Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
Left-Leaning Group Studies Cohabitation vs. Marriage and There’s a Clear Winner When it Comes to Family Stability ~ Sometimes even a leftist think-tank unearths the truth ~

(T)he retreat from marriage seems to decrease family stability for children in a wide variety of social contexts.

Maybe our grandparents got it right after all.

 
Christian student suspended after challenging Muslim prof’s claim that Jesus wasn’t crucified Uh-oh. Looks like Marshall Polston forgot that the average U.S. college campus these days is a reality-free zone ~

(Polston) says he was suspended from Rollins College for challenging his Muslim professor’s anti-Christian assertions, including her claim that Jesus’ crucifixion never took place.

Follow-up 3-31-17: College drops charges against Christian student who challenged Muslim prof’s claims about Jesus

 
Backsliding on school discipline: How de Blasio’s suspension reforms are producing classroom disorder ~ NYC mayor loses another battle with reality. Unfortunately, students and facilty are the ones who pay the price.

 
Close Encounters with a ‘Living Constitution’ ~ Jonah Goldberg compares progressive anti-Constitutionalists to an imaginary, autocratic restaurant in this NRO satirical piece ~

“Well, we here at the Red Flame believe that the menu is a living, breathing document that changes with the times. Oatmeal is healthier than an omelet, and we feel that people should eat more of it. So, we only serve oatmeal, but we call it by different names.” […]
 
The doctrine of the Living Constitution is a perfect example of how behind every double standard is an unconfessed single standard.

 
Ohio LGBT Group Announces Plans to Target Churches for Homosexual Weddings And you thought if we just let them have their way they’d leave us alone. But they just never stop do they?

An LGBT organization in Ohio has announced plans to target churches if they refuse to offer their property to be used in a homosexual wedding. In opposing the Ohio Pastor Protection Act (HB-36), the group Equality Ohio announced that they would target churches, forcing them to rent church facilities to groups that oppose their beliefs.

 
Iraqi Prime Minister Reveals Striking ‘Difference’ He Noticed Between Trump & Obama on Fighting ISIS ~ Another development the mainstream media has totally ignored; wouldn’t want to tarnish the stellar legacy of the Nobel Peace Prize awardee ~

“President Obama didn’t want to get involved in the first place. He just wanted to just forget Iraq,” (Haider) al-Abadi said, explaining that there was immense public pressure on the U.S. to help Iraq.
 
Trump, on the other hand, seems to display a “very powerful determination to defeat” ISIS, the Iraqi leader added.

 
Democrats Know the Election Was Legitimate but Persist in a Dangerous Fraud ~ As Andrew C. McCarthy reminds us one of Hillary’s favorite themes in the waning days of the election was that the election was absolutely legitimate; Trump was traitorously condemnable for refusing to say so. But – oops! Once the results became painfully obvious, she did a rapid 180° ~

So now, there is just one very inconvenient problem for the “Russia hacked the election” narrative, the tireless media-Democrat harangue since November 8: Everything of substance that is known to the U.S. government about Russian meddling was already known in those pre-election weeks when Clinton and the Democrats were hailing the legitimacy of the process.
 
They’ve changed their tune not because the facts changed, but because they lost […]
 
Russia was unimportant to Democrats, was avoided by Democrats, until they needed to rationalize a stunning defeat.

But still, we’re deluged with the ludicrous lies from angry leftists ~ Maher: It Looks Like Russia ‘Installed’ ‘Trump and His Crime Family’ ‘To Loot and Destroy America
 

Here’s the real threat to America ~ Soros-Tied Networks, Foundations Joined Forces to Create Trump ‘Resistance’ Fund ~ Dark-money. Know your enemy ~

The Emergent Fund, which carries a goal of fighting “immediate threats” to “immigrants, women, Muslim and Arab-American communities, black people, LGBTQ communities, and all people of color,” was established late last year to quickly fund groups to take direct, immediate action against Republicans.
 

Since the fund’s formation, it has received little public attention. It has raised over half a million dollars to give to groups opposing Republicans, such as the Black Lives Matter Network. The fund has extensive ties to significant liberal networks and groups.

 
The Running of the Brides (Thailand) ~ A photo-essay at National Review ~