J.E. Dyer

J.E. Dyer is a retired Naval Intelligence officer who lives in Southern California, blogging as The Optimistic Conservative for domestic tranquility and world peace. Her articles have appeared at Hot Air, Commentary’s Contentions, Patheos, The Daily Caller, The Jewish Press, and The Weekly Standard.

Quick Takes

J.E. DyerSeptember 28, 2019
1

Football Follies 2019: NCAA week 5

Not quite enough good stuff. Hateful ESPN+.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerSeptember 28, 2019
0

Timeline of a ‘six ways from Sunday’ shadow war: Whistleblower rule change, other events in context

The timeline tells a story that looks increasingly like a shadow war campaign.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerSeptember 26, 2019
1

‘Whistleblower’ complaint paints picture of frustrated Trump policy opponents in intel community

The "tell."
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Politics

J.E. DyerSeptember 25, 2019
8

Can’t make this up: In 2018, Senate Democrats sent Ukrainian prosecutor a letter … asking him to investigate Trump

Exhorting Ukraine for me, but not for thee.
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Politics

J.E. DyerSeptember 25, 2019
2

Trump-Zelensky phone call content is about investigating Spygate (and is a nothingburger otherwise)

Sometimes a phone call is just a phone call.
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Politics

J.E. DyerSeptember 24, 2019
1

Nancy Pelosi puts the cart before the horse in announcing ‘impeachment inquiry’

When is an impeachment inquiry not an impeachment inquiry? Well, now, for one.
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Social Issues

J.E. DyerSeptember 23, 2019
1

Greta Thunberg helpfully exhorts UN climate summit: ‘How dare you! You are failing us. We will never forgive you’

Children deployed as human shields.
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Politics

J.E. DyerSeptember 23, 2019
2

An actual, no-kidding reason for Trump’s review of military aid to Ukraine

Hiding in plain sight.
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Quick Takes

J.E. DyerSeptember 22, 2019
1

Sheila Jackson Lee and the .50-cal AR-15, ‘as heavy as 10 boxes’

They know so much that isn't so.
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Quick Takes

J.E. DyerSeptember 21, 2019
1

Football Follies 2019: NCAA week 4

Starting to get real.
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Foreign Affairs

J.E. DyerSeptember 20, 2019
2

Sudden ‘Trump phone call/whistleblower’ theme looks desperate and preemptive

When a "whistle" is more like a raspberry.
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Foreign Affairs

J.E. DyerSeptember 16, 2019
1

Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon: Mullahs and Donald Trump are both inside our OODA loop

The hard jolts of interesting times.
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Politics

J.E. DyerSeptember 14, 2019
2

No, Trump doesn’t need to change his demeanor or style of communication

But let your communication be yea, yea; nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
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Quick Takes

J.E. DyerSeptember 13, 2019
2

Football Follies 2019: NCAA week 3

Meh the Third .. but bigger action coming.
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Politics

J.E. DyerSeptember 12, 2019
3

The Flynn Brady request: A reminder of how this whole thing could have been avoided

Seeing back to the beginning, with the BS filter properly calibrated.
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Politics

J.E. DyerSeptember 11, 2019
1

A special commemoration as 9/11 begins its passage into history

Written on eternity.
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Media

J.E. DyerSeptember 10, 2019
1

Why are CNN and NBC apparently trying to ‘out’ a former CIA asset from Russia?

Spy game wags the dog?
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Politics

J.E. DyerSeptember 8, 2019
0

How Hollywood slips in its message of anti-gun bias

Seeking absolution - through telling you what to do while showing you otherwise.
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Quick Takes

J.E. DyerSeptember 7, 2019
0

Football Follies 2019: NCAA week 2

It's meh weekend, but things are looking up.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerSeptember 6, 2019
1

For the Spygate probe, it’s not necessarily indictments we want – now or later

The overriding importance of knowing.
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Foreign Affairs

J.E. DyerSeptember 4, 2019
1

Coup-ish: With Tory defections and agenda grab, Parliament once again angles to delay Brexit

No way out?
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Quick Takes

J.E. DyerAugust 31, 2019
1

Football Follies 2019: NCAA week 1

And ... they're off!
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Politics

J.E. DyerAugust 28, 2019
4

Truly bizarre CNN plan for Dems’ ‘climate crisis’ town hall: Symptom of a DNC tug-of-war?

Driving away viewers and sending more votes to Trump.
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Foreign Affairs

J.E. DyerAugust 27, 2019
2

A modest proposal, for Greenland and beyond

More than one way to domesticate a cat.
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Foreign Affairs

J.E. DyerAugust 26, 2019
2

Macron springs Iranian FM on G7; French media report accurately, U.S. media sell anti-Trump narrative

Bad-boy geopolitics.
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National Security

J.E. DyerAugust 24, 2019
1

Port in Turkey, Israel bombing Iraq, U.S. embedding along the land bridge: Shadow battle with Iran continues

By indirection, FORCE direction out.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerAugust 23, 2019
1

BOMBSHELL? Overstock CEO who had relationship with Maria Butina says he helped set up high-level officials for potential felony charges

Curiouser to the max.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerAugust 23, 2019
2

An empirical comparison: Journalist goes to buy a gun, blogger goes to buy cold pills

A live test, documented and attested.
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Media

J.E. DyerAugust 22, 2019
0

That time Newsweek touted Obama’s Biblically-worded ‘Second Coming’

Just don't do as they do, because that would be really bad.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerAugust 21, 2019
3

The upside of the New York Times’s ‘1619 Project’

Can the truth start marching on again?
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Media

J.E. DyerAugust 19, 2019
1

On New York Times’s new ‘racism’ theme, Americans should be the ‘Unteachables’

Malice aforethought.
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Politics

J.E. DyerAugust 16, 2019
2

Epic fail: Tlaib and Omar could have gone on congressional visit to Israel; instead tried to radicalize policy on Israel – in American people’s name

Policy. Popular. Sensible. Acceptable.
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National Security

J.E. DyerAugust 16, 2019
2

Buying Greenland

Does money talk?
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Politics

J.E. DyerAugust 15, 2019
2

Huh? California Gov Newsom: ‘Vast majority’ of homeless in San Francisco are from Texas

Political math.
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Foreign Affairs

J.E. DyerAugust 14, 2019
1

Turmoil at mega-bank HSBC tracks with cresting of Hong Kong, UK/Brexit, and Epstein dramas

Interesting banking times.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerAugust 12, 2019
1

After this last week, some serious concerns MUST be addressed regarding ‘red flag’ laws

Context unbecoming.
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