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...words "Share and share alike--that's democracy." Nobody objected at the time, but four years later, Rogers' mother complained to the House Un-American Activities Committee that her daughter had been forced to express a communist sentiment. The scriptwriter, Dalton Trumbo (who actually was a communist), went to jail for refusing to testify and then spent years on the Hollywood blacklist, unable to get work. But "share and share alike" has been rehabilitated and restored to its place of honor as one of America's finest bromides...
...Yesterday, he went to jail for four months—but not before Judge David Groner publicly dressed him down, noting that in the aftermath of the scandal’s revelation, the wounded city of Detroit “expected to hear a message of humility, remorse and apology. Instead, we heard an arrogant and defiant man who accused the governor, among others, for his downfall.” (Kilpatrick had denied the allegations and likened the media furor around him to a lynch...
...former Detroit mayor is moving to a new home Oct. 28th - a 15-by-10-foot county jail cell where he will spend the next 120 days for lying during a civil trial to conceal an extramarital affair. Kilpatrick resigned in September after 8 months of accusations, denials and litigation that cost the city millions of dollars and brought its political development to a halt...
...Kwame Kilpatrick sitting in that seat - if it was John Six-Pack sitting in the seat - what would I do? And the answer is simple." - Judge Ronald Giles, on his decision to sentence Kilpatrick to a night in jail after Kilpatrick violated his bond by crossing state lines to make a trip to Windsor, Ontario (New York Times...
...Syria. These recent developments have raised speculation that Syria is threatened by a blowback from jihadist militants who no longer have easy access to cross the border into Iraq and instead are turning their attention to the secular regime in Damascus. "We assumed the Syrians were chucking people in jail, which they could be doing, but it could also be that the foreign fighters are backing up at the border with Iraq and they can't go home because their own governments will arrest them," says Andrew Tabler, a Damascus-based analyst and editor of Syria Today magazine...