The Wisconsin Forum http://www.wisconsinforum.org Ideas Have Consequences Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:46:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Doug Bandow – January 26, 2012 http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/12/doug-bandow-january-26-2012/ http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/12/doug-bandow-january-26-2012/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:29:33 +0000 The Wisconsin Forum http://www.wisconsinforum.org/?p=314 Doug Bandow

Doug Bandow

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Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, specializing in foreign policy and civil liberties. He worked as special assistant to President Reagan and editor of the political magazine Inquiry. He writes regularly for leading publications such as Fortune magazine, National Interest, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Times. Bandow speaks frequently at academic conferences, on college campuses, and to business groups. Bandow has been a regular commentator on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. He holds a J.D. from Stanford University.

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]]> http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/12/doug-bandow-january-26-2012/feed/ 0 Dr. Robert Genetski – September 27, 2011 http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/09/dr-robert-genetski-september-27-2011/ http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/09/dr-robert-genetski-september-27-2011/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:04:57 +0000 The Wisconsin Forum http://www.wisconsinforum.org/?p=229 Robert Genetski

Dr. Robert Genetski

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Robert Genetski’s contributions in the world of economics and finance range from serving as Chief Economist for a major Midwest Bank to teaching at NYU and the prestigious University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. In between, he has managed to be crowned a top-five speaker in the field of Economics and Finance, and is renowned for the simplicity with which he explains critical elements and classical principles of economics. In his free time, he has also managed to author several other books, notably A Nation of Millionaires, Taking the Voodoo Out of Economics, and Winning with Money.

]]> http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/09/dr-robert-genetski-september-27-2011/feed/ 0 Prof. Richard Esenberg – February 28, 2012 http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/09/professor-richard-esenberg-february-28-2012/ http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/09/professor-richard-esenberg-february-28-2012/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:01:25 +0000 The Wisconsin Forum http://www.wisconsinforum.org/?p=244 Rick Esenberg

Prof. Richard M. Esenberg

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Richard M. Esenberg is a professor of law at Marquette University Law School. Mr. Esenberg has overseen international acquisitions and business expansions throughout Europe, Latin America, and Canada. He also has served as lead trial counsel in major intellectual property and advertising litigation and as trial counsel in numerous public-law cases. He recently published You Cannot Lose If You Choose Not to Play: Toward a More Modest Establishment Clause, 12 Roger Williams Law Review 1 (2006) and his recent paper, Of Speeches and Sermons: Worship in Limited Purpose Public Forums is forthcoming in the Mississippi Law Journal. Professor Esenberg is a frequent columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and publishes a blog, Shark and Shepherd.

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Prof. Joshua Hall

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Joshua Hall is a professor in the Economics Department at Beloit College. Formerly an economist for the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, Professor Hall has an extensive background in writing for scholarly audiences as well as for policy makers and citizens. In addition to authoring or co-authoring over 100 journal articles, book chapters, and academic book reviews, numerous articles and reviews, he is co-author of the widely-cited annual Economic Freedom of the World report. Professor Hall also directs the Charles G. Koch Student Research Colloquium and Speaker Series.

 

 

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]]> http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/09/prof-joshua-hall-april-18-2012/feed/ 0 It Can Happen Here Too… http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/05/it-can-happen-here-too/ http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/05/it-can-happen-here-too/#comments Wed, 11 May 2011 14:17:27 +0000 The Wisconsin Forum http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/05/it-can-happen-here-too/ Wendy McElroy writes a fascinating book review on Mises.org reminding us that totalitarianism is always a threat even in our back yards. She tells us that people often do not recognize the dangers presented to us incrementally while living out our daily lives.

She quotes a pertinent Murray Rothbard passage as well…

“The state is the only institution which can use the revenue from this organized theft [taxes] to presume to control and regulate people’s lives and property. Hence, the institution of the state establishes a socially legitimatized and sanctified channel for bad people to do bad things.”

The America we once knew “is disappearing day by day” and articles like this book review should serve as serious reminders to us all.

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]]> http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/05/it-can-happen-here-too/feed/ 0 Reaching the Left…from a Libertarian Perspective http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/04/reaching-the-left-from-a-libertarian-perspective/ http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/04/reaching-the-left-from-a-libertarian-perspective/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:19:27 +0000 The Wisconsin Forum http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/04/reaching-the-left-from-a-libertarian-perspective/ Here is a great essay on “How to Reach the left” in which one can see the similarities (as well as differences) between philosophies left, right, center, libertarian, authoritarian and everywhere in-between.

See this link from Mises.org

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Read the Federalist Papers

]]> http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/04/the-federalist-papers/feed/ 0 Joseph Bast – May 5, 2011 http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/04/joseph-bast-may-5-2011/ http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/04/joseph-bast-may-5-2011/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:59:38 +0000 The Wisconsin Forum http://www.wisconsinforum.org/?p=133 Photograph of Joseph Bast

Joseph Bast of the Heartland Institute

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Joseph Bast, president and CEO of The Heartland Institute, was its first employee in 1984. He is the author and coauthor of 12 books, including, Rebuilding America’s Schools, Why We Spend Too Much on Health Care, Eco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism, and Education & Capitalism. Mr. Bast’s writing has also been published in some of the United States’ largest-circulation newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, and USA Today.

]]> http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/04/joseph-bast-may-5-2011/feed/ 0 The Declaration of Independence http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/04/declaration-of-independenc/ http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/04/declaration-of-independenc/#comments Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:40:52 +0000 The Wisconsin Forum http://www.wisconsinforum.org/?p=67 Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation’s most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson’s most enduring monument. Here, in exalted and unforgettable phrases, Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people. The political philosophy of the Declaration was not new; its ideals of individual liberty had already been expressed by John Locke and the Continental philosophers. What Jefferson did was to summarize this philosophy in “self-evident truths” and set forth a list of grievances against the King in order to justify before the world the breaking of ties between the colonies and the mother country. We invite you to read a transcription of the complete text of the Declaration.

]]> http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/04/declaration-of-independenc/feed/ 0 CYP Milwaukee http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/04/resource-article-1/ http://www.wisconsinforum.org/2011/04/resource-article-1/#comments Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:40:35 +0000 The Wisconsin Forum http://www.wisconsinforum.org/?p=65 Conservative Young Professionals is a group of young professionals located in the greater Milwaukee area who believe that our state and nation need conservative leadership to meet today’s challenges. They are concerned about economic growth and the fiscal vitality of the greater Milwaukee area.

We refuse to stand by while we are overregulated and overtaxed. Our personal freedoms are under attack. We must work for a smaller, responsible and more efficient government, encourage economic prosperity and entrepreneurship, and foster individual freedom and accountability.

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