Chris Calton In economics, branding serves an important purpose. Brands allow people to economize on knowledge, a scarce resource. We make decisions with imperfect information, and brand labeling and trademarks help us navigate these decisions. As Thomas Sowell writes: When you drive into a town you have never seen before and want to get some […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut policy that allows transgender athletes to compete as girls in high school sports violates the civil rights of athletes who have always identified as female, according to a letter from the U.S. Education Department’s civil rights office that was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. The letter came in […]
Wrestlers, athletes, coaches, everyone that is interested in increasing their financial and economic IQ should check out this interview with Robert Wenzel. He has been the most accurate economic prognosticator of the last 20 years. All of the ingredients necessary to be a good wrestler are the same skills that allow you to financially prosper […]
The antibody studies results from New York and Los Angeles are very interesting. If these results remain consistent in other areas it signifies a few things: The virus had already spread widely before the lockdown. The media whipped up Americans into hysteria over the virus that is much less deadly than we were told. Maybe […]
Wrestling (Sports), Politics and American History What if tens of millions of Americans had the flu? What if 100,000 were hospitalized because of the flu? Surely it would be a national emergency, right? What if 60 million people in the US were infected and 300,000 were hospitalized. Surely that would be considered a pandemic. Surely […]
A pair of attackers from ISIS hit a wrestling match in the Shi’ite part of the Afghan capital city of Kabul. The first attacker killed a guard outside the sports center, forced his way in, and detonated in the crowd. A second bomber detonated outside in a car, causing more casualties. The wrestling club that […]
by Erik Ortiz Nikki Haley, America’s ambassador to the United Nations, suggested that the United States’ participation in next February’s Winter Olympics in South Korea remains up in the air amid mounting provocations made by the North. Haley was asked Wednesday night on Fox News whether sending American athletes was a “done deal,” and responded […]
We are more than a generation into a terrible experiment: the over protection of kids. Boys in particular are under attack in popular culture, at all levels of education and by electronics. Boys in ever increasing numbers aren’t allowed to be their genetic selves. Since the beginning of time boys have been going outside doing […]
This is terrible and a stark reminder of conditions for women in much of the world. Will snowflake TR Foley say anything about this atrocity? Unlikely. In his mind worse happens every day in American wrestling. Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Wednesday, 23 November 2016 The truth behind the death of Egyptian wrestler Reem Magdy […]
I don’t believe in left right politics but I find this interesting and is just one of the reasons that ESPN has helped to ruin sports. By Clay Waters ESPN Public Editor Jim Brady on Election Eve surveyed complaints that the sports network had gone overboard with liberal pieties, frustrating long-time watchers by injecting politics […]
Physical boy’s have noticeably better childhoods and adult lives than their counterparts, they have much lower rates of ADHD, depression and anger management issues. The more physical and risky their childhood activities the faster and better thinking they are as adults. Physical boyhood has been under attack for a couple of decades. Government schooling, electronic […]
When Mr. Foley attacks American Wrestling and those involved and committed to the sport the average person tries to think through the situation and respond with evidence. The problem is that Foley didn’t reason himself into his arguments and no amount of evidence will get him to stop his beliefs. There can be no meaningful […]
A.Savin President of Russia’s Wrestling Federation (WFR) Mikhail Mamiashvili Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is unhappy after the president of Russia’s Wrestling Federation (WFR) Mikhail Mamiashvili was refused a visa to enter the United States. The 51-year-old had planned to watch the world championships in Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling which are taking place in Las […]