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Biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences has announced the birth of genetically engineered dire wolf puppies, while pushing forward with an ambitious plan to resurrect Ice Age giants by 2028. The announcement came with all the fanfare of a Hollywood premiere: three wolf puppies, born to domestic dog surrogates, representing the first attempt to bring back an extinct predator that vanished from North America over 10,000 years ago. Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas-based biotechnology company behind the project, declared it a milestone in de-extinction science. But as the initial excitement fades, a more nuanced picture emerges—one that reveals both the remarkable capabilities of modern genetic engineering and the significant gap between what’s scientifically possible and what constitutes true biological resurrection. The dire wolf, immortalized in popular culture and known from thousands of fossil specimens recovered from the La Brea Tar Pits, has long captured public imagination. Now, Colossal claims to have brought it back. Yet understanding what the company has actually achieved requires looking beyond the headlines and into the intricate details of genetic proxy engineering. Engineering an Echo of Extinction The three puppies—named Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi—were not cloned from intact dire wolf DNA, nor do they represent a simple resurrection of

Here we go again. The Federal Reserve (Fed) is misreading the economy once again through a faulty inflation lens. The Fed’s members voted this week 9-3 to keep interest rates steady. The amazing thing is that three of the jerks actually voted to raise rates. Mind you, these are the same people who let inflation roar during the Joe Biden catastrophe of a presidency because the man was a Democrat. When inflation, driven by government spending at unheard-of levels, hit nearly 10 percent, the Fed finally began raising rates. Then, with inflation still high, they lowered rates twice in late 2024 to help elect a Democrat named Kamala Harris. Inflation steadied pretty much around 3 percent — still above the Fed’s mandate of 2 percent — by the start of Donald Trump’s second term, but two factors then caused it to start rising again. One was tariffs that raised the price of imported goods, and the other was the war with Iran, which raised gasoline prices (and thus the price of almost everything dependent on gasoline). That means that the current bout of higher inflation is not being caused by a loose government money spigot as under Biden, but by

Ted Cruz, who himself came awfully close to a Presidential nomination in 2016, is now looking forward to 2028 and what will happen. He sees a big future for the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) getting the Dem WHite House nomination, and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani cleaning Chuck Schumer’s clock for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Okay, I stretched my headline a bit. The Senator from Texas is not predicting AOC will win the Presidency, just that she will beat out her rivals and get the party’s nod. Cruz made his predictions both live on Fox News and also with posts on X. On the AOC candidacy, Cruz told Fox: “She’s the number one Democratic candidate in the country in New Hampshire.”  Problem is, the Dems are considering opening their nominating process in South Carolina. As for Mamdani, Cruz says he is “the single most powerful Democrat in the country.” Which is probably no doubt true as of this writing, but matters are still two years off, with some midterm races this year to help clarify who’s in and who’s out in the Democrat Party. As for current NY Senator Schumer, who has