In keeping with the season, I offer a little political anecdote about Christmas. More specifically, it’s about the moral teachings of the biblical Jesus, which formed the ethical foundation of Christmas and gave Christianity itself its true gravity. The story is about a political clash some 60 years ago in Houston, when a boorish right-winger accosted the feisty mother of a renowned progressive populist lawmaker, U.S. Rep. Bob Eckhardt. Bob, whom I later got to […]
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