FROM TOM MAGUIRE: More Obama-Ayers fact-checking.

PRIUS PLUG-IN CONVERSION KITS, now selling for around $10,000. Not likely they’ll pay for themselves in gas savings, but cool nonetheless.

IN THE MAIL: A G.K. Chesterton anthology, Chesterton on War and Peace: Battling the Ideas and Movements that Led to Nazism and World War II. A collection of essays, including one on a particular breed of pacifist that Chesterton saw as new in the 20th Century: “He does not so much believe in his own conscience as disbelieve in the common conscience which is the soul of any society. His hatred for patriotism is very much plainer than his love for peace.”

MICHAEL YON’S MOMENT OF TRUTH IN IRAQ gets a review in the New York Sun. It’s called “wonderful.” Ask for it in bookstores.

TIGERHAWK: Asymmetrical outrage.

SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS Indiana’s voter ID law: “The Supreme Court has ruled that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights.” Seems reasonable to me.

JOSH TREVINO ON regulating foreign investment.

REIHAN SALAM: Hillary shows McCain how to beat Obama.

THE EXAMINER: When truth becomes “inappropriate” for campaign debate.

MICHAEL CHABON’S The Yiddish Policemen’s Union has won a Nebula Award. A lot of people seem to have liked it more than I did — I thought it was just okay.

I’D BE SHOCKED, but by now this really isn’t shocking:

The UN has covered up claims that its troops in Democratic Republic of Congo gave arms to militias and smuggled gold and ivory, the BBC has learned. . . . These are not the only allegations to have been brought against peacekeepers in DR Congo.

In December 2006, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Moroccan troops had been involved in widespread sexual abuse.

“There have been crimes such as rape, paedophilia and human trafficking,” he said, shortly before leaving office.

But since there’s no anti-American angle, it won’t be much of a story.

DALE AMON: Born a hundred million years too soon.

PLASTIC SURGERY: Don’t overdo. My theory is that certain celebrities and socialites are around so many people who’ve had lots of work done that what looks weird to everyone else just looks normal to them.

SCALIA ON 60 MINUTES: A roundup.

MICKEY KAUS gives Obama’s Fox appearance yesterday a good review: “McCain will have trouble beating the Obama who showed up on Fox News Sunday, giving a highly effective interview to Chris Wallace.”

On the other hand, he has this advice: “It would be a huge help in combatting the ‘arrogance’ meme, however, if Obama would stop citing the world-historical greatness of his own speeches as if he were his own personal Chris Matthews.”

BRUCE BAWER: Motivated by fear and multiculturalism, too many Westerners are acquiescing to creeping sharia.