Predictions for 2009

Several pundits for the National Review Online make predictions for the coming year in this column. To be sure, in any such list some will be right or partially so, others glaringly wrong. Still, it is an interesting list and worth your time. Here are three of my favorites:

Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe will make a speech at the African Union blaming all his country’s woes on Western powers. He will receive a standing ovation.

Latin America: Violence will flare again in Bolivia, bringing revolution and/or civil war in the nation one year closer, if it does not precipitate them/it.

The push for climate-change legislation will intensify as the Obama administration targets more dollars to “green jobs,” even though 2009 will be the coldest in years and the “temporary halt” of global warming will enter its second decade.

It sounds like a wild ride.