Rick Ungar

I’ve never been much of a conspiracy theorist as it is not my inclination to see evil lurking behind every bush (no pun intended.) More times than not, things are—for the most part—pretty much as they appear to be. However, there is a strange anomaly occurring on the highways of America and in the boardrooms […]

With Newt Gingrich looking like a potential winner in the Republican sweepstakes to take on the President in November, people are getting nervous. And when I say people, I’m not just talking about the campaign staffs of Mitt Romney or President Obama. I’m not even thinking about progressive Americans or, for that matter, the reasonable […]

Let’s be honest. If you’ve ever competed for a promotion with someone else in your company and won, you probably did not shed a lot of tears for your co-worker who lost out. For that matter, if you’ve ever been so fortunate as to advance into the job of your boss when he was fired, […]

As I followed the Iowa caucuses Tuesday night, I could not help but wonder why I was bothering. After all, I could have had the TV tuned into a re-run of “How I Met Your Mother” or some other bit of visual fluff that was far more entertaining than following entrance polls, reading countywide results, […]

Sam Walton was a man of considerable talent who, almost single-handedly, built the greatest retailing operation the world has ever seen, innovated an entirely new approach to inventory efficiency and became fabulously wealthy as a result. While Sam’s accomplishments and contributions to innovation are legendary, Walton was also a devout anti-unionist and a committed Republican. […]

Last week, Newt Gingrich laid out his plan to make a dent in the poverty that infects America’s poorest communities by suggesting that schools fire their full-time janitorial staff. His big idea was that these working Americans could be replaced by a work force comprised of young kids working part-time, each freed to work at […]

We now know the Congressional super committee, created as a part of the deficit default crisis compromise to find a bi-partisan agreement on how to cut our national deficit, has failed. Should we be surprised? No, the committee was always intended to fail. Despite a clear road map to what the nation requires to get […]

Like so many Americans, I watched in amazement this past Sunday as CBS’s “60 Minutes” reported on how Congress is exempted from the insider trading rules that all remaining Americans must not only adhere to, but face stiff penalties – including jail time – when these rules are broken. This is the latest in a […]

Finally, a woman willing to expose her name, face and story to the public has come forward to accuse GOP candidate Herman Cain of sexually inappropriate – and possibly criminal– behavior. While this latest accusation may put the final nail in the coffin of the Cain campaign, polling reveals that there is reason to believe […]

Who needs Republicans when the administration is proving so adept at destroying its own landmark health care legislation? Last week, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) approved a request from the State of California to institute a ten percent reduction in what it pays physicians willing to care for the state’s Medicaid patients. […]