Guest: Austan Goolsbee
A new Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll is proof that Barack Obama is in trouble. A whopping 76% of Americans are not confident that life for our children's generation will be better than it has been for us, and 71% say the nation is headed in the wrong direction. In Congress, they blame Republicans more than Democrats, but both parties are scorched. And President Obama receives low numbers on just about every vital issue. Some liberals claim Barack Obama is stymied primarily by the problems he inherited, but that's false. There's no need for a magic wand when you have six years to improve things. Ronald Reagan inherited a mess from Jimmy Carter and turned it around. Abraham Lincoln walked into incredible chaos, largely the fault of James Buchanan, but prevailed. President Obama did inherit a terrible economy, but a fairly stable foreign situation. Not only has Mr. Obama failed to improve the economic story, but on his watch foreign policy has nearly collapsed. By nearly every measure, things are worse than when Mr. Obama took office. The American people are sending President Obama a very clear message they are losing faith.

The Factor analyzed the poll numbers with President Obama's former economic advisor Austan Goolsbee. "I think you're being a little unfair," Goolsbee said. "If you take the economy and look at the last two years, we have had modest success and things have been coming back. We've added more than 10-million jobs in the last four-and-a-half years, so I don't think you're fair to say everything is worse. When the economy is not growing as strongly as it traditionally has, people tend to be pessimistic about the future." The Factor contended that Americans are actually being realistic: "Most people think we are still in a recession and wages continue to go down. The jobs that have been created don't pay much, so overwhelmingly the American public is not happy with the economy."

Guest: Lou Dobbs
Two illegal aliens, both of whom have been deported numerous times, are accused of murdering a Border Patrol agent in Texas. Fox Business anchor Lou Dobbs elaborated on the story. "These guys crossed the border multiple times," he reported, "and were sent back to Mexico. One of them was apprehended four times! They shot this man in front of his wife and his three children as he tried to defend himself, it is horrific. But the Border Patrol under President Obama has a policy that you have to be deported at least seven times before anyone gets serious." The Factor argued that repeat offenders should be punished: "If you're deported once and you come back, that should be a felony. You should go to federal prison for that."

Guests: Eric Shawn & Molly Line
The Factor introduced a new segment called "Truth Serum." In the inaugural edition, Fox News anchors Eric Shawn and Molly Line assessed Republican Senator Rand Paul's apparent flip-flop on U.S. aid to Israel. "Rand Paul is kind of doing a dance here," Line said. "When asked directly about his position on aid to Israel, he now says he never had a 'legislative proposal' to do that. But he has talked about it on camera in the past, he has advocated cutting all foreign aid." Shawn applied some truth serum to liberal think tank guy Simon Rosenberg, who was in the No Spin Zone last week claiming that the net flow of illegal immigrants into the USA is basically zero. "This is cockamamie, it's not true," Shawn declared. In 2009, the first year of President Obama's administration, there were 11.3-million illegal immigrants, and there has been an increase of 400,000 since then. There has been an explosion on the southern border."

Guests: Katie Greer & Dr. Chuck Williams
The Factor asked social media experts Katie Greer and Chuck Williams whether Facebook is detrimental to children. "What makes Facebook so wonderful for kids also makes it so dangerous," Greer said. "Kids love to share and connect, but they also over-share and over-connect. If kids are getting some oversight from home and if they are following the rules, I'm okay with it. But there's a big concern for me when it comes to privacy and sharing with strangers." Williams contended that parents are exercising too little oversight. "I believe we're letting parents off the hook. Far too many parents and adult caregivers are not aware that the kids are signed up, and they're not aware of the dangers. There is cyber-bullying and cyber-stalking and child exploitation. The latest trend is kids setting themselves on fire, videotaping it, and putting it on line. Parents are burying their heads in the sand!"

Guest: Dennis Miller
Dennis Miller weighed in on the notion that America is growing weaker, both at home and abroad. "Any time you realign and you're not at the top of the flow chart and you're the most benevolent country on the planet," he said, "I don't think it's good for the world at large. There's a gravitational field in the world and we're the tent pole. All this stuff like Crimea and ISIS happens when then tent pole is not there. We are an ethical and principled country and the rest of the world always knew we'd only go so far with bullies before flattening somebody, but they don't think we're in that business anymore." Miller also put forth his patented theory of innate homosexuality based on the movie 'Boy on a Dolphin. "Sophia Loren climbs out of the sea and she's standing there in that see-through gauze top, with rivulets of water dripping off her olive-skinned areolas onto the deck of the boat. If you're a 12-year-old boy watching that scene and you still want to do it with the captain of the boat, you're gay! Case closed."

Guest: Jesse Watters
The Factor introduced another of Jesse Watters' most memorable segments, this one a visit to Key West, Florida. These were a few observations about life in Margaritaville: "I moved here in 1999 and I'm just wasting time" ... "You come Key West on vacation, you leave on probation, and you come back on violation" ... "I trade food stamps for beer and vodka and cigarettes" ... "When you live here you forget about the rest of the country." Back in February, Watters attended some Super Bowl soirees at which he interviewed various luminaries. Perhaps the pithiest comment came from radio host Howard Stern: "I don't like Watters' World, all of America rejects Watters' World, even Bill O'Reilly doesn't like Watters' World."

Always be as generous as you possibly can be, and choose the recipients of your generosity wisely.

Guy Wood, Australia: "The reason America is hated in the Islamic world is because it supports Israel."

Mike O'Neill, New Zealand: "How can Americans entertain complaints about racism when you have a black President and Attorney General?"

Peter Swanson, Foster, RI: "As a former Marine and Vietnam vet, I will not visit nor buy any product from Mexico until Sgt. Tahmooressi is released."