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.

Law and Government

J.E. DyerJuly 25, 2021
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Latest on monitoring Tucker Carlson: Enough to get everybody riled up

NSA's reactions ring true - but don't settle the issue.
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Politics

J.E. DyerJuly 23, 2021
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Kamala Harris: Getting vaccinated is ‘the very essence’ of the Bible saying ‘love thy neighbor’

Beware governments justifying policies with sermons about love.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerJuly 20, 2021
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Klobuchar clarifies why Senate Republicans cannot agree to cloture on an ‘infrastructure bill to be filled in later’

With infrastructure spending, opportunity always knocks.
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Media

J.E. DyerJuly 18, 2021
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AP dances Gangnam style in non-responsive ‘fact check’ of text message monitoring claim

Creative rewriting.
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Foreign Affairs

J.E. DyerJuly 18, 2021
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Iran’s Atlantic naval adventure is back on the radar, with the warships heading for St. Petersburg in the Baltic Sea

Head fakes aside, it's Baltic or bust.
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Politics

J.E. DyerJuly 16, 2021
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Disinformation and other information disorders: Psaki, Murthy, and two pings

Trump was right again.
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Politics

J.E. DyerJuly 16, 2021
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Milley’s big coup-fighting adventure: Two pings

Coups and rumors of coups.
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Politics

J.E. DyerJuly 14, 2021
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Toledo: Local news reports say collapsed mural of George Floyd was struck by lightning

This will not stand.
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Politics

J.E. DyerJuly 14, 2021
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Biden-allied groups to work with SMS carriers to ‘dispel misinformation’

They protest an awful lot, and now they want to "work with the carriers" on your text messages.
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Politics

J.E. DyerJuly 12, 2021
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A day in the garden of good and evil: Cuba shouts ‘Libertad’; America dances with death

Choose life.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerJuly 9, 2021
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Door-to-door vaccination proselytizing: How many admin spox does it take to mimic the Fauci effect?

A locust cloud of witnesses.
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Politics

J.E. DyerJuly 8, 2021
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License to monitor: National strategies, the Capitol Police, and Tucker Carlson

An elaborate recipe for spying hard.
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Unyielding

J.E. DyerJuly 4, 2021
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Independence Day 2021

Let freedom ring.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerJuly 1, 2021
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Asking the right questions about the monitoring of Tucker Carlson

Getting the story straight, one iteration at a time.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerJune 28, 2021
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Tucker Carlson: ‘Whistleblower’ advised him NSA monitoring his comms, admin seeks to take him off air

Straightening out some terms for better understanding.
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National Security

J.E. DyerJune 26, 2021
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Russia logs some major ‘firsts’ in maritime exercise in Eastern Med

The year of exercising unprecedentedly.
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National Security

J.E. DyerJune 24, 2021
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NATO exercise Sea Breeze, in the Black Sea, not a breeze so far

O brave new world, that hath such maritime exercises in it.
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Politics

J.E. DyerJune 24, 2021
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Biden tells Americans they would need nukes and F-15s to oppose the federal government

Patriotism isn't the last refuge of scoundrels; referencing nuclear weapons is.
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Politics

J.E. DyerJune 23, 2021
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Military training guide includes socialists as representatives of a terrorist ideological category

Parse, parse, parse, and it all comes down to the same thing.
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Politics

J.E. DyerJune 21, 2021
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A new ‘domestic terrorism strategy’ brings back an old information playbook; *UPDATE*

New wine, old skin.
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National Security

J.E. DyerJune 18, 2021
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Fascinating: U.S. officials say Iranian warships have ‘changed course’; not headed for Venezuela

An interestingly timed about-face.
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Foreign Affairs

J.E. DyerJune 17, 2021
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The Iranian ships that talked too little

Little ships, big ocean, fiction-prone regime.
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National Security

J.E. DyerJune 13, 2021
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Russian Pacific Fleet breaks out: First exercise in Central Pacific

Going where no Russian exercise task force has gone before.
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National Security

J.E. DyerJune 10, 2021
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Meanwhile on the high seas: Is a Russian submarine inviting itself to the G7 summit?

Black hull diplomacy: The possibility of a summit-crasher.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerJune 4, 2021
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Biden admin informs media outlets that Trump DOJ ‘covertly’ obtained phone records on their reporters

Pursuing leakers is what's going on here.
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Foreign Affairs

J.E. DyerJune 2, 2021
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Iran’s fleet oiler, Kharg, sinks under mysterious circumstances after catching fire in Gulf of Oman

A major loss for the Iranian fleet.
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Unyielding

J.E. DyerMay 31, 2021
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Memorial Day 2021

We will never forget.
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National Security

J.E. DyerMay 31, 2021
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Is Iran finally going to get a pair of navy ships to Venezuela?

Will they or won't they? Only time will tell.
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National Security

J.E. DyerMay 29, 2021
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Fauci said benefits of high-risk research ‘outweigh risks’ like pandemics, yes; but resuming U.S. research in 2017 is what’s interesting

Always cross-check the timing.
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Politics

J.E. DyerMay 28, 2021
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Senate Republicans filibuster, block approval of January 6 commission

Overall, the right outcome.
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Foreign Affairs

J.E. DyerMay 24, 2021
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Israel, Iran, Hamas, and why it’s not 2014 anymore

Shifts long building tip over in May 2021.
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Foreign Affairs

J.E. DyerMay 22, 2021
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The Rojansky Gambit will now prepare us for repaired relations with Russia

Quasi-syllogistic impressionism to set up a reset.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerMay 21, 2021
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Ex-FBI director gave $100K to Biden kids trust; represented Hunter’s Romanian partner in China deal

Another day, another Biden-involved monetary transaction in the USA.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerMay 19, 2021
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Misuse of ‘unmasking’ term in reports about DOJ and parody accounts pestering Devin Nunes

Bad words, false analogies.
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Politics

J.E. DyerMay 15, 2021
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The Liz Cheney moment, and the moving on therefrom

Marshal concurrence and unity for the future - don't try to impose them for the past.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerMay 14, 2021
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Hillary’s revenge? How Facebook justifies continuing its ban on Donald Trump

Sanctions on speech for thee but not for me.
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