RES IPSA HITS 34,000,000

We just hit another milestone today with over 34,000,000 views. We are also recently passed 40,000 followers on Twitter. We remain the “little engine that could” among blogs with a growing collection of people who are seeking a place for civil but passionate discourse on legal and policy issues of our time (and perhaps a few wacky stories). We often use these milestones to look at the current profile of the blog and its supporters around the world.

As always, I want to offer special thanks for our weekend contributors and particularly Darren Smith who continues help up with periodic technical problems etc).

I particularly want to thank our regular commentators and readers. We try to keep this blog as an open forum with as little interference or monitoring of the comments as possible. Given our free speech orientation, we try not to delete comments and, for that reason, we are deeply appreciative of how most people avoid personal or offensive comments in debating these issues. Obviously, our open forum allows trolls and others to spew comments that are at times offensive and obnoxious but we continue to believe that civil and balanced comments will prevail. Thank you for voluntarily assuming restraint over the tenor and content of your comments.

So here is our current profile:

In the last 90 days, our ten biggest international sources for readers (after the United States) have been:

Canada

United Kingdom

Australia

Germany

India

New Zealand

France

Mexico

Netherlands

Welcome to all of our new readers from those countries, particularly the sharp increase this year from regulars from Germany. I have always found our foreign commentators particularly valuable in giving us an insight from beyond our borders — and domestic media coverage.

The top ten posted in terms of readership in the last 90 days:

1. Ex-Nobel Secretary Admits Obama’s Prize Was A Mistake

2. NASA Continues To Rack Up “Firsts,” Including “Heat Shield Rock” Found On Mars

3. Clinton Hits Record Low In Poll With 61 Percent Unpopularity

4. Happy Anniversary To Washington’s “Least Untruthful” Witness: Clapper To Avoid Perjury Prosecution In March

5. The Voice From The “Grave”: How The FBI and Democrats Over-Played The Classification Card On The Nunes Memo

6. Supreme Court Reinstates The Trump Travel Ban In Full Depending Appeal

7. Holder: Mueller Is Going To Charge Trump With Obstruction

8. Two Men Arrested for Attempting to Kidnap 14-Year-Old Girl to Marry a Boy in Fargo

9. Judge Dismisses Bundy Case With Prejudice After Finding of Extensive Unethical Conduct By Federal Prosecutors

10. South Africa’s New Economic Plan: Expropriation of Land and Printing Money

The most frequent commentators were:

Allan

Squeeky Fromm

Late4Dinner

Linda

Paul C. Schulte

Autumn

Mespo

Thank you to all of our regular commentators. We remain an extraordinarily broad and diverse body of commenters from different parts of the world and different political and social backgrounds. Thanks again.

Thanks again to those who try to keep our discussions passionate but civil. We obviously have relapses into personal attacks, particularly during these heated political times. However, I am impressed how most people are able to transcend disagreements to avoid making our differences personal or offensive. There remains a core of people in this country that want to speak objectively about the problems in our country — both legal and political. Some have found their way to this blog and I hope more will join them. We hope that this forum can remain a pluralistic and open forum for mature people to engage in mature discussions. Such discussions have never been more important.

Thanks again everyone and congratulations on the latest milestone. Now on to 35,000,000!

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