Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan is Executive Editor of The Lion. A Kansas City native, he’s been an award-winning reporter, editor and opinion writer at newspapers in Kansas, Missouri, Georgia and Texas.

Government
Democrats, media, risk the republic in defending orgy of federal spending unearthed by DOGE, Missouri Sens. Schmitt, Hawley warn

The left has made the federal government its “personal piggy bank,” and that’s why Democrats and their bought-and-paid-for media are squealing like stuck pigs at DOGE’s exposure of it. That’s… Read More

February 7, 2025
Government
Biden failed to release COVID origins intelligence as required by law nearly 2 years ago; Trump starts process in first week

President Joe Biden was required in 2023, by a law he signed himself, to release what the federal government knows about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic that killed 1.2… Read More

January 27, 2025
Opinion
Americans must forget everything they’ve been told about Jan. 6 by government, media, hear directly from those who were there

A friend of a friend sat across the table from Leslie Gray and said she and all those like her should’ve been shot in the head. The 59-year-old Floridian readily… Read More

January 23, 2025
Government
USA v. People of Faith? Anti-religious zealotry at DOJ needs yanking out, criminal probe, Hawley argues

There’s a pernicious “ingrained bigotry” against people of faith within the U.S. Department of Justice that needs to be rooted out and investigated for crimes and constitutional violations, says Missouri… Read More

January 16, 2025
Public Education
Kansas City area teacher arrested for possession, distribution of child pornography

A Kansas City-area high school teacher has been charged in federal court with distribution and possession of child pornography. Seth Brummond, 37, of Greenwood, Missouri, was charged Thursday with “one… Read More

December 20, 2024