If you read nothing else today, make it this. Kevin D. Williamson, a committed conservative, offers incisive thoughts about the debacle that is unfolding in Springfield, Ohio. Two snippets:

On JD:
"You can send little J.D. to Yale to make him polished, you can send him to Silicon Valley to make him rich, and you can send him to the Senate to make him powerful, but you cannot stop him from being what it is he apparently wants to be: Cleetus the Gap-Toothed Twitter Troll."