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Thursday, December 28, 2023

A Liberal Dose, December 28, 2023 "Disqualified? Trump and Section 3 of the 14th Amendment"

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  A Liberal Dose December 28, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Disqualified? Trump and Section 3 of the 14 th Amendment”   First, I hope eve...
Sunday, December 24, 2023

A Liberal Dose, Dec. 21, 2023 "It Is Not Just Donald Trump That Is on Trial"

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  A Liberal Dose December 21, 2023 Troy D. Smith “It is not just Donald Trump that is on trial”   As you read this, the Supreme ...
Saturday, December 16, 2023

A Liberal Dose, December 14, 2023 "Understanding the Past is the Key to the Present AND the Future"

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  A Liberal Dose November 30, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Understanding the Past Is the Key to the Present AND the Future” Recently my fri...
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...
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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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