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By Victor Morton

Beads in action

No sooner was Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. named the Democratic vice-presidential pick than the Catholic bloggers who brought the world Catholics Against Rudy (Giuliani) were back in action.

Stephen Dillard, Christopher Blosser and Jay Anderson began posting Saturday on their new site, Catholics Against Joe Biden. Each of the three men is an adult convert to Catholicism and runs his own site in the Catholic blogosphere.

In the first post, titled "Why should Catholics oppose Senator Joe Biden?" Mr. Blosser quotes the Delaware senator as saying that he "strongly support* Roe v. Wade" and calling the Supreme Court decision upholding the partial-birth abortion ban "intellectually dishonest." The site lists a series of Biden votes on life issues: supporting federal subsidies for embryo-destroying stem-cell research, opposing a ban on human cloning, opposing making it a crime to harm an unborn child in the course of an assault, and sponsoring the Freedom of Choice Act to overturn state restrictions on abortion.

A Biden quote displayed down the right side of the page says: "The next Republican that tells me I'm not religious I'm going to shove my rosary beads down their throat."

Tight controls

Before the Democratic National Convention began, Michelle Malkin walked around Denver's Pepsi Center, noting with a wink, "Security is tight, but somehow I still managed to get in."

That caused the conservative blogger to wonder what the Democrats consider to be security priorities.

"One last tidbit: Every person inside the Pepsi Center has to have a badge with a bar code. You scan it to get in and out," Mrs. Malkin wrote. "One of the few instances where the Dems believe in, and practice, tough border enforcement."

Venerable Nancy