Guest: Charles Krauthammer
"President Obama is misusing presidential power, but not in the way you might think. Some presidents have misused their powers in aggressive ways, such as Richard Nixon intimidating witnesses in the Watergate case or Lyndon Johnson misleading the people about the war in Vietnam. Today we have a president who is misusing his power by not using that power to solve vital problems. The Obama administration was told a year ago that organized criminals were beginning to smuggle children into the USA in great numbers. The president could have cracked down, but he did not and now the USA will have to deal with about 100,000 desperate children. Then we have the ISIS terror army, which has taken over a third of Iraq and is now persecuting Christians. What has President Obama done to the ISIS army? U.S. intelligence warned the president that Islamic militants were gathering power in Syria, but he did nothing to stop that. And finally, there is Putin, who armed the terrorists in Ukraine with rockets that shot down the Malaysian plane. President Obama has slapped a few sanctions on Putin, but nothing like he could have done. It is quite clear that President Obama does not want to lead in the traditional way; he apparently wants to ruminate about things. The signal he consistently sends is that America will not right wrongs except in emergency circumstances. But he doesn't see the border incursion as an emergency, nor does he see the ISIS army as an emergency. Add it all up and you get a misuse of the power that we, the American people, bestowed upon Barack Obama."

The Factor solicited a second opinion from FNC's Charles Krauthammer. "The president misuses his power on domestic issues," Krauthammer said, "where he writes laws, cancels laws, and changes laws. But on foreign affairs he's so far over his head that he doesn't know what to do. And when he doesn't know what to do, he does nothing. He tries to use moral suasion on a thug like Putin, then he's surprised when nothing actually happens. On the border issue, I think he's immobilized because he's so politically cynical. On the one hand, he has his left and Hispanic activists who would oppose him if he did anything serious about closing the border. On the other hand, he has the rest of the country that is appalled and aghast that we have lost control of the border. So he does nothing." The Factor lamented, "President Obama is locked into this ideological fantasy world, the kind of world they teach at Harvard."

Guests: Juan Williams & Mary Katharine Ham
Mary Katharine Ham and Juan Williams evaluated growing criticism of President Obama's tendency to golf and raise money while the world burns. "Presidents can do things like golf and take vacations," Ham said, "and run the country at the same time. But the sense of the American people is that he is only doing the politicking." But Williams defended President Obama's leisure activities. "It doesn't matter to anybody but the president's harshest critics that he would have burger with the American people. This is about people who don't like President Obama trying to shame him, and they're doing it on very weak grounds." The Factor worried that the president is viewed as unserious: "I don't begrudge him playing golf, the president has to clear his mind. But this president is now setting a frivolous tone."

Guest: Brit Hume
The Factor asked FNC analyst Brit Hume to assess the performance of Secretary of State John Kerry. "It's very much a work in progress," Hume began, "and we can't really assess his performance because these things are all still boiling. But I can think of only one thing that has been a success, which is that he negotiated the deal under which there will be a recount in Afghanistan. That showed some skill and finesse and it was a good thing. As for the Israelis and Palestinians, he tried to broker a full-scale deal. It didn't work, but many other secretaries of state and presidents have also tried and failed." The Factor criticized Kerry for being too passive about Iran's nuclear ambitions: "The thing that bothers me most is that he is supporting this four-month extension with Iran, which is the biggest flim-flam in the world."

Guest: Karl Rove
After Texas Governor Rick Perry announced that he will deploy 1,000 National Guard troops to the border with Mexico, The Factor asked Karl Rove to opine. "I think he's more interested in getting this problem solved than in the political consequences," Rove theorized. "But there is a danger for Perry because there is a qualitative difference in having the National Guard brought forward by the president or by a governor. If the president does it, you can integrate the Guard with the Border Patrol agents, but Governor Perry doesn't have any authority over the Border Patrol. It would be much more effective if the president did it." Nevertheless, The Factor lauded Perry's decision: "I believe this is the right move and it puts Governor Perry in the spotlight for the presidential campaign. Just those pictures of the National Guard on the border will suppress the smuggling industry in Central America."

Guest: Megyn Kelly
A Texas group called Cop Block follows police officers and records their activities, purportedly to discourage police brutality. FNC's Megyn Kelly weighed in on the program's efficacy. "The bad behavior by some cops gets so much media coverage," she said, "that in some communities they get a reputation as bad people. This group says they don't hate the cops, they say they're about accountability, but the problem is that no one has hired them or asked them to provide that service. If you go to their website, it's all anti-cop and they have one video posted called, 'When You Should Shoot a Police Officer.' So it doesn't sound like they really love the cops. But this is legal in all 50 states - you're allowed to film the police as long as they're in a public place."

Guest: Jesse Watters
Jesse Watters took his crew and curiosity to the ultra-liberal enclave of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he asked locals what the federal government owes to its poorer citizens. Some of their replies: "Why can't poor people eat lobster?" ... "People should get $100,000 per year" ... "If people like movies, give them DVD players and TVs" ... "Free Red Sox tickets would be pretty cool." Back in the friendly confines of the No Spin Zone, Watters concluded that the folks in Cambridge are extraordinarily generous with other people's money. "One guy said we should give poor people a two-family house in Cape Cod and walking-around money. Five out of the eight people I interviewed were Harvard students and they want free stuff."

When you're out in public, whether on the road or in a shop or on the street, try to be considerate of other people. To do otherwise makes you a selfish pinhead.