Walmart takes heat from left-libertarians for occasionally benefiting from the local government’s use of eminent domain (even though in such cases Walmart still has to pay for the land, this is held up as some huge state subsidy). But in central Virginia, we have Walmart being opposed by a group of preservationists–many of them celebrities and other outsiders–and Civil War devotees because the proposed Walmart site–which is already zoned for commercial use–is too close to some Civil War battlefield. Good Grief. As Skip Oliva, who passed on these links, told me, “They don’t care if Walmart wants to bring jobs and low-price goods to people in an underserved area: We can’t compromise a sacred battlefield!”