Cindy Simpson, Author at The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

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Cindy Simpson

Cindy Simpson is a CPA, business owner, and citizen journalist living in Louisville, Kentucky. Her articles have appeared at American Thinker and American Greatness. Follow Cindy on Twitter @simpsonreport.

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The Left’s Shorthand Smear Tactics

by Cindy Simpson | Jul 17, 2019

“Birtherism” lives. Not because Kenyan birth conspiracists refuse to let it go, but because the Democrat media complex won’t let the term die. The label and its interchangeable charge of “racism” are too useful to them as a shorthand silencing…