Say it ain't true, Jersey Boy! Springsteen greets his Detroit audience with: "Hello, Ohio!"
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Thank long term and fix fundamental, structural budget problems? Naw. The state uses a cheap stimulus band-aid. How ideas are born. . . .
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The Left likes having Big Industry straw men to bash whenever their socialist plans run aground, but the fact is, Big Industry is embracing the U.S.'s leftward lurch. Better to secure your place at the Rentseekers Roundtable, to lock out new competition and guarantee a never-ending stream of government welfare.
Take Nissan-Renault, that international Big Auto giant.
In introducing the company's electric plug-in for the U.S. market - called the Leaf - to the automotive press for testing this week (the 22-city Nissan Leaf Zero-Emission Tour), CEO Carlos Ghosn sounded like the Goracle's ventriloquist dummy. . . .
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Rep. Dave Camp of Mich. reveals this cruel detail from the 1,900 page health monstrosity. Some interesting back-and-forth here at my syndicate's site.
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A cow is always good for a chuckle for some reason. Maybe it's the udders (which I forgot on this cow!). Headed up north this weekend into the war zone. Didn't see any cows - or deer for that matter.
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AG Mike Cox is the favorite for guv - and it's getting hotter in the kitchen.
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Teaching 16-year-olds the basics of driving is a tall order. But now politicians want to indoctrinate student drivers with a green catechism, too.
My Detroit News colleague Manny Lopez reports that Michigan's legislature is considering a bill that would mandate an environmental curriculum for driver's ed classes. In addition to parallel parking and road signs, Democratic Reps. Bert Johnson and Dan Scripps would force kids to learn about "the importance of carpooling and using public transportation," "identifying the attributes of a fuel-efficient vehicle," and "recycling vehicle parts and fluids," among other scriptures from the green bible. . . .
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The PC feds miss an Islamic crazy in their midst at Ft. Hood, costing 51 lives. Let's put the government in charge of health care.
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No surprise - term limits has become a problem. The meter metaphor is a favorite of mine.
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The Lafayette Coney is right down the street from The News offices. Just don't let Nancy Pelosi in there.
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Henry Payne is the editorial cartoonist for The Detroit News.
A writer as well as a Pulitzer Prize-nominated cartoonist, he produces five local cartoons a week, draws a weekly column called "Payne & Ink," a weekly auto cartoon for Autos Insider, and contributes occasional articles to the op-ed section.
Payne also produces six cartoons a week on national issues for United Feature Syndicate in New York which distributes his work to an additional 60 clients worldwide. His work has been reprinted in The New York Times, USA Today, and National Review.
As a writer, Payne is a regular contributor to National Review on economic, political and environmental issues, and his articles have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard magazine, Reason, and other publications.
This variety of work is all compiled here on his News blog page, as well as anything else that may be on his mind.
Payne came to The News in 1999 from Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, DC. He has published three books, including two children's books for Random House. Born in West Virginia in1962, Payne is a graduate of Princeton University. He is an active race car driver, and lives with wife and two children in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
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