Louisiana Just Voted to Give a Quarter of a Million People Health Care  —  Republican Sen. David Vitter lost his bid to be the next governor of Louisiana on Saturday, and it wasn't even close.  The two-term senator lost the runoff election to Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards by double digits …

Poll: Trump retakes lead, Cruz surges in IA; Rubio second in NH  —  Donald Trump has returned to the lead in Iowa while Ted Cruz has now surged past Ben Carson into second place.  Carson has slipped from a first-place tie into third.  —  While Iowa's Republicans generally feel Trump is ready …

Trump advocates waterboarding enemy combatants  —  Donald Trump says if he's elected president, he'll bring back enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding for enemy combatants.  —  “I would bring it back, yes.  I would bring it back,” Trump said on ABC's “This Week” on Sunday.

Black protester attacked at Donald Trump rally called ‘monkey’ and other racial slurs, he says  —  The Black Lives Matter protester attacked during Donald's Trump's Birmingham rally said he was punched, kicked and called “n****r” while a group of eight or nine people were on top of him.

Buchanan: Terror attacks bringing ‘retreat of liberalism’  —  Political commentator Pat Buchanan says the recent string of terrorist attacks are bringing about a “retreat of liberalism.”  —  “I think we are seeing a general retreat of liberalism in the United States and in Europe …

Obama: GOP attacks on refugees help ISIL  —  ISIL's still not the varsity team, President Barack Obama said Sunday, but if Republicans running for president and in Congress continue to respond to attacks by playing off fears, they're doing the terrorists' work for them.

Choose to Be Grateful.  It Will Make You Happier.  —  TWENTY-FOUR years ago this month, my wife and I married in Barcelona, Spain.  Two weeks after our wedding, flush with international idealism, I had the bright idea of sharing a bit of American culture with my Spanish in-laws by cooking a full Thanksgiving dinner.