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
Sen. Schmitt now seeking to raise tax sixfold on immigrant money wires after Mexican leaders’ threats, derision

The potential cost to Mexicans from the immigration riots – as well as from threats and scoffing by Mexican leaders – may be going up. After Mexican flags flew and… Read More

June 11, 2025
Opinion
Op-Ed: What’s behind the anti-ICE riots and how they’re backfiring big-time

The best way to fully understand the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles and elsewhere is to: educate yourself apart from the liberal, lapdog Democrat media think this through logically Let’s… Read More

June 10, 2025
Culture
Facebook rejects paid post for Holocaust exhibit as too ‘political’

Facebook has rejected as “political” a paid post promoting a Christian organization’s exhibit coming Sunday on how the Holocaust began. Vision Israel, a nonprofit in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, is rolling… Read More

June 6, 2025
Politics
Hawley dishes on courts’ ‘threat to our constitutional order,’ KJP’s shocking split from Dems

Liberals hated national injunctions under Biden, but love them under Trump as they’re “destroying our constitutional system,” says Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley. Meanwhile, Hawley says of former Biden press secretary… Read More

June 5, 2025
Culture
‘The American Miracle’ film tells of America’s miraculous God-aligned birth ahead of nation’s 250th birthday

You’re going to see a welcome torrent of patriotism next year, the 250th anniversary of America’s birth, after what has arguably been a half-century drought of it. And if every… Read More

June 2, 2025