Joe Scott: The Body Politic

JPMorgan Chase and Volcker Rule

15 May 2012 |permalink | email article

REGULATION is the new buzz word in the banking world even though, as Paul Krugman writes, current right-wing mythology has it that bad banking is always the result of government intervention or meddling liberals in Congress. Regulators are putting… read full story

House GOP Vote: Bias Against Gay Troops

14 May 2012 |permalink | email article

During the week in which President Obama announced his support for the expansion of the right to marry to all Americans Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee turned back the clock and passed two measures to undermine both… read full story

GOP Leaders, Gay Marriage, Near Silence

13 May 2012 |permalink | email article

THE instant conventional wisdom was that if Barack Obama endorsed gay marriage it would hand Republicans a powerful issue in an election year. Instead, as Politico notes, it has landed like a feather. Except for Ed Gillespie, a key… 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