As Mexico burned the 134 metric tons of marijuana seized last week, local journalists who follow the drug war speculated that the loss of so much marijuana would not go unpunished.
What the Republican presidential candidate said on the Fox News morning show would have been chilling if it weren't par for the course: Trump called ISIS "very strong" and said they were "winning the war," speculated that the attack had "many foreign connections," denounced Barack Obama for letting in Syrian refugees a "Trojan horse," he said and appeared to call for open racial profiling.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee called in Mr Roy Rubottom for two hours late yesterday to brief it on the progress of the war and speculate about its outcome.
Star Wars bloggers speculated that the island might make the perfect hideaway for an ageing Jedi knight.
Clinton, whose books include "Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars," frequently speculates about what she cannot know, with such interjections as "one can imagine" or "there is every reason to believe".
In his column in The Hurriyet Daily News, Nihat Ali Ozcan, a security specialist at the Economic Policy Research Foundation in Ankara, likened the attack to a "cold-war-style proxy war" that he speculated was the work of Syria, given the historical links between the group and Syrian intelligence.
Mr Kabila's supporters, including at least one newspaper, are speculating that war may be the only way to solve the problem of Tutsi politicians who owe more loyalty to Rwanda than to Congo.There is still time to pull back from the brink.
If today's teenagers and young adults maintain their views on abortion, and if succeeding waves of students are also conservative, the balance could tip somewhat in America's long-running abortion war, some experts speculate.
And Benjamin Franklin, in Paris to negotiate the treaty ending America's war of independence, speculated that the exceptionally cold winter of 1783-84 might be connected with "the vast quantity of smoke, long continuing to issue during the summer from Hekla" (Iceland's most notorious volcano).
Many "Star Wars" enthusiasts have speculated that Solo will survive his frozen ordeal because he is Yoda's "other one" capable of harnessing the Force.
