Happy New Year!
My predictions for 2007:
(1) While there will be a number of candidates announcing themselves for the presidency of the United States, nobody will be nominated. (That is more likely to happen in 2008.) We will hear much — perhaps far more than we want to — about these candidates, however.
(2) Things will get more unpleasant in Iraq. President Bush will insist, one way or another (and probably in different words), on "staying the course." He will probably dig out some more troops to send to Iraq; this may be known as "throwing good money after bad," but that has never stopped anyone from doing such things before. Iran will not be displeased.
(3) Speaking of Iran, they will not develop a nuclear weapon next year. They are apparently having problems with their petroleum-producing infrastructure, and their insistence that nuclear research occurs in their country simply for the purpose of producing power looks more reasonable every day.
(4) Global warming is going to continue. Predictions that we "only have about ten years to do something before it's too late" will start looking even more wildly optimistic than they do now.
(5) I can't predict what's going to happen with North Korea and nuclear weapons because I don't know what stand the U.S. is going to take on certain issues (such as money-laundering) that we consider peripheral and the North Koreans (with their sad excuse for an economy) consider central. If the United States were to demonstrate its power through a lack of fear to make occasional compromises, here and there, I suspect that we could reach some kind of agreement. Otherwise ...
(6) Osama bin Laden will produce at least one more videotape to show that he is still alive and kicking, though perhaps not very hard.