Until lenders form a new policy for lending criteria, problems will continue to occur. The current system using Fair-Isaac scoring to qualified people is extremely flawed. At one time banks used banking information, and references before lending. Now they use a credit scoring system which tends to approve the unqualified and deny the qualified, based…
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Recipe for financial collapse without doubt.
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Is Congresswoman Bachmann a “flake”?
The first time I heard my teenage sons call someone a “flake” they were talking about a professional athlete. It was a very successful professional athlete, someone who had combined a healthy serving of natural gifts with a blister-friendly work ethic and dedication to his sport. But he had the audacity to be … well…
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Was President Obama right in his actions towards Israel?
Not only did President Obama’s condition of using the 1967 borders as a starting point for any peace accord show a stunning lack of respect for an essential strategic ally, it was woefully inopportune and very poor timing. Disrespectful because apparently the President neglected to “tip off” his counterpart in Israel before laying down this…
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Was the health care ruling a actually a long-term victory for conservative jurisprudence?
Some conservative activists have turned against Chief Justice John Roberts for his role in the Supreme Court decision basically upholding the Obama health care law. Yet the decision written by Roberts did have a strong conservative element. While ruling that the individual mandate was an allowable tax, he also wrote that he did not believe the Obama administration's argument that…
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Brave Teaches Women How to Change Their Fate
Latest offering from Disney/Pixar is first to feature a female lead. Like so many Disney/Pixar classics, “Brave” is a love story, but is unusual because it is the story of love between a mother and daughter and the quest by the daughter to change her fate. “Brave” begins with a film score reminiscent of those before…
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Are Palin and Bachmann too similar?
As a resident of South Carolina, the state with the fewest women elected to public office in the nation, my first reaction upon hearing this question was… why is this even a question? Why are there not more woman offering themselves for the highest position in our country? Voters are certainly capable of discerning differences…
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Moderating the Movement: The Faith & Freedom Coalition
Karen Floyd will be monitoring the Pollster Panel at 10:45a on Friday, June 15th at the Faith & Freedom Coalition Conference in Washington, DC. The panel will be composed of Luke Frans, who serves as the Executive Director of Resurgent Republic guiding their research project and advising on conservative messaging; Scott Rasmussen, the founder of Rasmussen…
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Is Obama right to want to eliminate tax loopholes?
Though sources differ on the scrivener of “You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong” it is generally accepted that Reverend William Boetcker’s collection of ten maxims underscore the failures associated with an overzealous government. Whether they are the ideas of the Minnesota governor or President Obama, the reality is that the success or…
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Does Santorum have a shot at being the GOP standard-bearer?
In one of my final official duties as chair of the South Carolina Republican Party, I had the honor of hosting the FOX News-sponsored First in the South, Republican Presidential Primary Debate last month in Greenville, SC. As I watched the debate, I was struck by how Rick Santorum’s words connected with the audience. At…
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