Joe Scott: The Body Politic

Time for a simple majority budget?

12 March 2010 |permalink | email article

A bipartisan political reform group, California Forward, is pushing a wide-ranging package targeting the state’s bitter budget fight that would allow Sacramento lawmakers to pass budgets by a simple majority vote and will require them to forfeit pay if… read full story

Meg Whitman’s free media aversion

11 March 2010 |permalink | email article

This weekend’s Republican state convention in Santa Clara may test the skills of the billionaire former eBay chairman, leading in the race for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, about how to engage with the media. Here’s a clue: when she… read full story

Public Matters: A Debt to the Future

10 March 2010 |permalink | email article

Following World War II, there were two things that kept the U.S. budget deficit under control: the fiscal responsibility of the Republican Party (and conservative Democrats) and fear of inflation.

For Republicans, deficits were the greatest sin… 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