Joe Scott: The Body Politic

America Asleep: Pre-9/11 Intel

19 August 2005 |permalink | email article

This is a developing story about U.S. intelligence failures, and why persistent warnings about terrorist attacks on the nation were not more effectively blunted by two commanders-in-chief.

Explosive revelations, both old and new, suggest that the 9/11… read full story

Seven More Days: Summer of Discontent

15 August 2005 |permalink | email article

The significance of a pitched tent by an antiwar California mother of a dead soldier near W.’s Texas ranch - political theater aside - is that it symbolizes a genuine angst in the country about the mess in Iraq.… read full story

Public Transit and L.A. Politics

14 August 2005 |permalink | email article

Los Angeles once had a vast rail system, the nation’s largest. In the peak years in the ‘20s and early ‘30s, the Pacific Electric’s interurban network fanning out from the downtown hub carried millions of passengers and encompassed 1,000… 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