"We believe the Obama administration does not have an overall strategy to defeat the jihad, and things are getting worse overseas. In addition to the Paris massacre, reports are that ISIS executed 13 young boys for watching a soccer game. Also, ISIS apparently threw two men suspected of homosexuality off a building and is threatening two Japanese hostages with death. The jihadists continue to wreak havoc all over the world and there is no coordinated strategy to stop them. In fact, President Obama will not even use the words Islamic terrorism. Talking Points believes there is a fundamental misreading of Islam throughout the world. Some Americans think all Muslims support violence because the Koran justifies it. That's false. Most Muslims are not violent people. But there is a strain of Islam that is destructive and it's not just a few terrorists. It's millions of Muslims who follow the teachings of extremist clerics, including the Mullahs who rule Iran. Irrational violence is plaguing the entire Islamic community. If every good Muslim united against the bad Muslims, this problem would be solved, but that's not happening. So it is left to non-believers to confront and defeat the jihad. The leader of the effort should be President Obama, but the president is not leading. The American people know this and 76% of them rate terrorism as the number one problem facing America. Talking Points does not expect clarity or new solutions to this vexing problem. This has been a 14-year horror odyssey. We have spent trillions, lost thousands of military people, and still the terrorists reign. It is apparent that if the Muslim world does not confront the savagery, it will continue. President Obama is looking away from the issue, but even President Bush, who sought to confront it, could not defeat it. The next president of the United States will inherit a problem of monumental proportions. It is about Islam because that's where the solution lies."

Guests:Kirsten Powers & Monica Crowley
The Factor asked Kirsten Powers and Monica Crowley how they would fight ISIS and other Islamic extremists. "This is a complicated war," Crowley said, "but I do know that we have been fighting this in a very half-assed way. The military component is not sufficient, what is missing is the ideological component - we have not been honest about the nature of this threat. Do most Muslims act out violently? No, but we're talking about something that goes to the heart of the Koran and the heart of the faith. The burden should be on the Muslim world to clean up its own house." But Powers dismissed the idea that there is an inherent problem with the faith. "Most of the victims of these radical Islamists are Muslims, so the idea that most Muslims endorse this is completely wrong. Should there be a mass demonstration about the fact that they're being murdered? They're too busy fighting for their lives, they're being murdered! You love blowing up people with drones, but that creates more terrorists."

Guest:Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL)
For a Republican preview of President Obama's State of the Union address, specifically the fight against terrorism, The Factor turned to Senator Marco Rubio. "You can't be prosperous unless you're safe," Rubio declared, "and one of the problems I have with this administration is that they think that radical jihadists are just unhappy because we did something. They don't understand the nature of jihadists, who want the whole world to be under the flag of radical Islam. That's what we're at war against. Radical Islam's goal is that everyone has to be a Muslim someday, and they are willing to kill to make that happen!" Rubio also disputed President Obama's claim that the economy has turned a corner. "People are stuck between low wages and high prices, and the American dream is slipping out of reach for them. We have to win the global competition for investment and innovation, we have to give people 21st century skills, we have to have a pro-family tax code, and we have to repeal and replace ObamaCare."

Guest:John Stossel
What is the state of the union from the libertarian point of view? Fox Business host John Stossel entered the No Spin Zone with his analysis. "What's this talk about raising taxes," he scoffed, "when we're already spending $3.5-trillion. We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. President Obama always offers 'free stuff' such as free college, free 'Obama phones,' and free time off from your work. Let workers and employers make their own decisions, the market sorts this stuff out. It's free people, not government, that make our lives better." The Factor quarreled with some of Stossel's radical free-market ideology, saying, "Sometimes there is exploitation because some people don't have education and don't have a lot of other options."

Guest:Bernie Goldberg
Some liberal bloggers got in a snit this week when Republican Mike Huckabee criticized the sultry singer Beyoncé. The Factor asked Bernie Goldberg why many media types are so defensive of the hyper-sexualized songbird. "Let's acknowledge that social conservatives have a history of sometimes going overboard and being too prudish," Goldberg began, "but now we have Beyoncé, who influences young girls. When she sings, 'He Monica Lewinsky-d All Over My Gown,' liberals ought to care if 10-year-olds hear that. Young girls are not adult women, but liberals would rather drink Drano and walk on broken glass than come off as un-cool or square or prudish, especially when it's about sex. So they won't align themselves with social conservatives, even when conservatives have a legitimate point. The fact that Beyoncé is black is also relevant because liberals see themselves as the protectors of black people."

Guest:Chris Kyle
With "American Sniper" breaking box office records, The Factor re-aired portions of a 2012 interview with Chris Kyle, the subject of the movie. Considered the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history, Kyle spoke about his uncanny knack for killing bad guys. "I considered the people I was killing to be savages," he said, "because of the violence they committed against American troops, the beheadings, the rapes of innocent villagers. I wasn't so much committed to killing them as I was committed to making sure that every service member over there, American or allied, came home. You have to get into that mentality and you can not think of them as human beings." The Factor reminded Kyle that he was public enemy number one to his enemies. "You were so effective in Iraq that they put a bounty on your head. If someone had killed you, they would have been paid $20,000." Soon after that interview, in February of 2013, Chris Kyle was shot and killed by a mentally deranged man at a shooting range in Texas.