Free Republic

Suppose someone breaks into your home during the day when you're away and steals everything of value that you own. You later learn that this person was convicted of breaking into four other homes before yours. Should he spend a couple months on probation, or be eligible for eight years in prison? In several jaw-dropping editorials in recent weeks, The Charlotte Observer, Raleigh's News & Observer, the Asheville Citizen Times and the Winston-Salem Journal attempted to hoodoo their readers into supporting changes to the habitual felon law that would allow those who repeatedly break into people's homes to walk free...