
Look for breakout years from Rickie Weeks and Mannie Parra. The Brewers rebound to take the National League Central and lose to the Dodgers in the NLCS. UWM goes out in the Horizon League semi-finals. Marquette doesn't make it, but goes to the NIT semifinals.

Wisconsin makes the NCAAs but loses in the first round. Because I can't get over the Norv Turner factor, I think that Indianapolis beats Philadelphia in the Super Bowl.ġ0. They will lose a shoot out to New Orleans in the second round.ĩ. The Green Bay Packers will edge Arizona in the first round of the NFC playoffs.

Newly installed Milwaukee Archbishop Raymond Listecki will undertake some highly visible effort to insist that a prominent Catholic or Catholic organization not act contrary to church teaching. The Obama administration will take no action but will respond equivocally further isolating the Israelis and accomplishing nothing.ħ. As I predicted last year - and was wrong, Israel will strike at a target in Iran. I fervently pray that I am wrong but there will be a significant terrorist attack on American soil or against an American target.Ħ. The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hold (4-3) that Wisconsin's marriage amendment was not unconstitutionally enacted.ĥ. You can't expect me to read five minds.Ĥ. The United States Supreme Court will bury a key element of the McCain-Feingold bill by holding that the funding of independent expenditures cannot be restricted unless they can be construed as express advocacy lacking any substantial component of issue advocacy - or something along those lines. The Republicans pick up seven seats in the Senate and twenty in the House.ģ.

The Democrats will continue to hold both houses of the legislature by razor thin margins.Ģ. Scott Walker will become the 45th Governor of the state of Wisconsin and the first elected from Milwaukee until Julius Heil in 1939.
