We sometimes field questions about the THSC PAC endorsements, especially in the race for Texas governor in the upcoming election. Please understand that the reason for the existence of THSC PAC is out of concern for home schooling freedom.

George Antuna, Jr. was born in Karnes City on May 4, 1968 to George and Anslema Antuna. George, Sr. is a first generation Texan and mother, Anselma is a naturalized American citizen, who was born in Nueva Rosita, Coahuila, Mexico. George is married to Patricia Martinez Antuna. They have twin seven year old sons, Issac and Jonathan. Jorge Christian, the latest addition to the Antuna family is ten months old. George graduated from South San Antonio High School in 1986. He attended San Antonio College from 1986 to 1988. He graduated with a BBA in Marketing Management from The University of Texas at San Antonio in 1991.

In the 1960’s Nelson’s parents immigrated to the United States in search of the American dream. They dreamed of starting a family, and opening their own business. As a child, Nelson moved with his parents around Texas before they settled down in San Antonio, where Nelson has spent almost all of his life. In 1995, Nelson met Sandra Caballero at a New Year’s Eve Wedding. The couple wed six months later. They have two daughters, Giovanna, 5, and Julianna, 4. Nelson graduated from Winston Churchill High School. After earning an Air Force ROTC scholarship, he was accepted to the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina. He studied at the Citadel for two years before he transferred to Texas Tech University. Nelson graduated from Texas Tech with a degree in International Economics and a second degree in Spanish.

We are within 20 days of the 2006 Mid-term Elections. With so few days remaining until Election Day we are asking you to take time out of your busy schedules to make a difference in our state and nation. Home school families are an unrivaled grassroots political force. Even if you only have 2 or 3 hours available for volunteering on one of these exciting campaigns your efforts can make a difference. The hours you spend working for the election of a candidate supported by THSC PAC will go toward your completion of the Good Citizenship requirement.

The media has given much attention recently to the inappropriate behavior of Republican Congressman Mark Foley of Florida who wrote lewd email messages to a male page. That, and other inappropriate actions directed towards young male pages, warranted his swift exit from Congress. Moreover, those responsible for protecting Foley (whether covering up for him or looking the other way when his conduct was brought to their attention) should not be in positions of leadership in the House going forward, whether they are staffers or members of Congress. And, in my judgment, that includes Speaker Dennis Hastert, whose negligence with respect to the Foley matter shows that he no longer deserves to continue as House Republican leader.

Democrats hope enthusiasm trumps Republican efficiency in the battle for control of Congress. Otherwise, they concede, they will have problems on Nov. 7 as a party still struggling to catch up with Republicans' ability to get voters to go to the polls.

Despite what he called the toughest challenge Republicans face since they took control of Congress in 1994, Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said he believes the GOP will retain control of both the House and the Senate in the November elections.

Republican Gov. Rick Perry finished off Tony Sanchez in the 2002 governor's race with a hard-hitting television commercial that linked the Democrat's bank to money laundering by murdering drug runners. That commercial caused independents to give up on Sanchez and helped suppress the Democratic turnout. Negative television advertising is in full swing again in this year's governor's race. But experts say the ads are more about the candidates firing up their own voter base than they are about taking out the opponents.

[Recently], the terrorist enemies of America. We just got another reminder of the confluence of these two forces when “civil rights” lawyer Lynne Stewart was sentenced to just over two years in prison for providing material support to terrorists and lying to federal investigators.

John Stuart Mill once famously called the British Tories "The Stupid Party." From time to time since then, the Tory's American cousin, the Republican Party, has also earned that moniker. Now may be one of those moments. If current polls and anecdotes are to be believed, there may be a million or two conservative Republicans who are planning to not vote this November.

On a three-stop bus campaign tour in the heavily Democratic Rio Grande Valley, Republican Gov. Rick Perry on Monday stressed his efforts to secure the border ahead of Washington.

One of the best pieces of advice given to people who inherit money or win the lottery is to not make any important decisions immediately. So what does Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Bell do upon receiving a check for $1 million? He leaves a telephone message on Kinky Friedman's cell phone asking the Kinkster to meet with him for the purpose of discussing why Friedman should drop out of the race to help Bell defeat Gov. Rick Perry. How stupid is this?

Amid widespread panic in the Republican establishment about the coming midterm elections, there are two people whose confidence about GOP prospects strikes even their closest allies as almost inexplicably upbeat: President Bush and his top political adviser, Karl Rove.

I can honestly claim to have been one of the godfathers of the existing conservative movement. In some ways, that movement has achieved far more than we ever dreamed it could when we started it in the late 1960s and 1970s. Then, most people thought of conservatism as a marginal force that had been killed and buried with Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964. The idea that conservatism could in just a few decades come to represent the American mainstream while liberalism was marginalized would have been unimaginable. Yet that has been the very real achievement of today's conservative movement.