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.

Politics
Democrat rhetoric endangers law enforcement, while rogue judge cavalierly signed off on spying, Hawley notes

Even without having seen the video of an ICE agent being rammed and shooting the driver, Josh Hawley knows the rules of the road when it comes to law enforcement. Read More

January 9, 2026
Government
Bipartisan K-12 cell phone ban bill hits Kansas Senate, swift passage expected

Kansas Senate leaders of both parties Tuesday proposed a bill banning cell phones in the state’s K-12 schools. In a remarkable show of bipartisanship, Republican Senate Majority Leader Chase Blasi,… Read More

January 6, 2026
Opinion
Monstrous, unheard-of Somali immigrant Medicaid fraud an indictment of unbridled immigration, indifferent media

Stunning reports of billions in brazen welfare fraud by Somali immigrants in Minnesota and elsewhere have shined a harsh light on the double folly of open borders and closed-minded media. Read More

December 29, 2025
Opinion
Venezuela’s Nobel peace prize winner full-throatedly endorses Trump’s crackdown on Maduro regime

President Trump appears to have stuck America’s mighty finger into the “criminal hub of the Americas.” Legacy media certainly appear eager to make President Trump the boogeyman in his clampdown… Read More

December 15, 2025
Government
Trump officials fighting ‘sabotage’ from deep state bureaucrats in effort to install people’s government, congressman warns

Mark Alford knows a little something about the mammoth task Trump administration officials have in taming the bureaucratic beast in Washington, D.C. The Missouri congressman, after all, couldn’t even get… Read More

December 4, 2025