Henry Payne's Sketchbook

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Posted by Henry Payne (The Detroit News) on Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:20 PM

Drudge picks up Stabenow article, 08.13.09

Late Wednesday, The Drudge Report picked up my NatReview post below on our Detroit News interview with Debbie Stabenow in which she claimed that she can feel global warming "when I'm flying." I started the day with an appearance on a L.A. radio show about the item. Then the floodgates opened. Traffic from Drudge nearly crashed The News site as over 300,000 visitors opened the page. The Stabenow item alone would account for 20 percent of News traffic.

Readers posted over 200 comments (and still counting) in response. As with the town halls across the country, Americans are paying attention to the radical rhetoric their leaders are pedaling.

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Sat. 08/15/09 06:08 PM

Flying Debbie

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The Good Senator is clearly not the sharpest knife in our backs in Washington.

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About this Weblog

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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.