Keeping the truth alive. It’s been a while since I read this letter which was sent to Glenn Beck back in June, but re-read it again today and wanted to make sure we keep the truth alive.
In the months since the letter was sent, the problems have only gotten worse. We have more czar’s which are directly appointed, and don’t have to follow normal procedural [ continue reading... ]

Today the projected stimulus bill went through another round of deliberation and trimming to hit a goal of $800> Billion.
It was met with the biggest cut coming from the Senate proposed $15,000 tax credit. However, it is not proposed that the $7,500 credit no longer has to be paid back.
What are my thoughts? I think they did some things right, and something wrongs.
I believe the [ continue reading... ]

Here is an excerpt from a Yahoo article regarding the crucial Senate test vote passing of the stimulus bill backed by the white house. Link to the full article is at the bottom.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An $838 billion economic stimulus bill backed by the White House survived a key test vote in the Senate on Monday despite strong Republican opposition, and Democratic leaders vowed to [ continue reading... ]

Since the senate agreed on a new bill which included a $15,000 tax credit for home buyers (not only first time home buyers, but all home buyers) there has been quite the mass confusion. So I’d like to clear it up with a few simple points to show what it is, and what it isn’t and a few of the major details:
Major details:
The tax credit [ continue reading... ]

I decided it was a little bit of time for change, and decided to change the look of benkevan.com. In addition to the new look I am going to start writing more articles not only for openSUSE, but for Linux and other distributions also.
But wait, there’s more. I am also going to try to add a new section (if I figure out how) that [ continue reading... ]