A fair and accurate profile of the hottest conservative commentator in the blogosphere. And I love her powerfully-worded response to the racist, sexist liberals who regularly attack her.

"They'll ridicule my looks, ridicule my ethnicity, go after my family," the 36-year-old blogger says of her critics. "They've attacked my husband relentlessly. There's a strong sexist strain among my liberal critics, who think it isn't possible I could have gotten anywhere without my Svengali husband, or some white man, embedding ideas in my head."

Make no mistake, though: This daughter of Filipino immigrants plays pretty rough herself. Whether on her blog, her Internet talk show or her Fox News appearances, Malkin delights in sticking her finger in the eye of the liberal establishment. And she is convinced that her detractors don't play fair.

"Particularly when you're a minority conservative," she says, "you get a lot of ugly, hysterical, unhinged attacks, because you're challenging so many liberal myths about what people of color should think."

Malkin is one of my first half-dozen stops on the ‘Net each day –and never a waste of time. Bravo to Howard Kurtz for a fair portrait of a wonderful lady.

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I’ll say it right now – I don’t like MySpace because of some of the extremes to which my students (and other young people) go online. At the same time, I don’t see how MySpace can be held responsible for the misdeeds of some users – unless we are going to also hold the phone companies responsible for perverts using the phone to get together with teens as well.

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the social networking Web site MySpace filed by the family of a 13-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met online.

The $30 million lawsuit accused the site of having no measures to protect children who use it. The lawsuit also named MySpace's parent company, News Corp., and the 19-year-old, whose criminal case has not yet gone to trial.

In a ruling issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks said MySpace is protected under the Communications Decency Act and cannot be expected to verify the age of every user because that "would of course stop MySpace's business in its tracks."

The decency act cited by Sparks generally grants immunity to interactive computer services such as MySpace so that they are not liable for content posted by users. Without immunity, companies such as MySpace "would be crippled by lawsuits arising out of third-party communications," Sparks wrote.

How far would they like to take this logic? Should the local mall have liability if a kid meets a creep there? How about the local motel, in the event said creep takes his prey there? Why shouldnÂ’t such places also be held to this standard of liability if they lack means to verify they are not being used by sex predators out to feed their unnatural appetites?

And I’m curious – what degree of liability should be laid at the door of parents who lax supervision and negligent raising of their children allows such abuse to occur?

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Is it just me, or are they really slow with picking up blog updates? I just checked, and it says not one of my favorites have updated in the last 5 hours, and several haven't updated in over 24 hours, even though I know they have new posts.

Any idea where the problem lies?

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