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Let's take a look at the latest edition of the Cyberalert from the Media Research Center. This edition deals with the media love affair with Obama.

Read this article from the National Enquirer. I know ... tabloid and all that. But the Enquirer broke several stories during the corrupt Clinton years. So ... read this about John Edwards little alleged rendezvous .. and make up your own mind. Let's see if this filters into the MSM.

The New York Post has published the John McCain op-ed that the New York Times refused to run unless it "mirrored" Barack Obama's. I guess the Post doesn't have a requirement that Republican presidential candidates must adopt certain aspects of newspaper editorial policy before they will be allowed to publish their op-eds.

John McCain isn't blind to this obvious fact: "The media is in love." And here's another obvious statement from McCain: "Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign." There are a lot of politicians like that.

We'll be having Dick Morris on today to talk about the latest Barackobamamania. Here's his latest column.

A Continental Airlines flight carrying several members of Congress had to make an emergency landing yesterday. That pilot deserves every penny of his salary.

John McCain could steal some of Obama's thunder this week by announcing his choice for Vice President. Right now, a lot of people are predicting Mitt Romney.

We have created a giant assisted-care living center in this country. Here's a great article by Terry Paulson: "Too many Americans have a need for a 12-step program to help break their addiction to government assistance."

The Democrats are well on their way to reining in energy speculators, which they blame for high oil prices.

Barack Obama doesn't want any of his staffers to wear green while visiting the Middle East, because someone might mistake it as supporting Hamas.

Here's something we can look forward to in this country ... Great Britain's media regulator has declared that a documentary skeptical of global warming broke some broadcasting rules.
 

The United States is offering to cut farm subsidies in order to "rescue" a global trade deal ... but developing countries are still whining.

Time Magazine wants its readers to support a national service campaign to promote legislation for more federal government programs of volunteering. Just what we need ... more government.

It shouldn't surprise you at all to learn that OwlGore supports a surcharge on jet fuel because "private aviation leaves a very large carbon footprint." I'm sure getting way tired of this idiot.

Traditional media vs. mainstream media ... what's the difference? It's all biased.

The University of Florida is upset with the Facebook pages of some of its students ... particularly one with a student wearing a lab coat labeled "Kevorkian Medical Clinic."

Residents in Australia seem to think that ambulances are like a taxi service.

Vanity Fair has a little fun with all the brouhaha over The New Yorker's Obama cover with a cover of their own. Here's a bigger version.

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New Rasmussen polls show that half of Americans think that the press is trying to help Obama win the presidency. Well duh. I wonder what their first clue was.

Attorney General Mike Mukasey wants Congress to explicitly declare war against al Qaeda.

Will Nancy Pelosi continue to be part of the problem by not allowing a vote on offshore drilling? Well of course she will!

And Nancy recently called George Bush "a total failure." Here's a look at how Bush couldn't have been a failure without Nancy's help.

According to the NY Governor, an Obama win would be a victory for racism.

Here's a column from the Times in London: Eventually, we will all hate Obama too.

We could be yielding 800,000 barrels of crude oil a day if we drilled in ANWAR, but instead we are worried about the caribou, polar bears, wolverines, and Arctic foxes.

Mexico has awarded Ted Kennedy with the country's highest honor for defending the rights of (illegal) immigrants throughout his time in Washington.

More government waste and abuse ... this time you can thank the government bureaucrats of Baltimore.

It took a mother losing her husband and two sons at the hands of an illegal immigrant for someone to finally get upset about San Francisco's sanctuary city policy.
 

AAA is picking up and moving from California to Arizona and Oklahoma because it costs too much money to do business in California.

In Norway they apparently "pay their taxes with joy." This is eventually what we can look forward to in this country ... or else.

Here we have some inconvenient truths for OwlGore to swallow. And when Al asks you to use public transportation to attend one of his speeches, clearly that does not apply to him.

Prosecutors dropped all charges against a government school teacher in Florida who took a handgun on to school property.

This guy must truly be government educated. Be prepared to lose a few brain cells.

Parents in New York City are upset that the government hasn't done anything about hot playground equipment.

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The Wall Street Journal makes the case that it would be hard for the evil, disgusting, putrid, hateful, ugly, filthy rich to pay any more taxes than they already do.

From our friend Mike Adams. Woe be unto the student who reads a book slamming the KKK ... especially if a black woman with a huge racial chip on her shoulder should find out.

Now here is something to think about: What if Obama loses in November? What will then happen in America?

OwlGore is now trying to compare offshore drilling to the war in Iraq. Are you beginning to think that this fool may actually be demented?

Phil Gramm, who was absolutely right in saying that we have become a nation of whiners, stepped down from the McCain campaign. Too bad .. he had it right.

You can say that Obama is "moving to the center" of the political spectrum, but the fact of the matter is that he has the most liberal voting record in the Senate.

These journalists just can't get enough of their Messiah ... particularly when he goes overseas. Never mind that John McCain has taken 3 trips overseas in the past few months.

An Arizona state appeals court has upheld that illegal immigrants can be convicted for conspiracy to smuggling themselves into the country.

The city of San Francisco admits that most homeless people actually have homes ... because your tax dollars paid for them. $186 million worth of homes for the homeless.

The United Nations is apparently very concerned about the number of traffic deaths. Oh great ... let's get this incompetent and essentially anti-American organization involved in he creation and enforcement of traffic laws.

How about free heating oil for "poor" people in New Hampshire to heat their homes in the winter ... from Hugo Chavez.

When shop owners in Canada take care of their own property by sweeping their sidewalks, guess who gets upset? The unions, which apparently claim the exclusive domain of sidewalk cleaning. Unions ... gotta love 'em.

A teenage girl in the UK was accused of racism and interrogated by police because she didn't want to sit with a group of students at school that didn't speak English.

A man was put in jail for having a gun in his hotel room because the hotel is owned by the University of Georgia and violates state law, which forbids weapons in school safety zones.

This is a story about how rough people have it in Ohio these days. Some people can't even afford to buy meat ... looks like these two ladies can still afford McDonalds.

Apparently many residents of Fairfax County have their boxers in a bunch over duck hunting.

A man is suing a local shop for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act because the store owner wouldn't let the man wear in-line skates in the store. Are you ready for loser pays yet?

A neighbor wins in court to have a kid's tree house taken down because "it offered an inappropriate view in their windows."

Here's another one of these stories where a town wants to ban the throwing of candy during parades because it might hurt the children. The wussification of America proceeds apace.

Government schools in Great Britain are going to start teaching Islamic traditions and values in their compulsory citizenship lessons. As I said last week .. that place is absolutely crawling with Muslims.

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Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate. I told you so!

John McCain referred to Barack Obama as "The One" when describing Obama's rock-star status in Europe.

Nancy Pelosi remains steadfastly against offshore drilling. Way to become part of the solution, Nancy.
 

The Jesse Jackson brouhaha continues ... and Al Sharpton is very disappointed.

Al Gore wants us to produce all energy using "Earth-friendly" energy sources within 10 years. And Al can't seem to remember when so many things in our country seemed to be going so wrong simultaneously.

Liberals want to drive their hybrid cars like the Toyota Prius ... but Toyota is moving Prius production from San Francisco to Mississippi because of the Bay area's high taxes and regulatory costs.

A journal for the American Physical Society published mathematical proof that there is no "climate crisis". It found that the UN's overstated estimates resulted in a "500-2000% overstatement of CO2's effect on temperature."

Colombia now says that members of the recent rescue mission wore a Red Cross symbol ... which is in violation of the Geneva Convention.

Congress passed the global AIDS bill, which triples the spending on HIV/AIDS to $48 billion over the next five years.

Looks like Chicago's ban on handguns is really working ... or not.

Forget about government education ... one is four students in California don't even make it to graduation.

Liberals like to remind you of the supposedly shrinking middle class ... that's complete bollocks.

The Church of Scientology was banned from a shopping center in the UK after getting complaints that they were preaching to children.

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The JibJab folks are at it again with another hilarious political animation. Hey, who is that guy at the end?

The Bush administration is going to do what? Apparently there is going to be a little meeting over the weekend with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator.

Barack Obama's goal as president: rid the world of nuclear weapons.

Here are some more details on Barack Obama's plans for our government schools.

Obama says that the recent cover of the New Yorker is "an insult to Muslim Americans."

Organizers of the Democrat National Convention have big plans for the homeless people of Denver during the convention ... paying for them to go to the movies, the zoo or the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

The federal government has decided to mandate the installation of a device to prevent airplane fuel tanks from exploding on certain passenger jets and cargo planes.

The US is looking to lift the ban on people with HIV who visit or immigrate to the US.

A state appeals court in New Jersey has ruled that New Jersey towns cannot ban sex offenders from living near schools, parks, churches, etc.

The latest tactic in fighting terrorism ... spending millions of tax payer dollars to install turnstiles in the Los Angeles Metro.

You may remember this story that we covered back in March about a janitor working at a university who was accused of racial harassment for reading a book about the KKK at work ... the university has since apologized.

A government school district in Texas is upset that a 5-year-old boy is coming to school with long hair ... he has the long hair because of religious beliefs tied to his Native American heritage.

A Muslim woman (sporting a burqa) was denied citizenship in France because the government did not think that she had assimilated enough.

McDonalds is being sued after workers refused to allow a hearing-impaired woman to order through the drive-thru window.

Take a look at what happened when two teenagers thought it would be real cool to rob a woman's apartment.

Go in for surgery, come out with ... a tattoo?