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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

A Liberal Dose, April 22, 2025 "A Free Country Where the Law Is King"

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  A Liberal Dose “A Free Country Where the Law Is King” Troy D. Smith   On Saturday, April 19, protests were held around the country...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

A Liberal Dose, April 18, 2025 "A Short Time Ago in a Galaxy Not Far Away"

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  A Liberal Dose “A Short Time Ago in a Galaxy Not Far Away” Troy D. Smith   A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. How well ...
Monday, April 14, 2025

A Liberal Dose, April 11, 2025 "Are You Tired of Winning Yet?"

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  A Liberal Dose “Are You Tired of Winning Yet?” Troy D. Smith   In some ways, it has been a typical news week. Donald Trump flouted...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

List of recent columns

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  It occurs to me that, interesting as the last 4+ years of my column might be to people, the ones I have written since election day might b...
Friday, March 28, 2025

A Liberal Dose, March 28, 2025 "The Deck Is Stacked Against Working People"

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  A Liberal Dose “The Deck Is Stacked Against Working People” Troy D. Smith   We are living in a very dramatic time. Now that the ro...
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Saturday, March 22, 2025

A Liberal Dose, March 21, 2025 "An Attack on the Essence of America"

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  A Liberal Dose “An Attack on the Very Essence of America” Troy D. Smith   I don’t know about you, but my wife and I had a scary af...
Saturday, March 15, 2025

A Liberal Dose, March 14, 2025 "Trump Recession on the Horizon"

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  A Liberal Dose Troy D. Smith “Trump Recession on the Horizon”   I hear a lot of folks complaining about the economic policies of B...
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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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