http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/05/23/a-methuen...
http://www.businessinsider.com/teen-justin-carter-faces-tria...
http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/15763074-story
http://www.wdrb.com/story/30881928/judge-olu-stevens-gives-m...
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/man-wins-35000-arrested-cal...
One guy spent an extra 2 months in prison. What else could be meant by "go to jail"??
Because we allow judges to hand down sentences in order to maintain the decorum of the courtroom.
> It shows in the United States there are people that can arbitrarily add months to your jail sentence for insulting them, or simply send you to jail if you happen to do it while being in the same room they're in.
Not specific people, specific officers of the court who are performing the duties which pertain to being such. You could insult a judge outside of a courtroom all you want and they wouldn't be able to do any more about it than any other private person. Even less, actually, given that the judge is a "public official" under the law and, therefore, the Sullivan "actual malice" standard applies, which makes it substantially more difficult for someone to prove defamation.
In the final link, the speaker was even awarded damages for unjust arrest.
OTOH, there's an established body of precedent in the U.S. (which fortunately, not too long ago, wasn't anywhere near as PC as it is now -- far from it, in fact) saying that politicians and big enough celebrities are fair game for non-specific, purely pejorative insults (like "goat fucker"), as long as they don't stray into the territory of making a specific claim of fact (e.g. "I saw the Senator drilling a away at a captive goat behind the shed the other day, and boy, you should have seen the look on his face!")