Wisconsin Forum

Linda J. Hansen – Thursday, January 20, 2022
2022-01-20 17:30 - 21:30 UTC | The Ingleside Hotel, 2810 Golf Rd, Pewaukee, WI 53072
Linda J. Hansen
Linda J. Hansen
Navigating Cancel Culture in the Workplace – Tips for Employers and Employees
Linda J. Hansen is the Founder & President of Prosperity 101, LLC. She is the author of Prosperity 101 – Job Security Through Business Prosperity® – The Essential Guide to Understanding How Policy Affects Your Paycheck and is the author of the Breakroom Economics™ online course. She is also the creator and host of the Prosperity 101™ podcast, where she regularly interviews a variety of guests regarding public policy, economics, politics, and business. Her books and resource materials have been widely used across the country.
She is passionate about helping to enhance communication between employers and employees, especially regarding the basic economics of job creation and business prosperity. She works to educate on the importance of protecting the economic and religious freedoms that allow people to pursue their American dreams.
In addition to her work with Prosperity 101, LLC, Linda serves clients through her coaching and consulting firm, Capacity Strategies, LLC. She is a political, government affairs, and marketing strategist. She is also an International Coach Federation (ICF) credentialed Personal, Executive, and Leadership Coach, and the author of a coaching workshop and life planner entitled, Coach Yourself to a Better You™.
Linda has blazed a trail of leadership throughout her life and is one of the very few women in America to serve at the highest levels of a major presidential campaign. She is most well-known for her role as Executive Vice-President Deputy Chief of Staff for Herman Cain’s United States Presidential Campaign in the 2012 election cycle.
She has decades of grassroots, regulatory reform, and issue advocacy experience at the local, state, and national levels and has served clients in a variety of industries. She was the Founding Development Director for the John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy, a Wisconsin based public policy organization, and the Wisconsin State Director for Team NCPA, an initiative of the National Center for Policy Analysis. In addition, she has served as a consultant to eGeneration Foundation, a non-profit organization promoting regulatory reforms for the development of new generation nuclear technologies. She has been featured on radio, television, and in print by national media outlets, and is an accomplished speaker who has addressed crowds varying from small groups, to legislators and leaders on Capitol Hill, to crowds of over 15,000 people.
Prior to all of that, and most importantly, Linda was blessed to be a homeschool mom to six (now grown) children, all of whom are thriving and productive adults. She firmly believes that has been, and still is her most important role.
With insights gleaned from her unique background, Linda encourages others to higher levels of self-confidence, productivity, and purpose. Inspired by her unwavering faith in God, she has an independent, entrepreneurial spirit, and is happiest when she knows her work is making a positive, impactful difference in the lives of others.
Milwaukee Yacht Club
1700 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202
5:30-6:30pm – Cocktail & Networking Hour
6:30-7:15pm – Dinner
7:15-8:00pm – Speaker
8:00pm – Q&A Session

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Sam Rogers – Thursday, November 18, 2021
2021-11-18 17:30 - 21:30 | The Ingleside Hotel, 2810 Golf Rd, Pewaukee, WI 53072
Sam Rogers
Sam Rogers
Realism & Restraint: A Better Path for American Foreign Policy
15 years of building collaborative human networks to creatively solve problems in talent development, government, business and public policy. A veteran advocate, former intelligence officer and U.S. Army veteran. “I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”― Frederick Douglass
Milwaukee Yacht Club
1700 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202
5:30-6:30pm – Cocktail & Networking Hour
6:30-7:15pm – Dinner
7:15-8:00pm – Speaker
8:00pm – Q&A Session
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Richard W. Graber – Thursday, October 21, 2021
2021-10-21 17:30 - 21:30 | The Ingleside Hotel, 2810 Golf Rd, Pewaukee, WI 53072
Richard W. Graber
Richard W. Graber
A Civil Society for the 21st Century
Richard W. Graber was named President and Chief Executive Officer of The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in July 2016. He has served on the Foundation’s Board of Directors since 2014. Prior to joining the Foundation, Rick served as the Senior Vice President for Global Government Relations for Honeywell International from 2012 until 2016. In that role, he was responsible for leading Honeywell’s worldwide government relations initiatives. Rick joined Honeywell in 2010 as Vice President of Government Relations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He served as the United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2006 to 2009, where he actively engaged the Czech government and private sector on a number of issues, including President Bush’s proposed missile defense system, transparency, corruption and judicial reform. Rick managed a 280-person embassy and was responsible for effectively maintaining and strengthening the historic relations between the two countries.
Prior to his time in Prague, Rick practiced law in the international, corporate and government relations practices at the Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren law firm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the firm from 2004 to 2006 and Chief Operating Officer from 2002 to 2004.
Rick serves on the Board of Directors of The Philanthropy Roundtable, The Kern Family Foundation, and Curt Joa, Inc. He earned a J.D. from Boston University Law School and graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. from Duke University. Rick is married to Alexandria (Alex) and they have two sons, Scott and Erik.
Milwaukee Yacht Club
1700 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202
5:30-6:30pm – Cocktail & Networking Hour
6:30-7:15pm – Dinner
7:15-8:00pm – Speaker
8:00pm – Q&A Session
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Alex Newman – Thursday, April 8, 2021
2021-04-08 17:30 - 21:30 | The Ingleside Hotel, 2810 Golf Rd, Pewaukee, WI 53072
Alex Newman
Alex Newman
Has COVID-19 Given Parents Greater Control Over Johnnie & Jane’s Schooling?
Alex Newman is an international journalist, educator, author, and consultant. In addition to serving as president of the small media and information consulting firm Liberty Sentinel Media, Inc, he has written for a wide array of publications in the United States and abroad. He currently serves as a foreign correspondent for The New American magazine, a contributor to WND, and more.
Milwaukee Yacht Club
1700 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202
5:30-6:30pm – Cocktail & Networking Hour
6:30-7:15pm – Dinner
7:15-8:00pm – Speaker
8:00pm – Q&A Session

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Jennifer Grossman - Thursday, March 11, 2021
2021-03-11 17:30 - 21:30
Jennifer Grossman
Jennifer Grossman
To Get Objectivism Taken Seriously, Don’t Take Yourself So Seriously
Jennifer Grossman is the CEO of the Atlas Society. Grossman has spent decades helping people to live freer, healthier lives. She launched the Dole Nutrition Institute — a research and education organization — at the behest of Dole Chairman David H. Murdock. She continued this agenda as Health Editor of Laura Ingraham’s new lifestyle site, LifeZette. Previously Grossman served as Director of Education at the Cato Institute, and worked closely with the late philanthropist Theodore J. Forstmann to launch the Children’s Scholarship Fund. A speechwriter for President George H. W. Bush, Grossman has written for both national and local publications.
Milwaukee Yacht Club
1700 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202
5:30-6:30pm – Cocktail & Networking Hour
6:30-7:15pm – Dinner
7:15-8:00pm – Speaker
8:00pm – Q&A Session

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Samuel Gregg – Thursday, February 11, 2021
2021-02-11 17:30 - 21:30 | The Ingleside Hotel, 2810 Golf Rd, Pewaukee, WI 53072
Samuel Gregg
Samuel Gregg
The Case Against Economic Nationalism
Samuel Gregg is research director at the Acton Institute. He has written and spoken extensively on questions of political economy, economic history, ethics in finance, and natural law theory. He has an MA from the University of Melbourne, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in moral philosophy and political economy from the University of Oxford.
Milwaukee Yacht Club
1700 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202
5:30-6:30pm – Cocktail & Networking Hour
6:30-7:15pm – Dinner
7:15-8:00pm – Speaker
8:00pm – Q&A Session

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Ryan Owens - Thursday, November 12, 2020
2020-11-12 17:30 - 21:30 | The Ingleside Hotel, 2810 Golf Rd, Pewaukee, WI 53072
Ryan Owens
Ryan Owens
Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education
Ryan J. Owens is the Director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership and is the George C. and Carmella P. Edwards Professor of American Politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an Affiliate Faculty in the Law School and an Honorary Fellow in the Institute for Legal Studies. Owens studies law and courts and American political institutions. His work analyzes the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals, legal institutions, and judicial behavior. He has written three books with a fourth under contract, and over 30 articles.
Milwaukee Yacht Club
1700 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202
5:30-6:30pm – Cocktail & Networking Hour
6:30-7:15pm – Dinner
7:15-8:00pm – Speaker
8:00pm – Q&A Session

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Rick Esenberg – Thursday, October 15, 2020
2020-10-15 05:30 - 21:30 | The Ingleside Hotel, 2810 Golf Rd, Pewaukee, WI 53072
Rick Esenberg
Rick Esenberg
In Defense of the Conservative Consensus: Reaganism for the 21st Century
Under Rick Esenberg’s leadership, Wisconsin Institute for Liberty and Law has grown into one of the more active state-based think tanks and litigation centers in the country. Rick is a frequent litigator in state and federal courts and nationally recognized scholar and commentator on constitutional law, particularly the First Amendment’s guarantees of freedom of speech and religion. He is one of the leading experts on the Wisconsin Constitution and a frequent advocate before the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Rick’s work seeks to advance the rule of law and individual liberty, formed by a robust civil society that forms individual and community character, preserving the wisdom of the past and an openness to the future.
Milwaukee Yacht Club
1700 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202
5:30-6:30pm – Cocktail & Networking Hour
6:30-7:15pm – Dinner
7:15-8:00pm – Speaker
8:00pm – Q&A Session

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Jay Richards - Thursday, March 19, 2020
2020-03-19 17:30 - 21:00 | The Ingleside Hotel, 2810 Golf Rd, Pewaukee, WI 53072
Jay Richards
Jay Richards
The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines
Jay Richards, Ph.D., O.P., is an Assistant Research Professor in the School of Business and Economics at The Catholic University of America, Executive Editor of The Stream and a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute where he works with the Center on Wealth, Poverty, and Morality. He is author of many books including the New York Times bestsellers Infiltrated (2013) and Indivisible (2012), as well as Money, Greed, and God (winner of a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award), and The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom that J.R.R. Tolkien Got and the West Forgot, which he co-authored with Jonathan Witt. His latest book, The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines, argues we need a new model for how ordinary people can thrive in this age of mass economic disruption. Richards dispatches myths about capitalism, greed, and upward mobility and tells the stories of how real individuals have begun to rebuild a culture of virtue through creativity, resilience, and empathy.
Milwaukee Yacht Club
1700 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202
5:30-6:30pm – Cocktail & Networking Hour
6:30-7:15pm – Dinner
7:15-8:00pm – Speaker
8:00pm – Q&A Session

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James Taylor - Wednesday, February 19, 2020
2020-02-19 17:30 - 21:00 | The Ingleside Hotel, 2810 Golf Rd, Pewaukee, WI 53072
James Taylor
James Taylor
Global Warming Is Not a Crisis, but Government “Solutions” Are
James Taylor is a senior fellow for environment and energy policy at The Heartland Institute. He is the former managing editor (2001-2014) of Environment & Climate News, a national monthly publication devoted to sound science and free-market environmentalism. Taylor has also presented energy and environment analysis on CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Channel, MSNBC, PBS News Hour, PBS Frontline, CBS Evening News, ABC World News, and other TV and radio outlets across the country. He has been published in virtually every major newspaper in the country.
Milwaukee Yacht Club
1700 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202
5:30-6:30pm – Cocktail & Networking Hour
6:30-7:15pm – Dinner
7:15-8:00pm – Speaker
8:00pm – Q&A Session

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Michael Tanner – Tuesday, January 14, 2020
2020-01-14 17:30 - 21:00 | The Ingleside Hotel, 2810 Golf Rd, Pewaukee, WI 53072
Michael Tanner
Michael Tanner
Why socialized healthcare is more expensive, decreases in value and reduces services over time
Cato Institute Senior Fellow Michael Tanner heads research into a variety of domestic policies, with an emphasis on poverty and social welfare policy, health care, and Social Security and entitlement reform. Tanner’s writings have appeared in nearly every major American newspaper, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. He writes a weekly column for National Review Online, and is a contributing columnist with the New York Post. A prolific writer and frequent guest lecturer, Tanner appears regularly on network and cable news programs.
Milwaukee Yacht Club
1700 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202
5:30-6:30pm – Cocktail & Networking Hour
6:30-7:15pm – Dinner
7:15-8:00pm – Speaker
8:00pm – Q&A Session

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Daniel Kelly - Wednesday, October 23, 2019
2019-10-23 17:30 - 21:00 | The Ingleside Hotel, 2810 Golf Rd, Pewaukee, WI 53072
Daniel Kelly
Daniel Kelly
The Appropriate Role of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Daniel Kelly is an American lawyer who has served as a Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice since 2016. He was appointed by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to fill the unexpired term of David Prosser, Jr. He started his legal career as a law clerk for the late Judge Ralph Adam Fine of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. Kelly then spent two decades representing clients on a wide variety of legal issues, including the Wisconsin Supreme Court and U.S. Supreme Court. Kelly developed a specialty working on complex cases that protect our constitutional rights.
Milwaukee Yacht Club
1700 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202
5:30-6:30pm – Cocktail & Networking Hour
6:30-7:15pm – Dinner
7:15-8:00pm – Speaker
8:00pm – Q&A Session

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Mark Skousen - Tuesday, September 17, 2019
2019-09-17 17:30 - 21:00 | The Ingleside Hotel, 2810 Golf Rd, Pewaukee, WI 53072
Mark Skousen
Mark Skousen
Has the POTUS Become a PONTIFF? Power, Political Economy and the Constitution
Mark Skousen was recently named one of the top 20 living economists in the world. Since 1980, Skousen has been editor in chief of Forecasts & Strategies, a popular award-winning investment newsletter. He was analyst for the CIA, a columnist to Forbes magazine, chairman of Investment U, and past president of the Foundation for Economic Education in New York. Skousen has built a reputation for not only accurately identifying the right economic and political trends, but also the right investments for the times.
Milwaukee Yacht Club
1700 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202
5:30-6:30pm – Cocktail & Networking Hour
6:30-7:15pm – Dinner
7:15-8:00pm – Speaker
8:00pm – Q&A Session

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Jacob Hornberger - Tuesday, April 2, 2019
2019-04-02 17:30 - 20:30 | The Astor Hotel, 924 E. Juneau Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Jacob Hornberger
Jacob Hornberger
Knocking Down The Walls of Tyranny: The Case For Open Borders
Jacob G. Hornberger is Founder and President of The Future of Freedom Foundation, whose mission is to provide an uncompromising case for the libertarian philosophy. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas as well as an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. Hornberger writes a daily blog and an article for FFF’s monthly journal, Future of Freedom. He is also co-host of a weekly Internet show entitled “The Libertarian Angle” with libertarian economics professor Richard Ebeling. He is an author or contributor to several of the books published by FFF, including The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration.
The Astor Hotel
924 E. Juneau Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53202
5:30-6:30pm – Cocktail & Networking Hour
6:30-7:15pm – Dinner
7:15-8:00pm – Speaker
8:00pm – Q&A Session

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Dale Kooyenga - Monday, March 4, 2019
2019-03-04 17:30 - 20:30 | The Astor Hotel, 924 E. Juneau Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Dale Kooyenga
Dale Kooyenga
An Overview of Wisconsin’s Fiscal Health and Anti-Free Market Laws
State Representative Dale Kooyenga represent the 14th Assembly District which encompasses parts of Brookfield, Wauwatosa and Milwaukee. He has a CPA and MBA from Marquette University. Kooyenga was born in Oak Lawn, Illinois. He is a Certified Public Account (CPA) who received his B.A. from Lakeland College and his M.B.A from Marquette University. In 2005, Kooyenga enlisted in the United States Army alongside his two brothers and was later called up to service in Iraq. He remains a member of the United States Army Reserve where he serves as a Major. He lives in Brookfield with his wife Jennifer and their four children.

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John McAdams – Wednesday, January 16, 2019
2019-01-16 17:30 - 20:30 | The Astor Hotel, 924 E. Juneau Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53202
John McAdams
John McAdams
How Academia Became Corrupt
John McAdams was an undergraduate at the University of Alabama during the heyday of Bear Bryant, and then went off to get an M.A. degree from Columbia and a Ph.D. from Harvard. McAdams has been at Marquette University since 1977, teaching courses in American Politics, Public Policy, Elections and Voter Behavior and the JFK assassination. He has published two books and more than 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals. McAdams recently won a landmark lawsuit in the Wisconsin Supreme Court over Marquette’s attempt to fire him over a blog post exposing an instructor who told a student that expressing opposition to gay marriage would not be allowed.

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Richard Thieme - Tuesday, October 16, 2018
2018-10-16 17:30 - 20:30 | The Astor Hotel, 924 E. Juneau Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Richard Thieme
Richard Thieme
UFO’s: Cover and Deception – Uncovering Government Secrecy Practices
Richard Thieme is an author and professional speaker who addresses challenges posed by new technologies, how to redesign ourselves to meet these challenges, and creativity in response to radical change. He addresses “the human in the machine,” technology-related security and intelligence issues as they come home to our humanity. Thieme spoke in 2018 at Def Con for the 23rd year. Thieme has published hundreds of articles, dozens of stories, and five books. He is a co-author of the critically extolled “UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry,” and a contributor to and associate editor of a sequel, “The UFO Phenomenon,” due this year.

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Matthew Kibbe - Thursday, September 13, 2018
2018-09-13 17:30 - 20:30 | The Astor Hotel, 924 E. Juneau Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Matthew Kibbe
Matthew Kibbe
Socialism Kills. So why do so many young people think Socialism is cool?
Matt Kibbe is Co-founder and President at Free the People, an educational foundation which uses cutting edge technology, video production and good old storytelling in order to turn on the next generation to the values of liberty and cooperation. Kibbe is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna who in 2015 served as Senior Advisor to a Rand Paul SuperPAC, and in 2016, created AlternativePAC to support liberty candidates. Dubbed “The Scribe” by the New York Daily News, Kibbe is most recently author of the #2 New York Times bestseller Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto.

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Dr. Chris Preble - Tuesday, May 1, 2018
2018-05-01 17:30 - 20:30 | The Astor Hotel, 924 E. Juneau Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Dr. Chris Preble
Dr. Chris Preble
The Problem with U.S. Foreign Policy
Chris Preble is the Vice President for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute and the author of The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free. Mr. Preble has also published articles in major publications, including the New York Times, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times, National Review, The National Interest, Foreign Policy, and is a frequent guest on television and radio. In addition to his work at the Cato Institute, Mr. Preble teaches the U.S. foreign policy elective at the University of California, Washington Center. Before joining the Cato Institute in February 2003, he taught history at St. Cloud State University and Temple University. Mr. Preble was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy, and served aboard the USS Ticonderoga (CG-47) from 1990 to 1993.
To learn more, visit Dr. Preble’s CATO Institute page or follow him on Twitter

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Jay Lehr - Tuesday, March 6, 2018
2018-03-06 17:30 - 20:30
Jay Lehr
Jay Lehr
Elon Musk: Visionary or Fraud?
Jay Lehr, Ph.D. is the science director at The Heartland Institute. He is an internationally renowned speaker, scientist, and author who has testified before Congress on dozens of occasions on environmental issues and consulted with nearly every agency of the federal government, as well as many foreign countries. Lehr is a leading authority on groundwater hydrology. After graduating from Princeton University at the age of 20 with a degree in Geological Engineering, he went on to receive the nation’s first Ph.D. in Groundwater Hydrology from the University of Arizona. He later became executive director of the National Association of Groundwater Scientists and Engineers. Lehr is the author of more than 1,000 magazine and journal articles and 36 books. He was featured in Parachute Magazine in March 2010 for setting a new world record, having jumped from an airplane each and every month for 32 years.

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Bruno Behrend - Thursday, January 18, 2018
2018-01-18 17:30 - 20:30
Bruno Behrend
Bruno Behrend
Is America a ‘Public school country’? Will school choice save public education or destroy it?
Bruno Behrend, J.D., is the founder and a board member of American Transparency, a non-profit organization dedicated to putting all local, state, and federal spending in one database, ready for instant retrieval. He engaged in the same goal at For the Good of Illinois, an Illinois-based non-profit watchdog group that created the OpentheBooks.com on-line database and mobile app. Prior to his current position, Behrend was director of the Center for School Reform at The Heartland Institute, where he advocated for transforming America’s education systems. Specifically, states need to begin the process of dismantling the current bureaucracy-based system, and replace it with a system where money follows the child to a new, dynamic network of independent schools and alternative content providers.

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John Tillman - Thursday, November 9, 2017
2017-11-09 17:30 - 20:30
John Tillman
John Tillman
What is America’s 21st Century destiny? The people vs. the Government.
John Tillman is one of the nation’s most prominent leaders of a state-based think tank. As CEO of the Illinois Policy Institute, Tillman transformed what many wrote off as a blue state into a place ripe for free-market reform. Tillman founded or co-founded a variety of key organizations in Illinois to create the competitive capacity needed to turn Illinois around. His success has become a model for liberty-based organizations across the country. Tillman won the State Policy Network’s prestigious Roe Award in 2011 for his leadership, innovation and accomplishments in the world of public policy. This annual award pays tribute to those in the state public policy movement whose achievements have greatly advanced the free-market philosophy. John is regularly featured in the media, and has appeared on FOX News Channel, FOX Business, the BBC and NPR, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times and other news outlets.

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Matthew Kittle - Thursday, September 28, 2017
2017-09-28 17:30 - 20:30
Matt Kittle
Matt Kittle
Silencing Speech: The Left’s Political War on the First Amendment
Matthew Kittle is an investigative reporter for the MacIver Institute. His investigative series on Wisconsin’s unconstitutional John Doe probe, “Wisconsin’s Secret War,” received a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Kittle is a 25-year veteran of print, broadcast and online media. He is the recipient of several awards for journalism excellence from The Associated Press, Inland Press, the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association, and others. Kittle’s extensive series on Wisconsin’s unconstitutional John Doe investigations was the basis of a 2014 documentary on Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze. His work has been featured in Town Hall, Fox News, NewsMax, and other national publications, and his reporting has been cited by news outlets nationwide. Kittle can be heard on NewsTalk 1130 WISN, where he is a fill-in talk show host for the Jay Weber Show and the Vicki McKenna Show in Madison and Milwaukee.

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Michael Tanner
2017-04-04 17:30 - 21:00 | Milwaukee Athletic Club, 758 N Broadway, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Michael Tanner
Michael Tanner
Can Donald Trump Fix the National Debt?
Cato Institute senior fellow, Michael Tanner heads research into a variety of domestic policies with a particular emphasis on poverty and social welfare policy, health care reform, and Social Security.
Tanner is the author of numerous other books on public policy, including Going for Broke: Deficits, Debt, and the Entitlement Crisis, Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution, Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It, The Poverty of Welfare: Helping Others in Civil Society, and A New Deal for Social Security.
Under Tanner’s direction, Cato launched the Project on Social Security Choice, which is widely considered the leading impetus for transforming the soon-to-be-bankrupt system into a private savings program. Time magazine calls Tanner, “one of the architects of the private accounts movement,” and Congressional Quarterly named him one of the nation’s five most influential experts on Social Security. The New York Times refers to him as “a lucid writer and skilled polemicist.”
More recently Tanner has undertaken a major project to develop innovative solutions to poverty and inequality.
Tanner’s writings have appeared in nearly every major American newspaper, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. He writes a weekly column for National Review Online, and is a contributing columnist with the New York Post. A prolific writer and frequent guest lecturer, Tanner appears regularly on network and cable news programs.
To learn more, visit Mr. Tanner’s page at https://www.cato.org/people/michael-tanner
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Michael Miller
2017-03-08 17:30 - 21:00 | Milwaukee Athletic Club, 758 N Broadway, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Michael Miller
Michael Miller
Michael Miller is a Research Fellow and the Director of Acton Media at the Acton Institute. With over ten years of international experience, he has lived and traveled in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. He lectures internationally on such themes as moral philosophy, economic development, social theory, and entrepreneurship. Mr. Miller is a frequent guest on radio and has been published in the Washington Times, The Detroit News, The LA Daily News, and Real Clear Politics. He is the Director and Host of the PovertyCure DVD Series and has appeared in various video curricula including Doing the Right Thing, Effective Stewardship, and the Birth of Freedom. Much of his current work at the Acton Institute involves leading PovertyCure, promoting entrepreneurial solutions to poverty in the developing world.
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Ira Winkler
2017-01-17 17:30 - 21:00 | Milwaukee Athletic Club, 758 N Broadway, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Ira Winkler
Ira Winkler
Ira Winkler is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), the President and co-founder of Secure Mentem, and is considered one of the world’s most influential security professionals. He is one of the foremost experts in the human elements of cyber security and is known for the extensive espionage and social engineering simulations that he has conducted for Fortune 500 companies globally. Mr. Winkler continues to perform these espionage simulations, as well as assisting organizations in developing cost effective security programs. He is a noted speaker, media contributor, and author of several books, most notably Spies Among Us, Corporate Espionage, and Zen and the Art of Information Security. Mr. Winkler and his work have been featured in a variety of media outlets including CNN, The Wall St Journal, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, among other outlets throughout the world.
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