Guests:Rev. Jacques Degraff & Kevin Powell
"African-Americans make up 13% of the American population, but 36% of the prison population. African-Americans commit more murders than whites, even though the population difference is huge. That's the primary reason grand juries give police the benefit of the doubt when there's an incident in the black community. Also, most Americans understand that police work is intense, especially in poor neighborhoods. We are all human beings, we all form general impressions, and - sad to say - the overt impression formed about young black males who act and speak a certain way is negative. It may not be fair, but it's reality. Faced with that, some police officers unfairly target young black males and those officers must be stopped. But most cops try to be fair. Many politicians are too cowardly to tell you what Talking Points just stated. They know the stats, but they refuse to discuss the core problems - poor education, poor family structure, and an attitude of defiance toward law enforcement. Politicians like New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio demonize the police and refuse to make judgments about personal behavior. That attitude empowers chaotic young people, and then when they finally go over the line, they wind up in prison or in the morgue. Government cannot control personal behavior. When the regular folks come together and say 'enough,' when they support the police by turning in the violent people, when they speak out against teenage girls becoming pregnant, and when they encourage solid family values, that's when the underclass crime problem will begin to subside. One final thing: When you hear someone say they want to have a 'conversation about race,' that means they want to bloviate about theory, about things that happened in America 150 years ago. They don't really want to solve the problem."

The Factor invited reaction from black political activists Kevin Powell and Rev. Jacques Degraff. "Your entire premise is false," Degraff protested. "The notion that this is a problem fueled by weak families is totally inaccurate. Racism is alive and well in America and a lot of people don't want to talk about racism. I believe, and others in our community believe, that we are at risk in a way that other Americans are not. The system has a different value towards black life!" Powell agreed and questioned the stats put forth in the Talking Points Memo "We live in a country that is so rooted in racism that it permeates every aspect of the society. People sometimes conveniently manipulate statistics to prove their agenda."

Guests:Juan Williams & Mary Katharine Ham
Juan Williams and Mary Katharine Ham also opined on the grand jury situation and the black crime rate. "I'm disappointed that your guests didn't acknowledge reality," Williams said. "It is a fact that violent crime is disproportionate in the black community. But that doesn't mean it's fair for police to target or racially profile, nobody would say that's okay." Ham pointed out that cops are almost never convicted when they shoot and kill suspects. "I don't want to ignore stats like the fact that the NYPD was involved in 179 fatalities over the past 15 years, but there were just three indictments and one conviction. The public is deferential to the police force and the system favors police officers, which incentivizes more bad behavior in the future."

Guests:Megyn Kelly
Rolling Stone magazine admits that it grossly misreported the sensational story of an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia. Megyn Kelly spoke about the politics of the supposed rape crisis on American campuses. "Rolling Stone sent a reporter to elite universities," she said, "to find someone who would talk about rape as a problem on campus and she found this woman at UVA. People also jumped on the Duke 'fake rape' case and automatically believed that three white frat boys raped a black woman. As a lawyer, I saw tons of holes in that case and people said I was a racist and anti-feminist because I wasn't accepting these rape claims verbatim." The Factor positioned the story in the larger frame of virulent anti-Americanism: "The narrative is that America is racist and police are gunning down black men, and America hates women and it's open season to rape them all. The far left wants to tear the country down."

Guests:Karl Rove
The Democratic-led Senate Intelligence Committee is about to release a controversial "torture report" that details harsh interrogation techniques used against suspected terrorists after 9/11. Former Bush aide Karl Rove weighed in on the report's release. "This is intended to diminish the Central Intelligence Agency," he surmised, "and to further undermine the very concept of the war against terrorism. We need to remind the American people that these techniques worked to keep our country safe in a dark moment. And these techniques helped us find and kill Osama bin Laden!" The Factor agreed, saying, "The report doesn't mention the thousands of lives that were saved by the information obtained through water boarding."

Guests:Brit Hume
In an interview with Black Entertainment Television, President Obama expounded on the suspicion that exists between cops and some black Americans. FNC's Brit Hume analyzed the president's position. "His entire focus," Hume said, "is on one side of the equation, the behavior of the police. He never talks about the pathologies in the black community that lead to the high crime rate, he never talks about the behaviors by young African American men that may lead police to be afraid of them. No doubt the cops could do a better job, but what about the parents?" Hume also worried that President Obama is becoming more divisive. "He may now feel that things have gone so badly and he is so unpopular, especially among whites, that he can not afford to ever say anything that would alienate African Americans."

Guests:Charles Krauthammer
A week after St. Louis Rams players came onto the field in the "Hands up, don't shoot" stance, NBA star LeBron James wore a shirt with the words "I can't breathe." The Factor asked Charles Krauthammer whether the pro athletes are out of bounds. "I don't expect an elaborate legal exegesis on the case from the best player in the NBA," Dr. K asserted, "but I presume his message is that there is something disturbing about a man dying after being held by police. That's a perfectly reasonable thing to do and it's a perfectly reasonable use of his celebrity. Scientists and priests and movie stars also use their celebrity to make political points. Using that platform to make a case is perfectly fine."

Charlotte Moon, Wilson, MI: "Bill, you are saying what many of us feel about race relations. It is in my nature not to be prejudicial towards anyone, but my husband was bullied by some blacks in his job as a high school principal. I myself had bad experiences with some blacks as a nurse."

Dennis Crump, Beachwood, NJ: "How can police allow protesters to lay in the aisles of Macy's and not forcibly remove them?"

Captain Dan Sullivan, Lake George, CO: "I have served my country for more than 45 years as a Marine and as a peace officer. The only thought I had on the job was, 'I hope I can do something good today."

The Massachusetts enclave of Great Barrington has once again banned Christmas lights, so consider that a good place to avoid this Christmas season.