Democrat Al Franken has little chance of unseating Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) the old fashioned way and has turned to a new last resort, Scott Johnson writes: appealing to the U.S. Senate for absentee ballots to be counted. And President-elect Barack Obama should learn from the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai and continue to allow domestic wiretapping and preventive detention to thwart terrorist, Paul Mirengoff asserts.