The Drudge Report called it the "Randstand" and the "Randpage." Whatever you want to call it, it got people's attention. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky did something that few people think of doing anymore: finding some stunt so old and forgotten that people mistake it for something new.
Paul got up on the U. S. Senate floor and conducted an old-fashioned filibuster (the only kind of filibuster
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