Predictions.

Here are my predictions for 2005 -- some real, some silly. What say you?

-- The President will have two nominees confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, including a Chief Justice. An attempted filibuster of one of the nominees will fail, but conservatives will push for filibuster reform nonetheless.

-- Immigration reform will grow as an issue and democrats will pull out the stops to run to the right and attempt to divide the Republican caucus. Hillary Clinton will take the lead for the left.

-- Satellite radio will grow exponentially in popularity as cable television did.

-- Senator-elect Tom Coburn will make a name for himself relatively soon out of the gate, pleasing conservatives, upsetting mushy moderates. He will fill the void left by Senator Jesse Helms retirement -- Senator No has been replaced by Dr. No.

-- Osama bin Laden will be captured in 2005.

-- Social Security reform will stall, probably in the Senate.

-- Slick Willie, with a bad case of cabin fever from his long recovery, will create some kind of headline in his never-ending search for relevance and a legacy.

-- George Pataki will run for re-election in 2006 and Rudy Guiliani will take a pass on running against Hillary for U.S. Senate.

-- Richard Gere will seek relevance in the relief efforts of the tsunami aftermath.

-- Michael Moore will make his movie on the big bad pharmaceutical industry. And it will flop.

-- The chorus on voting rights will start to grow with the Voting Rights Act up for reauthorization soon.

-- Shortly after Liza Minelli and Elizabeth Taylor exit the mortal stage, extraordinary tell-all books and movies will reveal not-so-shocking lives of deep unhappiness.

-- In a fit of reinvention fever, Hollywood will award Mel Gibson, or the Passion, some sort of Oscar.

-- Reality TV will have one foot in the grave as ratings plummet.

-- Kelsey Grammar will explore running for elective office in California in 2006.

-- The election in Iraq will be fraught with irregularities and death, but nonetheless will be a step toward democracy, much to the disappointment of the Iraq naysayers.

-- Saddam's trial will be the stuff of O.J. for ratings but with a far more predictable ending.

Any others?

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