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• Laura Bush, proud owner of a 73% approval rating, just called herself a feminist. [HuffPo]

• When you realize you can’t please everyone, call in the soldiers. [Talking Points Memo]
• Al Gore made some jokes about his would-be presidency. Al Gore. Jokes. Presidency. Convulse with fear accordingly. [Wizbang]
• We’ve been pretending Avril Lavigne doesn’t exist for entirely too long. [Booman Tribune]
• Fascist Chic: Because being cloaked in anything other than the comforting musings of George ‘n Jesus is so last-season Republican. [unbossed]

Last night on “The O’Reilly Factor,” in a debate about the teaching of intelligent design, Bill O’Reilly dropped his own personal F-bomb:

O’REILLY: But what the argument is is that nothing about intelligent design should be introduced. And I think that’s fascism.

Kind of a low bar, really. We wondered what else O’Reilly might think is fascism.

Via Nexis, a partial list:

• The tactics of the ACLU
• Not letting city halls have a nativity display
• Prohibiting schools from calling winter break “Christmas holidays”
• Laws that ban discrimination against people with piercings
• The Virginia Military Institute not allowing time for voluntary prayer
• A flat tax on the wealthy
• Really, the tactics of the ACLU
• The Justice Department not answering his questions
• Crowds who shout down Arnold Schwarznegger
• Seriously, the ACLU is bad
• Liberal 527 groups
• Exposing kids to racy images is “libertine fascism,” and we’re just going to let that lie.

But, just so you know, a lot of things aren’t fascist. As he told Charlton Heston, you have to watch out when the other side makes that claim, like, say, when you withdraw funding from controversial art:

I mean, they say — take a big, full-page ad out in “The New York Times” — it cost a lot of money — and say, “Hey…this is fascism”… You know, the — the typical overblown statements. (October 12, 1999)

More typical overblown statements after the jump.

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