“Michigan” on The Daily Caller

Pete Hoekstra is a cigarette, and America is a patient with stage-three lung cancer. Hoekstra won’t kill the patient, but he certainly won’t help matters. (more)

Despite former U.S. Rep Anthony Weiner’s Twitpic mishap, “sexting” is still a popular activity among teens and, apparently, Michigan judges. (more)

Two states — Michigan and Alabama — are jointly leading the nation in the difficult race to force down unemployment rates. (more)

While most people have played the “if I had a million dollars I would ____ ” thought game, few fill that blank in with “stay on public assistance.” (more)

Rick Santorum’s campaign accused Mitt Romney of successfully attempting to “rig” the Michigan primary vote after the Michigan Republican Party voted Thursday to take away one delegate from Santorum and award it to Romney. (more)

It was announced this week that former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm will be writing a regular column for Politico. Those familiar with Granholm’s track record as governor are likely scratching their heads as to what expertise the former governor could offer that warrants a bi-weekly column. Her time as governor was marked by the imposition higher taxes, unsustainable spending and excessive regulations that resulted in a lost decade for the Great Lakes State. (more)

Rick Santorum should give back some of the delegates he won Tuesday night in Michigan, said Romney-supporter and Ohio Rep. Mike Turner, because he won them unethically by appealing to Democrats. (more)

In Michigan’s GOP battle of the robocalls, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is breaking out a key endorsement: former Pennsylvanian Sen Rick Santorum, his main Republican rival. (more)

Michigan native Mitt Romney breathed a huge sigh of relief Tuesday night when he pulled off a crucial win in his birth state, beating out former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney scored a hard-won, home state triumph in Michigan and powered to victory in Arizona Tuesday night, gaining a two-state primary sweep over Rick Santorum and precious momentum in the most turbulent Republican presidential race in a generation. (more)

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is turning to an unlikely group of people for support in Tuesday’s Republican primary in Michigan: Democrats. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is telling Michigan voters that Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is a career politician who doesn’t know how to create jobs. (more)

Mitt Romney’s efforts to prevent a potentially devastating upset in next week’s Michigan primary appear to be bearing fruit. (more)

Once seen as an easy win for Mitt Romney, Michigan’s upcoming Republican primary is quickly turning into an uphill battle for the former Massachusetts governor in his struggle against the resurgent Rick Santorum. (more)

NEW ORLEANS — A magical ending to a magical season. (more)

In an appearance on Fox News Channel aired on Thursday night’s “On the Record with Greta Van Sustren,” conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh explained, in no uncertain terms, how to fix Detroit, where unemployment and poverty are rampant. His solution: End liberalism. (more)

Democratic Michigan Rep. Sander Levin told The Daily Caller that House Republicans are “blinded by a rigid ideology” and suggested that they “take the blinders off, come back here, see the light” and pass the Democratic-led Senate’s two-month payroll tax cut extension. (more)

Giving the Grinch a run for his money this year, an attorney — acting on behalf of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) and local atheist complainant Douglas Marshall — has sent a letter to the mayor of Warren, Mich., threatening legal action against the city unless the mayor allows an “equal time” anti-religion sign next to a nativity scene in the city hall lobby. (more)

2010 Miss USA Rima Fakih was HAMMERED when cops arrested her for DUI this weekend … this according to Michigan police. (more)

Senior citizens in Wayne County, Mich., would rather eat cat food than the slop that currently passes for meals-on-wheels dinners provided by the county government. And WJBK-Fox 2 news reporter Charlie LeDuff found that the substandard food options were a consequence of Democratic county executive Bob Ficano’s overspending on perks for his own office. (more)