Joe Scott: The Body Politic

Radical Plan to Erase Obamacare

25 April 2012 |permalink | email article

ROMNEY hints at a radical health care plan to replace ‘Obamacare’—far more disruptive to the existing plan if fully implemented. What’s what the Los Angeles Times uncovered in a story that apparently sailed past the White House and the… read full story

Mitt: 2011 Tax Returns Delay

24 April 2012 |permalink | email article

Does Romney, in failing to release more than one year of tax returns, suggest that he has something to hide which might be politically damaging? That’s the thesis advanced by a former White House spokesman and Priorities USA strategist… read full story

Secret Service: More Women Agents

23 April 2012 |permalink | email article

THE scandal widens each day and it took two female members of oversight committees, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-New York), and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), on ABC’s “This Week” to zero in on the problem. They praised a female Secret… 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