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Shirley Sherrod, Ousted USDA Official: Where Is She Now?

Shirley Sherrod was just one of a host of people who momentarily grabbed the spotlight in 2010 and dominated a news cycle or two while getting their 15 minutes of fame. In this series, AOL News is checking in on these newsmakers and giving them a 16th minute. Shirley Sherrod Made News in 2010 When She: Was forced to...

Opinion: Religious Right and the Tea Party: A Marriage of Convenience?

(Sept. 28) -- Many Americans were alarmed in the 1980s when the religious right seemed determined to control everyone's life from the moment of conception until the moment of death. These days, many share a similar distaste for the tea party movement, which believes some mystical force called "The Market" will make all of...

JournoList Liberal Conspiracy Story: Scandal or Overblown?

(July 21) -- Conservative news site The Daily Caller sparked a controversy today after uncovering private e-mails from a now-defunct listserv of liberal journalists, JournoList. The documents show journalists discouraging one another from covering the Rev. Jeremiah Wright story during Barack Obama's 2008 presidential...

Shirley Sherrod's Full, Unedited Speech [VIDEO]

(July 20) -- After edited portions of a speech delivered by Shirley Sherrod were posted to Andrew Breitbart's conservative website, Big Government, Sherrod was forced to resign from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But the story didn't end there. Late today, the NAACP said it reviewed the entire video of Sherrod's...

NAACP Retracts Criticism of Shirley Sherrod After Viewing Full Video of Speech

(July 20) -- Just another day in the annals of gotcha journalism? Shirley Sherrod, a Georgia regional director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was pressured to resign Tuesday after conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart posted edited clips of a speech of hers on his website, Big Government, drawing criticism from...

Background on big government

Big government (sometimes capitalized as Big Government) is a term generally used by political conservatives, laissez-faire advocates or libertarians to describe a government or public sector that they consider to be excessively large, corrupt and inefficient, or inappropriately involved in certain areas of public policy or the private sector.

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