What did you think when you heard President Obama say, “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Did this statement make you angry or nod your head? Prof. Elizabeth Warren shares this bitter ideology and has used it against Sen. Scott Brown.

Like the Vineyard Gazette, I am a firm supporter of Obamacare. Much effort and thought went into developing a plan that phases in changes over several years that are intended to fix our ill-performing health care system.

There has been a strong appeal by recent letter writers to retain the 16 transient fixed wooden dock spaces in Menemsha harbor in lieu of replacing them with concrete floating docks as proposed by the harbor master. The proponents of this appeal claim that the concrete floating docks will “dramatically change the character of the harbor that we have strived to retain.”

What did you think when you heard President Obama say, “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Did this statement make you angry or nod your head? Prof. Elizabeth Warren shares this bitter ideology and has used it against Sen. Scott Brown.

It is fascinating to watch the perennial storm over regulating large houses play itself out this summer in Chilmark, known as much for its Yankee individualism as for its wealth and rural charm. It is unfortunate, but perhaps unavoidable, that the issue has become so personal: the tension between personal property rights and community standards seems to be the dominant fault line in the American psyche these days.

Somewhere on a chain of islands off Martha’s Vineyard:

You may recall the headline of last March 6: “Angry Island Mob Attacks Bird Watcher; Injuries Result.” Angry? Probably not. Mad? Absolutely. Elvin Jane, the birdwatcher in question, visited the island again last week and we pretty much got things straightened out.