We often use the end of the year to do a quick review of the state of the blog. In 2023, the blog had another record year in traffic. We will soon pass our 78,000,000 view mark and our community continues to grow rapidly around the world. As a mark of that growth, we are now staggering our periodic updates that used to occur with each new millionth marker since we are now surpassing a million such views on average in less than a month.
As always, I want to offer special thanks for Darren Smith, who has continued to help manage the blog. I also want to thank our dedicated editors Kristin Oren and Hartwell Harrison, who continue their amazing work proofing posts on a daily basis to remove my embarrassing typos. Finally, I would like to thank our regular readers who alert me to typos or any violations of the civility or copyright policies on the blog.
The growth on Twitter this year has been astonishing. We have now passed 600,000 followers on X (formerly known as Twitter). We also have roughly 8,000 people who have signed up for alerts by emails. We also have over 11,000 WordPress subscribers for a total of 19,000 regular subscribers.
This week, we passed 21,620 posts and roughly 1,324,000 comments. The last year set a new record for our traffic overall with roughly 12 million views for the year.
So here are the annual figures. Over the last year, our ten biggest international sources for readers came from:
- United States
2. Canada
3. United Kingdom
4. Australia
5. Germany
6. Unknown Region
7. France
8. Netherlands
9. Mexico
10. New Zealand
The top five posts in terms of traffic in the last year were:
- Capitol Offense: Police Investigating Porn Video Shot in Senate Committee Room [Updated]
- “Everybody Needs to Back Off!”: The Media and Political Figures Continue to Ignore the Biden Corruption Scandal
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The success of the blog continues to amaze me. I am deeply honored to be the host on this blog and to see the continued rapid expansion of its readership.
We are now routinely ranked with the top legal blogs in the world. We have also attracted our share of accolades, including the ABA Journal for its blog Hall of Fame. That is due in large part to our regulars who add perspectives and passion to the issues that we discuss.
In these trying times, it is nice to have a place (even a virtual place) where you can go to discuss the issues from the momentous to the simply odd. I hope that you continue to find this to be a site worthy of your time and your contributions.
So, here’s hoping for a great year to come for our country, our families, and, yes, our blog in 2024.
For all its flaws, this blawg is the diamond in the dung as that Sage of Monicello might say. Kudos.
THANK YOU Jonathan Turley for continually presenting a rock solid point of view that should provide reassurance of what America should lawfully embrace in regards to the ideals and values our forefathers had envisioned. HAPPY NEW YEAR.
J T deserves much credit to standing up to the leftist fanaticism in academia. He is just now finding out how far these failed human beings are willing to go. We can only say: never lose your courage; it is far more important than your intellect. Turley is probably the most powerful voice against the Democrats’ attempts to manipulate the Presidential primary ballots to exclude Trump under the 14th Amendment. Hopefully, he can also spend some time shining light on their efforts to manipulate the Democratic primaries again. We all remember Iowa in 2020. Now they are shutting down primaries to avoid challenges to Brain-Dead Biden. For example, in Florida, it seems that they have decided to hold no primary at all. RFK Jr. is certainly getting an education.
Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election primarily because wikileaks exposed her conspiracy with the DNC and the media to rig the democratic primary. But for her immoral election rigging she still would have won the democratic primary.
But she wanted a coronation – not a convention.
We are constantly seeing democrats carping about the threat everyone else poses to democracy – which the float and often actually do the most egregiously undemocratic things ever done in this country.
Updated 1/1/24 Lefty Wall of Shame aka The Lefty Turd Farm
Already in the young year, Dennis and turdrunner have expressed keen interest in the Wall. By popular demand I will be posting this more often.
Behold what Dennis McIntyre, aka Mr. Alpha Bank, calls “opposing views”
Svelass aka Mr Peetape 22
Dennis McInlyre 9
Lawn Boy Elvis Bug 7
Gigi the LIAR 4
ATS 3
brandrunnerPoopy Head 1
Most Confederate soldiers were poor sharecroppers—-Dennis McInlyre aka Mr Alpha Bank
16 Republicans signed an amicus brief.—-Dennis McInlyre aka Mr. Alpha Bank
In Mcdonnell, SCOTUS narrowed the definition of what constitutes a benefit—Svelaz aka Mr Peetape
Gifts and payments to family are not “official acts” with regard to Joe Biden—Mr Peetape
(confusing quid with quo)
The 14th Amendment argument was put forth by the Federalist Society—Mr Peetape
It will be up to a GRAND JURY to decide if Hunter is guilty of contempt—-Svelaz aka
Mr Peetape
2 USC 192 is a congressional rule—Svelaz aka Mr Peetape
Congressional rules trump the 6th Amendment—Mr Peetape
Convictions for tax evasion are rare (its 2 per day)—-Mr Peetape
The inflation rate is coming down and is at 2.5% (it’s 3.1% and steady, 12/12/23)—brandrunner aka Poopy Head
Hunter and his lawyer have said they would comply with the subpoena—Dennis McInlyre aka Mr Alpha Bank
The 5th Amendment cannot be invoked in a court or criminal proceeding—Svelaz aka Mr Peetape
Hunter won’t testify. He will plead the 5th. (12/15)—Svelaz, aka Mr Peetape
Hunter wants to testify. He is not trying to hide anything. (12/18)—Svelaz aka Mr Peetape
A President can’t be convicted of a crime unless there is no doubt—Svelaz aka Mr. Peetape
R.C.A.W.T. was a good pneumonic—- Elvis Bug aka The Lawn Boy
(its mnemonic)
Nuclear ICBM’s are more accurate, the closer you are to the target.—*Elvis Bug aka The Lawn Boy
Hunter doesn’t have to testify because Comer changed his mind—Dennis aka Mr Alpha Bank
The quid has to be illegal for a quid pro quo to be illegal—-*Elvis bug aka The Lawn boy
If Joe’s quid results in Hunter’s quo, that’s not illegal—-*Elvis Bug aka The Lawn Boy
Inflation was on a rising trend from 2015 until Trump left office—-Elvis Bug aka The Lawn Boy
(1.3, 2.2, 2.5, 1.9, 1.3)
Comer said that the mere presence of shell companies is *proof* of a crime—-Svelass aka Mr. Peetape
Hunter Biden showed up for his hearing today—–Svelass aka Mr. Peetape
Hunter Biden agreed to testify to a public hearing—–Gigi the LIAR
(who did he agree with?)
The Consumer Price Index was indeed at 7.6% when Trump left office—–Elvis Bug aka The Lawn Boy (it was 1.4%)
Archer gave no details about the meeting at the Naval Observatory with Marc Holtzman—-Svelaz aka Mr Peetape
Archer had no idea what was on those phone calls. He admitted it under oath—Svelaz aka Mr Peetape
Evidence isnt permissible unless its incontrovertible—-ATS
Circumstantial evidence alone is not enough to convict——Svelaz aka Mr Peetape
Republicans are the only ones calling for violence these days—-Dennis
Democrats call for violence when the cause is right—-Dennis in the same post
Gas prices spiked because Texas uses crude oil to make electricity—-Gigi the LIAR
AR-15’s ruin the meat—-Dennis
The inflation rate was 8% when Trump left office—-Gigi the LIAR
(it was actually 1.4%)
Biden only released the strategic oil reserve once—-Svelass Mr Peetape
Archer never said it was Joe that was called from Dubai—-ATS
The State of Florida does property tax “appraisals”—-Svelass Mr Peetape
You can’t convict without incontrovertible proof—ATS
Trump was convicted of rape—Svelass Mr. Peetape
The Jefferson County school board has a supermajority of republicans—-lawn boy EB
Trumps attorney forgot to “check a box”——Dennis
An insult or name calling is not a personal attack—-Svelass Mr. Peetape
The DC NG answers only to the President—-Gigi the LIAR
Christianity teaches to treat your fellow man the same way you treat Jesus—-Svelass Mr Peetape
The ideal athlete is 6’2” and 175#—-Dennis
There is no way a fat person can shoot a 67 in golf—-Dennis
“Bright red Alabama is the “wild west”,” (when its bright blue Birmingham that accounts for 95% of the gun violence in Alabama)—-Dennis
That’s why McCarthy didn’t hold a vote. He was going to, but upon realizing he didn’t have the votes he chose not to hold one.—-Mr Peetape
McCarthy never said he didn’t have the votes.—-Mr Peetape.
*These statements are attributed to the booger eater, because they were posted by a green anonymous. If that clown wants to step up and claim ownership, I will change attribution.
I feel like I just read a receipt from CVS.
The fact you know what that feels like says a lot
About what?
3 bottles in ^^^*
Huh?
I don’t support Tom’s wall and certainly don’t want it posted more often. All of the wall items are off topic, have no context, and should be discussed instead in the post where the statement was made.
Concerned Idiot,
Your comments are noted and summarily dismissed. If you don’t know the context, you don’t keep up. Not my problem. If you are curious about any particular item, just ask, I will give you whatever context you need. Many, (take the top item on the list) don’t require any context. It’s a bald faced lie, easily disproven.
The list is the context. Beware of anything crossing the lips of you or your cubicle mates/puppets…Svelaz, Gigi, Natacha, Silberman. And thanks for outing yourself.
The list will stay. It will be posted even more often, just for you.
As for off topic, see Dennis.
What I learned today is Darren is still on the Job. Despite our leftist trolls stating as a Fact, Darren was no longer at the blog. Wrong as usual.
Turley has given the leftist whiners what they want, little to no moderation of comments.
And when Dennis, Svelaz, Gigi, Elvis Bug, and turdrunner take their horsesh!t somewhere else, the blog will return to normal. Not until.
They are finding out what it’s like to be shouted down, and from Denny’s first comment of the New Year, its obvious they don’t like it.
“Mommy, please make Estovir/Tom stop skull fvcking me!!!!”—-turdrunner
I am surprised to hear that Darren is still the blog manager because his enforcement of the blog civility policy has been quite lax recently compared to his earlier enforcement. He also used to make brief comments and help people comment who had too many links. I strongly support enforcement of the blog civility policy and transparency of how it’s being enforced — for example it’s still not clear why Jeff Silberman has been banned since the summer of 2022 and why Svelaz was banned for several months in 2023.
What, are you fvcking cubicle mates with them? I knew you were a turd layer.
Concerned citizen=Jeff Silberman=Natacha=Svelaz
Iowan2,
Might be Darren is on vacation? like take the whole month off for some much deserved R&R.
upstate,
anything is possible. My only point, was the trolls that claim to “know” whit is happening, are just making shit up. Like they do with every comment.
How did you get the word sh*t with an i, past the filter???
I have followed the T. blog from day one, it is one of very few outlets
that inform us of the truth that the mainstream media & liberals lie
about on an hourly basis.
Our Manchurian president is close to destroying our country, I would
like to hear conservatives start talking about how we start to restore
the rule of law, deport the felons & terrorists walking across our border,
& on & on.
one of the few places where we get accurate & truthful news.
I am totally grateful for what you highlight & what the mainstream
media buries & lies to us about the state of our country.
Here’s where he misspells Michelle Carter’s name and claims she was “convicted of murder”: https://jonathanturley.org/2023/11/24/do-with-it-what-you-fing-will-oklahoma-woman-charged-with-murder-after-giving-elderly-mother-the-gun-used-in-suicide/#more-212340
That wasn’t “accurate & truthful” and could be construed as “lies”. Jonathan, Darren, and Kristen should be ashamed, but they aren’t.
Creeken, why do you come here. Lie. Then provide the link exposing your lie.
All Turley did is report she was charged with murder. The whole post was on whether the facts supported such a charge.
You have a reading comprehension problem. Turley literally said “convicted of murder” in the first sentence of the link. And that’s false.
Well, we know Creekan=svelaz=ATS. The old “reading comprehension” standby.
Love these creative puppet names.
Now will please go away and never come back?
Or at least stop lying all the time? Our host rarely gets his facts wrong, if he did he makes the correction and moves on.
You however double down on your lies.
“The 23-year-old was convicted in 2017 of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Conrad Roy III, who died by suicide in 2014 after filling the inside of his pickup truck with poisonous fumes.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michelle-carter-convicted-texting-suicide-case-released-jail-n1120411
So involuntary manslaughter is equal to “convicted of murder”? Is that what they teach in law school?
Yes, Turley made factual errors. No, he and his minions didn’t correct them. You’re the one doubling down on “lies.”
Congratulations professor!
Good work Darren, Kristin and Hartwell!
2024 Predictions
1. A ‘reluctant’ President Biden and ‘reluctant’ Vice President Harris will back out of the 2024 Democratic Party Ticket.
Should they choose to stay, they will surely lose the Election.
2. Kennedy will be a Factor on Tuesday, November 5, 2024.
3. The Deep State will get it’s War.
4. If you were hurting in 2023, you’ll be hurting worse in 2024. Debt and Inflation will wipe most off the Reality Table into the depths of despair and dissolution.
5. Changes will occur in the SCOTUS (Note: Not Thomas).
6. Joblessness will skyrocket.
7. Bailouts will occur at least 6 times in 2024.
8. The 2024 Electoral College will become irrelevant in the end.
9. The Invaders from South of the Boarder will make this place like their Home (make it into from where they came).
10. 70%+ of People will come to the conclusion that the U.S. system has been B.S. all along.
Thank you, Jonathan, for keeping this important site up and running. Happy New Year from New Mexico.
Congratulations you all, and thank you for all you do. 😊😊
Would Satan let angels post in his web log? I doubt it. But Turley is an angel for letting devils post in his.
Technically, Satan was an angel, but I know what you mean.
Recognition you really deserve
Congratulations, well deserved. Your blog is alway an interesting read
Congratulations Professor Turley for the success of your blog. In the oceans of misinformation and speech suppression it is refreshing to find places where seeking truth still matters. Happy New Year! I wish you continued success in 2024. This is shaping up to be a pivotal and challenging year in history.
Jonathan Turley, a garbage “Legal Scholar” supports a Hitler worshipping sociopath, who is also a failed executive businessman. How did you help trump and his treason Turley? What did you do? Why are you such a coward? Why did you say you have dreams of being the next Goebbels? The American People don’t just hate republicans for supporting nazis, the KKK, and your hatred of anyone not white or straight – we hate YOU because you are a liar. There is no denying that a Hitler worshipper should not hold public office, but a subhuman that supports the Hitler worshipper should not be a teacher. Let the beatings begin.
This is satire, correct? No reasonably intelligent person would write such drivel…even anonymously.
I agree 100%. Whoever wrote “such drivel,” as you perfectly characterized it, has an I.Q. in single digits. What a moron.
Irrationality and ignorance is alive and well; that’s really the problem in a nutshell in the U. S. of today.
What would Leftists do or say without Adolph Hitler? If he had not existed, they would have had to invent him.
Edwardmahl,
Ever notice how they will use Hitler and Nazis even when it is them who have more in common with Hitler and their chanting “From river to sea,” they never mention Stalin or Mao.
Not worth a response
“In 2023, the blog had another record year in traffic.”
Congratulations! (and to DS and the editors)
Professor Turley, where would we be without you! It’s enlightening and comforting to read the updates daily !
With the success documented here, enter the grammar police, exhibiting zero self awarness, illuminate their pathetic uselessness.
it seems that the desire to tyrannize is outweighing the desire to liberate.
Liberators are afraid to anger tyrannizers, when tyrannizers are not afraid to anger liberators.
All of your freedom and libery people who wave your flags each 4th of July are all full of crap.
You are being overly generous in praising your editors. Despite their work, there are still numerous typos, incomplete sentences, and other errors. A bright, well-educated high school student could do a better job. The new year might be a good time to find new ones.
“You are being . . .”
What do you call chronic complainers who can’t take even a moment to praise a man’s productivity?
Ingrates.
I took two weeks off…and we do post-publication editing, so check back later for the corrected copy.