Knowing how to deal with crisis is a skill everyone needs – not just politicians and corporate executives. Certainly our leaders in Washington and the corporate umbra need a refresher course, desperately, but today this is a broader lesson.

Today is your last day to vote.  Go do it.

What follows is the journal of my week after Hurricane Ike. While I wasn’t able to see most of the coverage on the storm in real time, I did catch snippets of it from the radio and after the fact via the internet. While there was a great deal of damage from the storm, it did seem like things were greatly over hyped.

While I work, I can’t push out of my mind the fact that today is September 11th, 2008.

My political identity has had a strange ride. Along the way I have slowly come to realize that no party truly represents my beliefs. But what are the beliefs of a secular conservative?