September 24 (A Double)

1789 - The U.S. Congress passed the First Judiciary Act, providing for an Attorney General and a Supreme Court.

This was one of the first actions taken by the First Congress.

U.S. Constitution: The "judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish."

1862 - President Lincoln issued a proclamation unprecedented in American history, suspending the writ of liberty everywhere in the United States. The suspension applied to Confederate spies or those who aided the rebel cause, interfered with military enlistments, resisted the draft, or were "guilty of any disloyal practice."

Many Liberals have blasted Lincoln for this act, but it was a necessary move during a time of war....Not just any war, but the worst kind - a Civil War!!!

If you look at the order it's obvious it was proper and necessary. Arresting those who were: SPIES, AIDED THE CONFEDERATES, INTERFERED WITH THE MILITARY, DRAFT DODGERS OR DISLOYAL TO THE UNION.

In other words: Traitorous SOB's...Back then they were known as Copperhead Democrats. Today we know them better as Liberal Democrats.  Ok, that's redundant; just Democrats.

1957 - President Dwight Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect nine black students entering its newly integrated high school.

Republican or Democrat? Of course it was a Republican president...And yes I will continue to beat this drum.

1970 - The Soviet Luna 16 landed back on earth after completing the first unmanned round trip to the moon.

Very impressive indeed...How about sending a human up though? I didn't think so.

The U.S. could do so any time it set its mind to, but the rest of the globe never has and likely never will.