Communist Dictator Fidel Castro...done!

81-year-old Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba's president/dictator Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term when parliament meets Sunday.   Finally, the end of Castro's rule - the longest in the world for a head of government…which will hopefully lead to the beginning of a transition to democracy.

A thought to ponder from Ronald Reagan’s second inaugural address:

“We strive for peace and security, heartened by the changes all around us. Since the turn of the century, the number of democracies in the world has grown fourfold. Human freedom is on the march, and nowhere more so than our own hemisphere. Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for those inalienable rights that make for human dignity and progress.”

Reagan said our work against totalitarianism had “turned the tide of history away from totalitarian darkness and into the warm sunlight of human freedom.”

Let us remain vigilant, let us keep working, so the warm sunlight of human freedom will soon shine down upon the Cuban people.