Adam Speaks Out Of Turn

Paint Creek, Tex. — In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his family’s secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted in block letters across a large, flat rock standing upright at its gated entrance.

“Niggerhead,” it read.

The day’s fourth hijacked airliner seemed to be hurtling toward Washington. [Lt. Heather “Lucky”] Penney, one of the first two combat pilots in the air that morning, was told to stop [United Airlines Flight 93].

The one thing she didn’t have as she roared into the crystalline sky was live ammunition. Or missiles. Or anything at all to throw at a hostile aircraft.

Except her own plane. So that was the plan.