Joe Scott: The Body Politic

House ethics failure

09 December 2006 |permalink | email article

The House ethics committee concluded that House Speaker Dennis Hastert and his top staff likely knew for months, if not years, about then-Rep. Mark Foley’s inappropriate contacts with former House pages. But the leadership did nothing to protect the… read full story

W.‘s moment to decide

06 December 2006 |permalink | email article

Will W. heed the urging of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group that a fundamental change in the U.S. military mission in Iraq is necessary because the policy “is not working” and conditions there are “deteriorating” with the prospect that… read full story

Bush, Bolton, Baker

04 December 2006 |permalink | email article

This is another moment-of-truth week for an increasingly defensive President Bush who accepted the resignation of United Nations ambassador John Bolton, conceding that his recess appointee of the Vice President Dick Cheneyaide last year could not win Senate confirmation.

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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