Mind Your Liberty

Mind Your Liberty

The Mind Your Liberty channel is all about liberty! What it is, why you should care about it, and how to defend it!

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January 11, 2024 54 mins

Does money matter? Is it enough to just survive? Or should we set our sights on something higher? Joining me on this episode of the Mind Your Liberty podcast is another friend of mine, Nathan Bailey, and we talk about those issues. I hope you'll listen in and I hope you are able to gain something from it! 

 

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Joining me for today’s special Veterans’ Day episode of the Mind Your Liberty podcast is a very special guest, one of my heroes, Vietnam Veteran Ron Aguiar. Listen in as he shares with us how he entered the military as a young man, a few of his memories, and how God used that whole experience to bring him to Himself. Since God brought him through all that Ron has continued to spread liberty by mentoring young men such as myself. I ...

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My good friend Nathan Norris joined me on this episode to bring you an interesting conversation expounding further upon the interaction of fear and liberty. I apologize for the poor audio quality of the conversation, I was not able to make a high quality recording. We recorded this while driving across the country. 

 

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September 19, 2023 61 mins

To defend our liberty, we must strive to "know our enemy". This episode is the first in a new series I'm beginning, where we take a look at specific enemies of liberty, and solutions to defend against them. The first is a biggie: Fear. Listen in as I break it down as I understand it, and be sure and share your thoughts on the episode. Send me an email at mindyourliberty@gmail.com. Also included at the beginning of this episode is a...

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Today I read and go over another foundational document in the development of Liberty in the American founding era. Listen in as I read through the Virginia Declaration of Rights.

 

 

Document reading starts at 5:26

 

Virginia Declaration of Rights-

https://web.archive.org/web/20181022172807/http://www.gunstonhall.org:80/georgemason/human_rights/vdr_final.html

PETITION OF THE 10,000 FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, 1776-

https://edu.lva.virgi...

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For this month's episode I recorded a terrific Dorothy Sayers' essay on education, called The Lost Tools of Learning. In it, she outlines a return to classical education in the modern era. I simply didn't have time to expound on it much, but the piece stands on it's own. Enjoy, and have your thoughts provoked! 

 

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www.classicalconversations.com

 

The Lost Tools of Writing, by Dorothy Sayers - https://archiv...

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My friends Fred and Rawné Pierce discuss their family homeschooling journey, how they encountered Classical Conversations, and why they chose classical education for their family. They have a unique perspective, as they look back, now that they are about to graduate their oldest child. 

 

Mentioned resources:

A Thomas Jefferson Education - https://a.co/d/4Qd726l

https://bravebooks.us/

https://jockopodcast.com/

The Way of the Warrio...

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Local School Board member Kim Miller joins us to discuss her experience on the school board, and how we can stay engaged in the community as Christians, even if our kids aren't in the public school district. 

 

James Lindsay's New Discourses Bullets (Scroll down to the first episodes from last year) - https://newdiscourses.com/tag/nd-bullets/

 

The Expulsive Power of a New Affection , Thomas Chalmers, Book - https://a.co/d/03i4wHx

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In this short informal episode I dust off the mic after a month's break and go over What's in a Name, Where We've been, & What's in Store for 2023.

What's in a name - Why the podcast is titled Mind Your Liberty, and what shape the podcast has taken

Where we've been - a brief look back at the podcast in 2022

What's in store for 2023 - To give you an idea of what to expect this year.

Thanks for listening! 

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"The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people, a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations” - John Adams to Hezekiah Niles, 1818

 

Have you ever wondered what was being preached in the American colonies before the revolution? Given the outstanding role that "religious sentiments" played in the pre-war psyche, we certainly should be curious what the preaching was like. Today I read though a ser...

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The Stamp Act was now going into effect in Colonial America, meaning colonists of all stripes (anybody that used paper) had to make a choice - to use the comply or not to comply. John Dickinson, “the Penman of the Revolution”, wrote this broadside pamphlet to encourage his countrymen to carefully consider their course of action, and the consequences thereof. 

 

“THE Stamp Act, therefore, is to be regarded only as an EXPERIMENT OF Y...

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In this episode I read through and briefly talk about another important document from the revolutionary era, The Rights of Colonists, by Samuel Adams. This document is another one of the many you can trace the similar lines of thought from the early 1760's (and earlier) to the mid 1770's, and beyond. Adams further develops the concept of natural rights in this piece. 

 

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the-rights-of-the...

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What do we do when a country is being divided? When "enemies" are skewing events, blowing things out of perspective, and demonizing us? When we are being labeled as "dangerous" and "a threat"? Well, lets take a peek into a similar situation back in 1768, and see how a Boston town meeting wrote to their London agent and explained events that had been used to stoke division. Maybe there is something for us today. 

 

P.S. I know it's...

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In this podcast episode I read through a rousing oration given by patriot Samuel Adams in Philadelphia on August 1st, 1776 American Independence. The following day, the members of congress affixed their signatures to the parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence. 

 

British paper quoted in the speech: https://classicliberal.tripod.com/price/ncl04.html

 

Text of the American Independence oration: https://tenthamendmentcenter...

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In this short episode I read through America’s favorite document, the Declaration of Independence. Most of us probably read through it in grade school, some of us have studied it since then, but I believe all of us could benefit from once again listening to these timely, intentional words.

 

Pauline Maier’s book  American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence.

 

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense - https://oll.libertyfund.org/...

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Today I celebrate the the historic Supreme Court decision, where they get something right and recognize our God-given right to self defense, specifically carrying pistols in public. I read though the syllabus of the opinion. Follow along, I bet you'll learn something!

 

Epoch Times article - https://www.theepochtimes.com/supreme-court-strikes-down-new-yorks-unconstitutional-concealed-carry-gun-law_4553435.html

 

The Opinion - http...

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In this episode we cover A Summary View of the Rights of British America, by Thomas Jefferson (1774) There are a lot of timeless quotes taken out of this piece. I point out a few of these and break down the document a little bit before reading through the whole thing, so we can get a grasp on the context these quotes are being taken from. 

 

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-summary-view-of-the-rights-of-british-americ...

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This is episode #2 in the Wordy Wednesday series. Today we cover some old words I encountered while preparing a forthcoming episode covering A SUMMARY VIEW OF THE RIGHTS OF BRITISH AMERICA, by Thomas Jefferson. The words covered in today's episode are: Imperious, Recognizance, Nugatory, Salutary, Allodial, Feudal, Burthens, Venal

 

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https://webstersdictionary1828.com/

 

https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/

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In this episode I read Washington’s Farewell Address. Our first president was offering some parting advice, while looking forward to retirement after over 20 years of service to his country. Issues he addressed back then may sound familiar to us even today. He mentioned the dangers of party politics, overgrown military establishments, entangling European alliances, choosing favorite nations, what to do with the national debt, encro...

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Words are our primary means of expressing ideas. As such, they are natural means of subversion of liberty, which is, among other things, an idea. This is the inaugural episode for an ongoing series of episodes called "Wordy Wednesday". Sometimes, we'll dive into high-impact words and spend a full length episode digging into the word and the ideas behind it. Other days, like this episode, we will simply define some old words that I ...

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