"Just send us your money for safekeeping." The Swiss are smart.

While I disagree with Hawking's position, we need to respect it. The nasty, personal, libelous attacks on him here and at other "conservative" sites (esp. Free Republic) are shameful.

At least he is "intelligent" enough to spell correctly.

Thus proving the point both sides in this debate miss - there IS no such thing as a "homosexual" in any empirical, objective sense. There are just people who have a (possibly transient) same-sex attraction.

This column is thoughtful, well sourced and racist. That last word is not meant to impugn Walter Williams, but rather to get everyone rethinking their visceral negative response to the word "racist."

And yet he does no such thing here. Could it be you're perpetrating a fraud?

C'mon, this is really a disguised Dave Chappelle skit, right?

Wow... you should write euphenisms for Planned Parenthood.

"The struggle for racial justice in America – whether fighting slavery, or fighting for civil rights - has always been informed by absolute standards of right and wrong, of good and evil" People who paint all issues in black/white, good/evil are peddling their own brand of white paint. The more I read of Stephen Douglas, the mroe I respect his honesty and values. Slavery is wrong, so pay the slaveowners for their slaves, free them, and end it.

Hey Israel.. what part of the phrase "committing an act of war" don't you get?