J.E. Dyer

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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.

Trump should accept Pelosi’s SOTU rejection and just deliver it his way by J.E. Dyer

Trump should accept Pelosi’s SOTU rejection and just deliver it his way

J.E. Dyer January 16, 2019
Can China afford to attack a U.S. carrier? Depends on what the meaning of ‘afford’ is by J.E. Dyer

Can China afford to attack a U.S. carrier? Depends on what the meaning of ‘afford’ is

J.E. Dyer January 15, 2019
What’s the real deal with Steele? An actual ‘bombshell’ from Lisa Page’s 2018 House testimony by J.E. Dyer

What’s the real deal with Steele? An actual ‘bombshell’ from Lisa Page’s 2018 House testimony

J.E. Dyer January 14, 2019
New York Times’s story on FBI starting Trump probe in 2017 is irrational by J.E. Dyer

New York Times’s story on FBI starting Trump probe in 2017 is irrational

J.E. Dyer January 12, 2019
To highlight border issues, Trump goes to the border; Beto O’Rourke goes to the dentist by J.E. Dyer

To highlight border issues, Trump goes to the border; Beto O’Rourke goes to the dentist

J.E. Dyer January 11, 2019
Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya charged with obstruction in long-settled Prevezon money-laundering case by J.E. Dyer

Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya charged with obstruction in long-settled Prevezon money-laundering case

J.E. Dyer January 8, 2019
Why Chris Wallace is as wrong as the Trump administration about threat ‘border-crossings’ by J.E. Dyer

Why Chris Wallace is as wrong as the Trump administration about threat ‘border-crossings’

J.E. Dyer January 8, 2019
Football Follies 2018: Bowl up by J.E. Dyer

Football Follies 2018: Bowl up

J.E. Dyer January 7, 2019
Happy New Year from Liberty Unyielding by J.E. Dyer

Happy New Year from Liberty Unyielding

J.E. Dyer January 1, 2019
Football Follies 2018: Booger down by J.E. Dyer

Football Follies 2018: Booger down

J.E. Dyer December 28, 2018
Analytical note on new claim: Michael Cohen’s cell phone was near Prague in 2016 by J.E. Dyer

Analytical note on new claim: Michael Cohen’s cell phone was near Prague in 2016

J.E. Dyer December 27, 2018
Media condemn Trump for not visiting troops at Christmas; he and Melania show up in Iraq by J.E. Dyer

Media condemn Trump for not visiting troops at Christmas; he and Melania show up in Iraq

J.E. Dyer December 26, 2018
A Christmas to remember in 2018 by J.E. Dyer

A Christmas to remember in 2018

J.E. Dyer December 22, 2018
The good Judge Sullivan did in the Flynn hearing this week by J.E. Dyer

The good Judge Sullivan did in the Flynn hearing this week

J.E. Dyer December 22, 2018
Football Follies 2018: Booger crests by J.E. Dyer

Football Follies 2018: Booger crests

J.E. Dyer December 21, 2018
Trump resets his strategic position with an announced Syria pull-out by J.E. Dyer

Trump resets his strategic position with an announced Syria pull-out

J.E. Dyer December 20, 2018
Why strong-borders advocates should ignore attempts to ‘guilt’ them over migrants by J.E. Dyer

Why strong-borders advocates should ignore attempts to ‘guilt’ them over migrants

J.E. Dyer December 19, 2018
Flynn sentencing postponed; outburst from the judge; Sudden Turkey Syndrome by J.E. Dyer

Flynn sentencing postponed; outburst from the judge; Sudden Turkey Syndrome

J.E. Dyer December 19, 2018
Judge orders original Flynn 302 made public in redacted version; as usual, it exposes what the FBI was doing by J.E. Dyer

Judge orders original Flynn 302 made public in redacted version; as usual, it exposes what the FBI was doing

J.E. Dyer December 18, 2018
BOOM: Steele hired to ‘help challenge the validity’ of the 2016 election outcome by J.E. Dyer

BOOM: Steele hired to ‘help challenge the validity’ of the 2016 election outcome

J.E. Dyer December 17, 2018
Football Follies 2018: Booger Fest by J.E. Dyer

Football Follies 2018: Booger Fest

J.E. Dyer December 15, 2018
Mueller filing on Flynn interview does NOT include interview notes, original 302 by J.E. Dyer

Mueller filing on Flynn interview does NOT include interview notes, original 302

J.E. Dyer December 14, 2018
What matters about Russian Maria Butina pleading guilty to a conspiracy count by J.E. Dyer

What matters about Russian Maria Butina pleading guilty to a conspiracy count

J.E. Dyer December 14, 2018
Comey: He wouldn’t have tried an FBI ambush like Flynn’s with a different administration by J.E. Dyer

Comey: He wouldn’t have tried an FBI ambush like Flynn’s with a different administration

J.E. Dyer December 14, 2018
Final justice? Judge orders Mueller, Flynn teams to file docs including Flynn 302 by J.E. Dyer

Final justice? Judge orders Mueller, Flynn teams to file docs including Flynn 302

J.E. Dyer December 13, 2018
Oval Office confrontation: Pelosi – ‘Tinkle contest with a skunk’; Trump – ‘Border security’ by J.E. Dyer

Oval Office confrontation: Pelosi – ‘Tinkle contest with a skunk’; Trump – ‘Border security’

J.E. Dyer December 11, 2018
Common thread: The Clinton probe by Jeff Sessions’s remote posse, and a nuclear power plant by J.E. Dyer

Common thread: The Clinton probe by Jeff Sessions’s remote posse, and a nuclear power plant

J.E. Dyer December 10, 2018
Football Follies 2018: NCAA week 15 The Game by J.E. Dyer

Football Follies 2018: NCAA week 15 The Game

J.E. Dyer December 8, 2018
Hezbollah tunnel-terrorist in Lebanon, viral video star, reportedly trained with cartels in Mexico by J.E. Dyer

Hezbollah tunnel-terrorist in Lebanon, viral video star, reportedly trained with cartels in Mexico

J.E. Dyer December 7, 2018
Taking stock: Never a case against Flynn, and DOJ/FBI knew basis of FISA application was faulty by J.E. Dyer

Taking stock: Never a case against Flynn, and DOJ/FBI knew basis of FISA application was faulty

J.E. Dyer December 7, 2018
A 41 farewell: Not to grace, but to a framework of familiar order and beauty by J.E. Dyer

A 41 farewell: Not to grace, but to a framework of familiar order and beauty

J.E. Dyer December 6, 2018
Mueller sentencing memo for Michael Flynn recommends no prison time by J.E. Dyer

Mueller sentencing memo for Michael Flynn recommends no prison time

J.E. Dyer December 4, 2018
Europe on the edge by J.E. Dyer

Europe on the edge

J.E. Dyer December 4, 2018
Happy Hanukkah by J.E. Dyer

Happy Hanukkah

J.E. Dyer December 3, 2018
Supposed ‘election fraud’ in N.C. could trace to deceptive mailer campaign by left-wing group by J.E. Dyer

Supposed ‘election fraud’ in N.C. could trace to deceptive mailer campaign by left-wing group

J.E. Dyer December 3, 2018
Football Follies 2018: NCAA week 14 by J.E. Dyer

Football Follies 2018: NCAA week 14

J.E. Dyer December 1, 2018
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