“Michigan” on The Daily Caller

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)

While on the campaign trail in Michigan on Thursday, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain laughed along with a voter who joked about his having the support of Anita Hill. In 1991, Hill made sexual harassment accusations against then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearings. (more)

The taxman got an early Christmas present from the Obama administration this week with the approval of a new fee on all fresh Christmas trees. (more)

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) — As the sun dips below the rooftops each evening, parts of this Detroit enclave turn to pitch black, the only illumination coming from a few streetlights at the end of the block or from glowing yellow yard globes. (more)

President Barack Obama will take his re-election campaign to a General Motors plant on Friday where he will tout the new free trade deal with South Korea, and likely again champion his $60 billion 2009 bailout of the auto industry. (more)

Vice President Joe Biden attempted to tie passage of the American Jobs Act to a decrease in murders and rapes in an appearance in Flint, Mich., Wednesday. (more)

Not all silver screen sensations fit their trailers. As some say, the better the trailer, the worse the film. But Michigan woman Sarah Deming is suing “Drive” film distributors, claiming that she was misled into buying a movie ticket and the film was not exactly what it was advertised as. (more)

Students are no longer giving educators an apple. Instead, public educators are now giving student Apples worth more than $500. (more)

MONROE, Mich. (AP) — A car bomb caused a powerful explosion on a Michigan street that seriously injured a father and his two sons, who are “very fortunate” to have survived the attack, which turned their vehicle into a blackened hunk of metal, a federal official said Wednesday. (more)

DETROIT (AP) — President Barack Obama used a boisterous Labor Day rally to put congressional Republicans on the spot, challenging them to place the country’s interests above all else and vote to create jobs and put the economy back on a path toward growth. “Show us what you’ve got,” he said. (more)

Many taxpayers object to government welfare programs. But so long as the state is in the business of confiscating some people’s wealth and awarding it to others, most would agree that welfare payments should be given only to the truly poor. (more)

President Barack Obama spoke in an angry voice today as he delivered what has become his campaign stump speech. (more)

Want to hear a ridiculous argument? It is a violation of the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause for a state to prohibit race discrimination. Yes, you read that right. Prohibiting discrimination is discriminatory — or so the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has now ruled. (more)

Elections have consequences. Especially in a redistricting year. And Michigan Democrats are learning that the hard way. (more)

A man who won $2 million on a Michigan lottery show has told a TV station that he still uses food stamps.  (more)