Former Michigan Representative Pete Hoekstra went on Fox News to elaborate on his Super Bowl ad that turned out to be a Super Bust. The ad sparked a serious backlash after airing in the precious Super Bowl commercial space. The “promotional” video featured an Asian women riding a bicycle through a rice field. The woman stopped to revere Hoekstra’s Democratic challenger for a Senate seat, Debbie Stabenow, cleverly renamed Debbie Spenditnow, in a form of broken English to further accentuate her ethnicity.

A lesbian mom named Amy took some time during a Troy, Michigan council meeting to introduce Mayor Janice Daniels to her family. Daniels, you may recall, recently found herself at the center of a protest calling for her resignation because, over the summer, she had written a Facebook update stating that “I think I am going to throw away my I Love New York carrying bag now that queers can get married there.”

Mitt Romney appears determined to make Michigan a swing state next year by using the Great Lake State native Kid Rock ‘s Born Free as his campaign song.

As it turns out, there’s a Troy, Michigan native among our flock here at Abrams Media. Geekosystem’s Max Eddy hails from the very city whose mayor, Janice Daniels, currently finds herself inspiring a protest demanding her immediate resignation.

Troy, Michigan’s Mayor Janice Daniels is facing calls to resign following a comment she posted to her Facebook page over the summer.

East Lansing’s Sen. Gretchen Whitmer (D) made an emotional speech to her colleagues regarding her feelings for Michigan’s “Matt’s Safe School Law.” The law, named after a gay Michigan teen who took his own life in 2002, effectively permits the harassment of individuals as long as that harassment is borne of a “religious or moral” conviction. The obvious example here is the antagonization of gay young people by those who purport to believe that homosexuality is wrong on religious or moral grounds.

A car bomb seriously injured a Michigan lawyer and his two sons after their Volvo exploded on the road Tuesday. The vehicle erupted in a massive fireball that melted the car to its frame, but somehow, miraculously, the three were able to escape from the blast alive. “OK, we have a bad accident. My car blew up with two kids,” Erik Chapell told a 911 dispacher. “You’ve been called on it already, but I’m telling you what’s going on with the boys, OK. I’ve got two significant leg injuries.”

Steve Rattner (a former Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury, a position that saw him lead efforts to restructure the flailing auto industry) created a blog post yesterday highlighting Mitt Romney‘s inconsistency when it comes to discussing the auto industry.

It would appear, writes Rattner, that Romney was for Barack Obama‘s plan to rescue the nation’s troubled auto companies before he evidently turned against it.

You know how it goes. You get stuck babysitting your little cousin, and the kid starts to bug you, and you’ve got a million zillion things you’d rather be doing, right? Autumn Braden was so there on Sunday as she got increasingly bored taking care of her two-year-old cousin. And that’s how the two year old girl ended up on eBay in a post labeled “Kid for Sale.” Starting bid? $1,000. As the New York Daily News reports:

In the first half of the week subsequent to Glenn Beck‘s big goodbye announcement off, Judge Andrew Napolitano brought a lighter version of his libertarian FBN show Freedom Watch to the hour. For those wondering what the other possible flavor of 5PM could be, Follow the Money host Eric Bolling gave us a taste today with a fiery debate against Lansing, MI mayor Virg Bernero replete with Google references and accusations of supporting Chinese-style economics.

Months removed from the anti-Semetic comments that lost her her front row seat at White House press briefings, Helen Thomas‘s continued remarks on the matter have lost her yet another honor– an award given to undergraduates at Wayne State Univeristy in Detroit in her honor, which has now lost its name.

At a local NBC affiliate in Michigan, anchors got to introduce their audience to the show’s unofficial mascot, Rusty the Raccoon. Their attempts to lead Rustly out of the studio and back to his home ended in shouting, laughter, and saying the Lord’s– and his entire family’s– name in vain way more times than most morning shows allow as Rusty didn’t get the message and instead casually made his way to the producer’s office.

President Barack Obama was in Michigan to deliver the commencement address for the U. Michigan class of 2010 today and receive an honorary JD. He advised them to trust in the government but expose themselves to as many points of view as possible, and avoid dismissing political opponents as “wingnuts.”

Rep. Bart Stupak, who played the role of left-wing pariah and right-wing darling during the health care debate until the 11th hour when the roles reversed, will announce today he is retiring from Congress.

Last night Fox News host Sean Hannity was in Stupak’s homestate to campaign for interview Stupak’s would-be opponent.

One of the more appealing things about living in New York City is that the high number of pedestrians means that an archaic mode of communication remains viable: posters. (One of the less appealing things: that those posters occasionally advertise things like this.) Posters were our forefathers’ billboards – but unlike those-that-shall-never-be-lovely-as-a-tree, posters are at [...]