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Slack.com slash DHQ. A man without any military experience has just become our nation's first

female four-star admiral. According to the news media, Dr. Rachel Levine has become

the nation's first female four-star admiral. The only problem with those news reports

is that he is not a four-star admiral and he isn't a female and he isn't Rachel. He's

Richard. But our news media and our government have little to do with reality these days.

So according to them, Dr. Levine has just shattered the glass ceiling you go, girl. I'm Michael

Knowles' The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday

from George Rapco, who says, in August, we mocked the Taliban for not being able to run

an airport. In October, we applauded the Secretary of Transportation in America for not being

able to run a shipping dock. Yes, that is true. We'd seem that before we start throwing

stones and mocking other people, we ought to take a look at ourselves. Have a little

introspection. One of my favorite ways to engage in some introspection is to go sit outside

and light up a delicious cigar. You know where I get my cigars? Thompson's cigar. I have

been a customer of Thompson's cigars since I was 16 years old. Since my mother bought

me my first box of cigars for Christmas that year. There were not supply chains issues

that year. And I still have part of that box. They've got the biggest brands, the best

brands. They've got even some smaller brands that you might not have heard of. They have

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