The Air Force Times recently admitted to letting the “news” slip by without reporting it.  After checking the White House “We the People” petition website (to view the White House beer recipe), an astute reporter noticed that the White House had responded to a petition to pull Rush Limbaugh off AFN, the worldwide DoD radio and TV broadcast system.  That is, the White House responded in July.  From the AFTimes:

[The petition] threshold for a reply was 25,000 people — a level reached in April — but the reply wasn’t posted until July and got scant attention until Friday, when the White House released a beer recipe in response to another petition that had a mere 12,240 signatures.

Putting aside the reporter’s insinuation about the apparent political importance of the beer recipe — while the reporter was reading the site, do you think he noticed the other petition?

• End the Military’s Discrimination against Non-Religious Service Members

The petition was created by former MRFF “client” and US Army SGT Dustin Chalker.  It broke 10,000 signatures two weeks ago.

In just a few weeks, that petition will be a year old.  As viewed on the White House site, it appears to have only two petitions older (by a few days).

The petition itself was discussed last year, and generated a heated response from Chalker and his allies at the MRFF (more or less).  As noted at the time, the petition called discrimination against atheists a “threat[] to national security.” 

That’s played out pretty clearly in the past year, hasn’t it?