http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2011/04/11/the-answer-to-trumps-birther-claims-dick-cheney/Updated 5:40 p.m.
Actually, Donald Trump could do something even easier and cheaper than recruiting Dick Cheney, daughter Liz Cheney or an army of genealogists if he wants to get to the bottom of this whole birther business and put the rest of us out of our misery.
I mistakenly said above that photocopies of original birth certificates are disallowed by law in Hawaii. In fact, the law as I cited it says that the state's department of health can create rules regarding the copying of vital statistics records. And if you click through to the Hawaii DoH webpage of FAQs regarding Obama's birth certificate, at item 5 (pdf) you can download those rules. At chapter 8B, paragraph 2.4(B)(1a), you will find this:
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This is one truly fugged up article.
Obama was born in the US - get over it Time Magazine.