"We have been telling you that 30-year-old Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke has become a major player in the presidential election. Ms. Fluke seems to be sincere - she has worked helping at-risk families and is devoted to liberal causes. There's nothing wrong with that; sincere constructive activism is good. But Ms. Fluke can go on vacation and dress very well, yet she doesn't have $9 a month for pills? This story is really about the nanny state and the imposition of a huge federal apparatus on Americans. When the Catholic bishops challenged the nanny state on moral grounds, the White House got nervous and the 'women's health' play began to ramp up. Of course, that's when Sandra Fluke appeared, popping up at Congressional hearings and showing up in the media. Polls show that President Obama's poll numbers among women are now on the rise, and he has Ms. Fluke to thank for that. If you don't pay close attention to this story, it looks like President Obama is simply helping out a young woman under siege. But that's not what's going on here. The election in November will be between a Democratic Party that wants a nanny state and a Republican Party that does not. You the voter have a very important decision to make. In February the U.S. ran up the biggest deficit ever - $229 billion was added to the national debt in 29 days. For that we can thank the poor economy and the ever-growing nanny state. We can also thank folks like Sandra Fluke, who desperately want it."

Some observers say Mitt Romney is being damaged by the lengthy GOP primary process, but a new poll of Republican voters shows that Romney has built a lead in Mississippi and is dead even with Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich in Alabama. "This is ominous for Gingrich," said Fox News analyst Charles Krauthammer, "because his claim is that he's strong in the South and he'll march out of the South and take the rest of the country. If he can't hold home court with Mississippi and Alabama, I'm not sure he'll go on to Louisiana and other places." Krauthammer also brushed aside any suggestion that he is opposed to Mitt Romney. "I actually like Romney, I think he's a very good man and would make a very good president. And in my analysis Rick Santorum has no chance of winning the White House - this is the wrong year for social issues."

The Factor welcomed radio host and Internet mogul Glenn Beck, who urged the Republican Party to finally settle on one candidate. "I think it's time this ends," Beck said. "I'm a supporter of Rick Santorum, but if you do the math it's darn near mathematically impossible for anybody for Romney to take it. I couldn't care less about the Republicans, but I do care that Barack Obama is not the President of the United States. I believe there is a deep financial crash coming all around the globe and I also think there is going to be violence in the streets." Although far less gloomy, The Factor worried aloud that "if the debt doesn't get under control, your prediction of economic doom will come true."

Even though Bill Maher has said the most vile things about Republican women, including using the "c" word to describe Sarah Palin, a pro-Obama Super PAC has accepted a million dollars from the HBO host. The Factor invited radio talkers Janine Turner and Leslie Marshall to analyze. "There is a double standard," Marshall said. "I'm a woman first and a Democrat second, and when we have anybody, left or right, calling a woman something degrading, that is offensive to me. But a politician can't be held responsible for the bad behavior of everyone giving donations, so I don't the President should give the money back." But Turner argued that Bill Maher's money is tainted by his vulgarity. "The President has said that he wants to lead by example on this issue. So if he wants to prove that he's a president for all women in America, not just liberal women, it would be very classy if he recommended that the money be returned."

A newly-discovered video from 1990 shows Barack Obama, then a student at Harvard Law, praising and hugging radical professor Derrick Bell. Geraldo Rivera described the footage as much ado about little. "I don't think this is very significant," he said. "Is it that big of a deal when the black president of the law review hugs a black law professor who is protesting the lack of diversity? I don't think so. Derrick Bell was a distinguished person and the first black president of a non-black law school." The Factor was less sanguine about the Obama-Bell link, saying, "Bell was a pretty radical guy and my investigation says he was anti-white. But it would be unfair to say that Barack Obama supported any of Bell's anti-white rhetoric."

Oil company executives claim that rising oil prices are simply due to the age-old law of supply and demand. The Factor asked Fox Business host Lou Dobbs to weigh in. "As we've established here for the past three weeks," Dobbs said, "supply is higher and demand is lower in the United States, and worldwide production is rising twice as fast as worldwide demand. The American people are stupid to keep putting up with this hackneyed nonsense; we should start demanding accountability from our elected officials, and we should start demanding that our national media isn't playing a simple game." The Factor complained that too many reporters are giving the big oil companies a pass: "Many of our colleagues on Fox News and Fox Business are apologists for the oil companies - they're on every day saying this is about supply and demand. But you and I say it's not and we're using facts!"

Arthel Neville, on hand to pick the week's dumbest happenings, cited the Urban Outfitters clothing line that portrays Irish folks as drunkards. "This goes too far," she said. "You've got 35-million Irish Americans and they're saying this is offensive, so take it off the shelves!" The Factor added that Urban Outfitters is alienating a large segment of its potential customer base: "Why would any company do this - surely they know this is typecasting 35-million people as alcoholics. What if Urban Outfitters celebrated Ramadan by putting 'I'm a proud Muslim' with a hand grenade on the shirt? They would never do it." As an aside, Greg Gutfeld's fans probably believe the dumbest thing of the week was giving him the night off.

Brenda Landrum, New York, NY: "O'Reilly, your detective work on Sandra Fluke impressed me so I just signed up for Premium Membership on BillOReilly.com."

Enrique Hernandez, Houston, TX: "Mr. O, great reporting on Sandra. It's important for the public to understand where her 'spontaneous' movements came from."

Robert Salman, Marlboro, NJ: "Contraception is central to the health of a woman. That's the issue, O'Reilly, not your speculation about Sandra Fluke."

Mike Miller, Forsyth, IL: "Ms. Fluke is the poster child for what's wrong with this country. We are now a people who demand something for nothing instead of being self-reliant."

Friday's Patriots: All the folks who have bid on the Wounded Warrior Project poster signed by all five living presidents. The auction concludes here on BillOReilly.com Sunday evening.