As the sands run through the hourglass each day more rapidly and another month comes to an end, it is time for the July Outrage Column.

Vandalizing freedom There is perhaps no better symbol of the victory of freedom over totalitarianism than the Berlin Wall.

Chapman University has a chunk of the wall on its campus, and it was vandalized the other night. Someone covered a portion of the wall with brown paint, obscuring the graffiti scrawled there by those who sought freedom from the Communist East German regime.

Beware the new totalitarianism rising out of college campuses in America.

No way we delay President Donald Trump suggested we may need to delay the election because of voter fraud involving mail-in ballots.

Never happened, never will. Constitution is clear.

If he no longer wants the election to be on Nov. 3, he can just delay his own participation in the election and not vote.

Part of the game? Many people are celebrating a Dodger pitcher who threw a baseball in the proximity of an opposing players head the other night.

Joe Kelly was ejected. I know all about the bad blood between the Dodgers and Astros, and you always hear its part of the game, but there is also the little matter of endangering someones livelihood and very life.

With all the talk of keeping players safe from Coronavirus, how about keeping them safe from deliberate attempts to hit them in the head?

The National League was right to suspend Kelly for eight games. Its time throwing at opponents was no longer part of the game.

Mask mania Has the whole issue of wearing masks brought out the worst in people or just exposed it?

There have been reports of people having meltdowns or even physically attacking others when asked to wear a mask.

A Lancaster barista was punched for asking a man to put on a mask when he entered Starbucks.

A woman maced a family in a San Diego park for not wearing masks.

Wear your mask. Social distance. This too shall pass.

Peaceful protests Can the national media please stop with the charade of mostly peaceful protests?

No, if you are assaulting police officers, burning down buildings, throwing Molotov cocktails, pointing lasers to blind law enforcement, and beating videographers and anyone else who gets in your way, you are not in a peaceful protest.

Call it what it is. A riot.

Fifty-nine officers injured in Seattle the other night. A liberal Democratic state senator beaten and kicked in Madison, Wisconsin. It goes on and on.

And look whos doing it almost all whites in their 20s and 30s, who want to destroy America and start over with a glorious Marxist utopia. They say so on video.

They have long since drowned out the voices of the people actually protesting for better treatment of Blacks by police.

Clown show We were all reminded the other day of why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last year took the job of running the failed impeachment away from Jerry Nadler, D-New York.

Nadler made a fool of himself trying to interrogate the much brighter and better prepared Attorney General William Barr.

Barr had to explain over and over to grandstanding Democrats that the federal government has a duty to protect the federal courthouse in Portland, and that is what it is doing.

And, no, the Republicans on the committee did not cover themselves in glory, either, from clips I saw.

Let us just say neither side instilled confidence that the government is in good hands. Anyone surprised?

William P. Warfords column appears every Tuesday, Friday and Sunday.

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