Midknight Review -- new and revised: McKinley no more: Obama approves name change to Mt McKinley. The locals have called the mountain, "Denali," for years. Now, it is official. (see our update)

Updated for this thought: Take several of our past presidents, and Obama has it in his mind, to be remembered as the greatest. Theodore Roosevelt, the man who gave us our national parks system is remembered in this McKinley posting. Woodrow Wilson, our first Progressive (but not Marxist Progressive) president, gave us the progressive income tax, and, he is remembered everytime we pay one of several taxes on the middle class Obama has created including ObamaCare. FDR, a Progressive (but not a Marxist Progressive) gave us "presidential rule by fiat" with his 3500 executive orders and memos, and is remembered everytime Obama uses his executive powers to circumvent Congress and make a mockery out of "the will of the people." Lincoln and Reagan come to mind on those occasions when Obama compares himself to the two greatest Republican icons in American history as he "finishes what Lincoln only began" and is the demonstrable antithesis to Reagan's smaller "government themes." Corrupt in his sense of morality, pathological in his personal defense of just about any program he has created, and feckless in his administration for the security of this nation, the man has become a monster to our national interests and a death blow to his own political party, and, he has a freaking year left to work his evil (emphasis on "freak . . ").

From the Alaska Dispatch: It’s official: Denali is now the mountain formerly known as Mount McKinley.

With the approval of President Barack Obama, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has signed a“secretarial order” to officially change the name, the White House and Interior Department announced Sunday. The announcement comes roughly 24 hours before Obama touches down in Anchorage for a whirlwind tour of Alaska.

Talk of the name change has swirled in Alaska this year since the National Park Service officially registered no objection in a congressional hearing in Washington, D.C.

The tallest mountain in North America has long been known to Alaskans as Denali, its Koyukon Athabascan name, but its official name was not changed with the creation of Denali National Park and Preserve in 1980, 6 million acres carved out for federal protection under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. The state changed the name of the park’s tallest mountain to Denali at that time, but the federal government did not.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."