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Friday, December 20, 2024

A Liberal Dose, Dec. 19, 2024 "The Hand You Hold Is the Hand That Holds You Down"

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  A Liberal Dose December 19, 2024 Troy D. Smith “The Hand you Hold Is the Hand That Holds You Down”   By now, everyone knows abou...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

A Liberal Dose, December 12, 2024 "Perhaps Introductions Are in Order"

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  A Liberal Dose December 12, 2024 Troy D. Smith “Perhaps introductions are in order”   Before we get started this week: my Thanks...
Saturday, December 7, 2024

A Liberal Dose December 5, 2024 "The Truth About the Economy"

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  A Liberal Dose December 5, 2024 Troy D. Smith “The truth about the economy” This week I’m going to talk again about what I think the Democ...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

A Liberal Dose, Nov. 28, 2024 "We Have Many Reasons to Be Thankful"

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  A Liberal Dose November 28, 2024 Troy D. Smith “We have many reasons to be thankful”   For many of my indigenous friends around ...
Saturday, November 23, 2024

A Liberal Dose, November 21, 2024 "What Democrats Need to Learn How to Do"

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A Liberal Dose November 21, 2024 Troy D. Smith “What Democrats Need to Learn How to Do”   Last week I said I would talk about what...
Saturday, November 16, 2024

A Liberal Dose, November 14, 2024 “When in doubt, tell the truth”

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   A Liberal Dose November 14, 2024 Troy D. Smith “When in Doubt, Tell the Truth” I want to start off by thanking everyone who helped make o...
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

A Liberal Dose, November 7, 2024 "Now Is the Time for Courage"

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  A Liberal Dose November 7, 2024 Troy D. Smith “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly”   I am writing this column more than two d...
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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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