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Last week, I talked about some of the factors in the late 20th century that helped lead to 21st century conservatives no longer accepting scientific or other kinds of empirical facts. The rise …
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Troy Smith
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7/9/21
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I have written about Critical Race Theory (CRT) in previous articles and warned about the Socialist Democrat Party’s (SDP) ongoing efforts to have it taught at all levels of our education …
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Jerry Jones
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7/9/21
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Last week, I addressed a question raised by a reader: why do most Southerners not believe in science? I asked my TTU colleague Laura Smith, an expert in the history of medicine, what she …
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Troy Smith
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7/2/21
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When one backs up and looks at what is happening in the United States, one should realize there are maligned forces at work in our country. For many years, we have all lived together here - …
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Donald Holman
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6/29/21
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A reader who moved into the area a few years ago recently asked if I would use my column to address their question: Why do so many Southerners not believe in science? I decided that I would first …
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Troy Smith
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6/25/21
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Part I of my comments on the above-noted subject matter dealt with the importance of revisiting our past and the treasure trove of memories that we the people need to reflect on in search of …
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Jerry Jones
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6/18/21
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I’ve been talking the last couple of times about “Lost Cause Ideology” and the fact that so many 21st Century Americans don’t want to admit the Civil War was fought over …
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Troy Smith
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6/18/21
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Last week, I talked about the fact that, in popular memory in the South, the Civil War was not “really” about slavery – even though the documents from the time show that pretty much …
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Troy Smith
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6/11/21
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At the end of this month, June 2021 (AD), we will arrive at the halfway point of the 21st year of the 21st Century in the third millennium of the existence of recorded human life on planet …
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Jerry Jones
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6/11/21
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I hope everyone has heard about the recent good news from Facebook. Facebook has decided that we, the American people, are allowed to talk about the idea that maybe, just maybe, the Wuhan virus came …
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Donald Holman
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6/8/21
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Did you see the recent news story that Congress had received a letter from the National Capitol Police (NCP), in Washington D.C., calling on all members of Congress to support the Socialist …
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Jerry Jones
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6/4/21
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I was born, in 1968, and raised right here in Sparta. When I was growing up I was fascinated by the Civil War – I still am. I researched and wrote about it in my dissertation and in several …
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Troy Smith
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6/4/21
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Let us start at the beginning. After we won the war against Great Britain, Americans suddenly found themselves without a government. The articles of the Confederacy were just a loose agreement …
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Donald Holman
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6/1/21
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Last week we looked at Brown v. Board and the Clarks’ doll test, which the court cited to prove the danger of implicit bias and the presence of systemic racism. The problem is that a lot of …
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Troy Smith
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5/28/21
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Thanks for waiting for this second part continuance of last week's stage-setting article on America's Achilles’ Heel, which is our National Power Grid (NPG). It is also referred to as our …
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Jerry Jones
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5/28/21
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