J.E. Dyer

All Posts by 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.

Football Follies 2019: NCAA week 5 by J.E. Dyer

Football Follies 2019: NCAA week 5

J.E. Dyer September 28, 2019
Timeline of a ‘six ways from Sunday’ shadow war: Whistleblower rule change, other events in context by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer September 28, 2019
‘Whistleblower’ complaint paints picture of frustrated Trump policy opponents in intel community by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer September 26, 2019
Can’t make this up: In 2018, Senate Democrats sent Ukrainian prosecutor a letter … asking him to investigate Trump by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer September 25, 2019
Trump-Zelensky phone call content is about investigating Spygate (and is a nothingburger otherwise) by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer September 25, 2019
Nancy Pelosi puts the cart before the horse in announcing ‘impeachment inquiry’ by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer September 24, 2019
Greta Thunberg helpfully exhorts UN climate summit: ‘How dare you! You are failing us. We will never forgive you’ by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer September 23, 2019
An actual, no-kidding reason for Trump’s review of military aid to Ukraine by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer September 23, 2019
Sheila Jackson Lee and the .50-cal AR-15, ‘as heavy as 10 boxes’ by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer September 22, 2019
Football Follies 2019: NCAA week 4 by J.E. Dyer

Football Follies 2019: NCAA week 4

J.E. Dyer September 21, 2019
Sudden ‘Trump phone call/whistleblower’ theme looks desperate and preemptive by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer September 20, 2019
Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon: Mullahs and Donald Trump are both inside our OODA loop by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer September 16, 2019
No, Trump doesn’t need to change his demeanor or style of communication by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer September 14, 2019
Football Follies 2019: NCAA week 3 by J.E. Dyer

Football Follies 2019: NCAA week 3

J.E. Dyer September 13, 2019
The Flynn Brady request: A reminder of how this whole thing could have been avoided by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer September 12, 2019
A special commemoration as 9/11 begins its passage into history by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer September 11, 2019
Why are CNN and NBC apparently trying to ‘out’ a former CIA asset from Russia? by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer September 10, 2019
How Hollywood slips in its message of anti-gun bias by J.E. Dyer

How Hollywood slips in its message of anti-gun bias

J.E. Dyer September 8, 2019
Football Follies 2019: NCAA week 2 by J.E. Dyer

Football Follies 2019: NCAA week 2

J.E. Dyer September 7, 2019
For the Spygate probe, it’s not necessarily indictments we want – now or later by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer September 6, 2019
Coup-ish: With Tory defections and agenda grab, Parliament once again angles to delay Brexit by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer September 4, 2019
Football Follies 2019: NCAA week 1 by J.E. Dyer

Football Follies 2019: NCAA week 1

J.E. Dyer August 31, 2019
Truly bizarre CNN plan for Dems’ ‘climate crisis’ town hall: Symptom of a DNC tug-of-war? by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer August 28, 2019
A modest proposal, for Greenland and beyond by J.E. Dyer

A modest proposal, for Greenland and beyond

J.E. Dyer August 27, 2019
Macron springs Iranian FM on G7; French media report accurately, U.S. media sell anti-Trump narrative by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer August 26, 2019
Port in Turkey, Israel bombing Iraq, U.S. embedding along the land bridge: Shadow battle with Iran continues by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer August 24, 2019
BOMBSHELL? Overstock CEO who had relationship with Maria Butina says he helped set up high-level officials for potential felony charges by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer August 23, 2019
An empirical comparison: Journalist goes to buy a gun, blogger goes to buy cold pills by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer August 23, 2019
That time Newsweek touted Obama’s Biblically-worded ‘Second Coming’ by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer August 22, 2019
The upside of the New York Times’s ‘1619 Project’ by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer August 21, 2019
On New York Times’s new ‘racism’ theme, Americans should be the ‘Unteachables’ by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer August 19, 2019
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 by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer August 16, 2019
Buying Greenland by J.E. Dyer

Buying Greenland

J.E. Dyer August 16, 2019
Huh? California Gov Newsom: ‘Vast majority’ of homeless in San Francisco are from Texas by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer August 15, 2019
Turmoil at mega-bank HSBC tracks with cresting of Hong Kong, UK/Brexit, and Epstein dramas by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer August 14, 2019
After this last week, some serious concerns MUST be addressed regarding ‘red flag’ laws by J.E. Dyer

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

J.E. Dyer August 12, 2019
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