2023 "Why the True History of Slavery and Race Matters Today"

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  A Liberal Dose November 2, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Why the True History of Slavery and Race Matters Today”   I have been talking a...
Saturday, October 28, 2023

A Liberal Dose, October 26, 2023 "How America's Bloodiest Forgotten War Affected Slavery"

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A Liberal Dose October 26, 2023 Troy D. Smith “How America’s Bloodiest Forgotten War Affected Slavery” Last week I talked about ho...
Friday, October 20, 2023

A Liberal Dose, Oct. 19, 2023 "1619: How Slavery Started in the English Colonies"

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  A Liberal Dose October 19, 2023 Troy D. Smith “1619: How Slavery Started in the English Colonies”   In the last couple of week...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

Killers of the Flower Moon, by... Joe Simon and Jack Kirby?? And Alex Toth??

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  October 20th is the premiere of the newest Martin Scorsese film, Killers of the Flower Moon , starring Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio...
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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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