Special From NewsMax's Most Informed Sources
Sunday, Feb. 13, 2005

1. Reagan Friends Meet Author in D.C.

Friends and supporters of Ronald and Nancy Reagan joined best-selling author Bob Colacello in Washington, D.C., this week.

The reception this Tuesday at the Capitol Hill Club was a special book signing with Colacello, whose recent book, "Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House -- 1911 to 1980," continues to rise on the best-seller charts.

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Nancy Reagan is said to be quite pleased by the book, which, for the first time, fairly portrays her role in the Reagans' special marriage that changed America.

On hand to join Colacello were former Congressman Asa Hutchinson; Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell; North Carolina Congressman Walter Jones; Linda Bond, wife of Sen. Kip Bond; former Congressman Bob Barr; Kayne Robinson, president of the NRA; David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union; political consultant Roger Stone; the Wall Street Journal's John Fund; John Berlau of Investor's Business Daily; Christopher Ruddy of NewsMax; R. Emmett Tyrrell of the American Spectator and Craig Shirley, author of another Reagan blockbuster just out, entitled "Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All."

C-SPAN was on hand to cover the event.

In his remarks, Colacello told the crowd that Nancy Reagan was key to Reagan's success and ultimately his rise to the presidency. The author recounted that in the 1950s Nancy had saved Reagan from depression and personal troubles after his divorce from actress Jane Wyman.

Mrs. Reagan was spouse and partner to her husband in his remarkable rise from Hollywood to Sacramento and, finally, Washington.

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2. Democrats' Civil War: Clintons vs. Kennedy

The apparent selection of Howard Dean as chairman of the Democratic Party indicates the party does not want to learn from its ways. That's good news for Republicans.

The Dean ascension also indicates that when it comes to grassroots Democrats, it's the liberalism of Dean, Kerry and Ted Kennedy that still holds sway among party cadres.

For some time, NewsMax has reported that Hillary Clinton has long had her guns set on Dean. During the bitter primary campaign last year, we noted that a source close to Dean's mother blamed Hillary and Bill for all of her son's campaign woes.

Now it is no longer an open secret that Hillary dislikes Dean.

But it is clear that a larger civil war has long been under way in the Democratic Party that ironically has pitted Hillary and Bill as the "moderates" against Dean and his faction -- which is still controlled by the Kennedy-Kerry circle.

Kennedy's recent bellicose speech to the National Press Club spit in the face of moderation and said the party should stick to its core positions: pacifism, higher taxes, more abortion rights, more gay rights, etc.

The reasoning for this positioning is that the Kennedy faction does not believe the Democrats have lost elections because of their liberal views.

They believe that the 2004 election was lost solely on national security and the "war on terror."

An associate of Kennedy recently told NewsMax the view is simple: "Stand firm, and the Iraq war will turn into such a disaster, the Democrats will win big in 2006." The source added, "The Democrats won't have to do a thing but remain opposed to the war."

The war and growing body count will feed angst, the source said, among the right wing, who will soon demand an end to the war.

Perhaps so. But the recent relatively calm elections in Iraq suggest the insurgency may be abating rather than increasing.

3. Doctor: Beware of Those Vaccinations

It has now come to light that major drug manufacturer Merck knew about dangerous levels of mercury in some of its vaccines nearly a decade before publicly acknowledging it.

So says a company memo recently acquired by the Los Angeles Times.
 
The missive -- penned in 1991 by world-renowned vaccinologist Dr. Maurice Hilleman, who was then a Merck employee -- voiced concern shared by doctors around the world that certain Merck-produced children's vaccines contained an astounding 87 times the daily allowance of mercury recommended by the FDA.
 
At the time, U.S. health officials were augmenting immunization schedules for children up to 6 months old, adding many new shots containing thimerosal, an antibacterial agent comprising almost 50 percent ethyl mercury, a known neurotoxin.
 
NewsMax's Dr. Russell Blaylock, editor of the progressive Blaylock Wellness Report, warned of the threat posed by vaccinations in his newsletter titled "Vaccinations: The Hidden Dangers" -- Go Here for More Details.
 
In the report, Dr. Blaylock pointed out that the grave dangers linked to vaccination were not being disseminated to the public because of greed and a lack of scruples on the part of giant pharmaceutical companies and the doctors they make rich.
 
"Driving much of this [proliferation of vaccines] are the profits being made by manufacturers and a revolving door between university professors and public health officials with a financial interest," Blaylock wrote.
 
Toddlers continued to receive mercury-filled vaccines until 1999, when health officials first disclosed studies suggesting that some routine vaccinations were exposing infants to exceptionally high doses of the poisonous substance.
 
But the Merck memo indicates the company had concerns long before the 1999 findings.
 
Hilleman's observations serve as the "first hard evidence that [Merck] knew" the children were getting too much mercury, says one Washington lawyer who works on vaccine-safety issues.
 
Thimerosal has since been almost totally removed from vaccines in what officials call "a precautionary measure," while Merck and other vaccine makers claim there is no conclusive proof that the previous elevated mercury levels caused significant harm.
 
A special federal tribunal -- representing more than 4,000 claims -- has been initiated on behalf of the many parents who assert their children suffered serious damage from vaccinations.

Dr. Blaylock offers important advice and information about vaccines every person should read.  For More Details, Go Here.

Editor's Notes:

• Get the bestselling book "Ronnie and Nancy" Autographed FREEE - Go Here Now.
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• Women Dying in Record Numbers in Iraq
• Doctor Warns About Vaccinations
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