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.

Chicago ‘protester’ celebrates shutting down Trump event by firing an Uzi by J.E. Dyer

Chicago ‘protester’ celebrates shutting down Trump event by firing an Uzi

J.E. Dyer March 12, 2016
Whoa: Russia sends major signal with nuclear-armed sub off France by J.E. Dyer

Whoa: Russia sends major signal with nuclear-armed sub off France

J.E. Dyer March 11, 2016
Garbled signals: Iranian missile launches this week were worse than a ‘test’ by J.E. Dyer

Garbled signals: Iranian missile launches this week were worse than a ‘test’

J.E. Dyer March 10, 2016
Trump bags Michigan, Mississippi; *UPDATE* Sanders wins MI! Cruz wins ID…Trump way up in HI by J.E. Dyer

Trump bags Michigan, Mississippi; *UPDATE* Sanders wins MI! Cruz wins ID…Trump way up in HI

J.E. Dyer March 8, 2016
Forensics by Oregon sheriff suggest FBI misconduct in shooting death of LaVoy Finicum by J.E. Dyer

Forensics by Oregon sheriff suggest FBI misconduct in shooting death of LaVoy Finicum

J.E. Dyer March 8, 2016
On eve of Obama’s nuclear security summit, Russia plans missile firing salvo from Arctic by J.E. Dyer

On eve of Obama’s nuclear security summit, Russia plans missile firing salvo from Arctic

J.E. Dyer March 7, 2016
How veterans remember Nancy Reagan by J.E. Dyer

How veterans remember Nancy Reagan

J.E. Dyer March 6, 2016
BLM, MSM try to turn anti-Trump protests into a ‘thing’; warning signs for GOP in Cleveland by J.E. Dyer

BLM, MSM try to turn anti-Trump protests into a ‘thing’; warning signs for GOP in Cleveland

J.E. Dyer March 6, 2016
Cruz cruises in Kansas and Maine caucuses; *UPDATE* LA and KY called for Trump; Cruz close 2nd on Bayou by J.E. Dyer

Cruz cruises in Kansas and Maine caucuses; *UPDATE* LA and KY called for Trump; Cruz close 2nd on Bayou

J.E. Dyer March 5, 2016
Great news: Students asked to ‘pledge allegiance’ to flags of Cuba, Russia by J.E. Dyer

Great news: Students asked to ‘pledge allegiance’ to flags of Cuba, Russia

J.E. Dyer March 4, 2016
‘Most-ignored’ Top 50 artists, by state by J.E. Dyer

‘Most-ignored’ Top 50 artists, by state

J.E. Dyer March 4, 2016
Video: Finally, Hillary’s top national security issue by J.E. Dyer

Video: Finally, Hillary’s top national security issue

J.E. Dyer March 4, 2016
GOP v. Trump: It’s like they’re stupid or something by J.E. Dyer

GOP v. Trump: It’s like they’re stupid or something

J.E. Dyer March 3, 2016
U.S. Navy’s Farsi Island incident report: Horrifying breakdown of morale, operational discipline? by J.E. Dyer

U.S. Navy’s Farsi Island incident report: Horrifying breakdown of morale, operational discipline?

J.E. Dyer March 2, 2016
A super Tuesday for Trump; ho-hum for Clinton by J.E. Dyer

A super Tuesday for Trump; ho-hum for Clinton

J.E. Dyer March 2, 2016
First blood? Reporter loses slam-down with Secret Service at Trump event by J.E. Dyer

First blood? Reporter loses slam-down with Secret Service at Trump event

J.E. Dyer February 29, 2016
Libya: What exactly are our military forces doing there? by J.E. Dyer

Libya: What exactly are our military forces doing there?

J.E. Dyer February 29, 2016
Canadian island recruits Trump refugees to restore its population by J.E. Dyer

Canadian island recruits Trump refugees to restore its population

J.E. Dyer February 27, 2016
The Millennial plight of Yelp’s ‘Talia Jane’ by J.E. Dyer

The Millennial plight of Yelp’s ‘Talia Jane’

J.E. Dyer February 26, 2016
Obama foreign policy: Watching a total meltdown happen is less fun than you’d think by J.E. Dyer

Obama foreign policy: Watching a total meltdown happen is less fun than you’d think

J.E. Dyer February 26, 2016
Debate: Rubio gooses Trump’s GOP critics, but does himself no favors by J.E. Dyer

Debate: Rubio gooses Trump’s GOP critics, but does himself no favors

J.E. Dyer February 26, 2016
Nevada’s Brian Sandoval for SCOTUS: Republican pig in a poke? by J.E. Dyer

Nevada’s Brian Sandoval for SCOTUS: Republican pig in a poke?

J.E. Dyer February 24, 2016
Trump gets caucus win in Nevada; Rubio leads Cruz early for 2nd place by J.E. Dyer

Trump gets caucus win in Nevada; Rubio leads Cruz early for 2nd place

J.E. Dyer February 24, 2016
CPAC may have to go without Rubio this year, but will it matter? by J.E. Dyer

CPAC may have to go without Rubio this year, but will it matter?

J.E. Dyer February 23, 2016
Image of the Day: Navy versus navy by J.E. Dyer

Image of the Day: Navy versus navy

J.E. Dyer February 22, 2016
Obama iconographer evokes Nazism in new viral Sanders logo by J.E. Dyer

Obama iconographer evokes Nazism in new viral Sanders logo

J.E. Dyer February 22, 2016
Memo to GOP: Biden has the last word on election-year Supreme Court nominations by J.E. Dyer

Memo to GOP: Biden has the last word on election-year Supreme Court nominations

J.E. Dyer February 22, 2016
Rutgers students, sobbing and terrified, seek therapy after free-speech lecture by J.E. Dyer

Rutgers students, sobbing and terrified, seek therapy after free-speech lecture

J.E. Dyer February 21, 2016
British students assigned to write their parents a ‘conversion to Islam’ letter by J.E. Dyer

British students assigned to write their parents a ‘conversion to Islam’ letter

J.E. Dyer February 20, 2016
Trump thumps the competition in South Carolina; UPDATE – Delegate count by J.E. Dyer

Trump thumps the competition in South Carolina; UPDATE – Delegate count

J.E. Dyer February 20, 2016
It’s time to break Twitter, Facebook, and Google by J.E. Dyer

It’s time to break Twitter, Facebook, and Google

J.E. Dyer February 20, 2016
Feel the love – with your fellow Berners by J.E. Dyer

Feel the love – with your fellow Berners

J.E. Dyer February 19, 2016
Checking in with World War III: U.S. fades, others surge by J.E. Dyer

Checking in with World War III: U.S. fades, others surge

J.E. Dyer February 19, 2016
Breaking the iPhone: Once again, conservative establishment is urgently, insistently wrong by J.E. Dyer

Breaking the iPhone: Once again, conservative establishment is urgently, insistently wrong

J.E. Dyer February 18, 2016
Could Obama sink a three-pointer with a recess appointment? by J.E. Dyer

Could Obama sink a three-pointer with a recess appointment?

J.E. Dyer February 17, 2016
Evidence piles up that Obamacare advocates never cared about people’s health care by J.E. Dyer

Evidence piles up that Obamacare advocates never cared about people’s health care

J.E. Dyer February 15, 2016
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