The Cost of Being Hip:  While there are violent killings in many parts of America every day, generally the ones that make the national news involve celebrities or their families.  Last week an habitual violent felon was arrested for murdering the brother of the backup quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers and another young man in front of a bar in Nashville.  Paul Mirengoff reports on Powerline that the accused murderer, Michael Mosley, had multiple convictions for drugs and property crimes before graduating to violent offenses including a 2015 stabbing conviction and arrests last year for domestic violence and assault.  How is it that a ticking timebomb like Mosley, who in years past would have been sent back in prison for his continued violence, was armed with a knife and free in Nashville to commit a double murder?  Recent sentencing reform policies designed to empty out prisons and jails have been embraced by politicians looking to challenge the old fashioned approach to habitual criminals which removed them from law abiding society.  As Mirengoff, notes, this hip new trend is not just evident in liberal states such as  California, New York and Washington, but is also being promoted by Republican Governor Bill Lee in Tennessee.  Sadly, everything is new to those who do not know history.  Hat tip to Hans Bader for this story.