links for 2007-05-10 Brian Gellman: How do we stop the Army from bleeding out? I will be surprised if the bonus is very effective in stopping the exodus of captains, most of the officers who will take it already planned on staying in, and those who were planning on getting ou Jay Rosen lectures Neil Lewis of the New York Times: That “left-leaning political activists” felt the choice of Rich Little hopelessly dated and the Correspondents’ dinner badly compromised was, I thought, a bad idea with which to begin a news story Kash Mansori: The most convincing thought experiment for me is simply this, however: if median income was up a bunch in the last few years, don't you think that Rove would be advertising that fact as loudly as possible? Brad DeLong's Academic CV as of April 30, 2007 Joshua Micah Marshall on Paul Wolfowitz: Given the depths of corruption and bad acts we've seen of late, giving a fat raise to a girlfriend or boyfriend who works at your shop isn't the worst kind of corruption there is. But it falls short, I guess you mi Matthew Yglesias Is Shrill: So Thomas Friedman, as you may have heard, gets to write twice a week for The New York Times primarily on foreign policy. And for today's column he writes about how . . . Hezbollah is bad. Can't they give this job to someone el Matthew Yglesias: I agree with [Brad] as to what the goal of America's policy should have been. In his earlier post, though, Brad was writing about why our policy didn't achieve those results and all I'm trying to say is that we should consider the possib Economist's View: The FOMC Holds Target Rate at 5.25%
