Happy New Year!

Sure the weather is nippy across most the land, but we can already see signs of spring. A Persian Spring.

In fact, we can’t let Baby New Year take a single step without praying for the people of Iran. Demonstrators have taken to the streets to demand an end to the repressive rule of the Mullahs.

It’s too early to predict how it will turn out. However we can predict the defenders of Obama’s appeasement approach during 2009’s failed Green Revolution will not say, “Oh. Guess we got it wrong.”

John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Ben Rhodes will also not admit the astonishing nerve it takes for them to tweet support for the Iranian people after the Obama Administration hung freedom seekers out to dry in 2009.

They also will not admit that it probably wasn’t a bright idea to allow the Iran-run Hezbollah terrorists to pocket a billion dollars a year smuggling drugs into the U.S. That money can now be used against the protesters.

Of course, these are easy predictions. Like predicting the Browns will improve next season after going 0-17 this season. Like predicting a Kardashian sibling will publish a selfie. Like Donald Trump will tweet.

Let’s try some tougher predictions.

2018 Predictions

The world will still be here next New Year’s Day. With North Korea happily testing nukes and missiles and POTUS insisting the threat will not be tolerated, this isn’t exactly a sure thing.

The good news? If I’m wrong, who’ll be around to mock me?

The political explosion comes January 15. That’s the day the DOJ Inspector General report will expose the lengths Obama DOJ/FBI henchmen went to protect Hillary Clinton from prosecution and subject Donald Trump to destruction. This will be followed by the revelation of how much top White House figures were involved in the execution of the “insurance policy.”

A third of the nation will be horrified. A third will say, “The Orange Beast deserves it.” And another third will have no initial reaction. Why? Because the mainstream media will try to bury the report faster than a mobster dumped in quicksand.

It won’t work. Americans may love being partisan. But they don’t like being bamboozled.

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., will tweet that Trump’s response to the report demonstrating how the DOJ and FBI were politicized against him “politicizes” the DOJ. Schiff will continue proving he’s the slimiest creature never featured as a meal on Survivor.

It will be revealed that Loretta Lynch’s secret tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton wasn’t about the email investigation. It was about the Fusion GPS dossier. (After all, it would have been a Clinton workproduct. Hillary paid for it.)

Sex scandals will continue to topple D.C. politicians. Of course. What will surprise is the level of depravity among the powerful. This will go beyond chasing interns around the office.

The Awan Brothers scandal will finally enter the public consciousness. The Democrats protection of this (alleged) Capitol Hill criminal syndicate will collapse. The impact of having these Pakistani operators having free reign of congressional documents will begin being counted in the number of lives lost by exposed intelligence operations.

The Trump Administration will take down major sex and child trafficking operations connected to international figures. His human rights executive order of December 21 will also result in prosecutions that will shock the world stage.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller will announce that he could find no proof of any collusion between President Trump, his campaign and Russia. Or at least no collusion that rises to anything criminal. And certainly nothing that affected the election in any meaningful way. However, his discoveries about Russia and its efforts to influence American politics and politicians will send shockwaves across the Swamp.

Democrats will still try to use Mueller against Trump politically, but the IG report will make the effort meaningless.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton’s 2018 will be a nightmare. If 2017 was “What Happened,” 2018 will be “What Next?!”

Trump Predictions

There will be fewer Trump tweets that drive his staff to drink.

There will be still be enough maddening tweets that his staff will still keep a bottle in their desks.

A massive overhaul at CNN will lead Trump to say he’ll back off the “Fake News” talk to give the new regime a “chance to prove themselves.”

At the conclusion of negotiations for the bipartisan infrastructure bill, Trump will pay Nancy Pelosi his highest compliment: “She’s real tough.” Pelosi will admit (privately) that it is much easier working with Trump than it ever was Obama. The admission will further hasten Pelosi’s removal as minority leader.

Once a month, Donald Trump will make a move that the pundits will describe as “dangerous” and an “abdication of American leadership.” Meanwhile, the U.N. will begin bending to America’s will, ISIS will continue dying, and a Middle East peace deal will seem within reach.

We will see less of Trump the Showman and more of Trump the Businessman.

Random Predictions

Omarosa’s book will be treated like gospel. The Gospel will continue to be treated like a punch line.

Hollywood’s “fight sexual harassment” fad will cease production. A multi-billion dollar industry peddling sex and exploitation will not cease it’s own sexual exploitation.

A physics theorem will be proven as a scientific law: For every action by Sean Hannity, there will be an equal and opposite action calling for Fox News to fire Sean Hannity.

The 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King on April 4 will be a day of healing.

All told, 2018 will be less hostile and divisive than 2017. Rancor will grow stale, even with the Midterm elections.

And though it may be more a prayer than prediction, friends who defriended each other over politics will re-friend, turning their social media swords to plowshares. In fact, the term #refriend will be one of Twitter’s top trends.

So here is to a more “friendly” 2018!