Final numbers are not in yet, but according to the AP, Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul has broken the online fundraising record he set last month.

Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul’s supporters raised over $5 million Sunday to boost the 10-term Texas congressman’s campaign for the White House.

Called a “Money Bomb,” the goal was to raise as much money as possible on the Internet in one day. The campaign’s previous fundraiser brought in $4.2 million.

At 9 p.m. EST, donations were over $5 million, according to the campaign Web site. Those donations are processed credit card receipts, said Paul campaign spokesman Jesse Benton. Benton said the median donation is about $50 in the fundraiser, which was the idea of Paul supporters who are not officially connected to the campaign.

The LA Times profiles “the man behind the fundraising curtain.”

Trevor Lyman is unshaven, wearing a T-shirt and jeans and sitting at the dining table of his rented home. Scattered around him are a one-pound bag of M&Ms, liter-size bottles of soda and a box of Frosted Flakes — the cereal accounts for his recommended daily allowance of vitamins.

Lyman doesn’t look the part of political fat cat. But as he monitors his laptop, money rolls in. Most comes in small increments. In a testament to the power of the Internet as a political tool, the nickels and dimes amount to hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars.

It is all for his hero, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, the libertarian-Republican presidential candidate who has raised more than $10 million in the last few weeks but has yet to hit double digits in the polls.

The 2008 presidential contest is breaking fundraising records. Hedge-fund moguls, Hollywood titans, oil billionaires and the like deliver much of the money.

But when the final accounting is done, Lyman — little known outside the Internet world of Paul acolytes — could be among the biggest fundraisers of them all.

In politics, money gives a campaign legitimacy. And Lyman has used the Internet to reach out to other Paul backers — disaffected Republicans, independents and some Democrats — by setting up a website and encouraging them to create what he calls a “money bomb.”

“It was very difficult for Ron Paul to get attention. We had to come up with a way for him to get press,” Lyman says, occasionally taking a bite of buttered, once-frozen bagel.

The first “bomb” detonated Nov. 5, when Paul backers pledged an estimated $4.2 million. (The actual take won’t be known until Jan. 31, when candidates next file campaign finance statements.)

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“Land of the Free”



“Jimmy Hendrix Jams for Ron Paul Tea Party”

The Frank Capra holiday classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” is incomparable. You can watch the entire movie right here.

It’s a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American film produced and directed by Frank Capra and based on the short story, “The Greatest Gift” written by Philip Van Doren Stern.

The film takes place in the fictional town of Bedford Falls shortly after World War II and stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man whose attempted suicide on Christmas Eve gains the attention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers) who is sent to help him in his hour of need. Most of the film is told through flashbacks spanning George’s entire life and narrated by Franklin and Joseph, unseen Angels who are preparing Clarence for his mission to save George. Through these flashbacks we see all the people whose lives have been touched by George and the difference he has made to the community in which he lives.

The film is regarded as a classic and is a staple of Christmas television around the world, although, due to its high production costs and stiff competition at the box office, financially, it was considered a “flop.” The film’s break-even point was actually $6.3 million, approximately twice the production cost, a figure it never came close to achieving in its initial release.[2] Mark Eliot writes, “Although it was not the complete box-office failure that today everyone believes… it was a major disappointment and confirmed, at least to the studios, that Capra was no longer capable of turning out the populist features that made his films the must-see, money-making events they once were.” [3] Although not an Oscar winner at the time, it has been since named by the American Film Institute one of the best films ever made and was placed number one on the AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Cheers list of the most inspirational American films of all time.

From Wikipedia.

“The Dark Knight” trailer has been leaked to the Internet and has appeared on YouTube and elsewhere. Watch the new Batman trailer here. “The Dark Knight” will be released in 2008; a sequel to the 2005 “Batman Begins.”

Video: “The Dark Knight” Trailer