Are you a Smart Girl? You are if you’re a conservative woman who envisions a different kind of hope and change for America. Smart Girls (and the Smart Guys who support them) are welcome to join in a special online event this evening, the First Annual Smart Girl Politics Twitter Ball. It’s basically a big group chat with different discussion groups designed to bring like-minded women (and men) together to discuss the future of conservatism. This special event begins at 9:00pm EST and you won’t want to miss it!

Karen posted the week 1 American Idol commentary over at her blog, Unterekless Thoughts. I’m part of her team that’s going to weigh in each week of the season and I’m looking forward to having some fun with it. When the week 2 auditions air, I’d love to hear your thoughts via e-mail, Twitter, Facebook or the comments section.

I had the privilege of listening in to a conference call with Mr. Netanyahu earlier this week. If you’d like to listen to the call in its entirety, you can do so. Below are the notes I took during the call, an assortment of comments that struck me personally. Note that I was typing these notes as the call was going on and they are not necessarily exact quotations.

I’m on a conference call now with the former prime minister. Stay tuned for blog posts and live Twitter updates.

This isn’t your daddy’s media bias.

CBS wants American Idol to help them score big, yet again. Will it happen?

From the Wall Street Journal: “Merck & Co. hit another setback in its effort to widen the use of the Gardasil cervical-cancer vaccine to older women as regulators requested more data on the proposed expansion. The Whitehouse Station, N.J., drug maker said Friday the Food and Drug Administration wants to wait for the completion of a continuing trial of the vaccine in women 27 through 45 years old before deciding whether to approve its use by older women.”

I was a judge for this year’s Right Wing News Conservative Blog Awards and I invite you to check out the results, posted by John Hawkins this morning. Congratulations to the winners–many of whom are no stranger to blog achievements. Just take a look at the winners from previous years; there are many repeat appearances.