To be completely honest, your logo and name are so loaded that I was turned off from browsing your site from the beginning.
Also, if you're planning on playing on the whole Ron Paul bit, it won't work. A huge part of why it's worked on Digg/Reddit is because users are motivated to pollute existing news stories with Ron Paul talk. Having a section dedicated to Ron Paul takes away that motivation.
Your site seems extremely biased, and would be one I would not visit if I were looking for level headed, balanced news. And if I wanted otherwise, I'd stick to Digg/Reddit.
Seed all categories -- nobody stays at a dead party.
Clarify whether "Newest" or "Hottest" is selected. I don't know which method I'm currently viewing.
It's not clear that the upside-down flag button means "comment". To me. Possibly I'm just retarded. EDIT: to clarify, I parsed them as upside-down flags much more than as speech bubbles with an upside-down flag in them. Now that I think about them, they're kinda hilarious. The icon says "Click here to say 'Down with America!'". You should auto-fill the comment boxes with "Down with America" to simplify things.
Breadcrumbs are evil and they must die IMCO.
This is just the thing for all those folks saying "You know what reddit needs more of? Stories about people being tasered. And Ron Paul. There isn't enough coverage of that sort of thing." I think you won't find many of those people here. Good... luck?
Also, if you're planning on playing on the whole Ron Paul bit, it won't work. A huge part of why it's worked on Digg/Reddit is because users are motivated to pollute existing news stories with Ron Paul talk. Having a section dedicated to Ron Paul takes away that motivation.
Your site seems extremely biased, and would be one I would not visit if I were looking for level headed, balanced news. And if I wanted otherwise, I'd stick to Digg/Reddit.
Congrats on launching.