The loudest complaints about inequality are coming from those whose policies worsen it.

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Can a man love his country and hate its government? Of course. Ask Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Ask the patriots of 1776.

Republicans need to lift their eyes from the immediate fiscal cliff and design a strategy for coping with, slowing down, and then defeating Obama’s overall effort to create a radically different America.

Democrats ask Republicans to give up on taxes in exchange for, well, not much of anything. As the gloom settles in among conservatives on Capitol Hill, click here for the latest news and analysis.

Obama has not put on the table any specific entitlement reforms and is demanding a total of $1.6 trillion in tax hikes. He is all tax hikes and no spending restraint.

During this “recovery,” unemployment has been over 8 percent for 43 months in a row, though it’s not for want of trying, given the president’s efforts to spin his way out of those numbers.

While California voters, facing a $16 billion budget shortfall, will vote on proposals to hike taxes to direct more money to schools, voters in New Hampshire and Michigan will be asked if they want restrictions on government’s ability to tax.

The president is hoping to focus attention on anything but the economy. If voters were to look at his record, it would be a tough slog to a second term.

Analysis: Romney gave $4 million to charity, but that doesn’t count, since everyone knows the only real way to demonstrate compassion is to insist that other people give more money to the government.

Can America continue down the path Obama is taking us on, to a time soon when a majority of wage-earners pay no income taxes but a majority of citizens receive federal benefits?

In this recovery, not only are food and gas prices up, but — according to two studies released in June 2012 — income and net worth are down.

For a second term, Obama has been calling for more infrastructure stimulus, more unionized teachers and higher tax rates on high earners.