Hawaii's Health Department confirmed "that it has President Obama's original Aug. 4, 1961, birth certificate in storage, but the announcement is unlikely to satisfy conspiracy theorists who insist Obama was born in Kenya," reports the Honolulu Advertiser.
Despite this news -- "and several court rulings and statements by Hawaii's Republican governor, Linda Lingle, the issue continued to resonate from Capitol Hill to the blogosphere."
Last night, the House passed a resolution by 378 to 0 in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Hawaiian
statehood -- which also included language recognizing the state as President
Obama's birthplace.