Today’s New York Times breaks tradition by reporting on another paper’s scoop in a timely fashion.
Specifically, yesterday’s Washington Post story about GOP presidential timebomb Rick Perry’s Texas hunting camp:
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.
Follow-up Times lede (sans, interestingly, a link to WaPo):
The campaign of Gov. Rick Perry of Texas found itself on the defensive on Sunday over a report that he had hunted at and taken guests to a West Texas camp with a racially charged name that his father, and later Mr. Perry, had leased.
The Washington Post reported on Sunday that at least seven people it interviewed said the name for a portion of the property, Niggerhead, was visible on the rock at the entrance “at different points in the 1980s and 1990s,” and that a former worker said he believed he had seen it as recently as three years ago.
Say goodnight, Rick.
Campaign Outsider 
Breaks with tradition? Do you read The Times?
Did you read the Okrent piece?
This is not the only outrage about Mr. Rick Perry. Take a close examination of his policy in Texas government How is it that Texas Department of Transportation can replace an experience employee with an inexperience ex-Perry aide and pay him $100,000.00 more a year then the minority he replaced and still want to go before the Texas Legislators and ask for additional money to compensate this inexperience person. Is this also his plans for the United States? To hire his ex-aide and campaign worker to fill key positions rather then filling them with qualified people. Can we afford Rick Perry? I would say not. My grandchildren schools are being closed but his ex-aides are being paid good money for a job he has no experience to do, and Perry is asking for more. Someone really need to examine this. Something about this just is not right.