Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if we can't justify it, then we're not going to spend tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, just to make somebody happy, if it's not good for the economy.

I know CNN has taken some knocks lately but the fact is, I admire their commitment to covering all sides of the story, just in case one of them happens to be accurate.

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

The problem is that, over time, big pieces of business that have to get done without leadership from Washington, don't get done.

I reject discrimination against Muslim Americans - who are just as patriotic as we are.

The countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow.

The map isn't always the territory, and you have to kind of walk through it to get a feel for it.