Joe Scott: The Body Politic

No Debate Winner: Romney Rising

27 January 2012 |permalink | email article

THE last Republican debate in Jacksonville, Fla. before Tuesday’s primary on CNN produced no knockout. Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney tangled on Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac investments but the former Massachusetts governor won the applause game, relentlessly pushing Newt for… read full story

State of the Union 2012

26 January 2012 |permalink | email article

THREE of the nation’s leading newspapers had similar reactions to President Obama’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday night—good but still a long way to go with a blue-collar speech aimed at winning over swing voters in November—New… read full story

SOTU: A Return to American Values

25 January 2012 |permalink | email article

President Obama won’t be visiting Kansas soon again but the class-struggle theme he struck there last month in a speech modeled on Theodore Roosevelt’s fairness philosophy formed the basis of his election-year State of the Union address Tuesday night.… read full story

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Mission Statement

Aristotle's Politics (Book 1, Chapter 1) is clear that "man is a political animal in a greater measure than any bee or any gregarious animal. For nature does nothing without purpose, and man alone of the animals possesses speech."

The blogosphere watches as a divided America reexamines its soul. After 35 years as a journalist I have broken a long silence to comment again on critical moral and political issues that impact the U.S. body politic. Reflections on JoeScott3.com, an independent, non-profit blog, are posted frequently, not daily. I hope global readers, accepting Aristotle's definition of a political animal, will find this quick scan both provocative and mindful.

About Joe Scott

A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Joe Scott spent many years as a columnist for the Herald-Examiner (1978-1989), and later the Los Angeles Times and other California dailies.He was the critically-acclaimed editor and publisher of the Political Animal and California Eye, newsletters (1973-1992). He worked as a political consultant and ran several successful political campaigns in California. Joe Scott is a third-generation Angeleno. He is working on a novel about public corruption in Los Angeles during the late 1930's.

Joe Scott 3: The Body Politic