Islam as a threat to world peace? Definitely.
Islam as an existential threat on the scale of the old Soviet Union? Not a chance.

We are frightening ourselves with ghosts and boogymen. Even worse, we are distracting ourselves from the real problems at hand, problems that really do threaten to destroy us.

There are a lot of chickens coming home to roost in the next few years; peak oil, emigration, the federal deficit, and the hollowing out of our manufacturing base just to name a few.

Jesus, why would anyone want to be president?