Wisconsin Forum

Mark Skousen - Tuesday, September 17, 2019
2019-09-17 17:30 - 21:00 UTC | 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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