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Embarking on a European vacation in the dead of winter ensures there is less foliage, little color, and very few tourists to distract one from the reality of the Schengen experiment. The highlights of our trip included spending seven ski-less days in the snow-blanketed Swiss Alps during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos and visiting a series of Greek holiday resorts that have been converted into internment camps for desperate refugees and undocumented migrants.

It was a total of twelve flights, almost as many trains, a couple of those adorably compact European rental cars, and one trip with the luggage in a vehicle that had been provided for a celebritys excess baggage.

I am home again, finally warm, but deeply shaken. Its hard to know what had the most impact: the immediate suffering of some, the lack of compassion of so many, or the dearth of ideas amongst those who are able to make a difference.

What follows are my reflections on a Europe very much in the winter of its discontent. I am perpetually a long term optimist, but was left feeling that most are not ready for the medium term pain.

1. Europes political elite, the left, and the so called rich, still dont get it.

Things are really different now. Similar to the US, the electoral losers are pointing at the winners, blaming them for their loss. As the song says, when you point a finger you have three pointing back at you.

The fire that is burning was set years ago. It was built with the dry kindling of economic under-performance, of millions of people who felt left out, impacted by policies that helped another class of people. The temperature was then raised by the anxiety caused by new types of security threats, and what appears to be terror winning its war on us. Finally, the spark arrived with the collision of two forces, like flint smacking against stone: the unregulated flows of economic migration smacked against the horrors of the humanitarian urgency of the refugee arrivals.

The traditional political response to fight this fire with a dollops of warm water is no longer working. Partly because there are now other groups of would-be politicians who are running at the same blaze with flammable liquids in their buckets.

It is no longer a left vs right dynamic. Everywhere politics is swinging hard towards unbridled self-interest, a trend that is transmogrifying itself into movements we understand as nationalism.

And its everywhere across Europe.

In the UK, PM Teresa May, is unelected and beholden to a mandate set by protectionist nationalists. France looks like it will go to the National Front (after the center right candidate created an unprecedented scandal by being the first French politician to get caught channeling money to a woman he was actually married to.) In Sweden, the ruling coalition have invited the neo-Nasties into the political mainstream and in Greece I saw and heard of lots of evidence of the rise of the Golden Dawn. In Switzerland, menacing black-and-red posters of bur-qua wearing migrants stared down at me as I rushed through the airport. The message was as clear as the words emblazoned across the image: NON!

2. There is a full scale war underway with the Islamists.

The goal of the terrorists is to terrify, and they are winning.

Barely a week goes by without an attack or an attempted one, and thats after people have resigned themselves to living in a police state and living life as if you are at an airport. Attacks are still being considered lone wolf actions, despite recent evidence that the plans are highly co-ordinated from decentralized ISIS control rooms.

This sporadic ground war has unsettled the entire region. Europeans love trucks, but they are now machines of mass destruction. Even a trip to the Louvre is now not safe.

The economic impact hits some more than others: pity the small Greek hotel owners whose business is down 90%, who wants to go swimming in the waters in which five thousand have drowned. France has lost a billion or more Euros from the drop in fascination. Radical Islamists have set the continents mood and increasingly they are determining who people are voting for.

3. Concurrently, and kind of ironically, immigration is the best thing that could happen to Europe.

The European workforce is aging and thats compounded by its young not being prepared to work in messy jobs in return for less (in terms of real incomes and quality of life) than what their parents got. Where will the growth come from, many ask, often turning to a robot for answers.

Privately many people will tell you that kind-Angela has been smart-Merkel: accepting the best and brightest of the refugees, the ones youd love to have in your country. Hard working, educated Syrians, who long for a return to their former urbane lifestyles, and will work to get there, reinvigorating Germany in the process. And (sadly) they arent going home any time soon.

4. The European refugee management program could be a comedy; sadly its a Greek tragedy.

Worse, its expensive, wasteful, humanly degrading, and it is seeding tens of thousands of angry people into European society.

Its hard to blame anyone in the system because there is no public will to do it better right now. Because the refugees and migrants are coming to a place they know as Europe, it requires a coordinated European response. But its anything but. European countries have agreed to resettled hundreds of thousands more, but the process is stalled and the people who are trapped in the horrendous conditions of camps are having their expectations constantly dashed.

If there is a better way to breed angry people I dont know what it is.

To an extent, I suspect Europeanswho in private will use generalizations on the Greeks that they wouldnt on their petsare enjoying making Greece suffer. Europe was already upset at the Greeks for their role in the financial crisis before the waves of refugees arrived through the aegean door.

Europes borders are by geographic design porousthe Roma panhandlers on city corners show you thatand therefore the problems that Europe is creating in Greece will be theirs in the future.

5. To make matters worse, more informal migration is coming.

When a million Syrians walked into Europe on humanitarian grounds, the glass border was effected shattered.

The Facebook posts of the those who have made it are flying back to their homelands. People use social media to share a highlights reel of their lives, and you cant post when you are dead. So there are 5000 people incapable of posting because they drowned on the way.

The people arriving (still hundreds come each week) are less and less fleeing conflict, and more often pursuing opportunity.

Not that I blame the latter at all.

Many come from places where foreign powers have participated in flattened their country, destroyed their prospects of a secure life, of education for their kids, of walking a day in the park without fear of a pipe bomb.

But Europe is in no mood to pick up the pieces of failed foreign policy of its own colonial exit from Africa or the Middle East/Asian failures of the American and allies.

While intra-Europe borders are now tighter, I met plenty of people who showed us how easy it was to move across Europe. One Iraqi man I shared a coffee with in Greece got to German before I got to my home in Nairobi.

He too posted glowing images on Facebook, even made a video of his entire trip, set to pop music and shared it widely. His friends back home send messages that read congratulations, how brave you are, and see you soon!

6. Finally, the European Union, as we know it, is as good as over.

Surely this should be the cause for celebration as it did its job.

Its task to was to stop Europe fighting over resources. It started as the Coal and Steel Community, and helped Europe return to prosperity after the internecine disaster of WWII. Then it morphed into the EEC and never stopped growing.

The Europeans got the enormous benefit of creating the worlds biggest market and the world got the benefit of them not dragging it into more wars.

Today the Brussels-based bureaucracy is perceived to be at odds with national identity. People feel they cant be themselves, and have lost control to the faceless bureaucrats they dont even know they vote for. It doesnt help to refute this, or show how it is often not the case. Its a feeling after all.

This loss of agency, a global trend in insecurity around the loss of national identity, is making people hostile towards others of different cultures. Particularly if they dress funny or wear beards. The warm blanket of a return to days gone by, of Making England Great Again, for France for the French, feels good to many. And in the face of these pleasant but ultimately impossible to substantiate ideals, there no big ideas to counter the move. Nobody is writing the La Marseillaise for globalization and there arent any conflagrations that require us to fight together against a common enemy.

After Brexit, expect Frexit, and so on.

In retrospect, we know that Brexit was only as close as it was because of a fear of the economic consequences. Since the vote, the country didnt sink into the North Sea. Markets have risen, GDP grown and nobody turned into a frog. This takes the key political weapon of fear from the Remain camps in other European countries. And when England pronounced they have a better deal from Brussels, which they surely will, what European leader will not try to give that to their people?

And so if the EU returns to being the moderator of weights and measurements, the administrator of inoffensive regulation, is that necessarily a bad thing?

Writer Peter Holmes Court and photographer Alissa Everett travelled across Europe to research migrant and refugee trends for a multiyear project for Exposing Hope. To learn more or support their work, visit http://www.exposinghope.org, http://www.alissaeverett.com and facebook.com/peterhac

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As part of the Pope for Ukraine initiative, Francis donated more than 2.5 tons of fuel per displaced family cared for by the parish of the Holy Theotokos in the village of Vilcha. The combustible fuel briquettes reportedly will be sufficient to heat the homes and apartments of more than a hundred resettled families until the end of this heating season and throughout next winter as well.

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The politically incorrect gift highlights the cost-effectiveness and ready availability of fossil fuels, which were responsible for bringing about the industrial revolution throughout the developed world.

The Popes gift of fuel, which arrived on March 7, marks the first stage of a humanitarian aid project that will include providing foodstuffs and hygiene products to over a hundred families of IDPs in the Vovchansk district of eastern Ukraine.

Pope Francis has been a vocal advocate of clean, renewable energy and the reduction of carbon emissions. His groundbreaking 2015 encyclical letter Laudato Si on care for the environment was the first teaching letter of its sort in the history of the Catholic Church. In that text, Francis wrote of an urgent need to take steps leading to the substitution of fossil fuels with alternative energy sources.

At the same time, however, the Pope acknowledged that many professionals, opinion makers, communications media and centers of power, being located in affluent urban areas, are far removed from the poor, with little direct contact with their problems. The dire situation of displaced families in Ukraine manifests how the pressing needs of the poor must take priority over ideological concerns, since they dont have the luxury of expensive forms of alternative energy.

Francis himself has warned that when Christian charity is not at the core of the Churchs message, it is not the Gospel which is being preached, but certain doctrinal or moral points based on specific ideological options.

Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down, however much it may talk about social issues or criticize governments, he wrote.

In 2015, Forbes magazine published an article titled How Opposition to Fossil Fuels Hurts the Poor Most of All. In the essay, Alex Epstein argued that efforts by the UN and certain individual governments to massively restrict fossil fuel energy would punish the very people who need them most: the poor.

Fossil fuels, he contended, provide the energy that underdeveloped countries need to grow and indeed to survive, as the recent history of India and China attest.

Thanks to the availability of fossil fuels, he wrote, life got better for billions of people in just a few decades while the infant mortality rate has plummeted.

While everyone would prefer clean, renewable energy sources, the number one concern of the nations of the world must be meeting the real needs of real human beingswhich at present means access to cheap fossil fuels. Pope Francis would no doubt agree as his recent actions would seem to indicate.

Father Serhiy Koval, the local parish administrator in Vilcha, expressed his gratitude to Pope Francis for his timely aid, as reports suggest that the only kind of support these people have received has come from the Church and parishioners.

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Liam Neeson wont be able to bring his infamous particular set of skills to Canada, thanks to political correctness.

A film starring the actor was denied access to the Banff and Jasper national parks by Parks Canada, which wouldnt issue a film permit because the film features an aboriginal gang leader.

Legendary Metis Canadian actor Tom Jackson was cast in the role, making it a diverse production. But even still, Parks Canada told the location manager of the film that the movie didnt align with Parks Canadas values and priorities.

If the roles were reversedNeeson played the bad guy and Jackson played the aboriginal detectiveit seems like the government would be fine with it.

Take a look at some National Film Board grant recipients and youll find that not all arms of the government mind controversy in film.

In fact, in some cases its desirable.

But not for Parks Canada, which protects our public spaces by picking and choosing which fictional storylines are allowed to be shot there.

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Trump proves himself politically inept Fresno Bee In the Feb. 26 story, Sticking by President Trump, several people said they liked that he is not a politician and politically correct, liked his promised tax cuts, and were encouraged by his performance so far. Let's look at the record. Trump may not ...

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YARMOUTH Gov. Paul LePage faced tough questions on his history of controversial comments and on education in front of a divided crowd of several hundred people at a town hall meeting Wednesday night.

Returning to his meeting circuit after roughly two weeks in Florida and Washington, D.C., LePage predicted that the voter-approved 3 percent tax surcharge on wealthier Mainers is going to kill us, and that restaurants will struggle to fill server positions this summer because of the elimination of the tip credit.

LePage also hit his usual talking points about Maines need to lower taxes and energy costs to remain competitive during the hour-long meeting at AMVETS Post 2 in Yarmouth.

But many of the speakers in the crowd which at times did as much shouting at each other as at the governor challenged him on his priorities and his brash, politically incorrect style.

The atmosphere heated up when several speakers suggested LePage isnt doing enough publicly to condemn recent hate crimes and bomb threats against Jewish institutions.

I dont know how many middle schools and high schools I have been to, talking against bullying, LePage said. I dont know how many times I have spoken against domestic violence. Racism is a horrible crime. Im against racism.

But others pressed the governor on past comments viewed as racially charged. One speaker asked LePage why he suggested that Georgia Rep. John Lewis a civil rights icon should thank northern whites for freeing the slaves.

John Lewis made a derogatory remark to the president of the United States and I held him accountable, LePage said, referring to Lewis criticisms of then President-elect Donald Trump and Lewis plan to boycott the inauguration. LePages criticism of Lewis drew national media attention.

LePages comment Wednesday merely fired up some in the crowd.

Garrett Stewart, a black resident of Yarmouth, told LePage that his comments about Lewis and about black drug dealers coming to Maine were hurtful to his children.

Why do you say things like that on TV? Stewart said. I think its unfortunate that you say that. You are the governor of Maine. You should be above all of that.

LePage responded by telling Stewart: I apologize to you and your children, eliciting strong applause from the crowd.

Afterward, Stewart said he was tired of hearing the governor talk about black people in ways he felt were derogatory.

For my kids, sure Im glad that he apologized, Stewart said. But he added, What will he say next?

The governor also faced numerous questions on education funding.

LePage reiterated his strong opposition to the voter-approved 3 percent tax surcharge which he has proposed nullifying on Mainers earning more than $200,000 a year to provide more money for education. He also criticized the phase-out of the tip credit also approved by voters as part of a minimum wage increase that allows restaurant owners to pay tipped workers less than the minimum wage.

At one point during the event, several dozen younger audience members began shouting Respect our vote and then marched out of the hall together.

On education funding, LePage said his administration has increased K-12 funding in each budget. But some in the crowd accused the governor of shifting more of the burden of funding schools and teacher retirement onto cities and towns.

Thats because you are shifting other liabilities to local districts, one audience member told the governor.

LePage also repeated his contention that the problem facing Maine is that too much money is spent on administration with 174 superintendents for 177,000 students and not enough on classrooms.

Its the management of the school districts, its the school boards and the teachers union, LePage said. They do not want to change.

LePages proposed $6.8 billion, two-year budget would dramatically alter the states education funding formula, in part by eliminating all state funding for school administration.

Beginning in 2019, the state would provide state funds only for direct instruction and support for student learning. The administration argues that shift will result in better accountability. However, school and municipal officials predict that change would shift more costs onto municipalities, which will then be forced to increase property taxes.

During an hours-long public hearing last week, critics said LePages education budget proposal will cost schools statewide as much as $190 million and reduce state support for 65 percent of school districts.

LePage spent part of the past two weeks in Washington, D.C. fueling speculation about possible prospects in the Trump administration and said he is headed back there this week. He attended events as part of the Republican Governors Association. He also met with President Trump and posted photographs of himself and his wife with Vice President Mike Pence.

Only part of his activities in D.C. have become public, however, because LePages staff has refused to provide the media with a detailed list of events the governor attended. Asked for details on this weeks return trip, LePages spokeswoman told the Portland Press Herald the office would provide that information next week.

LePage served as a panelist at the Conservation Political Action Conference on welfare reform and then discussed his administrations efforts to reduce welfare spending on Fox News. On Wednesday, he told the Yarmouth audience that part of his trip to Washington was to push for additional work requirements for welfare recipients.

I am going to Washington and that is one of the specific issues, to have a work requirement, LePage said.

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There was no game plan for Corky Rogers farewell press conference Tuesday, so the legendary football coach essentially winged it. He answered a few questions and then regaled his audience at a Bolles School auditorium with multiple stories, including the politically incorrect variety, about a magnificient football life.

It was Rogers at his unfiltered best for 39 minutes, as if he were entertaining friends at one of his Friday night postgame parties. At one point, to emphasize wanting to stay active in some capacity with Bolles football, he said: If they want me to be a ballboy, Ill be a ballboy.

The 73-year-old Rogers, being forced to step down as head coach at The Bolles School due to lingering health problems, purposely avoided turning this awkward goodbye into a solemn occasion. Though his body has betrayed him the last nine months, Rogers wants no sympathy for being dealt a tough hand of not leaving the profession on his terms.

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Thats the way me and everybody else on the [coaching] staff feels, Rogers said. Its not a bad time, its just THE time [to step away]. Would I have liked to go on coaching? Sure, but who wouldnt? Its just one of those things. Thats life.

Im glad for what I had. It went a lot longer than I thought itd go on. Theres nothing but good things to remember.

Nobody could have predicted when a newly-married Rogers, two years removed from his Georgia Tech playing days, left the insurance business in 1968 that it would lead to one of the epic coaching careers in high school football history.

Through sheer force of his competitive drive, Rogers imposed a will of voracious preparation on nearly 2,000 players in 17 years at Lee High School and the last 28 seasons at Bolles. It led to a payoff of 465 victories, 10 state titles, and teenagers receiving much-needed direction on their path to manhood.

While his career end was abrupt, and quite sad for many of his colleagues, Rogers wasnt about to stop coaching. So he kept the message upbeat by thanking players, coaches past and present, and his immediate family (wife Linda, daughters Tracy and Jennifer). He repeatedly emphasized his success was a team effort, not a solo act.

But the more Rogers deflected credit, the more a small audience of former Bolles administrators and ex-players paid him homage. A Bolles psychology teacher for 24 years, Melissa Tyler, lauded him for having football players in her class that were well-behaved and respectful.

Shawn Puri, a former Lee lineman and almost-retired Jacksonville police officer that has served as Rogers security guard at hundreds of games, kept his message short and on point, saying: On behalf of the thousand of guys that couldnt be here thank you.

About a half-dozen current Bolles players slipped into the auditorium in-between classes to hear their coach. Unsolicited, Rogers brought 6-foot-9 junior offensive tackle Nick Lewis on stage, introducing him like a proud father for being offered a scholarship to Missouri.

Harvard-bound senior defensive end Justin Mitchell sat quietly, then might well have spoken for every player who endured Rogers hard-driving regimen of practices to his offseason conditioning program. He smiled when Rogers talked about his long-standing tradition of wearing white socks pulled up, knowing players who strayed from that fashion edict were immediately kicked out of practice.

I loved playing for him because he taught you so much, said Mitchell. Coach Rogers has been through a lot [health-wise] and I listen to every story he tells because I feel it teaches you something about life. This football program has taught me how to be a man. I just thank him for that.

It was another reminder of how much Rogers transcends time. Whether it was baby boomers, Generation X, Y or Millenials, his message to players from all walks of life got through in a way that maximized their talent.

Its a shame someone of Corky Rogers skill level will no longer roam a football sideline as a head coach, but his friends, coaching colleagues and players have little reason to be sad. The overriding sentiment should be an appreciation for five decades of what he was able to give them.

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Politically Incorrect is a case featured in Criminal Case as the one hundred sixty-eighth case of the game. It is the fifty-third case of the game's World Edition (Season 3) and also the fifth case to take place in North America.

The Bureau went to Camp Rushmore to inform President James Hewett of SOMBRA's existence while President Hewett consulted foreign dignitaries regarding the conflict between the USNay and USStay movements. Upon reaching the campgrounds, Sidney Hirsch of the Department of Homeland Security informed the team of Special Agent Jonathan Stafford's murder. On Lake Rushmore, Jack and the player found Stafford's body with a bullet wound in his chest.

Mid-investigation, the team stopped everyone from leaving the campgrounds. Later,Agent Riordan of the FBI attempted to take over the investigation, leaving the team with 12 hours to investigate. Moreover, the President denied SOMBRA's existence and went as far as refusing to talk about the organization. The team was able to collect enough evidence to arrest Sidney for the murder.

Initially denying involvement, Sidney admitted that he had shot the man he loved. He said that he was jealous because of Jonathan's affair with First Lady Olivia Hewett and that he had confessed his feelings to him while having lunch. When Jonathan had pushed him away and called him old, Sidney shot him in the chest with his rifle and tried to resuscitate Jonathan after realizing what he had done. Consequently,Judge Adaku sentenced him to 18 years in jail.

Following Sidney's trial, the team tried to convince the President to take SOMBRA's threat seriously. Hewett still refused to talk about SOMBRA, but directed the team to the conference room for a file that the president of Russia had previously given him. Inside a COSMORUSsafebox, they found a pen drive which (per Elliot) contained information about BB, SOMBRA's captured satellite. Elliot thought of retrieving the code that SOMBRA intended to use to hijack all the satellites in the world so the team could show it to the world leaders. In order to retrieve it, the team requested Sidney's help to control BB, having it to land on Earth and pulling the hard drive out of it. During BB's descent, however, someone hijacked the satellite and rerouted it to the Northern Canadian wilderness.

After Carmen helped Sanjay meet his (and Elliot's) idol, Vanna Alabama, the Bureau headed to northern Canada to investigate BB's hijacking.

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Politically Incorrect is an American late-night, half-hour political talk show hosted by Bill Maher that aired from 1993 to 2002. It premiered on Comedy Central in 1993, moved to ABC in January 1997, and was canceled in 2002.

The show first originated from New York City, but soon moved to Los Angeles to make it easier to get "stars" as guests. The New York episodes were shot at the CBS Broadcast Center and the Los Angeles episodes at CBS Television City, where it remained even after its move to ABC.

The first episode featured comedian Jerry Seinfeld, Howard Stern co-host Robin Quivers, Republican Party strategist Ed Rollins, and comedian Larry Miller. Frequent guests included Dave Matthews, Arianna Huffington, Michael McKean, Ann Coulter, Carrot Top, and Christine O'Donnell.[1]

The show began with a brief topical monologue from Maher. Then Maher introduces the guests individually, promoting their current projects. Four guests appear, usually a mix of individuals from show business, popular culture, pundits, political consultants, and occasionally regular people in the news, discussing topics in the news selected by Maher. Maher described the program as "The McLaughlin Group on acid."[2]

On rare occasions, Maher would interview a single guest. The show was pioneering in mixing political figures and entertainers. Maher tried to air all points of view, especially controversial ones. Guests could be both aggravating and insightful, with the conversation similar to a cocktail party with quick-witted guests.[2]

The show's writers included Al Franken, Arianna Huffington, Kevin Bleyer, Scott Carter, and Chris Kelly.

The show won a 2000 Emmy Award for "Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video for a Series." In addition, it was nominated for seventeen other awards, including: "Outstanding Variety"; "Outstanding Music or Comedy Series" (every year from 1995 to 2002); and "Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Music Program" in 1997. The show also won two CableACE Awards in 1995 and 1996 for Talk Show Series and was nominated for a third in 1997. It was also nominated for two Writers Guild of America awards for best Comedy/Variety series in 2001 and 2002.[3]

Barbara Olson, a frequent guest, was traveling to a taping of Politically Incorrect aboard American Airlines Flight 77 when it crashed into the Pentagon during the September 11 attacks of 2001. To honor Olson, Maher left a panel chair empty for a week afterwards.

In the aftermath of the attacks, U.S. President George W. Bush said that the terrorists responsible were cowards. In a Politically Incorrect episode on September 17, 2001, Maher's guest Dinesh D'Souza disputed Bush's label, saying the terrorists were warriors.[4] Maher agreed, and replied: "We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, [it's] not cowardly."[4]

Despite similar comments having been made in other media, advertisers withdrew their support and some ABC affiliates stopped airing the show temporarily.[4] White House press secretary Ari Fleischer denounced Maher, warning that "people have to watch what they say and watch what they do."[5] Maher apologized, and explained that he had been criticizing U.S. military policy, not American soldiers.[6]

The show was canceled the following June, which Maher and many others saw as a result of the controversy, although ABC denied that the controversy was a factor and said the program was canceled due to declining ratings.[7][8][9] Maher said that the show struggled for advertisers in its final months.[10] There were subsequently comments in various media on the irony that a show called Politically Incorrect was canceled because its host had made a supposedly politically incorrect comment.[11][12]

The show was replaced on ABC by Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2003.

Maher now hosts an hour-long program on HBO called Real Time with Bill Maher, which follows a similar format, and continues to tape at CBS Television City.

Maher released a book in 1997, Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? The Best of Politically Incorrect, which featured questions asked on the show, comments Maher made and guest answers. In 2003 an audiobook POLITICAL INCORRECTIONS: The Best Opening Monologues from Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher was released, which featured opening monologues from the show accompanied by explanations of the current affairs that were being discussed in the media at that time.

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I stand amazed as I watch the nightly news as I see people everywhere that seem to be in such a hurry to scream prejudice and racism these days. It is a daily dose of the worlds newest and most effective tool as those oppressed play the victim card in todays society. They seem to be looking for confrontation at every turn. It seems as if it is a never ending occurrence. It is happening in all kinds of situations. In fact I heard a story about a customer asking a clerk, In what aisle can I find the Polish sausage? The clerk asked, Are you Polish? The woman, who was clearly offended, replied Yes I am. But let me ask you something. If I had asked for Italian sausage, would you ask me if I was Italian? Or if I had asked for German Bratwurst, would you ask me if I was German? Or if I asked for a kosher hot dog would you ask me if I was Jewish? Or if I had asked for a Taco, would you ask if I was Mexican? Or if I asked for some Irish whiskey, would you ask if I was Irish? The clerk rolled his eyes and shook his head and said, No, I probably wouldnt. The woman was clearly upset and said, Well then, because I asked for Polish sausage, why did you ask me if I was Polish? The clerk trying to hold back a grin replied, Because lady youre in Home Depot!

Now folks that story is funny but in todays world it is not politically correct and I would be ostracized for using it. You see today everything is off the table and not politically correct or racist except when someone is attacking Christians, Jesus Christ, or those who hold firmly to the faith that was once delivered. Today it is a national pastime to speak evil of Jesus or the Christian faith. Those that stand for morals and higher standards of conduct are the newest whipping boy for those who seek to take this country into further moral decline.

The world and America would be better if it understood that there is power and true life in the name of Jesus! What happened to the lame man at the temple when Peter told him to arise in the name of Jesus? The man stood up! And not only that, the Scripture says he began to leap and dance and praise God. Later in the temple, Peter testified about the man saying, Look at this man, he stands before you whole and strong in the power of the name of Jesus.

Listen America, in the name of Jesus your bondage can be broken and you can be set free. In the name of Jesus drug addiction can be defeated! In the name of Jesus families can be healed. In the name of Jesus, those who were once broken and downtrodden will be able to stand up and testify of the grace of Christ Jesus in their lives! Now I come to you; yes you! Is the power of Jesus Christ at work in your life today? It can be. Take a leap of faith and live for him! And do it all in the name of Jesus!

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