Thanks again to everyone who stopped by during our Sockquidation Day fundraiser for Canada's pre-eminent freespeecher and human rights activist Ezra Levant.

In the course of the day, we offered some special prizes to big spenders, and I'm glad to say several customers rose to the bait. A Canadian cabinet minister chipped in just before we took down the shingle at midnight, but didn't quite make the cut, constrained (one would like to think) by the parsimonious salary offered to Ministers of the Crown. At any rate, he was outspent by the private sector.

First off, the five winners of personally autographed copies of Liberal Fascism, a huge bestseller and a terrific read by Jonah Goldberg, my National Review colleague and lead singer of the Goldberg/Long/Steyn lounge act, the Three Tone-Deaf Tenors (Rob Long and I are a mere half-an-Andrew Ridgley apiece to Jonah's George Michael). Anyway, enough of that. Here are the Liberal Fascism winners, in alphabetical order:

R J Aston of Essex, England

Chris Doherty of Burlington, Ontario

Daniel McGuire of the other end of the state from me, down in south-eastern New Hampshire

Joseph Shier of Toronto

Peter Vatsures of Dallas

Congratulations to all five. And my thanks to Jonah for his generous donation to the cause.

Another five big spenders win our new super-cool, not yet released SteynOnline mug. It won't be available for a week or two yet, but we have some early prototypes full of hairline cracks that leak boiling liquid all over your crotch. Just kidding. They're entirely non-defective. And, together with a SteynOnline note card from me, they'll be going to:

Trent Boehm of Calgary

Robert Clarkson, also of Alberta

Catherine Smyth of Vancouver

Donald Stefanson of Birmingham, Alabama

Ronald Watts of Los Angeles

Mr Boehm was our biggest spender of the day, ordering up just shy of $900 worth of books in support of Ezra and free speech. Catherine Smyth was our highest-spending gal of the day, ordering up a bunch of books, T-shirts and even one of our swingin' Saudpads not just for herself but for a family member down in Australia. We thank Trent, Catherine and all our other supporters from five continents very much.

You'll find a round-up of Sockquidation Day items and other free-speech news over at The Lynch Mob - and a new review of Ezra's Shakedown from the Capital C.