This morning, Res Ipsa passed the 80,000,000 mark in views on the blog. We have used these moments to give thanks for our many regular readers around the world and share our traffic data to give you an idea of the current profile of readers around the world. We do not have a running data page so these periodic postings allow our community to see the traffic profile of our blog. Because of the growth of the blog, we have gone from million to five million view markers. So let’s get at it.
As always, I want to offer special thanks for Darren Smith, who has continued to help manage the blog and help out folks who encounter posting problems. I also want to thank our editors Kristin Oren and Hartwell Harrison for their amazing work proofing posts on a daily basis to remove my embarrassing typos (as well as others who alert me to typos or any violations of the civility or copyright policies on the blog). They have greatly improved the quality of this blog.
In 2023, we posted another record year in traffic and appear likely to exceed that number in 2024.
So here is our current profile:
As of this morning, we have 21,774 posts and 1,348,278 comments. We have also continued our steady rise on X and currently show over 653,000 followers. We have over 20,300 people who follow us on WordPress (doubling the number of followers in roughly the last six months) and by direct emails (which you can subscribe to with the box on the right side of the blog home page).
In the last month, our ten biggest international sources for readers came from:
- United States
- Canada
- Australia
- United Kingdom
- Germany
- New Zealand
- France
- Netherlands
- Unknown Region
- Japan
The top five posts in terms of readership in the last 30 days were:
- Nightmare Scenario: How a Trump Trial Could Now Run Up to (or Through) the 2024 Election
- Report: Trump Did Propose 10,000 National Guard Troops on January 6th
-
- Associated Press Under Fire for Salacious Article on Ohio Senate Candidate Bernie Moreno
-
Congratulations! It is my favorite blog, I follow it on X and I am subscribed. I have learned a lot during this year about law, culture and history of the United States, I love the approach to political issues and everything you write about the current state of our Universities, it helped me a lot in determining that my daughter would go to study Europe! 80 M and counting, Cheers!
Your blog is one of my daily enjoyments. Your honesty is an answer to prayer.
Among the commentary to which I look forward most mornings, Professor Turley’s is top of the list.
I would like to be able to sort comments by popularity….eg.: How many “likes” they get
“Barge strikes bridge in Oklahoma, halting highway traffic”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/barge-strikes-bridge-oklahoma-halting-highway-traffic
The explanation is obvious. The Oklahoma bridge was in love with the Maryland bridge, and when the Maryland bridge was killed, the Oklahoma bridge didn’t want to go on living, so it jumped out in front of the barge in an attempt to commit suicide. There’s really no other rational explanation for these events.
I’m sorry to say but New Yorkers have the government they deserve. They have Hochul and Bragg and James … and now Officer Diller’s wife is a widow. They could have chosen Lee Zeldin and other sane grownups, but they voted for Hochul and chaos and insanity, so now that’s what they have. You can’t fix stupid.
Mob rule, the Democracy they want!
One doesn’t have to be particularly religious, or conform to any strict religion, to comprehend how ridiculous and insulting it is for Fake President Joetard to declare Easter as “Transgender Day of Visibility”:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-slammed-social-media-announcing-transgender-day-visibility-easter-sunday
There’s something SERIOUSLY wrong with this creep, and the creeps that voted for him and work with him. And I don’t mean that as an attack on transgender people. I simply mean that there are over 300 days in the year to pick from when “Transgender Day of Visibility” wouldn’t coincide with some other significant holiday, and particularly one that many people consider sacred.
Joetard isn’t merely the worst president EVER — he’s also the stupidest, most corrupt, AND the most mentally ill. I can’t figure out how people that voted for him can look at their own faces in the mirror, or look their own children in the face.
Biden and his sleazy banal childish cohorts are alarming cowards. They would never in a million years think of insulting Muslims this way. But they know they won’t get any serious repercussions from Christians so they insult away.
But this isn’t really about Muslims. My reference to “the creeps that voted for him” building toward my final sentence — “I can’t figure out how people that voted for him can look at their own faces in the mirror, or look their own children in the face” — has nothing to do with Muslims or any other religion, and was a reference to the FACT that Fake President Joetard specifically set Transgender Day of Visibility” on Easter —- of all days of the year.
It’s not as if Joetard has ever hidden what he is. He couldn’t even if he wanted to. And he doesn’t want to hide it, because that would be too much WORK.
ALL of this fits Joetard’s well-known history and pattern of behavior. NONE of it is surprising coming from a creep that was capable of not only partying with a KKk Grand Wizard (Robert Byrd), but was also capable of claiming to have marched in the civil rights movement. One of those attributes IS true, and well before anyone voted for Joetard for president, most people knew which was a lie and which was historical FACT. And they voted for him anyway, and by so doing forfeited any right to PRETEND to be surprised by ANY of this nonsense.
Congratulations, Professor Turley! May your blog gain double the readership as people read your book!
Well deserved! Always learn something new introduced to make you think vs propaganda
Sincere Thanks
The one commentator I read every comment is Jonathan Turley. He is the most logical, civil and least political speaker with whom I agree.
Another reason not to respond to the Resident Shills is, if you respond with something silly or clever, then it disappears into the Internet Ether when their comment gets deleted. I wish the mods here had the time to just replace the comment with [comment deleted], that way the responses would not all go away/
Agreed.
On the other hand, all those clever ripostes out of context would look like non sequiturs.
Congrats Mr. Turley, it’s good to read someone who often writes about seeing ‘the bigger picture’.
As someone who has (mostly) turned away from mainstream news, it’s refreshing. Thank you.
-Cat
Guyana president takedown of hypocritical leftist BBC who tried to lecture him about climate change. Good for the president. It seems that these days the BBC only hires arrogant twits.
https://youtu.be/RDv42L8-soA?si=ITXD9l2eEnpicW7H