My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.

The only people helped by the death tax are lawyers, accountants, and IRS agents.

The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade.

The interesting thing now for No Child Left Behind is that there are very few advocates for it; there is no constituency for it. Parents don't like it, administrators don't like it, and kids don't like it, but politicians and bureaucrats in Washington love it--which should be the first indication to you that it is a troubled program.

It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.