Woo Hoo! Go #5! Welcome, Kansas City Penguins!

On another note, it's sad you've got Guiliani out. I'm cheering for a Gingrich-Guiliani ticket. Best of both worlds.

Also: Sam Brownback: way, way, way out.

Further predictions: Baseball fans are shocked to see the Kansas City Royals play .500 baseball and get the closest they've been to a post-season bid since 1985... the year they won the World Series and the last time they've been in the post season.

NYC repeals its trans-fat ban.

Some major municipality or county is going to skip over the nickel-and-dime anti-smoking bans and just outlaw cigarette sales in its jurisdiction.

Turning 30 won't be all that bad.

Heathen.

Any age ending with 0 and beginning with a number greater than 1 is not a good thing to contemplate.

I should know. I've officially delayed that turning of the tens-digit on my personal odometer for 4 years, and damn proud of it.

Prediction 2: A liberal to replace Stevens to balance the court? ROTFL.

Prediction 3: Yep, Election 2008 is looking more and more like a battle of the midgets. Especially if Giuliani is out.

Prediction 7: Dave, do you know any religious conservatives? I know plenty, and they complain about more than just those two issues. Spending policy and education are always in the forefront.

Prediction 8: Evidently you mean an overt military move, as opposed to its current semi-covert support for the Shiite militias. In which case a lot of people would be calling for us to finally declare war on Iran.

Prediction 9: Maybe I should buy some Exxon-Mobil call options.

Prediction 10: If only Jerry Jones could leave the Cowboys...

Prediction 7: Dave, do you know any religious conservatives? I know plenty, and they complain about more than just those two issues. Spending policy and education are always in the forefront.

I know plenty of politically astute religious conservatives, and I know plenty who can't see beyond the big two. Consider the once-future head of the Christian Coalition Joel Hunter and how the organization reacted when he said they would expand their issue base beyond abortion and gay marriage. Or ask Rick Warren about some of the flack he's getting about his anti-AIDS efforts, and about his inclusion of some unusual allies in the fight, like Barak Obama.

If Time paraphrases Hunter accurately, Hunter's problem may be a poor choice of words:

Joel Hunter, who resigned as president-elect only weeks after announcing his appointment, cast his departure as a clash between a wheezing organization fixated on the old "below-the-belt" issues of abortion and homosexuality, versus his post-modern view — buttressed by the results of the midterm election — of a more expansive Christian activism that also champions the environment and cares for the poor.

There's two things here that would rile conservatives: mischaracterizing CC as a two-issue organization, and using language that to some would appear to be pandering to leftist politics - "Christian activism that also champions the environment and cares for the poor." People often associate such language with radical environmentalism and welfare statism, respectively. CC should pursue free markets as an answer to both poverty and environmental concerns.

On Warren...the Obama flap has to do with addressing a problem by tolerating its most significant cause:

At a recent conference on the African AIDS epidemic, Warren invited the very liberal Senator Barak Obama (D.-IL) as a keynote speaker. He justified the inclusion of Obama, who avidly supports abortion and same-sex "marriage," on the grounds that Obama offered a worldly solution to ostensibly curb the spread of the disease through condom usage.

The Religious Right correctly sees promiscuity as a gigantic part of the AIDS problem (and many other problems both physical and psychological), and objects to the condoms-as-bandaids approach.

(The article also notes that Warren caused a stir by saying nice things about Syria.)

Personally I have more use for the Cato Institute than CC.

One more thought: Don't know how large this bloc is, but I do know that some have a problem not so much with looking beyond a select few issues, but with looking beyond explicitly Christian lobby organizations.