1.0 link 184177 <![CDATA[Where's the National Outrage on Blair Mountain? Gov. Joe Manchin and Bilbo Legacy]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/wheres-the-national-outra_b_184177.html When Walmart recently announced its intention to build a super-center near the Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia, filmmaker Ken Burns and a host of Pulitzer Prize-winning historians denounced the move for its obvious offense to our national heritage site.

We need that same outrage for another battlefield under assault.

First, imagine if a thin seam of coal was found under the Wilderness Battlefield, or Union Square in Manhattan or the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, and the local governors signaled their intention to...

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