Joe Scott: The Body Politic

Arnold: Pressures and Uncertainties

10 August 2005 |permalink | email article

Embattled Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, down in the polls and defiantly pushing his unpopular special election in November, is being pressured by financial backers to make a political statement soon that he will seek re-election next year.

Business leaders supporting… read full story

NFL Politics: L.A. Decision Nears

08 August 2005 |permalink | email article

The National Football League, nearing a decision on bringing professional football back to the Los Angeles area, has taken a major step in that direction by planning a nationally televised concert outside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Sept.… read full story

What Ohio’s CD 2 May Portend

05 August 2005 |permalink | email article

“As Maine goes, so goes the country,” was a political cliche in the early third of the last century. The political state of the moment is Ohio, where the cliffhanger outcome of the 2004 presidential election was decided when… 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