Colosseum in Rome is Leaning, Officials Say

The Colosseum in Rome. Photograph: Ray Tang/Rex Features

From The Guardian 

The ancient Colosseum in Rome is slanting about 40cm lower on the south side than on the north, and authorities are investigating whether it needs urgent repairs.

Experts first noticed the incline about a year ago and have been monitoring it for the past few months, Rossella Rea, director at the 2,000-year-old monument, said in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera.

Republicans Not Seeking to Block HHS Contraceptive Mandate?

From Catholic World News

Although Republican political leaders have denounced President Obama for imposing a contraceptive mandate as part of his health-care reform, the Republican leadership has not taken action to overturn the regulation, Politico notes. 

House Speaker John Boehner said that the contraceptive mandate “must not stand and will not stand.” But no vote to block the mandate has been scheduled in the House of Representatives, where Republicans hold a majority. 

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In the Long Run, Is the GOP Dead?

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Since 1928, only Dwight Eisenhower and George W. Bush have won the presidency while capturing both houses of Congress for the GOP.

 

In his 49-state landslide, Richard Nixon failed to take either House. In his two landslides, Ronald Reagan won back only the Senate. Yet Mitt Romney is even money to pull off the hat trick.

 

With this hopeful prospect, why the near despair among so many Republicans about the long term?

 

"All People That On Earth Do Dwell"

A 1960 BBC Interview with Novelist Evelyn Waugh

"If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be."

 

100 Proof Southern Manners Endure at Tennessee's Jack Daniels

Jack Daniel's has sent what has been described as perhaps the world's most polite cease and desist letter, after the front cover of a new novel looked suspiciously like their famous black and white label. 

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Chicago Plays Chicken With Christians

By George Neumayr

The Obama Left places believing Christians in the same moral category as racists. The bullying has escalated to the point that prominent liberal mayors, such as Chicago's Rahm Emanuel, now openly say that Christians are unworthy of even running a fast food chain in the public square.

"Chick-fil-A's values are not Chicago values. They're not respectful of our residents, our neighbors and our family members. And if you're gonna be part of the Chicago community, you should reflect Chicago values," said Emanuel, backing alderman Joe Moreno's goal of preventing the chicken restaurant from opening its doors in the Logan Square neighborhood.

This is a stunning doubling down in the left's war on Christianity by a prominent Democrat. Emanuel, Obama's former chief of staff, has in effect told the religious across the country, in an election year no less, that traditional Christian values are not American values.