The United States government was founded on the principle of the separation of church and state. That being said, if the U.S. could select a single holy site and have everyone in America agree that it was not to be trifled with, the frontrunner would be the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the monument to those who fought and died for the U.S. but remain unidentified.Also Read: These pistols are carried by NCOs at the Tomb of the Unknown SoldierArlington National Cemetery’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is guarded 24 hours a day, seven days a week by the tomb sentinels of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard. And these guys do not mess around. When it comes to discipline, The Old Guard has such a firm bearing that they can get stabbed in the foot with a bayonet and keep standing guard.They will guard the tomb during hurricanes. They will stay at their post during epic snowstorms. There is nothing they won’t do to maintain a watchful eye on what might be America’s holiest of holies.So, it should come as no surprise that when tourists are around the tomb, these sentinels don’t tolerate anything short of solemnity and adherence to the rules that govern such hallowed ground. In the past, numerous videos have shown how the Old Guard responds to lollygagging tourists. Those who try to get a closer look at the tomb by crossing the barrier get to hear the sound of the M1 Garand’s bolt. World War II veterans can do whatever they want. Everyone else needs to stay behind the chains and rails. (U.S. Army/Elizabeth Fraser) Imagine what happens if someone suddenly tries to reach out and touch the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier itself. It should be known that the sentinels are carrying fully functional weapons. Whether the rifles are loaded or if the sentinels have ammunition remains unknown (many sources say they don’t), but that’s not a reason to go testing the theory. What is known is that the pistols are definitely loaded, and the sentinels will move much faster than we’re used to seeing them in order to stop you from putting your grubby mitts on the tomb.Quora user Chris Leonard, who used to be a part of the Old Guard, reminds us that maintenance work is done on the aging tomb all the time, but workers are expected to show the same reverence in touching the tomb for repairs that the sentinels themselves would observe—and the sentinels are watching them every second they’re at work.Leonard recalled a moment where a maintainer touched the tomb in a manner inconsistent with the respect called for by the monument: he was leaning on it. The sentinel on duty yelled at the maintenance worker to stop and quickly approached. The sentinel then cross-checked the man. The maintenance worker later apologized to the sentinels. The best decision would be to not try to touch the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Don’t Miss the Best of We Are The Mighty • DNA science and public databases offer a new way to identify soldiers’ remains• When the Unknown Soldier laid in state at the Capitol• Watch this guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns get stabbed and carry on  Featured Feature What happens if you try to touch the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier By Blake Stilwell Aviation The F-35 made historic air-to-air kills against Iran By Miguel Ortiz Medal of Honor ‘The Iron Major:’ James Capers Jr.’s long road to the Medal of Honor By Daniel Tobias Flint Navy A US submarine sunk an enemy ship with a torpedo for the first time since WWII By Miguel Ortiz Navy This is what makes the Mark 48 one of the deadliest torpedoes ever built By Ian D'Costa The post What happens if you try to touch the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier appeared first on We Are The Mighty.

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Watching from next-door Louisiana, I’ll confess to a certain amount of heartbreak at the implosion of Jasmine Crockett in Texas’ U.S. Senate Democrat primary race. We don’t give poor Jasmine the due amount of love and credit for the true treasure she is. There may not be a more perfect specimen for the entitled fraudulence the modern Democrat Party is built on, other than perhaps Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib. But Tuesday night, following weeks and months of disqualifying statements cheered on by the “Yass, Queen” chorus among the Hard Left, Crockett’s political career ended with a thud. As the votes were being counted and the seven-point loss to the pasty white James Talarico mounted, this was poor Jasmine: Jasmine Crockett: Election fraud is real and of course it’s the Republicans doing it! pic.twitter.com/w2UdASrhwC — LiberalDreams45 (Parody) (@LiberalDreams46) March 4, 2026 The race was called almost immediately after she left the podium. It’s hard to imagine somebody so virtuous and brimming with character could be finding herself professionally nugatory, but then again: Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), who just lost her Democrat primary and is a lame duck, thumps her chest about her law degree. Crockett got her degree from one of the worst law schools in the country. She’s a DEI moron who nobody likes. That’s why she lost.pic.twitter.com/fjc1IEsCcw — Paul A. Szypula

I am staggered by the idiocy, rage, and just plain old-fashioned antisemitism that rends the news of the world today. First, let’s start with the wild anti-Israel snarling of the media today. Not more than a few days or even hours after the Iranian murder regime has mowed down tens of thousands of its people on the streets of Tehran because they asked for a government that would rule by law instead of by hate, the Trump administration took steps for mercy and law. The response of “the world” has been largely to sneer at Trump and Israel. The Trump regime demanded a government that would not be a Third Reich in the desert. The Israeli colleagues of the USA went along with their usual courage and skill. The whole of western Europe jeered at Israel and America. England, France, Spain, every other country, spit at the USA and Israel. Why? Why do Israel and Trump stand more or less alone? In the late 1930s and into World War II, the Nazis promised the world that they would rid Europe and the world of Jews. Then they came close to doing so. The Jews of Europe were murdered to the scale of six million. The Jews have learned that when killers with weapons say they will kill Jews by the millions, they mean it. Hence, when the killers in Tehran say, “Death to Israel. Death to America,” the Israelis will take them seriously, and the USA should, too. England may think it’s not serious. So will France. So will Spain. But smart people who know history will take it VERY seriously. Thank God for Mr. Trump. He knows history. He and Mr. Netanyahu know that if a well-armed murder regime says they will kill the Jews and the Americans, better to believe them. Keir Starmer may not take it seriously. But the Israelis do and so should the USA. Those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it, said a well-known historian. Thank God, the Jews do, and so does Mr. Trump. Mr. Santayana, we trust you.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The United States is undergoing a highly reported crisis in its trucking industry. As a column in the Hill reported last year, 75 percent of the nation’s freight is moved by trucks, yet “trucking companies struggle to recruit younger drivers, who leave at unprecedented rates, with turnover reportedly exceeding 90 percent at the largest carriers. Trucking industry demographics reveal the root of the current and worsening crisis, with an expected shortfall of 160,000 drivers by 2030.” The Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the number of immigrant truck drivers is not helping matters, given that on the West Coast more than 35 percent of drivers are Sikhs. (There’s a reason that truck stops, typically places that dispensed barely edible gruel, have become the site of some fairly good Indian restaurants.) It’s all adding up to potential economic problems as Americans are more reliant than ever on freight deliveries. One of the obvious solutions aligns with the growth in artificial intelligence. Autonomous vehicles are developing quickly. We’ve seen the expansion of self-driving taxis in major American cities such as San Francisco. Despite some high-profile incidents, they nevertheless offer impressive safety statistics. Robots are, as I’ve reported previously for The American Spectator, far better drivers than human beings. Labor unions see the writing on the wall and are stepping up their efforts to quash the expansion of AV systems to the trucking industry. For instance, legislation is popping up in many states that would require human operators on automated trucks, which defeats the entire purpose of the technology. Using AVs for interstate trucking obviously needs to be rolled out with a variety of safeguards, but we know what these laws are about: job protections. If history is a guide, the new technologies will eventually win out, but government can gum up the works for a long time and boost the cost of adoption. Government is a slow-moving vehicle. In 2017, lawmakers introduced the SELF DRIVE Act, which would give the federal government the ultimate responsibility for regulating AVs. Although I support federalism, which provides the states with the authority to handle most governmental tasks, I find it most sensible for the feds to regulate trucking and other interstate commerce matters. It’s nearly impossible to develop a new technology when the developers are pulled in various directions by inconsistent state policymaking. That was nine years ago, but now Congress is considering the latest iteration of that bill, which has passed through a key committee. As the Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association opines, the legislation “prioritizes safety through rigorous oversight while clearing the path for American companies to lead globally. This bill creates what autonomous vehicle leaders need: clear rules, strong safety standards, and the regulatory certainty needed to scale deployment nationwide.” Basically, it empowers the U.S. Department of Transportation to set industry standards and streamlines antiquated federal rules. Consider a recent article from Politico: “For years, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has swatted down union-backed efforts to shield trucking jobs from automation. Now, politically powerful union leaders are pushing his would-be successors to change course, a move that could pump the brakes in California on an industry that’s starting to accelerate elsewhere.” These technologies take years to develop, but all it takes to put the brakes on AV advancement is for the politics to shift — something of particular importance in California. Due to our state’s size, a new governor here could effectively set de facto national policy. That’s true not just for transportation and technology, but for every sort of regulation. I prefer if companies spend their time and money enhancing their technologies rather than lobbying the state Legislature. Strange as it sounds, but California hasn’t been that bad on this front. It last year passed rules that “would broaden how autonomous vehicles, including medium- and heavy-duty models, operate on state roads,” per the industry magazine Transport Topics. California regulators even expanded territories for robotaxis last year. As Bernd Held reported for Axios in 2018, e-commerce’s rapid growth has put “pressure on the U.S. trucking industry.” But autonomous vehicles “could offer one major advantage over current options: greater flexibility. They could cut costs associated with drivers and operate with higher fuel efficiency and less maintenance due to optimized driving patterns.” They could operate mostly at night, reduce safety concerns, and, as the author noted, solve the truck-driver shortage. As with all things technology related, the reality might not live up to the hype. But there’s no reason not to see where this takes us, and to unleash a technology that could seamlessly pick up the slack as human drivers retire or seek out other careers. The question as always: Will the government get out of the way and let the industry develop? Counterintuitive as it sounds, a federal approach will almost certainly be better than a state one in achieving that desired result. Steven Greenhut is Western region director for the R Street Institute. Image licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Proposals for tech regulation are proliferating in Washington, D.C., and state capitals nationwide. Under the banner of protecting children’s online safety, Congress and state legislatures are considering bills to regulate algorithms, to restrict broad and vaguely defined categories of speech (even speech that isn’t harmful to most children), and to foist age verification requirements upon social media platforms…or upon app stores… or upon devices themselves (and more, much more). The regulation of technology in the United States is in danger of coming to resemble a graffiti-covered city underpass: a confused and disjointed jumble, its principles in conflict and its provisions lacking any sort of coherence or cohesion. (RELATED: Parents Have Everything They Need to Keep Their Children Safe Online) Worse still, all these efforts pass over the worst danger to children that lurks in shadows: the danger of child predation. CSAM is not a problem to be solved by social media regulation, but one to be solved by law enforcement. Children online have been — and, as I write, are being — made the victims at scale of the creators, purveyors, and consumers of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Indeed, The New York Times reported that, from 1998 to 2018, reports of CSAM multiplied more than six thousandfold, from 3,000 to 18.4 million — annually. But lawmakers, distracted by proposals to regulate the working of technology companies, have neglected to fund or carry out the law enforcement efforts needed to thwart or apprehend criminals and protect their victims. CSAM is not a problem to be solved by social media regulation, but one to be solved by law enforcement. Private companies are no substitute for the men and women equipped with tremendous investigatory powers, guns, handcuffs, and the legal sanction to deploy force to stop predators and protect children. The worst perpetrators often prove not to be lone perverts in the proverbial basement but sophisticated criminal organizations, often headquartered in foreign countries. The modus operandi of the Yahoo Boys, an African syndicate, for instance, is to create fake accounts, solicit explicit images from teenage boys, and extort them for monetary gain. The psychological pressure imposed upon their victims is intense; the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation “was able to verify that more than 40 suicides across North America, Australia and U.K. in the last four years were linked to sextortion,” the outlet reported last October. Social media platforms have proven unable to best this formidable adversary — and nobody ought to have expected otherwise. In no part of the economy are businesses expected to do the work of policemen: A grocery store or pharmacy hounded by gangs of shoplifters looks to the police, and not to its own management or employees, for assistance, protection, and justice. Nonetheless, technology platforms have worked manfully to use those limited means at their disposal to thwart online predators. “Meta said in 2024 it had taken down 63,000 sextortion accounts linked to Nigeria in a single sweep, including 2,500 that formed part of a coordinated network targeting Western teenagers,” the BBC reports. Of 20 million CyberTipline reports received that same year by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Meta alone supplied more than 13 million. “Think about that: a private company calling 911 13 million times,” writes Maureen Flatley, the president of Stop Child Predators. “And law enforcement bodies, starved of personnel, training and digital forensics capacity, answered only a fraction of those calls.” A tiny fraction indeed. In a “90-day period, there were 99,172 IP addresses throughout the U.S. distributing known CSAM images and videos through peer-to-peer networks,” a 2023 Stop Child Predators white paper observes. Only 782, however, a small fraction of one percent, were investigated, “even though 75 percent of similar cases result in ‘successful prosecutions.’” The result: predators traversing the digital domain with near impunity, moving from one fake account to the next, from one victim to the next. Only one solution prevents serial criminals from continuing to commit their offences: arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment. That lawmakers have declined to provide necessary funding to law enforcement, and that the Department of Justice has failed to comply with its statutory obligations to allocate those resources which it has received from Congress, amounts to a deep failure of governance, driving down to the foundations of our compact. Legislation such as the Invest in Child Safety Act, introduced in the 118th Congress by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), must be enacted and expanded upon. It may be trite to say, but it is true: Americans believe that governments are instituted among men for the purpose of securing rights — rights that stand prior to any human association, rights endowed by a source beyond ourselves. The right of children to be safe from the crimes of child predators must be secured, as well in the digital world as in the physical one. READ MORE from David B. McGarry: Husted, We Have A(I) Problem Parents Have Everything They Need to Keep Their Children Safe Online Conservative Principles Lost in Tech Regulation David B. McGarry is the research director at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance. He also writes for Young Voices.