Guest:Charles Krauthammer
"The president gives his State of the Union address Tuesday and is expected to ask for higher taxes on businesses and the affluent. He also may ask Republicans and some Democrats to back off on Iran, which is evolving into a very dangerous situation. Mr. Obama knows that Republicans will not accept a tax hike, but he doesn't care. He continues to play Robin Hood, taking from the rich and appropriating that money to the poor and working class. His income re-distribution policies have stifled the economy and he needs to just stop. The situation is finally improving slightly, don't muck it up with social justice stuff. With about 35% of American homes getting some kind of welfare apart from Social Security and Medicare, critical mass has been reached. A culture of dependency is making America weaker, no question. On the Iran front, the president is correct. Republicans and some Democrats want to re-impose economic sanctions against Iran, which would kick in if Iran doesn't make a nuke-weapons deal. But it's not necessary and might give Iran a bad-faith argument. The Mullahs could say they do not respond to threats. Let it play out. If a nuke deal does not get done, drastic sanctions are back big time. Again, the world must know that America is the reasonable country here. That is very important. The State of the Union address is an evening of propaganda. The truth is the president's economic policies have not worked, America's stature overseas has fallen, and there is no effective plan to counter the jihad. That's the state of the union, the Talking Points edition."

The Factor invited a diagnosis from Charles Krauthammer. "You're right on taxes and wrong on Iran," Krauthammer pronounced. "Obama knows there is not a chance in hell of the taxes getting passed. He calls it 'tax reform,' but this is 'tax and spend' and he's doing it for one reason He's campaigning for his legacy, he wants to be the man who brought the Democratic Party back from being a party that was moderate and center-left. He wants to change America and he wants to change the party." Turning to Iran, Dr. K laid out his policy for dealing with the mullahs. "I don't want military action, but I do think our one chance to get a deal is by putting economic pressure on them. President Obama promised that if we didn't have an agreement without six months, he would re-impose sanctions, but he extended the deadline twice without imposing sanctions. Nobody thinks Obama will do it unless he is forced."

Guests:Juan Williams & Mary Katharine Ham
The Army has spent months preparing a report on Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the alleged deserter who was swapped for five terrorists. Mary Katharine Ham and Juan Williams offered up the latest on the apparent stonewall. "I love a conspiracy theory as much as you do," Williams said, "but it's not worth it to the Obama administration or the military to stonewall this. Whether Bergdahl was AWOL or a deserter, he was being held in a cage by the bad guys." Ham contended that the White House totally botched the entire affair. "The military was put in a bad position by the Obama administration's apparent inability to 'Google' Bowe Bergdahl before they made this swap. They did not anticipate the fallout and it is in their interest to slow-walk this." The Factor urged the Army to finally release the report: "This was finished in October and now they're sitting on it. We want to know what the investigation says, but they won't put it out."

Guest:Karl Rove
New York Times columnist Gail Collins has devoted barrels of ink to savaging former Texas Governor Rick Perry, who will probably run for the Republican presidential nomination. The Factor asked FNC's Karl Rove to elaborate. "Gail Collins has an obsession with Texas," Rove groused, "and she has a personal obsession with Perry. Texas has a phenomenal record in job creation, between 2007 and last year the state added 1,320,000 jobs." The Factor agreed that some on the left want to stop Perry in his tracks, saying, "They're afraid of Rick Perry because of his economic record in Texas and the fact that he's a conservative guy."

Guest:Mike Huckabee
Another Republican presidential prospect, Mike Huckabee, has written a book called "God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy." He joined The Factor and laid out the book's theme. "This isn't about southern recipes," he said, "it's about the people who live in 'flyover country.' There is a cultural disconnect between those people and people who live in the bubbles of influence in New York, Washington, and Hollywood. It's 'Bubble-ville' vs. 'Bubba-ville.' We understand the people in 'Bubble-ville,' but they don't understand us" Huckabee also explained why he criticized Beyoncé for being overtly sexual in her songs and videos. "It's not empowering when you become a sex object. I admire her talent, she could be a trend-setter and an example."

Guest:Megyn Kelly
Some black Americans are upset because the movie "Selma" was largely snubbed by the Academy Awards. Meanwhile, some Hollywood lefties are taking aim at "American Sniper," which has been a box office smash. Megyn Kelly gave her take on the films. "The left doesn't like 'American Sniper,'" she theorized, "because Chris Kyle once referred to killing the enemy as 'fun.' They question whether we should be glorifying someone like that, and Michael Moore even said snipers are cowards. 'American Sniper' was nominated for Best Picture, and so was Selma,' but the director of 'Selma' didn't get nominated because she said she didn't want to make a movie with LBJ as a 'white savior.' She ticked off the one group you can not tick off in Hollywood, the liberal elite." The Factor blasted Moore, a lifelong left-wing agitator: "He hates the country and he sees anyone who supports the country as a bad person."

Guest:Jesse Watters
Jesse Watters headed to Texas and a conference called "Stand With the Prophet," which attracted Muslims from across America. He wasn't allowed into the conference, but he did talk with some attendees outside. One young Muslim man said this: "It says in the Koran that women shouldn't be able to go out in public wearing regular clothes, I believe the Koran." Across the street, a group of protesters expressed their anger at Islamic practices and Sharia Law. "We love Muslims," one woman insisted, "but we just don't agree with what they do." Watters concluded with this lamentation from outside the convention hall: "We've been out here for six hours and haven't been allowed in. I just spoke to someone who said the organizers specifically barred The O'Reilly Factor from coming inside."

Martin Cohen, Port St. Lucie, FL: "Bill, your Talking Points on Muslim nations fighting the jihad was right on. How about Muslims holding a million man march to protest violence?"

Ben Tyler, Midlothian, TX: "It's not the Muslim world that doesn't understand the Islamic religion. It's the west that doesn't understand. Islam is not a religion of peace. If it were, why is there so much violence, intolerance, and oppression in Muslim countries?"

Nick Welch, Waller, TX: "Bill, glad the Factor is tracking the absurd delay in the Bergdahl case. I think the Obama administration hopes it will just go away."

Martin Luther King Jr., who valued a person's character above all, would most likely be disgusted by what's going on in today, particularly the widespread selfishness and lack of compassion. Far too many of us, regardless of color, are interested only in ourselves.