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British Prime Minister David Cameron and President Obama headed to Ohio to take in one of the “first four” games of the NCAA basketball tournament Tuesday, a lighthearted start to a state visit that will turn to more difficult subjects Wednesday. The leaders left their wives in Washington for the man date in the swing state, an outing billed by the White House as important cross-cultural bonding time. The president clearly relished the chance to show off one of his favorite events. After discussing his bracket predictions for the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments with ESPN.com, he showed Cameron to...

The creators of the play Book of Mormon have created the Amos and Andy for the South Park set. We may laugh, but our grandchildren will shudder as decent folk do at “wits” of the last century whose favorite dance was to “jump Jim Crow.” The parts of the Book of Mormon I have seen are as innovative as a Newsies revival and as funny as the cruel, tasteless jokes told by an inebriated coworker at a Christmas party. The difference is that the coworker might sober up in the morning, but the mindless mockery that also gave us South...