At 12:45 a.m. last Thursday morning, freshman Kentucky Senator Rand Paul sat down. For 12 hours and 52 minutes, the liberty-minded Republican had held the Senate floor, with the occasional help from a handful of Republican and Democratic colleagues, delaying the nomination of John Brennan to head the Central Intelligence Agency. Paul admitted early on that he didn’t have enough votes to derail the nomination. His decision to exercise a senator’s right to speak without time limit forced the Senate, the press, and the American people to focus on a controversial issue. Paul’s filibuster ... Read More