Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy

Remarks before the Economic Club of Detroit By Lawrence W. Reed | Oct. 29, 2001 Revised June 2006 When I first took the podium to deliver the speech reprinted here, I was addressing the Detroit Economic Club, a world-renowned forum for sharing ideas. But even with my natural optimism and the publicity associated with that … Read more

Make MP3s show up on iPhone, iTouch, & iPod as a Podcast or Audio Book

Why? I travel a lot and use my iPhone for music, audio books, & movies.  My audio books, or books on CD, are in MP3 format and show up all jumbled in with my music if I don’t do anything to them.  By converting them to Podcast (or tricking iPhone into thinking its a Podcast) … Read more

WordPress 3.0 images disappear after upgrade

I updated WordPress on here to version 3.0 and all my internal images disappeared from the posts.  After a painful search I figured out WordPress was camel-casing “Wordpress” to “WordPress.” So my WordPress was installed by my hosting service as Wordpress NOT WordPress. So all pictures were now stored in a directory that WordPress couldn’t … Read more

GM twists the truth on paying back the TARP loan (and sued for it).

Full Text We have all seen the ads with GM’s (Government Motors) CEO telling the world how his company has paid back the TARP loans.  In case you havent, here ya go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSNPFVLIWjI&feature=player_embedded Perhaps some of us have wondered how the company managed to do this when they haven’t been selling very many cars? Well, … Read more