LIONS?:

A gathering of conservatives gave Jeb Bush a strong applause earlier this week after he made a spirited defense of his call for decisive action on immigration reform, which many of them oppose.

Bush apparently got credit for standing up in the lion's den - in this case a program associated with the conservative National Review - and making the case for an influx of "young, aspirational and dynamic" Americans to help revitalize the economy.

"I just think you're wrong on immigration and you think I'm wrong, to be honest with you," the former Florida governor and likely Republican presidential candidate said during the first day of the National Review Institute's three-day Ideas Summit at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C.

"I may be stubborn, but I am willing to listen [although] I think I'm right on this." [...]

How to make sure immigrants assimilate better: All Americans, Bush said, need to have a "deeper understanding" of "our shared values," including how freedom protects citizens from an overreaching government. The citizenship test should be tougher, but Americans also "need to get back to civics education 

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