Social Policy and Change: Monday's Daily Brief: More Bain Pain For Mitt Romney

Monday, July 16, 2012

	POLITICS WATCH: Obama Reflects On First Term Accomplishments
	WORLD Protesters In Egypt Pelt Hillary Clinton's Motorcade With Tomatoes
	MIAMI ANOTHER Surprise Revelation In Face-Mauling Attack
	CELEBRITY Oscar-Winning Actress Celeste Holm Dies At 95
	COMEDY 7 Unintentionally Sexual Optical Illusions

BLOG POSTS

	Charles Ferguson: Banking Is a Criminal Industry Because Its Crimes Go Unpunished Over the past two decades, the financial services industry has become a pervasively unethical and highly criminal industry, with massive fraud tolerated or even encouraged by senior management. But how did that happen?
	Leo W. Gerard: Casper the Friendly Ghost Can't Control Wall Street Casper's airy little fist packed no wallop when it came to impeding high-risk betting on Wall Street, the LIBOR lending rate manipulation or the disappearance of client money at MFGlobal. There's a much better way than Casper to catch a bankster: pay them to turn each other in.
	Abby Huntsman: Romney's Tax Returns Could Cost Him the Election If one has nothing to hide, why not release a set of comprehensive records (Romney reportedly, after all, provided the McCain campaign with 20+ years of returns when being vetted for VP)? The answer is simple -- Mitt Romney must have something to hide.
	Diana Butler Bass: Can Christianity Be Saved? A Response to Ross Douthat The real question is not "Can liberal Christianity be saved?" The real question is: Can Christianity be saved?
	Michael Moore: I Built a Movie Theater -- and a Film Festival -- and I'd Like You to Come to It I had this epiphany: what would a movie theater look like if it were designed, built and run by the people who actually make the movies?