The Roman Republic fell when its Ruling Elite could no longer make a rational case for its continued governance over the people of Rome, the “Populus Romanus”. The Champion of the Roman Ruling Elite ,in its decline, was Sulla; however, Sulla gave over his governance, to gay actors.   Plutarch wrote the following about Sulla.   "It was this laxity, as it seems, which produced in him [Sulla] a diseased propensity to amorous indulgence and an unrestrained voluptuousness, from which he did not refrain even in his old age, but continued his youthful love for Metrobius, an actor."   "However, even though he [Sulla] had such a wife at home, he consorted with actresses, harpists, and theatrical people, drinking with them on couches all day long. For these were the men who had most influence with him now: Roscius the comedian, Sorex the archmime, and Metrobius the impersonator of women, for whom, though past his prime, he continued up to the last to be passionately fond, and made

This is the 150 th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, the greatest, most Homeric, most important, bloodiest battle ever fought on American soil. “The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg , Pennsylvania between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War . The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point .” It decided the American Civil War, because the Union, under men like Hancock, Reynolds, Buford, Chamberlain, and the 1 st Minnesota held fast; the fact that they held fast means that everything  President Obama holds dear could be attempted and accomplished. The Union troops paid full measure to stem the Confederate tide of victory; and the Confederates, under men like Kemper, Armistead, Garnett, paid full measure to try to become a new nation, the Confederate States of America. There was such an abundance of heroes; the