Mountaineer Journal

16/09/2025

“I think comparing Charlie Kirk to the Carlos Brown Jr. situation is an absurd analogy,” Sen. Maynard told Mountaineer Journal. “And very sad that Delegate Hamilton would even think they are similar. Charlie Kirk believed in his heart he was doing the right thing and would never advocate for any type of violence.”

WAYNE — State Sen. Mark Maynard (R-Wayne, 6) on Tuesday criticized Del. Anitra Hamilton’s (R-81) comments following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, calling her comparison to a recent stabbing case in North Carolina “absurd” and “very sad.” “I think comparing Ch...

15/09/2025

ELKINS — Del. Elias Coop-Gonzalez (R-Randolph, 67) on Monday criticized Del. Anitra L. Hamilton (D-81) for her social media posts about murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk, calling her remarks “callous,” “reckless” and “unacceptable.” “Rather than swiftly condemning the horri...

13/09/2025

ST. GEORGE, Utah — Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old accused of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, reportedly lived with a transgender roommate and displayed ties to left-leaning activist movements, according to law enforcement and sources close to the cas...

13/09/2025

“The hateful words of Delegate Hamilton have no place in West Virginia,” Helton told Mountaineer Journal. “To equate the savage killing of an innocent young woman with mere words you don’t like is despicable and morally bankrupt. This viewpoint disqualifies you from leadership.”

CHARLESTON — West Virginia State Sen. Brian Helton (R-Fayette, 9) on Saturday sharply criticized Democratic Del. Anitra Hamilton (D- Monongalia, 81) over her social media posts about slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, saying her comments were “hateful” and “morally bankrupt.” “The...

13/09/2025

In posts on Facebook less than 24 hours after Kirk’s death, Hamilton appeared to accuse him of racism and domestic terrorism and drew a comparison between Kirk and Decarlos Brown Jr., the man who fatally stabbed a Ukrainian refugee on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, in August.

MORGANTOWN — Democratic West Virginia State Rep. Anitra L. Hamilton faced sharp criticism Thursday after posting comments on social media about Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder who was shot and killed Wednesday during a speaking event at Utah Valley University....

13/09/2025

BECKLEY — The chief deputy public defender of Raleigh County is facing scrutiny after making a Facebook post about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, according to Lootpress. Kris Kostenko shared a video originally posted by the page Being Liberal that showed Kirk mom...

09/09/2025

There are novels that arrive like thunderclaps, demanding to be noticed. Then there are those that tiptoe in quietly, offer you a cup of tea, and before you know it, have rearranged something deep in your heart. Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle, first published in 1948, is of the latter kind—a...

04/09/2025

Some novels unfold like puzzles, inviting the reader to solve a crime, uncover a motive, restore order. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, first published in 1866, is not one of those novels. There is no mystery here. The crime arrives early, and the punishment is as psychological as it is ...

26/08/2025

Long before true crime became a podcast industry, a Netflix category, and a late-night rabbit hole, it was a literary experiment. Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, published in 1966, did not merely recount a brutal quadruple homicide in small-town Kansas—it redefined what nonfiction could do. In it...

22/08/2025

Some novels resist summary the way dreams resist logic. Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is one such book—a sprawling, incandescent epic that spins its own mythologies, bends time into a spiral, and renders the fate of a family indistinguishable from the fate of a contine...

18/08/2025

CHARLESTON — Gov. Patrick Morrisey on Tuesday announced the sale of four long-term state-owned hospitals to a private operator, a move he says will save taxpayers millions while improving patient care but which has already drawn fire from Democrats and some establishment Republicans. Hopemont Hosp...

18/08/2025

Expelling the influence of globalism and anti-Americanism from Canada is just as important, even more so, than defeating Russian aggression in Ukraine. While the world has been preoccupied with the war in Europe, a war has been taking place in Canada, with a national business group known as the Coal...