Joe Scott: The Body Politic

Proposition 13: Brown vs. Whitman?

05 March 2010 |permalink | email article

Back in the spring of 1978, as veteran L.A. Times Sacramento columnist George Skelton recalled this week, young Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown and old anti-tax crusader Howard Jarvis squared off over perhaps the most important ballot initiative in the… read full story

GOP plays fear card, Tom Friedman at LAX

04 March 2010 |permalink | email article

POLITICO has obtained a confidential Republican National Committee fundraising presentation for this election cycle which outlines an aggressive campaign capitalizing on “fear” of President Obama and a promise to save the country from trending toward socialism.

The… read full story

Jerry Brown: ready to lead again

03 March 2010 |permalink | email article

He made it official in a taped video message on his Oakland headquarters website that he has the experience and “the knowledge” to put California back on track again. “What we need is not a scripted plan, cooked up… read full story

Page 3 of 491 pages « First < 1 2 3 4 5 > Last »

Twitter Bytes

Monthly archives

Syndicate

joescott3

Enter your email address:
Delivered by FeedBurner

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