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I saw a post on thenextright the other day that linked to a DontGo article on how conservatives need to collaborate more.  One of the suggestions was to get 500+ people to drive certain stories to the top on Digg.com.

I had never paid must attention to these rating tools like Digg, Reddit, or Buzz, but thought that to the extent that these sites drive traffic, there could be some value there, so I signed up for a Digg account.

I saw a Digg icon at John Ziegler's http://www.howobamagotelected.com that exposes the result of the media bias during the 2008 election.  So I Dugg it.

Ziegler's YouTube video had been Dugg 1967 times, which should be plenty to get it up on the most Dugg list.  I looked at the most Dugg stories in the Political News section for the past 30 days (it had first been dug 8 days ago) and went to the second page and found where it should have been, right between "Bush Regrets Comments During Presidency" with 2058 Diggs and "Chris Matthews: My Job Is To Make Obama Presidency A Success" with 1797 Diggs.

Ziegler's video was no where to be found.  It is on Digg's site, but conspicuously missing from the "front page" where people visiting Digg might spot it.

Is Digg spiking stories it doesn't like?

Found graphic here.  Another graphic here.

Why should we tax workers averaging around $30/hr. in wages and benefits in order to bailout a company who can't keep labor costs under $70/hr.?  The unions have made the Big 3 inflexible and over-burdened with unfunded pension and health insurance costs. The businesses were hurting so bad, the credit crunch just sped up the inevitable day of reckoning.

I write more about this subject on my blog.