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Bob is a software professional residing in southwest Michigan, right across the Lake from the Windy City. For years, Bob has been critical of the growth government and its impact on its citizens. Contact him at bob@bobnightingale.com.

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Parents of teen boys should know the draft

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

I look forward to sharing the holidays with my oldest son. He turns 19 a week before Christmas. He is really into his freshman college studies and may...
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The last veteran of Veterans Day

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 · 2 comments

This week marks the 91st anniversary of the armistice of the “War to End All Wars”. It was declared on the “eleventh hour of the...
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Regional transportation authority dead in northern Indiana

Voters in St. Joseph and Porter Counties voted on a proposal that would have create a regional transportation...
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Friday is Bank Failure Day

One of my morbid pleasures is to wake up on a Saturday morning to look at the FDIC website, so I can see how many...
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Selling gay rights on the benefits to the rest of us

I watched a bit of the gay rights protests last Sunday on CSPAN-2 yesterday. Mrs. Shepard gave a short speech about her slain son. A labor leader said...
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The Two Wrongs theory of massive public spending

As a parent of five children, many of them now teen-agers, I’ve had to learn a basic survival...
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State House Rep. Tyler texts Michigan working overtime to avoid shutdown

In keeping with the Examiner.com’s mission of reporting on local events by local experts, let me tell you what my neighbor is doing in Lansing...
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Gen. McChrystal makes a case for Afghanistan on 60 Minutes

In last night’s 60 Minutes interview with David Martin, Gen. Stanley McChrystal said several things that made...
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Illinois lawmakers force universities to pay tuition for friends’ kids

In a story that appeared at the ChicagoTribune.com website this weekend, Illinois legislators are helping students...
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Where were you on 9/11?

On that day eight years ago, I was in my office in Lisle. One of my co-workers asked if my radio worked and said that a plane hit a building in New...
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