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Another One Bites the Dust “Plan Colombia” is the latest failed drug-war policy. John Walters, the head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, recently startled the media by admitting that the $3.3 billion “Plan Colombia,” now in its fourth year, has failed to make a significant dent in the amount of cocaine flowing out of that country. Walters added hastily, however, that he expected to see substantial progress in the next year or so. His comments are the latest in a familiar and dreary pattern. Each new initiative in Washington’s international campaign to stem the supply of illegal...

<p>BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Federal marshals have detained so many prisoners this year in the Baton Rouge area that they are being forced to house the inmates as far away as northeastern Louisiana.</p> <p>Since January, marshals handling the federal Middle Judicial District of Louisiana have averaged 64 prisoners in custody per day, more than twice as many as five years ago.</p>

John Stossel takes on the drug war. ABC News correspondent John Stossel once again exposes the cost, folly, and failure of big government. He somehow always manages to do that. This time, his fat and lumbering target is the War on Drugs, a 30-year-old project that can show amazingly little for the billions of taxpayer dollars it has incinerated and the millions of nonviolent offenders it has incarcerated. Airing tonight at 10:00 P.M. Eastern, 9:00 P.M. Central time, War on Drugs, A War On Ourselves spends an hour asking if government efforts to stamp out drug use are even worse...