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MIAMI -- Florida, a geological afterthought, was the last portion of what are now the lower 48 states to emerge from the ocean, and it emerged halfheartedly: Its highest point is just 345 feet above sea level. But the fourth-most-populous state will loom over American politics next summer when Republicans select a Senate nominee. Their primary will test whether the party has become so risk-averse that it flinches from interesting choices.
The nominee almost certainly will be either Gov. Charlie Crist or Marco Rubio, former speaker of the Florida...
A 'Principled Conservative'
I have been in that industry for many years, so don't even presume to argue with me about it!
Here are just a few examples of life today if the Bell Monopoly was still in place, you would never be able to buy a telephone at any other outlet, you would pay what they said that you had to pay and long distance calls would probably cost about $1.00 per minute by now. Further, millions of dollars in telecom infrastructure that has been put in place by third party companies like Sprint, Verizon, etc; would have had to be paid for by Bell, therefore, the costs would have come right back to the...