Mark Anthony Conditt - the suspect in deadly Texas blasts - was quiet and home-schooled and Conservative

The man suspected of carrying out the serial bombings in Austin, Texas blew himself up in his vehicle early Wednesday as police closed in - and sources have now identified him as 24-year-old Mark Anthony Conditt.

Meanwhile, the Austin American-Statesman reported that Conditt expressed a range of political views in blog posts he wrote for an Austin Community College course:

On the blog, Conditt described himself as a conservative. He wrote that he was against gay marriage and abortion and in favor of the death penalty.

He also wrote that he supported doing away with the sex offender registration system.