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The Louisiana Supreme Court has re-affirmed its ruling that a man convicted in a triple murder at the Kim Anh restaurant in New Orleans East in 1995 should not get a new trial, affirming his conviction and life sentence. Rogers LaCaze and former NOPD officer Antoinette Frank were convicted of three counts of first-degree murder for killing NOPD Officer Ronnie Williams and siblings Ha and Cuong Vu during an armed robbery at the restaurant.

I n June, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on two lawsuits against the University of Michigan's use of affirmative action in admissions to its undergraduate program and law school, respectively. The mainstream, socialist media have predictably supported the continued admission to otherwise highly selective universities of unqualified black and Hispanic applicants, based on their race or ethnicity, as a means to achieve "diversity." Since affirmative action's 1960s' origins, however, this plague has spread beyond college admissions, to corrupt all of America's institutions. In higher education, affirmative action has led to the hiring of incompetent, often openly racist black and...