Discovery Channel’s ‘Cajun Navy’ premieres July 23, highlighting post-Katrina rescues, heroes
In the days after Hurricane Katrina, a group of ordinary citizens came together with one goal: to pull people from the water. The government had failed New Orleans, and it was up to the people to get the job done. More...
New Orleans Man, Roland Bourgeois Sentenced for Shooting 3 African American Men
Roland J. Bourgeois Jr., 55, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release on charges that, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he shot at three young More...
Roland Bourgeois pleads guilty in ‘hate crime’ Hurricane Katrina shooting three men
Roland J. Bourgeois, Jr., 55, of New Orleans, LA, appeared yesterday before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon and pleaded guilty to charges that, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he shot at More...
‘Cajun Navy’ Coming to Discovery Channel
As the 2018 Hurricane season is underway, Discovery has put into production a feature-length documentary spotlighting everyday civilians who risk their lives to help others survive devastating storms. From production More...
Don’t Let the News Get You Down
At times, it can feel as if all we hear is bad news. However, this isn’t the case. While we’re, of course, bombarded with world issues, crime, poverty and complete atrocities, there is a lot of good in the world More...
How to Prepare for a Natural Disaster
Hurricane Irma, wildfires in Colorado, the record heat wave…this year was full of natural disasters. Water or fire has not destroyed your home yet, but it is hard to gaze into the future. That is why every American More...
US economy adds 261K jobs, unemployment continues to drop to 17-year low
The U.S. economy added 261,000 jobs in October, meeting expectations that the country had rebounded from the impact of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and the jobless rate ticked down to 4.1 percent — the lowest More...
Faith and Liberty Discovery Center announced for Philadelphia, coming in 2018
A $60 million attraction with unprecedented technology will open on Independence Mall in fall 2018, American Bible Society announced today. Called the Faith & Liberty Discovery Center, the experience will highlight More...
Morgan Freeman takes Nat Geo’s ‘Story of God’ towards the ‘Coexist’ movement rather than truth
The National Geographic Channel event series The Story of God with Morgan Freeman continues with a look at “End Times,” stopping at Rome’s Vatican City, Israel’s cavernous valley Qumran, New Orleans’s More...
City of Chicago loses another battle to shutdown ministry in former YMCA building
For the second time, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit has ruled against the city of Chicago and in favor of an inner-city ministry. The nearly 10-year old case started in the More...
Tehmina Sunny discusses ’24 Live Another Day’ ‘The Vatican Tapes’ and Ben Affleck
Jack Bauer is back and Tehmina Sunny co-stars on 24: Live Another Day, speaking with The Global Dispatch about the show, working in her hometown of London and what it’s like on set. Tehmina reflects on her More...
This Day in History: New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin indicted on Hurricane Katrina corruption
Just a year ago former Democratic New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was indicted on charges that he’d used his office for personal gain, accepting payoffs, free trips and gratuities from contractors while the city More...
Disaster Recovery Services Standby for Hospitals during Hurricane Season
When Hurricane Katrina affected the Gulf Coast in 2005, a New Orleans hospital found out too late that its emergency backup generators didn’t work and that there was no way to evacuate its patients. Rescue helicopters More...
Hurricane Isaac makes landfall hours ahead of Katrina anniversary
The Gulf Coast braced for Hurricane Isaac only hours before the seventh anniversary of the devastating Hurricane Katrina. The storm, a Category 1 hurricane, made landfall on Tuesday evening in southeast Louisiana More...
Chris Dodd blames George Bush for oil spill?
Greg Hedgepath found this gem of hypocrisy: Don Imus on the Fox Business Network Tuesday interviewing jolly old Democrat Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, who was forced into retirement by the certainty of defeat More...
Cynthia McKinney Quotes
Via WND: McKinney accused the White House of racism when the United States threatened to stay away from a 2001 U.N.-sponsored conference on racism if the agenda included talk of reparations for slavery and colonialism More...
