Jeb Bush Into the Lion’s Den

As Plato, Abraham Lincoln, Will Rodgers Woody Allen once quipped:  “Ninety percent of like is just showing up.”

Any good team can win at home.  In order to be great, a team has to win on the road. 

I see David has already addressed this here, and it seems to me somehow inappropriate to put an addendum on his tribute. So instead I’ll write something here.

I said over at Billys that sometimes it’s the combination of the

The final beam-up, Leonard Nimoy dead at age 83, from Hollywood Reporter:

Leonard Nimoy, the Hollywood renaissance man who fashioned a long and prosperous career as the supremely logical and cerebral science officer Mr. Spock from Star Trek, has

Two for one Friday. The Snarks of the Day, from Carly Fiorina via Ashe Schow, Washington Examiner:

“[Mrs. Clinton] tweets about women’s rights in this country and takes money from governments that deny women the most basic human rights.”

It’s starting to look like Scott Walker is gaining some serious momentum. Apparently, he wowed the CPAC crowd. And here is a clue, Jeb Bush didn’t even bother showing up.

Walker in general has very positive numbers amongst GOP

The late Fred Phelps was a vile and petty man, who claimed, I say falsely, to be able to read the mind of God, from Hill:

Fred Phelps, founder of he staunchly anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church, had a long

With all of the money and spend the whole being spent to defeat the Keystone oil pipeline, from Enviro zealots who apparently want us to move back to the 14th century, I’ve noticed a trend in the arguments. The complaint

If you love something, you do not try to fundamentally change it.

From the City Journal…

Patient, Heal Thyself

Treatments from our own cells could cure many diseases—if Washington will only allow it to happen.

Yes, well, remember the quote I posted the other day from Ace?

The true damage of

If a lack of jobs is the cause of violent extremism, then how did we ever make it by the FDR- extended depression?

Then, too, there is the issue of the already embarrassing record of job creation that this administration

From Hupy.com

Posted on Apr 06, 2010
This year marks the 7th Annual Executive’s Ride to promote tourism and Milwaukee County. Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker held a press conference on April 6th at House of Harley-Davidson, in Greenfield, Wisconsin,

And it came to pass that Mark Steyn asked the very same question I asked here on BitsBlog some time ago:

Yet one way to look at the current “leader of the free world” is this: If he were working

Dim Won, b/k/a President Barack Obama, said during a recent dog and pony show, “Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding.” How so Barry? The Snark of the Day, from Kimberlee Kaye, Legal Insurrection

If you apply the Obama standard, such as it is,  President Barack Obama is unpatriotic.  Is it unpatriotic for a president to raise the national debt?   As a candidate,  Barrack Obama asserted that it was, video:

By the Obama standard,

Dim Won, b/k/a Barack Obama, thinks we need to appease radical Muslims, from Fox News:

WASHINGTON – President Obama defended his administration’s approach to the terror threat at a White House summit Wednesday, standing by claims that groups like