Joe Scott: The Body Politic

Obama and Anti-Muslim Hysteria

22 August 2010 |permalink | email article

The decision soon after President Obama went public to back plans for an Islamic center near ground zero in Lower Manhattan before the hotly contested midterm election might have been expected to trigger a huge Republican backlash but the… read full story

Whitman, Brown, Obama + Birthers

20 August 2010 |permalink | email article

The billionaire Republican gubernatorial nominee addresses the GOP state convention in San Diego tonight; flays her opponent, Democratic Attorney General Jerry Brown, but won’t hang around through the weekend to schmooze with delegates. Steve Poizner, her more conservative primary… read full story

Mosque Debate: Unnecessary Distraction

19 August 2010 |permalink | email article

First of all the fuss over the “Ground Zero Mosque” is a misnomer. It won’t be, as Hendrik Hertzberg observed in The New Yorker, at Ground Zero. It’ll be on Park Place, two blocks north of the World Trade… 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